TWI796020B - Socket automatic alignment equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

A socket automatic alignment equipment is disclosed. The socket has a first end and a polygonal hole formed at the first end. The socket automatic alignment equipment includes a carrier and a turning mechanism, which has a pin unit, a spring seat, a spring and a base. The pin unit has a sliding block and a plug pin provided at one end of the sliding block. The width of the plug pin is the distance between a pair of opposite corners of the polygonal hole. the plug pin can rotate in at least one direction with the axis of the socket as the rotation axis. The the plug pin is not aligning with the opposite corners, the plug pin abuts against the first end of the socket and the spring can accumulate elastic force. When the plug pin is aligning with the opposite corners, the spring releases its elastic force to push the plug pin into the polygonal hole and cause the socket to rotate synchronously. The angle between the plug pin and the horizontal plane is fixed every time the plug pin completes the rotation process.

Description

Sleeve automatic alignment equipment

The invention relates to a sleeve automatic alignment device for turning the sleeves with different phase angles to a consistent phase angle.

Generally, the two ends of the sleeve will form multi-angle holes of different specifications. After the multi-angle holes are formed, further processing is often required on the outer surface of the sleeve, such as drilling, laser engraving and other processing.

In the past, in order to ensure that the drilling position or laser engraving position of each sleeve is fixed, it is often manually positioned manually. Therefore, how to save manpower and allow the sleeve to be automatically aligned is really worthwhile Considered.

The main purpose of the present invention is to provide an automatic sleeve alignment device capable of turning the sleeves with different phase angles to the same phase angle.

In order to achieve the above and other objectives, the present invention provides an automatic alignment device for the sleeve, which is used to turn the sleeve to a consistent phase angle. The sleeve has a first end, a second end and a hole formed at the first end. The multi-angle hole, the multi-angle hole has at least one pair of opposite corners. The sleeve automatic alignment equipment includes a carrier, a stopper and a turning mechanism. The carrier is a sleeve for loading and alignment. The stopper is arranged on one side of the carrier frame and is used to stop the second end of the sleeve on the carrier frame. The turning mechanism is arranged on the other side of the carrier frame. The turning mechanism has a latch unit, a Spring seat, a spring and a base, the latch unit has a slide block and a latch located at one end of the slide block, a part of the slide block slides on the spring seat, the spring is located on the spring seat and abuts against the slide block, the spring seat Located on the base, the width of the pin is the distance between the pair of opposite corners; wherein, when the sleeve is on the carrier, the turning mechanism moves a stroke toward the first end of the sleeve so that the pin contacts the sleeve. After the turning mechanism completes the stroke, the bolt rotates in at least one direction with the axis of the sleeve as the rotation axis. When the bolt is not facing the opposite corner, the bolt abuts against the first end of the sleeve and the spring is compressed Accumulate the elastic pre-force, when the pin is opposite to the opposite corner during the rotation, the spring releases at least part of the elastic pre-force to push the pin into the multi-angle hole and make the sleeve rotate synchronously with the pin, and the pin ends every time The angle between the pin and the horizontal plane is fixed during the full rotation.

With the above design, multiple sleeves with different phase angles can be quickly and accurately turned over to a consistent phase angle. Reduce manpower usage.

1: Sleeve

2: first end

3: Second end

4: Multi-angle hole

5: Diagonal

10: Take the carrier

20: stop piece

30: Flip mechanism

31: Latch unit

311: slider

312: plug

32: spring seat

33: Spring

34: base

40: rack

41:Material rail

42, 43: stop arm

50: clamping mechanism

51: jaw

60: Processing area

Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of the first embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic side view of the first embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is an exploded schematic view of the turning mechanism of the first embodiment of the present invention.

Figures 4 to 14 are schematic diagrams of the decomposition action of the first embodiment of the present invention during actual operation.

Please refer to Figures 1 to 3, which are the first embodiment of the sleeve automatic alignment device of the present invention, which is used to turn the sleeve 1 to a consistent phase angle, as shown in Figures 4 to 6, Each of the sleeves 1 has a first end 2, a second end 3 and a polygonal hole 4 formed in the first end 2 (in this embodiment, it is a quadrangular hole), and the multi-angular hole 4 has at least one pair of opposite corners 5 (in this embodiment, there are two pairs of diagonal corners). Another polygonal hole can be formed at the second end 3 of the sleeve 1 , such as a quadrangular hole with a different specification or a hexagonal hole with a different profile. The sleeve automatic alignment equipment includes a carrier 10 , a stopper 20 , a turning mechanism 30 , a material rack 40 , a clamping mechanism 50 and a processing area 60 .

The carrier 10 can be used to carry the sleeve 1 to be aligned, and is located on the downstream side of the material rack 40. The material rack 40 has a material rail 41 and two rails for blocking the first and second rails on the material rack 40, respectively. The stop arms 42, 43 of a sleeve 1 and the material rail 41 of the material rack 40 can be used to carry more than one sleeve 1 to be aligned, and the sleeves can be turned over by the stop arms 42, 43 sequentially. 1 pass through and move to the carrier 40 one by one.

The stopper 20 is disposed on one side of the carrier frame 10 , and can block the second end 3 of the sleeve 1 on the carrier frame 10 . The turning mechanism 30 is located on the other side of the carrier frame 10, and has a latch unit 31, a spring seat 32, a spring 33 and a base 34. The latch unit 31 has a slider 311 and a slider 311. For the pin 312 at one end, the user can use different pins 312 according to the specifications of the polygonal holes 4 , and the width of the pin 312 used is exactly the distance between the pair of diagonal corners 5 . A part of the sliding block 311 is slidably disposed on the spring seat 32 , the spring 33 is disposed on the spring seat 32 and abuts against the sliding block 311 , and the spring seat 32 is disposed on the base 34 . During operation, the flipping mechanism 30 can be driven for displacement (eg, axial movement) and rotation.

The clamping mechanism 50 has a pair of clamping jaws 51, which can be used to clamp the aligned sleeve 1 on the carrier 10, and move the sleeve 1 to the processing area 60, and the processing area 60 can be sequentially aligned with the same phase angle. Multiple sleeves 1 for subsequent processing, such as drilling or laser engraving.

The disassembly action during the work of the present embodiment will be described below by the 4th to 15th figures.

First, as shown in FIG. 4, the material rack is discharged to move a sleeve 1 to the carrier 10, and then the turning mechanism 30 moves toward the first end 2 of the sleeve 1 for a stroke so that the latch 312 contacts the sleeve 1 At this time, the second end 3 of the sleeve 1 can be stopped by the stopper 20 to prevent the sleeve 1 from continuously moving toward the second end side.

Next, as shown in Figures 5 and 6, when the turning mechanism 30 completes the aforementioned stroke and the pin 312 is not facing the pair of corners 5, the pin 312 will abut against the first end 2 of the sleeve 1 and the spring 33 will be compressed And cumulative elastic preload.

As shown in Figures 7 to 9, thereafter, the pin 312 can be rotated in at least one direction with one axis of the sleeve 1 as the rotation axis, and when the pin 312 is facing the opposite corner 5 during the rotation, the spring 33 can At least a part of the elastic pre-force is released and the pin 312 is inserted into the multi-angle hole 4 , so that the sleeve 1 can rotate synchronously with the pin 312 . As shown in FIG. 10, when the pin 312 completes the complete rotation process each time, the angle between the pin 312 and the horizontal plane is fixed, for example, the angle between the pin 312 and the horizontal plane is 45°, so that each aligned sleeve 1 has consistent phase angle. The complete rotation process sequentially includes a first rotation stroke (such as a forward rotation of 90°), a second rotation stroke (such as a reverse rotation of 90°) and a pair of alignment rotation processes, the first and second rotation strokes The directions are opposite to each other, and at the end of the alignment rotation stroke, the angle between the bolt 312 and the horizontal plane is fixed; wherein, the reason why the bolt 312 is made to perform the first and second rotations in sequence is to prevent the bolt 312 from occasionally There is unexpected interference with the first end 2 of the sleeve so that the two cannot rotate relative to each other, so that the bolt 312 cannot be aligned with the pair of diagonal corners 5 in the first rotation stroke. The above-mentioned unexpected interference can be achieved by making the bolt 312 Rotation in the other direction (that is, the second rotation stroke) is released, thereby increasing the fault tolerance rate during the rotation process of the bolt.

As shown in Figure 11, after the sleeve 1 is aligned, the clamping mechanism 50 can clamp the Sleeve 1 on carrier 10. Then, as shown in FIG. 12, after the clamping mechanism 50 clamps the sleeve 1, the pin 312 exits the multi-angle hole 4. Such a working sequence can prevent the sleeve 1 from deviating from the already aligned phase angle.

Next, as shown in Figures 13 and 14, the clamping mechanism 50 further takes the sleeve 1 out of the carrier 10 and moves it to the processing area 60 for subsequent processing (drilling processing in this embodiment).

With the above design, the present invention can quickly and accurately turn multiple sleeves with different phase angles to a consistent phase angle. Its mechanism is simple and reliable, which is helpful for the subsequent consistent processing of multiple sleeves. At the same time, the use of manpower is greatly reduced.

1: Sleeve

10: Take the carrier

20: stop piece

30: Flip mechanism

31: Latch unit

32: spring seat

40: rack

41:Material rail

42, 43: stop arm

50: clamping mechanism

51: jaw

60: Processing area device

Claims (5)

An automatic alignment device for a sleeve, used to turn the sleeve to a consistent phase angle, the sleeve has a first end, a second end and a polygonal hole formed at the first end, the polygonal hole has At least one pair of opposite corners, the sleeve automatic alignment equipment includes: A carrier for carrying the sleeves to be aligned; A stopper is arranged on one side of the carriage, and the stopper is used to stop the second end of the sleeve on the carriage; A turning mechanism, located on the other side of the carrier, the turning mechanism has a latch unit, a spring seat, a spring and a base, the latch unit has a slider and a slider at one end A bolt, a part of the slider slides on the spring seat, the spring is arranged on the spring seat and presses against the slider, the spring seat is arranged on the base, and the width of the bolt is between the pair of diagonal corners. Pitch; Wherein, when a said sleeve is positioned on the carriage, the turning mechanism moves a stroke toward the first end of the sleeve so that the pin contacts the sleeve, and when the turning mechanism completes the stroke and the pin has not yet When facing the opposite corner, the pin abuts against the first end of the sleeve and the spring is compressed to accumulate elastic pre-force, after which the pin is used to rotate around an axis of the sleeve. Rotate in at least one direction, when the pin is facing opposite corners during the rotation, the spring releases at least a part of the elastic pre-force to push the pin into the multi-angle hole and make the sleeve synchronize with the pin rotation, and each time the bolt completes a complete rotation, the angle between the bolt and the horizontal plane is fixed. The sleeve automatic alignment device as described in claim 1, wherein the complete rotation process includes a first rotation stroke, a second rotation stroke and a pair of alignment rotation strokes in sequence, the first and second rotation strokes The directions are opposite to each other, and at the end of the alignment rotation stroke, the angle between the bolt and the horizontal plane is fixed. The sleeve automatic alignment device as described in Claim 1 further includes a material rack for carrying more than one sleeve to be aligned and allowing the sleeves to move to the loading frame one by one. The sleeve automatic alignment device as described in Claim 1 further includes a clamping mechanism for clamping the sleeve on the carriage which has been aligned. The sleeve automatic alignment device according to claim 1 further includes a processing area, and the clamping mechanism is further used to move the sleeve to the processing area.

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