KR100879069B1 - A suppling apparatus of tire for vehicles - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus for supplying vehicle tires is provided to automatically supply tires in the right mounting direction in a tire assembling line by vertically standing horizontally supplied tires, thereby reducing tire mounting space and equipment while reducing the damage to the tires. Each square mounting frame(103) is mounted by hinge elements to a rectangular base frame(101) which is mounted on a floor surface. A rotation unit(200) is mounted on a front surface of the mounting frame and driven by a motor for rotating a circular sprocket housing(205) of a rotation unit by a predetermined angle. A conveying unit(300) is mounted in the sprocket housing and driven by the motor to operate a plurality of conveyor roller(311) so as to convey tires. A tilting unit(400) is mounted between the base frame and the mounting frame for tilting an upper part of the mounting frame by a predetermined angle with respect to the base frame by cylinder operation.

Description

Automotive Tire Supply Unit {A SUPPLING APPARATUS OF TIRE FOR VEHICLES}

The present invention relates to a vehicle tire supply apparatus, and more particularly, in the process of assembling the tire to the vehicle body, the tire supplied in the horizontal direction through the conveyor in the vertical direction can be put in the tire automatically according to the mounting direction. It relates to a tire supply device for a vehicle.

In general, automakers use a variety of process lines from the selection of materials to the mass production of products to produce a finished car.These processes are based on the trend of factory automation to introduce more products in a shorter time. Efforts are underway to produce.

The tire supply system is installed in the production line as a part of a conveying facility for supplying and mounting the tire to the production line of the automobile design factory.

That is, the conventional tire supply system is installed in multiple layers so that the tires supplied horizontally from the conveyor installed in the upper layer are introduced into the tire assembly line in a vertically standing state while moving to the lower layer by the free-falling tire chute device.

However, in the conventional tire chute device as described above, when the tire enters a horizontal state through a conveyor, the tire is caught in a free fall and is vertically fed. Wheel) or a scratch on the tire surface has a problem of lowering the quality of the product.

In addition, the free-falling tire chute device is installed by connecting the conveyor assembly of the upper floor and the tire assembly line of the lower floor, there is a problem that the installation space is required sufficiently, resulting in an increase in equipment investment costs.

Therefore, the present invention has been invented to solve the problems as described above, the object of the present invention is to assemble the tire in the vertical direction to the tire supplied in the horizontal direction through the conveyor in the process of assembling the tire to the body of the tire assembly line By including a transfer unit, a rotating unit and a tilting unit to automatically inject the tire according to the mounting direction, to reduce the installation space and reduce the equipment investment cost, to provide a vehicle tire supply device for preventing damage to the supplied tire. .

Vehicle tire supply apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention for achieving this object, the vehicle tire supply apparatus, a rectangular base frame mounted on the bottom surface; Rectangular mounting frames mounted on both sides of the base frame through hinge means; A rotating unit configured on a front surface of the mounting frame to drive the sprocket housing in a circular rotation by a motor drive; A transfer unit installed inside the sprocket housing of the rotary unit to drive a plurality of conveyor rollers by motor driving to transfer tires; And a tilting unit configured between the base frame and the mounting frame to tilt the upper portion of the mounting frame with respect to the base frame by a cylinder operation.

The hinge means may include a fixed hinge ring configured at both front centers of the base frame; It is configured on both sides of the rear side of the mounting frame, characterized in that consisting of a rotating hinge hinged to the fixed hinge.

The rotating unit includes a circular bearing housing fixedly mounted to the front of the mounting frame; A swivel thrust bearing rotatably mounted on an inner circumferential surface of the bearing housing; A sprocket housing mounted on an inner circumferential surface of the swivel thrust bearing; A sprocket wheel that is fitted and fixed on an outer circumferential surface of the sprocket housing; It is mounted to the center of the upper surface of the mounting frame, characterized in that consisting of a drive means for rotating the sprocket housing by chain drive the sprocket wheel.

The rotating unit is mounted to the upper and one side of the outer peripheral surface of the bearing housing, respectively, characterized in that the sensing means for measuring the rotation angle of the sprocket housing and outputs the signal to the controller.

The sensing means may include a first stop sensor mounted on an upper side of an outer circumferential surface of the bearing housing; A first deceleration sensor mounted on an outer circumferential surface of the bearing housing at a position spaced apart from the first stop sensor by a predetermined distance; A second deceleration sensor mounted on one side of an outer circumferential surface of the bearing housing from the first stop sensor; A second stop sensor mounted on an outer circumferential surface of the bearing housing at a position spaced apart from the second deceleration sensor by a predetermined distance; Characterized in that it consists of a sensing bar mounted on one side of the sprocket housing.

The sprocket wheel is characterized in that it is mounted by interference fit on the outer peripheral surface of the sprocket housing to rotate with the sprocket housing.

The drive means is a drive motor mounted to the upper center of the mounting frame; And a chain connecting the sprocket and the sprocket wheel mounted to the rotating shaft of the drive motor.

The transfer unit, the left and right cover is fixed to the horizontal direction on both sides of the inner peripheral surface of the sprocket housing of the rotary unit; Left and right frames mounted on the inner sides of the left and right covers; A plurality of support frames supporting the left and right frames by interconnecting the lower and right frames; A plurality of conveyor rollers installed at regular intervals along the length direction between the left and right frames; A plurality of roller sprockets installed at one end of each conveyor roller on an outer side surface of the left frame and connected to each other via a chain belt; It is characterized by consisting of a chain motor mounted to one end of the left cover to drive the roller sprocket.

The chain motor is characterized in that it is connected to the one side roller sprocket and the chain belt by mounting a drive roller sprocket at the front end of the rotation shaft.

Each roller sprocket is characterized by consisting of a two-stage sprocket to connect the chain belt mutually in a staggered manner.

The transfer unit may further include sensing means installed on both upper ends of the left and right frames to detect tires and output a signal to a controller.

The sensing means may include first and second light emitting sensors respectively configured at both ends of the left frame; The first and second light receiving sensors are respectively configured at both ends of the right frame and receive light emitted from each of the light emitting sensors and output the signal to the controller.

The transfer unit, characterized in that it further comprises a guide means which is configured on the upper left, the right of the frame to prevent the tires entered on each conveyor roller is separated.

The guide means, the guide mounting frame which is mounted on the upper one side and the other side of the left, right frame, respectively; It characterized by consisting of a plurality of roller means for guiding the upper and side portions of the tire through each of the guide mounting frame.

The roller means includes a roller mounting frame mounted on the inner left surface of each guide mounting frame, two on the right side, two on the upper surface at regular intervals; Each roller mounting frame is characterized in that consisting of a plurality of rollers rotatably installed along its longitudinal direction.

The tilting unit may include an upper mounting bracket mounted vertically on one side of the upper lower surface of the base frame; A lower mounting bracket mounted on one side of an upper surface of the mounting frame corresponding to the upper mounting bracket; It is mounted to the rear of the upper mounting bracket, characterized in that the operating rod is made of an operating cylinder connected to the lower mounting bracket.

The actuating cylinder is characterized in that the actuating rod tip is connected to the lower mounting bracket through the floating joint.

According to the tire supply apparatus for a vehicle according to the present invention as described above, it is composed of a transfer unit, a rotation unit and a tilting unit to reduce the installation space and to reduce the equipment investment cost, the tire supplied in the horizontal direction in the process of assembling the tire to the vehicle body By vertically upright in the vertical direction by automatically supplying the tire in accordance with the mounting direction of the tire assembly line has the effect of preventing the damage of the tire to improve its quality.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail as follows.

Prior to this, terms or words used in the specification and claims should not be construed as having a conventional or dictionary meaning, and the inventors should properly explain the concept of terms in order to best explain their own invention. Based on the principle that can be defined, it should be interpreted as meaning and concept corresponding to the technical idea of the present invention.

Therefore, the embodiments described in the specification and the drawings shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiment of the present invention and do not represent all of the technical idea of the present invention, various modifications that can be replaced at the time of the present application It should be understood that there may be equivalents and variations.

1 and 2 are a perspective view and a plan view of a vehicle tire supply apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 3 is a perspective view of a rotary unit applied to a vehicle tire supply apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 4 A perspective view of a transfer unit applied to a vehicle tire supply apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the tire supply apparatus for a vehicle according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, first, a square base frame 101 is mounted on the bottom surface.

Square mounting frames 103 are mounted on both side surfaces of the base frame 101 through hinge means 110.

Here, the hinge means 110, first, the fixed hinge ring 111 is formed in the front center of both sides of the base frame 101, the fixed hinge ring is configured on both sides of the rear side of the mounting frame 103 It consists of a rotating hinge 113 that is hinged to (111).

And the front of the mounting frame 103 is a rotating unit 200 is configured to drive the sprocket housing 205 of the circular rotation by a predetermined motor drive.

As shown in FIG. 3, the rotating unit 200 has a circular bearing housing 201 fixedly mounted on the front surface of the mounting frame 103.

The swivel thrust bearing 203 is rotatably mounted on the inner circumferential surface of the bearing housing 201.

The sprocket housing 205 is mounted on the inner circumferential surface of the swivel thrust bearing 203.

The sprocket wheel 207 is fitted and fixed on the outer circumferential surface of the sprocket housing 205.

Here, the sprocket wheel 207 is forcibly fitted on the outer circumferential surface of the sprocket housing 205 to rotate together with the sprocket housing 205.

In addition, a driving means 210 is installed at the center of the upper surface of the mounting frame 103 to drive the sprocket housing 205 to rotate by driving the sprocket wheel 207.

The drive means 210, first, the drive motor 211 is mounted on the upper center of the mounting frame 103.

A drive sprocket 213 is mounted on the rotation shaft of the drive motor 211, and the drive sprocket 213 and the sprocket wheel 207 are connected by a chain 215 to convert the rotational force of the drive motor 211 into the sprocket. Transfer to wheel 207.

The rotating unit 200 having such a configuration is mounted on the upper side and one side of the outer peripheral surface of the bearing housing 201, respectively, the sensing means for measuring the rotation angle of the sprocket housing 205 and outputs the signal to the controller ( 220 is configured.

As illustrated in FIG. 2, the sensing means 220 includes a first stop sensor 221 mounted on an upper side of an outer circumferential surface of the bearing housing.

The first deceleration sensor 223 is mounted on the outer circumferential surface of the bearing housing 221 at a position spaced apart from the first stop sensor 221 by a predetermined distance.

In addition, a second deceleration sensor 225 is mounted at one side of the outer circumferential surface side of the bearing housing 221 in the first stop sensor 221.

A second stop sensor 227 is mounted on the outer circumferential surface of the bearing housing 227 at a position spaced apart from the second deceleration sensor 225 by a predetermined distance.

On the other hand, one side of the sprocket housing 205, the first and second stop sensors 221, 225 and the first, second deceleration sensors 225, 227 are the rotation angle of the sprocket housing 205 and The sensing bar 229 is mounted to detect the position.

And the inside of the sprocket housing 205 is installed a transfer unit 300 for transporting the tire 500 by driving a plurality of conveyor rollers 311 by a motor drive.

As shown in FIG. 4, the transfer unit 300 is first fixedly mounted to both sides of the inner circumferential surface of the sprocket housing 205 in the horizontal direction.

Left and right frames 305 and 307 are mounted inside the left and right covers 301 and 303, respectively.

Under the left and right frames 305 and 307, three support frames 309 are mounted at regular intervals so as to support the left and right frames 305 and 307 by mutually connecting them.

In addition, a plurality of conveyor rollers 311 are installed between the left and right frames 305 and 307 at predetermined intervals along the longitudinal direction thereof.

Here, one end of each conveyor roller 311 on the outer surface of the left frame 305 is provided with a plurality of roller sprockets 315 connected in a staggered manner through the chain belt 313.

One end of the left cover 301 is equipped with a chain motor 317 for driving the respective roller sprockets 315.

The chain motor 317 is connected to the one side roller sprocket 315 and the chain belt 313 by mounting a drive roller sprocket 319 at the front end of the rotating shaft.

Here, each roller sprocket 315 is composed of a two-stage sprocket to connect the chain belt 313 mutually staggered.

The conveying unit 300 configured as described above is installed on both upper ends of the left and right frames 305 and 307 so as to sense the tire 500 and output the signal to the controller. Include.

In the sensing means 330, first and second emission sensors 331 and 333 are respectively formed at both ends of the left frame 305.

In addition, first and second light receiving sensors 335 and 337 configured to receive light emitted from each of the light emitting sensors 331 and 333 and output the signal to the controller are provided at both ends of the right frame 307. do.

In addition, the transfer unit 300 is configured on the upper left and right frame 305, 307 of the guide means 340 to prevent the tire 500 entered on each conveyor roller 311 is separated. ).

The guide means 340, first, the guide mounting frame 341 is mounted on the upper side and the other side of the left, right frame 305, 307, respectively.

Each guide mounting frame 341 is provided with a plurality of roller means 343 to guide the top and side of the tire 500.

Each of the roller means 343 is mounted to the roller mounting frame 345, one on the inner left side of the guide mounting frame 341, two on the right side, two on the upper surface at regular intervals.

Each roller mounting frame 345 is provided with a plurality of rollers 347 are rotatable along its longitudinal direction.

In addition, a tilting unit 400 is configured between the base frame 101 and the mounting frame 103 to tilt the upper portion of the mounting frame 103 with respect to the base frame 101 by a cylinder operation.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the tilting unit 400 has an upper mounting bracket 401 mounted on one side of an upper surface of the base frame 101 in a vertical direction.

The lower mounting bracket 403 is mounted on one side of the upper surface of the mounting frame 103 in response to the upper mounting bracket 401.

 And an operation cylinder 407 is mounted to the rear of the upper mounting bracket 401, the operation rod 405 is connected to the lower bracket 403.

Here, the working cylinder 407 is the tip of the working rod 405 is connected to the lower mounting bracket 403 through a floating joint.

Therefore, the operation of the vehicle tire supply apparatus having the configuration as described above will be described with reference to FIG.

First, the tire 500 is supplied in the horizontal direction from the rear of the base frame 101, as shown in (S1) of Figure 5 enters the transfer unit 300.

Then, the chain motor 317 of the transfer unit 300 is operated, and at the same time, each of the roller sprockets 315 connected to the chain motor 317 and the chain belt 313 rotates to operate the respective conveyor rollers. The tire 500 is advanced by driving 311.

When the tire 500 continues to move forward on the transfer unit 300, the tire 500 moves forward on the conveyor roller 311, and the first light receiving sensor 335 may move the tire ( 500 does not receive the light emitted from the first light emitting sensor 331, and outputs the signal to the controller.

Then, the controller stops the operation of the chain motor 317 according to the output signal, and as shown in (S2) of FIG. 5, the tire 500 is maintained on the respective conveyor rollers 311. do.

At this time, the second light receiving sensor 337 receives the light irradiated from the second light emitting sensor 333 and outputs the signal to the controller, the controller by the output signal to the rotary unit 300 The driving means 210 is to be operated.

When the driving motor 211 of the driving means 210 operates, the sprocket housing 205 watches through the sprocket wheel 207 connected to the chain 215 as shown in FIG. 5 (S3). Direction is rotated, and at the same time, the transfer unit 300 is rotated.

When the rotation of the sprocket housing 205 continues, the detection bar 229 passes through the second deceleration sensor 225, and at this time, the signal is output to the controller, and the controller responds to the output signal. Accordingly, the driving motor 211 is decelerated.

When the sprocket housing 205 is continuously rotated so that the detection bar 229 is positioned at the second stop sensor 227, the controller is controlled by the signal output from the second stop sensor 227. The operation of the driving motor 211 is stopped.

Then, the tire 500, as shown in (S4) of Figure 5, together with the transfer unit 300, to maintain a state standing in the vertical direction on the transfer unit 300.

Here, in the rotation operation of the rotary unit 200, the tire 500 lying on the transfer unit 300 is on the transfer unit 300 by the guide means 340 of the transfer unit 300. There is no deviation.

And when the driving means 210 of the rotary unit 200 is stopped, as shown in (S5) of Figure 5, the operating cylinder 407 of the tilting unit 400 is to perform the forward operation, then the operation cylinder ( The operating rod 405 of the 407 may tilt the upper portion of the mounting frame 103 with respect to the base frame 101 at a predetermined angle, and lift the tire 500 which is erected vertically in accordance with the mounting direction of the tire assembly line. It will be loaded automatically.

Here, the front end of the operating rod 405 is operated regardless of the rotation of the operating rod 405 due to the floating joint, the tire 500, each of the roller means of each guide means 340 when tilting The 343 prevents the tire 500 from being damaged.

When the tilting of the tire 500 is completed, the operation cylinder 407 moves backward and the mounting frame 103 returns to its original position, and the controller receives the output signal of the first light receiving sensor 335. The driving means 210 of the rotating unit 200 is operated in reverse.

When the sprocket housing 205 continues to rotate so that the position of the detection bar 229 is located at the first stop sensor 221, the driving means 210 of the rotating unit 200 is stopped by a controller. While the rotation unit 200 maintains the initial position, the vehicle tire supply apparatus of the present invention repeats the operations from (S1) to (S5) of FIG. 5 again.

Therefore, when the vehicle tire supply apparatus of the present embodiment is applied, the tire 500 supplied in the horizontal direction through a conveyor is vertically moved by using the transfer unit 300, the rotation unit 200, and the tilting unit 400. The tire 500 is automatically inserted in accordance with the mounting direction of the assembly line of the tire.

In addition, the vehicle tire supply apparatus of the present invention is configured to include the transfer unit 300 and the rotary unit 200 and the tilting unit 400 can reduce the installation space, and reduce the equipment investment cost.

Although the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited thereto and is intended by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains, and claims to be described below. Of course, various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of equivalents.

1 is a perspective view of a vehicle tire supply apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a plan view of a vehicle tire supply apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of a rotary unit applied to a vehicle tire supply apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a transfer unit applied to a vehicle tire supply apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a step-by-step operating state diagram of a vehicle tire supply apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (17)

In the vehicle tire supply device, Square base frame mounted on the bottom surface; Rectangular mounting frames mounted on both sides of the base frame through hinge means; A rotating unit configured at a front surface of the mounting frame to drive a sprocket housing of a circular rotation by a motor driving; A transfer unit installed inside the sprocket housing of the rotary unit to drive a plurality of conveyor rollers by motor driving to transfer tires; And a tilting unit configured between the base frame and the mounting frame to tilt an upper portion of the mounting frame with respect to the base frame by a cylinder operation. The method of claim 1, The hinge means, Fixed hinges formed at both front centers of the base frame; The tire supply device for the vehicle, characterized in that formed on both sides of the rear side of the mounting frame, consisting of a rotating hinge hinged to the fixed hinge. The method of claim 1, The rotating unit, A circular bearing housing fixedly mounted to the front of the mounting frame; A swivel thrust bearing rotatably mounted on an inner circumferential surface of the bearing housing; A sprocket housing mounted on an inner circumferential surface of the swivel thrust bearing; A sprocket wheel that is fitted and fixed on an outer circumferential surface of the sprocket housing; And a driving means mounted to the center of the upper surface of the mounting frame and configured to drive the sprocket housing to rotate by rotating the sprocket wheel. The method of claim 3, The rotating unit And a sensing means mounted on an upper side of the outer circumferential surface of the bearing housing and a side of the side of the bearing housing to measure a rotation angle of the sprocket housing and output a signal to a controller. The method of claim 4, wherein The sensing means, A first stop sensor mounted on an upper side of an outer circumferential surface of the bearing housing; A first deceleration sensor mounted on an outer circumferential surface of the bearing housing at a position spaced apart from the first stop sensor by a predetermined distance; A second deceleration sensor mounted at one side of an outer circumferential surface of the bearing housing from the first stop sensor; A second stop sensor mounted on an outer circumferential surface of the bearing housing at a position spaced apart from the second deceleration sensor by a predetermined distance; Vehicle tire supply device, characterized in that consisting of a sensing bar mounted on one side of the sprocket housing. The method of claim 3, The sprocket wheel, The tire supply device for a vehicle, characterized in that it is mounted by interference fit on the outer peripheral surface of the sprocket housing to rotate with the sprocket housing. The method of claim 3, The driving means A drive motor mounted to an upper center of the mounting frame; A vehicle tire supply device comprising a chain connecting a drive sprocket mounted on a rotating shaft of the drive motor and the sprocket wheel. The method of claim 1, The transfer unit, Left and right covers fixed in a horizontal direction on both sides of the inner circumferential surface of the sprocket housing of the rotating unit; Left and right frames mounted on the inner sides of the left and right covers; A plurality of support frames supporting the left and right frames by interconnecting the lower and right frames; A plurality of conveyor rollers installed at regular intervals along the length direction between the left and right frames; A plurality of roller sprockets installed at one end of each conveyor roller on an outer side surface of the left frame and connected to each other via a chain belt; And a chain motor mounted to one end of the left cover to drive the roller sprocket. The method of claim 8, The chain motor The tire supply apparatus for a vehicle, characterized in that the drive roller sprocket is mounted to the front end of the rotating shaft and connected to the one roller sprocket and the chain belt. The method of claim 9, Each roller sprocket A tire supply device for a vehicle, comprising a two-stage sprocket for connecting the mutual chain belts in a staggered manner. The method of claim 8, The transfer unit And a sensing means installed on each upper end of each of the left and right frames to sense a tire and output a signal to a controller. The method of claim 11, The sensing means, First and second light emitting sensors respectively formed at both ends of the left frame; And a first and second light receiving sensors which are respectively configured at both ends of the right frame and receive light emitted from each of the light emitting sensors and output the signal to the controller. The method of claim 8, The transfer unit, The vehicle tire supply apparatus further comprises guide means configured to prevent the tires entering on the conveyor rollers from being separated from the upper left and right frames. The method of claim 13, The guide means, Guide mounting frames mounted on the upper one side and the other side of the left and right frames, respectively; Vehicle tire supply apparatus comprising a plurality of roller means for guiding the upper and side portions of the tire through each guide mounting frame. The method of claim 14, The roller means Roller mounting frames mounted on the inner left side of each of the guide mounting frames, two on the right side, and two on the upper side at regular intervals; Vehicle tire supply apparatus, characterized in that consisting of a plurality of rollers rotatably installed in each of the roller mounting frame along its longitudinal direction. The method of claim 1, The tilting unit, An upper mounting bracket mounted vertically on one side of the upper bottom surface of the base frame; A lower mounting bracket mounted on one side of an upper surface of the mounting frame corresponding to the upper mounting bracket; The tire supply apparatus for a vehicle, which is mounted to the rear of the upper mounting bracket and has an operating rod connected to the lower mounting bracket. The method of claim 16, The working cylinder, A tire supply device for a vehicle, characterized in that the tip of the working rod is connected to the lower mounting bracket through a floating joint.

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