KR20160136947A - A yoke loading apparatus - Google Patents
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- B62D65/00—Designing, manufacturing, e.g. assembling, facilitating disassembly, or structurally modifying motor vehicles or trailers, not otherwise provided for
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- B62D65/18—Transportation, conveyor or haulage systems specially adapted for motor vehicle or trailer assembly lines
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- B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B23P—METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; COMBINED OPERATIONS; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS
- B23P19/00—Machines for simply fitting together or separating metal parts or objects, or metal and non-metal parts, whether or not involving some deformation; Tools or devices therefor so far as not provided for in other classes
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
- B62D—MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS
- B62D3/00—Steering gears
- B62D3/02—Steering gears mechanical
- B62D3/12—Steering gears mechanical of rack-and-pinion type
- B62D3/123—Steering gears mechanical of rack-and-pinion type characterised by pressure yokes
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BACKGROUND OF THE
Among the major parts of the automotive electric power steering system (MDPS), the column and the in-shaft are long and complicated, and the precision is high, so that molding is very difficult. However, precision and rigidity are required in manufacturing the automobile.
The torsion joint yoke, which is one of the major components of the steering column, is manufactured by welding a hot-rolled steel sheet after bending the yoke. The yoke is manufactured by welding a ring having a square shape inside to transmit the rotational force of the yoke to the shaft To the inside of the yoke. At this time, when the yoke is bent, an accurate roundness is not obtained. Therefore, the space between the shaft and the yoke is filled with resin to increase the surface pressure so that the shaft and the yoke do not rotate.
However, as described above, since the yoke is welded by bending the plate, there is a problem that only one product is required to be machined in one cycle, resulting in a significant deterioration in productivity. Further, since the weld portion is weak when the yoke is twisted, There is also a big problem to occur.
Moreover, since the product is produced through several component joining operations together with the above-described welding operation, there is a problem that the product cost increases as well as the product cost, and since the yoke is manufactured using the heavy-weight hot-rolled steel sheet, The product is not competitive.
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Conventionally, when the worker selects the type (size) of the workpiece by manual operation of the workpiece, determines the posture (direction) of the selected workpiece and mounts the workpiece at the loading position, And the yoke was supplied through a process of picking up and moving it to the machining position.
However, if the worker selects the type of the workpiece by manual operation and determines the direction and stores it, the workpiece to be supplied should not be supplied due to the operator's mistake. If the workpiece is misdirected, There is a problem that a malfunction is caused as well as a failure of the entire system and the operation of the entire system is stopped, and a wrongly inserted workpiece is found and removed. Therefore, not only is it a cause of the system failure, but also the productivity is lowered due to the interruption of the operation, and the cost is increased because the manager has to supply it by hand.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a yoke loading apparatus which is improved in structure so that a workpiece can be automatically fed to a machining position in a direction and a type.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a yoke loading apparatus comprising: a yoke feed hopper installed on a base for sequentially moving a plurality of yokes to a first loading position; A first loading unit installed above the yoke feed hopper unit to move the yoke positioned at the first loading position by the yoke feed hopper unit to a second loading position; A second loading unit that is reciprocated between the second loading position and the third loading position on the base to move the yoke received from the primary loading unit at the second loading position to the third loading position; A tertiary loading unit installed to move the yoke moved to the third loading position by the secondary loading unit to an index to be processed; A first sensor for sensing a direction of a yoke positioned at the first loading position; A second sensor for sensing a type of a yoke positioned at the second loading position; And controlling the first loading unit to be driven and controlled according to the information sensed by the first sensor so as to move the yoke in the turned state to the second loading position and to move the yoke to the second loading position, And controlling the second loading unit to stop driving the yoke until the yoke of the second loading position is removed when it is determined that the type of the yoke is different from the set yoke.
Here, the yoke supply hopper may include: a hopper main body installed on the base; And an alignment guide linearly connected to the outside of the hopper body to guide the yoke aligned in the hopper body in a state of being aligned with the first loading position, And the first sensor may be provided on the latching jaw.
The first loading unit may include a first guide frame installed on a support frame disposed on the base, A first moving guider installed to be reciprocatable in the first guide frame; A first moving part installed to the first moving guider so as to be reciprocally movable in a horizontal direction; A first elevating part installed on the first moving part so as to be vertically reciprocable; A rotation driving unit installed in the first elevating unit; And a first chuck connected to a lower portion of the rotation driving unit and chucking a yoke positioned at the first loading position.
The secondary loading unit may further include: a second moving guide installed on the base; And a transport block reciprocating between the second loading position and the third loading position along the second moving guide, wherein the transport block is provided with a yoke seating portion on which the yoke is seated is protruded.
Further, the yoke has a shape in which each of the second long sides opposite to the first long side in which the incision is formed in the yoke body in which the serration holes are formed has different distances from the center of the serration holes, The sensor may sense the direction of the yoke by measuring the distance to the first or second long side according to the direction of the yoke positioned at the first loading position.
The second sensor senses the size of the yoke by touching the first or second long face of the yoke positioned at the second loading position while the direction of the second sensor is normally maintained by the first loading unit It is good.
According to the yoke loading apparatus of the present invention, when the yoke is supplied to the machining position, that is, the index, the direction of the yoke is sensed and supplied in the normal direction, Can be solved.
In addition, it is possible to automatically detect the kind of supplied yoke to select the wrongly supplied yoke, and to recognize the worker when a wrongly supplied yoke is found, so that the labor cost can be reduced because the worker does not have to manually select it Of course, it is advantageous in that the reliability of the process can be improved by automatically detecting the process which is manually confirmed by the operator, and the stopping operation of the manufacturing process due to the wrongly inserted yoke can be prevented beforehand, .
1 is a schematic perspective view for explaining a yoke;
2 is a bottom view of the yoke shown in Fig.
3 is a plan view schematically showing a yoke processing system to which a yoke loading apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied.
4 is a plan view showing a yoke loading apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a front view of the yoke loading apparatus shown in Fig.
6 is a right side view showing the primary and secondary loading units of the yoke loading apparatus shown in FIG.
Fig. 7 is a plan view showing the primary, secondary and tertiary loading units shown in Fig. 4. Fig.
8 is a front view showing an example of the primary loading unit shown in Fig.
9 is a rear view of the tertiary loading unit shown in Fig.
10 is a right side view of the tertiary loading unit shown in Fig.
11 is a plan view of the tertiary loading unit shown in Fig.
12 is a block diagram illustrating a yoke loading apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Hereinafter, a yoke loading apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. Those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that many modifications and variations of the present invention are possible without departing from the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
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A first loading unit installed above the yoke feed hopper unit to move the yoke positioned at the first loading position by the yoke feed hopper unit to a second loading position;
A second loading unit that is reciprocated between the second loading position and the third loading position on the base to move the yoke received from the primary loading unit at the second loading position to the third loading position;
A tertiary loading unit installed to move the yoke moved to the third loading position by the secondary loading unit to an index to be processed;
A first sensor for sensing a direction of a yoke positioned at the first loading position;
A second sensor for sensing a type of a yoke positioned at the second loading position; And
Controls the first loading unit to be controlled to move the yoke in the turned direction to the second loading position by switching the direction of the yoke in the normal direction according to the information sensed by the first sensor, And a controller for controlling to stop the driving of the secondary loading unit until the yoke of the second loading position is removed when the type of the yoke is determined to be different from the type of the yoke.
A hopper body installed on the base;
And an alignment guide connected linearly outside the hopper body to guide the yokes aligned in the hopper body to be moved in an aligned state to the first loading position,
Wherein an end of the alignment guide is provided with a stopping jaw for stopping the yoke at the first loading position, and the first sensor is installed on the stopping jaw.
A first guide frame installed on a support frame disposed on an upper portion of the base;
A first moving guider installed to be reciprocatable in the first guide frame;
A first moving part installed to the first moving guider so as to be reciprocally movable in a horizontal direction;
A first elevating part installed on the first moving part so as to be vertically reciprocable;
A rotation driving unit installed in the first elevating unit;
And a first chuck connected to a lower portion of the rotation driving unit and chucking a yoke positioned at the first loading position.
A second moving guide installed on the base;
And a transfer block reciprocating between the second loading position and the third loading position along the second transfer guide,
And a yoke seating part on which the yoke is seated is protruded from the transport block.
Wherein the yoke has a shape in which each of the first and second long sides of the yoke body on which the serration holes are formed has a different distance from the center of the serration hole,
Wherein the first sensor detects the direction of the yoke by measuring a distance to the first or second long side according to a direction of the yoke positioned at the first loading position, .
And the second sensor detects the size of the yoke by touching the first or second long face of the yoke positioned at the second loading position while the direction is normally maintained by the first loading unit .
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