WO2009127640A1 - Ensemble de tuyau flexible pour dispositif de soudage - Google Patents

Ensemble de tuyau flexible pour dispositif de soudage Download PDF

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WO2009127640A1
WO2009127640A1 PCT/EP2009/054428 EP2009054428W WO2009127640A1 WO 2009127640 A1 WO2009127640 A1 WO 2009127640A1 EP 2009054428 W EP2009054428 W EP 2009054428W WO 2009127640 A1 WO2009127640 A1 WO 2009127640A1
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hose
assembly
arrangement
hose package
spiral spring
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Oliver Binzel
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Tbi Industries Gmbh
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/005—Electrical coupling combined with fluidic coupling
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
    • B23K9/00—Arc welding or cutting
    • B23K9/24—Features related to electrodes
    • B23K9/28—Supporting devices for electrodes
    • B23K9/29—Supporting devices adapted for making use of shielding means
    • B23K9/291—Supporting devices adapted for making use of shielding means the shielding means being a gas
    • B23K9/295—Supporting devices adapted for making use of shielding means the shielding means being a gas using consumable electrode-wire
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
    • B23K9/00—Arc welding or cutting
    • B23K9/32—Accessories
    • B23K9/323—Combined coupling means, e.g. gas, electricity, water or the like
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/56—Means for preventing chafing or fracture of flexible leads at outlet from coupling part
    • H01R13/565—Torsion-relieving

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  • the present invention relates to a hose package arrangement with a hose package for a welding apparatus according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Hose packs of the aforementioned type are used as a transfer device between the handling part of a welding device, ie the so-called welding torch, and the actual welding unit, which essentially serves to generate welding current and to store or connect the welding media, such as the welding wire and the protective gas.
  • the hose package as a transfer device is primarily the task to ensure the power and media supply over the distance to the welding unit without affecting the handling of the welding torch.
  • Hose package on the one hand must not hinder the complex kinematics of the superimposed movements of the Roboterarmglieder and on the other hand, the mechanical loads of the hose assembly occurring in connection with the movement of the robot arm should be as low as possible in order to minimize wear as possible.
  • Mass in the area of the robot wrist is increased and that the interposition of a coupling element, the heat transfer from the torch on the hose assembly and thus the removal of the welding heat is affected by the welding torch.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object
  • hose package for welding devices which is particularly resistant to torsion, to allow a long service life without an intermediate arrangement of a rotary joint in the field of robot wrist.
  • the hose package according to the invention has the features of claim 1.
  • the channel wall of the guide channel has a spiral spring arrangement with at least one spiral spring winding.
  • the guide channel is thus designed to be sufficiently torsionally rigid in order to largely prevent harmful loading of the outer insulation or of the conductor arrangement by torsional stresses.
  • the support structure has a tubular support which is provided with a torsion-resistant reinforcement.
  • the carrier essentially has the task of forming the reinforcement into a tubular wall.
  • the carrier can be formed from a plastic tube.
  • the one torsionally rigid envelope in the form of a mesh or network, for example of a metal or a sufficiently rigid, in particular pressure-resistant non-metallic material having.
  • the support structure comprises a spiral spring arrangement with at least one coil spring winding, which allows a bending of the hose package in the operation of a robot and has sufficient torsional stiffness for transmitting a rotational angle, without a torsional stress to a harmful extent on the outer insulation the conductor arrangement acts.
  • the spiral spring arrangement itself as an electrical conductor arrangement to allow a minimized configuration of the hose package to a minimized diameter of the hose package.
  • the hose package is axially displaced in one of force introduction devices.
  • limited transmission portion of the coil spring assembly in the relaxed state an annular gap between the coil spring assembly and a channel wall of a receiving channel is formed, not only a relief of the insulation of a torsional strain, so reducing the torsional stress can be achieved, but depending on the dimensions of the annular gap in the maximum case complete decoupling the insulation tube from the recorded by the coil spring assembly torsional load.
  • the channel wall is formed by the conductor arrangement.
  • an insulating cover of the spiral spring arrangement or an insulating lining of the conductor arrangement is provided in the annular gap.
  • the hose pack is provided at its wire feed end with a connecting piece which serves both for power transmission and for introducing force between the welding unit or the wire feed device and the hose package.
  • a connecting piece which serves both for power transmission and for introducing force between the welding unit or the wire feed device and the hose package.
  • the hose assembly according to the invention has the features of claim 1 1.
  • the hose package arrangement according to the invention is provided at its wire feed end with a coupling device which has a plug part formed by the connecting piece, which can be rotated in a fixed manner. standing socket part is added for connection to a wire feeder. Due to the coupling device, which is arranged at the wire feed end, so the end of the hose assembly, which is remote from the robot wrist, results in a heat dissipation from the robot wrist obstructing, defined by the coupling device heat transfer resistance only at the end of a defined by the hose package heat transfer path, so that a significant improved heat dissipation of the heat generated at the welding torch is possible than when installing a rotary joint in the area of the robot wrist.
  • the socket part has a housing part designed as an electrical conductor arrangement, which has a coupling element in an annular gap formed between the plug part and a sleeve receptacle, which serves both as a radial bearing and for current transmission, then in cooperation with the plug part in the area of the rotary coupling realized particularly good heat transfer.
  • FIG. 1 shows a welding robot with a hose package arrangement arranged on the robot arm
  • FIG. 2 the hose package arrangement used on the welding robot shown in FIG. 1 in a detail view
  • FIG. 3 the hose package arrangement shown in Figure 2 in a partial sectional view along section line III - III. 4 shows an enlarged illustration of a distal connection end corresponding to section IV of the hose package arrangement shown in FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 5 shows an enlarged view of a proximal connection end corresponding to section V of FIG.
  • FIG. 1 shows a welding robot 10 with a body part 12, which can be pivoted about a vertical axis 1 1, on which an articulated arm 13 is arranged.
  • a robot wrist 17 pivotable about a wrist axis 16 which hingedly connects a burner base 18 of a welding torch 19 to the lower arm member 15.
  • a hose package 21 is connected, which extends from the connecting element 20 and the burner base 18 to a formed at a proximal end 31 of the hose package 21 coupling device 22, the connection the hose package is used on a wire feed device 23 designed here as a wire feed case.
  • Hose packet 21 and the coupling device 22 formed hose assembly 24 connected indirectly via a connecting element 25 to the wire feeder 23.
  • FIG. 2 shows the hose package arrangement 24 with the connection element 20 arranged at the distal end 14, which in the present case is referred to as
  • Sensor device is formed, which has a force sensor not shown here, to initiate a collision of the welding torch 19 with a workpiece, a suitable evasive movement of the welding robot 10. Notwithstanding the illustration of the hose However, ket onion 24 in Fig. 2, it is also possible to connect the distal end 14 of the hose assembly 21 directly to the burner base 18.
  • the hose package assembly 24 shown in FIG. 2 is used to supply power and media to the welding torch 19 and, as shown in FIG. 3, has a guide channel 26 in the hose assembly 21, which is primarily used to carry one from the wire feed device 23 into one Burner head 27 (Fig. 1) of the welding torch 19 promoted, not shown here welding wire and also serves to promote a protective gas.
  • the hose package assembly 24 shown in Fig. 2 here a hose package 21 enveloping the conduit 28, which serves to guide electrical signal lines 29 or media lines not shown here, for example, for the guidance of cooling water.
  • FIG. 3 shows a connection end 30 formed at the distal end 14 of the hose package 21 and a connection end 32 formed at a proximal end 31 of the hose package 21, which are arranged on both sides of a transfer section 52 of the hose package 21, in a sectional view.
  • a channel wall 33 of the guide channel 26 is defined by the coaxial arrangement of two spiral spring coils 34, 35 which together form a coil spring assembly 36.
  • the spiral spring windings 34, 35 are provided with opposite sense of winding in relation to a guide channel axis 37, so that a support structure which is sufficiently torsionally rigid in both rotational angle directions can be realized.
  • the spiral spring arrangement 36 or the outer spiral spring winding 35 is provided with a hose cover 40 formed from an insulating material, wherein the spiral spring arrangement 36 is arranged in a receiving channel 54 whose channel wall 55 is formed by the conductor arrangement 21.
  • the hose cover 40 fills a between the coil spring assembly 36 and a coaxial with the guide channel axis 37 arranged electrical conductor assembly 41 formed annular gap 42.
  • a contact region 43 of the connection end 30 is the Spiralfederan- order 36 and the outer coil spring winding 35 from
  • Hose cover 40 freed and taken in a here designed as a ferrule end sleeve 44, which is preferably formed from a copper material.
  • the end sleeve 44 serves on the one hand for force transmission between the spiral spring arrangement 36 and the connection element 20 and on the other hand for power transmission from the conductor arrangement 41 to the connection element 20.
  • a connecting piece 45 is provided at the proximal end 31 of the hose package 21, which has a connecting region designed as an end sleeve 46 for connection to the spiral spring arrangement 36. Subsequent to the end sleeve 46, the connecting piece 45 merges in one piece into a coupling end 47, which serves for a connection rotatable about the guide channel axis 37 to a socket part 48 of a coupling device 47 and the socket part 48.
  • the coupling device 22 For detachable connection of the coupling end 47 of the connecting piece 45 with the female part 48, the coupling device 22 a displaceable on a latching device 49 locking sleeve 50 which in the embodiment shown in FIG.
  • the connecting piece 45 thus serves both for producing a mechanically interlocking clutch engagement in the coupling device 22, or the female part 48 of the coupling device 22, as well as for producing an electrically conductive connection between the conductor arrangement 41 of the hose assembly 21 and the connection element 25 connected to the female part 48, which is connected to the power supply of the wire feeder 23.
  • the current transmission in the region of the coupling device 22 essentially takes place from the female part 48 via a cylindrical sleeve-shaped coupling element 51 to the coupling end 47 of the connecting piece 45.
  • the coupling element 51 accommodated in a housing part 56 also serves as a radial bearing of the coupling end 47, around a possible low-friction rotation of the coupling end 47 in the female part 48 of the coupling device 22 to allow.

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L'invention concerne un système (24) de tuyau flexible doté d'un ensemble (21) de tuyau flexible pour un dispositif de soudage et destiné à être raccordé à une articulation manuelle (17) de robot, l'ensemble de tuyau flexible présentant un canal (26) qui reprend et guide un fil de soudage et un système (41) de conducteurs électriques recouvert par une isolation, le système de tuyau flexible présentant un dispositif d'accouplement (22) qui permet de raccorder à rotation l'ensemble de tuyau flexible sur un dispositif (23) d'amenée de fil, le dispositif d'accouplement présentant une pièce enfichable qui est formée par une pièce de raccordement (45) et qui peut être reçue à rotation dans une partie en douille fixe pour être reliée au dispositif d'amenée de fil, une paroi (33) du canal de guidage présentant une structure de soutien rigide en torsion.
PCT/EP2009/054428 2008-04-16 2009-04-15 Ensemble de tuyau flexible pour dispositif de soudage WO2009127640A1 (fr)

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CA2721181A CA2721181C (fr) 2008-04-16 2009-04-15 Ensemble de tuyau flexible pour dispositif de soudage
CN2009801136010A CN102006963A (zh) 2008-04-16 2009-04-15 用于焊接设备的软管包
EP09731578A EP2276602A1 (fr) 2008-04-16 2009-04-15 Ensemble de tuyau flexible pour dispositif de soudage

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DE200810019327 DE102008019327B4 (de) 2008-04-16 2008-04-16 Schlauchpaketanordnung
DE102008019327.5 2008-04-16

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