TWI632100B - Silo mechanism and conveying device using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a silo mechanism and a conveying device using the silo mechanism, the silo mechanism comprising: two side seats which are spaced apart from each other and parallel to each other, and two upper sides are provided with an extraction interval and are respectively located outside the extraction interval. a tray for the tray and a tray for the tray, for the tray to be stacked with a plurality of components arranged in a matrix arrangement, the tray for the stacked trays for the stacked components, for the trays in the tray Can be transported through the extraction interval to the closing bin; by a transfer mechanism, a transfer head can be displaced between the extraction interval and the fixture of a transfer mechanism to extract the carrier and the fixture with the component displaced in the extraction interval The transportation efficiency is improved by alternately transporting the two clamps.

Description

Silo mechanism and conveying device using the same

The present invention relates to a silo mechanism and a transport device using the silo mechanism, and more particularly to a silo mechanism for supplying components on a carrier, and transferring and transporting components in the silo mechanism, A magazine mechanism that transports a carrier tray on which components are carried in the magazine mechanism and a conveying device that uses the cartridge mechanism.

According to the wide variety of general electronic components, there are often two or more electronic components combined based on the necessary requirements, for example, on a flexible substrate (or a flexible printed circuit (FPC)). Attaching a component, which may be another flexible substrate, or a passive component, or other component that must be attached to the flexible substrate; a method of bonding an electronic component of such a flexible substrate to a component, prior art For example, the patent case of the "Mechanical component transfer method and device for electronic component bonding process" of the publication number I546234, and the patent case of the component transfer method and device of the bonding process No. I567011, the first and second patents will be adopted. The components are respectively placed on different carriers, and the two carriers are respectively transported by two transport channels, and the first component on one of the carriers is transferred to the other carrier and bonded to the second component.

However, the prior art disclosed in the above-mentioned I546234 and I567011 is only applicable to the bonding work of the first component and the second component which are suitable for being placed on the carrier, and the carrier of the first component or the second component is respectively attached by a The feeding device fixed on one side of the machine is supplied. Since the feeding device is bulky and the carrier must be accommodated in the frame box placed on the feeding device, it is placed in the frame box. When the machine is removed, the mechanism of the machine is used to transport the carrier from the feeding device, which consumes a considerable amount of space and time, which is not conducive to the application of the complex bonding process and the improvement of the productivity efficiency.

That is, it is an object of the present invention to provide a silo mechanism for supplying components on a carrier.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a transport apparatus for transferring and transporting components in a silo mechanism.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a transport apparatus for transporting a carrier carrying a component in the silo mechanism.

The silo mechanism according to the object of the present invention comprises: two side seats which are spaced apart from each other and are parallel to each other. The two side seats are provided with a supply bin and a closing bin which are separated by an extraction section and are respectively located at the outer ends of the extraction section. A carrier for stacking a plurality of components in a matrix arrangement, and a tray for the stacked components to be extracted, the trays for the trays being transported through the extraction section to the take-up bin.

According to another object of the present invention, a conveying device, such as the magazine mechanism, includes: a transfer mechanism, the transfer mechanism is spanned in a direction perpendicular to the two side seats above the extraction section of the two side seats, the previous one The transfer head can be slidably displaced on a slide rail between the extraction section and the fixture of a transfer mechanism, and displaced by the negative pressure adsorption element between the carrier of the extraction section and the fixture.

According to still another object of the present invention, the conveying device uses the same as the silo mechanism, including: two jigs and alternate transport modes, when one jig performs the transfer of the carrier from the supply bin through the extraction interval to the closing bin, the other The jig reverse is returned to the supply bin by the take-up bin through the extraction section below the carrier under transport to prepare for the next transfer.

The silo mechanism and the conveying device using the silo mechanism according to the embodiment of the present invention, wherein the silo mechanism is disposed at a distance between the two side seats and parallel to each other, and the two side seats are separated by an extraction interval and are respectively located outside the extraction interval. The supply and storage positions at both ends, for the storage of the warehouse The components are arranged in a matrix arrangement, and the trays are provided for the trays on which the stacked components have been extracted, and the trays in the trays can be transported through the extraction interval to the closing bin; The first transfer mechanism extracts the component from the loading tray from the extraction section, and on the other hand, the two clamps respectively disposed on the inner side walls of the two side seats facing each other on the slide rail can be alternately conveyed, and when a fixture is executed, the load is carried. When the disc is transported from the supply bin through the extraction section to the closing bin, the other jig is reversed from the take-up bin under the transporting tray to the panning bin through the extraction bin to prepare for the next transfer, so that the entire component is The transportation efficiency has been greatly improved.

A‧‧‧ components

A1‧‧‧ Carrier

C‧‧‧Transfer organization

C1‧‧‧ rotating seat

C11‧‧‧cantilever

C12‧‧‧ fixture

C13‧‧‧ shaft seat

C131‧‧‧ gas supply pipe

D‧‧‧Feeding station

D1‧‧‧First silo body

D11‧‧‧ side seat

D111‧‧‧ slide

D112‧‧‧rails

D1121‧‧‧ slide

D113‧‧‧ fixture

D1131‧‧‧ claws

D1132‧‧‧ pivot

D1133‧‧‧ clips

D1134‧‧‧ drive parts

D114‧‧‧Leather

D1141‧‧‧Runner

D1142‧‧‧ drive parts

D115‧‧‧Sassage Box

D12‧‧‧ extraction interval

D13‧‧‧Supply warehouse

D131‧‧‧Sketch interval

D132‧‧‧ frame

D133‧‧‧ Stand

D134‧‧‧ drive parts

D135‧‧‧ blocking key

D14‧‧‧ closing position

D141‧‧‧Sketch interval

D142‧‧‧ frame

D143‧‧‧ Stand

D144‧‧‧ blocking key

D15‧‧‧ Lifting mechanism

D151‧‧‧Base

D152‧‧‧ditch

D153‧‧‧Rack

D154‧‧‧ drive parts

D155‧‧‧ Lifting table

D2‧‧‧First transfer mechanism

D21‧‧‧First transfer head

D22‧‧‧rails

K‧‧‧ receiving station

K1‧‧‧Second silo body

K2‧‧‧ third silo body

K3‧‧‧Second transfer mechanism

K31‧‧‧Second transfer head

T‧‧‧ machine counter

1 is a perspective view of a component placed on a carrier in an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a schematic view showing the arrangement of each mechanism on a machine table in the embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a perspective view showing the configuration relationship between a feeding station and a transfer mechanism in the embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a perspective exploded view of the first silo in the embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, in the embodiment of the present invention, the component A is placed on the carrier A1 by a plurality of matrix arrangements, and the carrier A1 is provided with the component A, and the component A can be arranged according to the shape of the component A. For proper positioning, the component A can be provided, for example, with a circuit or a flexible substrate (or a flexible printed circuit (FPC)) carrying a passive component and other FPC components.

Referring to Figures 1 and 2, an embodiment of the present invention may be provided on a machine table of the same machine, comprising: a transfer mechanism C, comprising a radial ring-shaped cantilever C11 having a plurality of equally spaced rotation angles. The rotating seat C1 is intermittently rotated, and each of the cantilever C11 is radiated radially outward by the center of rotation of the rotating base C1, and each of the cantilever C11 is low by the center of rotation, and ends at the outer radial direction The height of the end, each of the ends of the cantilever C11 is respectively provided with a fixture C12, and the shaft seat C13 of the rotation center of the rotation base C1 is respectively provided with a gas supply pipe C131 connected to each fixture C12 to provide a negative pressure source of each fixture C12, and rotate The intermittent rotation of the seat C1 provides an intermittently rotating conveying flow path, so that the cantilever C11 end fixture C12 can respectively correspond to one workstation; the fixture C12 can intermittently rotate the conveying flow path to a plurality of the same machine table. The workstations are respectively correspondingly transferred for transport; the workstations may be provided with a plurality of workstations from a first supply station D to a receiving station K to process the components into desired finished products, and the following only relates to the features of the present invention. A feeding station D and a receiving station K are described as follows: the feeding station D is located at the first working station of the processing process of the rotating rotating circuit of the rotating base C1, which provides the component A; the feeding station D includes a first material The warehouse mechanism D1 and the first transfer mechanism D2 for loading the component A on the carrier A1 stored on the first silo mechanism D1 into the fixture C12 of the transfer mechanism C; the receiving station K is located Rotary seat C1 intermittently rotates on the transport stream The final workstation of the process; the receiving station K includes a second silo mechanism K1, a third silo mechanism K2, and a finished product for loading the completed process of the jig C12 on the transfer mechanism C into the second silo mechanism K1, the second transfer mechanism K3 of the third silo mechanism K2; the second silo mechanism K1 and the third silo mechanism K2 are parallel to each other, wherein the second silo mechanism K1 is used for accommodating the good products in the finished product, and the third The silo mechanism K2 is for accommodating defective products in the finished product.

Referring to FIG. 3, the first silo mechanism D1 of the feeding station D is provided with two side seats D11 spaced apart from each other and parallel to each other, and two extraction sections D12 are arranged above the two side seats D11 and are respectively located outside the extraction section D12. The supply tray D13 and the closing bin D14 of the end, the disc tray D13 is provided with a plurality of components A stacked in a matrix arrangement, the tray A1 is arranged, and the closing bin D14 is provided for the carrier A1 in which the stacked component A has been extracted. The disc tray D13, the extraction section D12, and the closing bin D14 are sequentially on the same straight conveying flow path, and the loading tray A1 in the disc magazine D13 can be transported through the extraction zone. The first transfer mechanism D2 is arranged above the extraction section D12 of the two side seats D11 in the direction of the vertical two-side seat D11, and the first first transfer head D21 can be in a slide rail. D22 is slidably displaced between the extraction section D12 and the cantilever C11 end fixture C12 of the conveying device C, and is adsorbed by the negative pressure to the component A on the carrier A1 of the extraction section D12, and the first component A is transferred one by one and placed separately. The one of the cantilever C11 end fixtures C12 corresponding to the first transfer head D21 is intermittently rotated by the rotary seat C1 one by one.

Referring to FIG. 4, the tray D13 of the first silo mechanism D1 is provided with a rectangular frame D132 having a hollow section D131 therein, and the frame D132 is provided with a vertical frame D133 each having a corner section. The frame D133 is limited and encloses a section for stacking the carrier A1. The two sides of the rectangular frame D132 are respectively provided with two sets of driven parts D134 for horizontal extension to the hollow section D131. The stop button D135; the closing bin D14 of the first silo mechanism D1 is provided with a rectangular frame D142 having a hollow section D141 therein, and the frame D142 is provided with a vertical cross-section stand D143, each stand D143 The interval is limited to a section for stacking the carrier A1, and the two sides of the rectangular frame D142 are respectively arranged on the opposite sides of the parallel frame and are respectively provided with two groups for pivoting upwards and downwards to the horizontal. a stop button D144 of the interval D141; the inner side walls of the two side seats D11 are respectively provided with a slide rail D111 protruding from the X-axis direction toward the opposite side seat D11, and each of the slide rails D111 is respectively provided with an X-axis The sliding rail D112 and the sliding rail D112 are respectively provided with a sliding seat D1121, and each of the sliding blocks D1121 is provided with a clamp D113, the sliding The seat D1121 is connected by a belt D114. The belt D114 is disposed between the two inner wheels D1141 on the inner side wall of the two side seats D11, and is driven by a driving member D1142 to drive one of the rotating wheels D1141 to be connected to the sliding rail D112. The X-axis reciprocating slip; the clamps D113 each include two jaws D1131 spaced apart from each other at the two ends of the sliding seat D1121, and each of the claws D1131 is respectively pivotally disposed on the pivot D1132 of the sliding seat D1121, and the pawl D1131 is pivoted The shaft D1132 forms a clip portion D1133 at the upper end of the boundary, and the lower end is acted upon by the driving member D1134 formed by a steam pressure cylinder, so that the two claws D1131 The pivot D1132 can be swayed for the center of rotation, so that the two clip portions D1133 can be opposed or separated from each other; and one side of the two side seats D11 is disposed on the side of the operator D11 on the side facing the operator. The box D115 can be used for holding the defective product; the moving path between the two side seats D11 and the two clamps D113 is provided with a spacing and respectively corresponding to the two lifting mechanism D15 under the supply tray D13 and the closing tray D14. The lifting mechanism D15 is provided with a base D151. The base D151 is provided with two recesses D152 spaced apart from each other and parallel to each other for positioning the bottom brackets of the two side seats D11, and a frame D153 is arranged between the two recessed grooves D152 on the base D151. The mounting frame D153 is provided with a lifting platform D155 which can be driven up and down by a driving member D154. On the conveying, the loading tray A1 containing the component A can be stacked on the vertical shelf of the supply tray D13. The section of the D133 limit is placed above each of the gears D135; the lifting platform D155 of the lifting mechanism D15 below the disk loading compartment D13 is driven by the driving member D154 and rises, and is passed through the hollow section D131 of the frame D132. Abutting the stacked carrier A1 below, the stack carrier A1 is moved upwards The gears D135 are placed, and then the gears D135 are driven to be retracted by the driving member D134. Then, the lifting platform D155 moves the stacking tray A1 downward to move the height of the carrier A1, so that the gears D135 are driven to protrude. The second carrier A1 is inserted from the bottom to the top, and the lowermost carrier A1 can be individually lowered by the lifting platform D155 to be lowered to the protruding slide D111 on the inner side wall of the opposite side of the two side seats D11, and is The two jaws D1131 of the clamp D113 on one side of the seat D11 are clamped, and the clamp D113 is slid on the slide rail D112 to transport the carrier A1 to the extraction section D12 for the first transfer head D21 of the first transfer mechanism D2 to be extracted. After all the components A on the carrier A1 are extracted, the carrier A1 is transported by the jig D113 to the lower portion of the closing bin D14, and the lifting platform D155 of the lifting mechanism D15 below the closing bin D14 is driven to interlock the carrier A1 to rise and pass through the frame. D114's hollow space D141 is up-to-top to dial the gears D144. After the carrier A1 passes through the gears D144, the gears D144 are returned, and then the lifting platform D155 moves the carrier A1 down again, so that the carrier A1 is placed. Each of the gears D144; The opposite side walls of the two side seats D11 are respectively disposed on the two clamps D113 of the slide D1121 on the slide rail D112, and are alternately conveyed. When a clamp D113 is executed, the carrier A1 is transported from the supply tray D13 through the extraction section D12. On the other hand, when the closing bin D14 is reached, the other jig is reversed from the take-up bin D14 to the panning bin D13 via the take-up bin D12 under the transporting tray A1 to prepare for the next transfer.

Referring to FIG. 2, the finished product of the finished process is transported to the final receiving station K of the processing process in the fixture C12, and the second transfer mechanism K3 of the receiving station K is provided with a second transfer head K31 which is displaceable. The fixture C12 is connected with the second silo mechanism K1 and the third silo mechanism K2; the mechanism and operation of the second silo mechanism K1, the third silo mechanism K2 and the second transfer mechanism K3 of the receiving station K The method and the corresponding relationship are the same as the first silo mechanism D1 and the first transfer mechanism D2 of the supply station D, and the same reason can be pushed, and no further description is given!

In summary, in the embodiment of the present invention, the silo mechanism is disposed at a distance between the two side seats D11 and parallel to each other, and the two side seats D11 are provided with a supply bin separated by an extraction interval D12 and located at the outer ends of the extraction interval D12, respectively. D13 and closing bin D14, for the silo D13 to be stacked with a plurality of components A arranged in a matrix arrangement of the carrier A1, the closing bin D13 for the stacking component A has been extracted the loading tray A1, for the silo The carrier A1 in D13 can be transported through the extraction interval D12 to the closing bin D14; on the one hand, the component can be extracted from the loading tray A1 from the extraction section D12 by the first transfer mechanism D2, and the two side seats D11 face each other on the other hand. The two clamps D113 respectively disposed on the inner side wall of the slide D112 on the slide D1121 can be alternately conveyed, and when a clamp D113 performs the transport of the carrier A1 from the supply tray D13 through the extraction section D12 to the closing compartment D14, The other jig is reversed by the take-up bin D14 under the transporting tray A1 and returned to the disc magazine D13 via the take-up section D12 to prepare for the next transfer, so that the transport efficiency of the entire component A is greatly improved.

The above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the invention is not limited thereto, that is, the simple equivalent changes and modifications made by the scope of the invention and the description of the invention are All remain within the scope of the invention patent.

Claims (11)

The utility model relates to a silo mechanism, comprising: two side seats which are spaced apart from each other and are parallel to each other. The upper side of the two side seats are provided with a supply bin and a closing bin which are respectively located at the outer ends of the extraction section, and are provided for the stacking a plurality of components are arranged in a matrix arrangement, wherein the trays are provided with the trays on which the stacked components have been extracted, and the trays in the trays can be transported through the extraction interval to the closing bin; The extraction section and the closing compartment are sequentially arranged on the same straight conveying flow path; each of the sliding rails is respectively provided with X-axis sliding rails, and each of the sliding rails is provided with a sliding seat, and each of the sliding seats is provided with a clamp. The clamps each include two jaws spaced apart at opposite ends of the carriage, and the jaws are biased or separated by the action of the drive members. The silo mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the inner side walls of the two side seats are respectively provided with slide rails in which the X-axis direction is convex toward the opposite side seat. The silo mechanism of claim 2, wherein the carrier is clamped on the slide on the inner side wall of the opposite side of the two side seats, and the two jaws of the clamp are clamped on one side of the clamp, and the clamp is Sliding on the rails to transport the carrier. The silo mechanism according to claim 3, wherein the sliding seat is connected by a belt, and the belt is disposed between the two rotating wheels on the inner side wall of the opposite side of the two side seats, and is driven by a driving member. The interlocking jig can make X-axis reciprocating slip on the slide rail. The silo mechanism according to claim 1, wherein each of the claws is pivotally disposed on a pivot of the sliding seat, the upper end of the pawl is formed by a pivot, and the lower end is subjected to a steam cylinder. The driving member is configured to make the two jaws swing about the pivot center, so that the two buckle portions can be opposed or separated. For example, in the silo mechanism described in claim 1, wherein the two side seats and the two jig slip moving paths are provided with a spacing and respectively corresponding to the supply tray and the closing position The second lifting mechanism, the lifting mechanism is provided with a base, and the base is provided with two recessed grooves spaced apart from each other for positioning of the bottom brackets of the two side seats, and a frame is arranged between the two recessed grooves on the base, and the frame is arranged on the frame There is a lifting platform which can be driven up and down by a driving member. The silo mechanism according to claim 1, wherein one side of the two side seats is provided with a receiving box on the side facing the operator for holding the defective product. A conveying device using the silo mechanism according to any one of claims 1 to 7, comprising: a transfer mechanism, the transfer mechanism spanning the extraction interval of the two side seats in the direction of the vertical two side seats Above, the upper transfer head can be slidably displaced on a slide rail between the extraction section and the fixture of a transfer mechanism, and the extraction component is displaced between the carrier of the extraction section and the fixture. The conveying device according to claim 8, wherein the conveying mechanism causes the jigs to correspond to the lower side of the transfer head one by one by the intermittently rotating conveying flow path. The component conveying device according to Item 8 of the patent application, wherein the two silo mechanisms are juxtaposed in parallel with each other, and the transfer head of the transfer mechanism is displaceable between the extraction section of the two silo mechanism and the jig of the transfer mechanism. Component transfer. A conveying device using the silo mechanism according to any one of claims 1 to 7, comprising: a two-clamp alternate transfer mode, when a jig is executed to transport the carrier from the supply bin through the extraction interval to the close At the time of the warehouse, the other fixture is reversed from the take-up bin to the supply bin under the delivery tray under the conveyance to prepare for the next transfer.