CN110723557A

CN110723557A - Tray recovery device

Info

Publication number: CN110723557A
Application number: CN201911023381.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 杨美高
Original assignee: Shenzhen 80 United Equipment Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shenzhen 80 United Equipment Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-10-25
Filing date: 2019-10-25
Publication date: 2020-01-24

Abstract

The invention discloses a tray recovery device, and belongs to the technical field of tray recovery. The tray recovery device includes: a frame; the first clamping assembly is arranged on the rack and used for clamping or loosening the tray to be recovered; the recovery assembly is arranged on the rack and comprises a first movement unit and a second movement unit connected with the first movement unit; the first moving unit and the second moving unit are arranged below the first clamping assembly, the first moving unit can move along the horizontal direction, and the second moving unit can move along the vertical direction, so that the second moving unit takes the tray to be recovered away from the lower portion of the first clamping assembly and moves to a recovery station. The tray to be recovered can be taken away from the lower part of the tray to be recovered, so that the problem that the tray to be recovered falls off due to unstable pressure when the tray to be recovered is taken away from the upper part in the prior art is solved.

Description

Tray recovery device

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of tray recovery, in particular to a tray recovery device.

Background

TRAY dish is the dish that is used for adorning LCD (liquid crystal display), is similar to the TRAY, on producing the line, and after the LCD in the TRAY that is equipped with LCD was taken away, need retrieve the TRAY to retrieving the station through TRAY recovery unit, retrieve and recycle.

The tray is taken away from the top of tray to current tray recovery unit, holds the tray through adsorbing the piece, then upwards rises, moves to the recovery station again and retrieves the tray, in case the pressure of adsorbing the tray is unstable like this, very easily causes the tray to drop, influences production efficiency. In addition, the existing tray recovery device is driven by a servo motor, the motor cost is high, and the space size is large, so that the manufacturing cost of equipment is high, the size is large, and the occupied space is large.

Accordingly, the prior art is yet to be improved and developed.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a tray recovery device, which aims to solve the problem that in the prior art, when a tray is taken away from the upper part of a tray, the pressure of an adsorption tray is unstable, so that the tray is easy to fall.

In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

a tray recycling device, comprising:

a frame;

the first clamping assembly is arranged on the rack and used for clamping or loosening the tray to be recovered;

the recovery assembly is arranged on the rack and comprises a first movement unit and a second movement unit connected with the first movement unit; the first moving unit and the second moving unit are arranged below the first clamping assembly, the first moving unit is arranged to move along the horizontal direction, and the second moving unit 32 is arranged to move along the vertical direction, so that the second moving unit takes the tray to be recovered from the lower part of the first clamping assembly and moves to a recovery station.

Optionally, the first movement unit includes a rodless cylinder, and the second movement unit is connected to the movable end of the rodless cylinder.

Optionally, the first movement unit further includes two slide rails and two slide blocks matched with the slide rails, the two slide rails are respectively arranged at two ends of the rack, the two slide blocks are connected through a support plate, the second movement unit is arranged on the support plate, and the support plate is connected with the movable end of the rodless cylinder.

Optionally, the tray clamping device further comprises a second clamping assembly located at the recycling station, and the second clamping assembly is arranged on the rack and used for clamping the tray at the recycling station.

Optionally, the second clamping assembly comprises first cylinders located at two ends of the recycling station, a first clamping plate is arranged at a movable end of each first cylinder, and the first clamping plate can be driven by the first cylinders to clamp the tray at the recycling station.

Optionally, the second clamping assembly comprises a positioning plate, the positioning plate is located at a corner of the recovery station, the cross-sectional shape of the positioning plate is matched with the shape of the corner of the tray, and the positioning plate abuts against the corner of the tray at the recovery station to position the tray.

Optionally, the second moving unit includes a second cylinder and a third cylinder connected to a movable end of the second cylinder, and a stroke of the second cylinder is different from a stroke of the third cylinder.

Optionally, the first clamping assembly comprises a fourth cylinder for abutting against two ends of the tray to be recovered, a second clamping plate is arranged at the movable end of the fourth cylinder, and the second clamping plate can abut against the end of the tray to be recovered under the driving of the fourth cylinder.

Optionally, the first clamping assembly further comprises a fifth cylinder for abutting against the corner of the tray to be recovered, a positioning block is arranged at the movable end of the fifth cylinder, a notch matched with the shape of the corner of the tray to be recovered is formed in the positioning block, and the positioning block can be driven by the fifth cylinder to abut against the corner of the tray to be recovered.

Optionally, the first clamping assembly comprises a positioning rod, and the positioning rod is used for abutting against the side wall of the tray to be recovered.

The invention has the beneficial effects that:

according to the invention, the first moving unit and the second moving unit are arranged below the first clamping assembly, the tray is clamped on the first clamping assembly, and the second moving unit supports the tray from the lower part of the tray through the matching of the first moving unit and the second moving unit and then moves to the recovery station, so that the tray is taken away from the lower part of the tray, the tray is not dropped due to unstable pressure of the adsorption tray, and the production stability is ensured.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a tray recycling device according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic exploded view of the tray recycling device of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the construction of the recovery assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a second clamping assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the structure of FIG. 3 from another perspective according to the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a first clamping assembly of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a second splint according to the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the second splint of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the second splint of the present invention.

In the figure:

1-a tray; 10-a frame; 20-a first clamping assembly; 30-a recovery assembly; 40-a second clamping assembly;

21-a fourth cylinder; 22-a fifth cylinder; 23-positioning rods; 211-a second splint; 221-a positioning block; 2111-first side; 2112-second edge; 2211-notch;

31-a first motion unit; 311-rodless cylinders; 312-a slide rail; 313-a slider; 314-a support plate;

32-a second motion unit; 321-a bracket; 322-a second cylinder; 323-a third cylinder;

41-a first cylinder; 42-a first splint; 43-positioning plate.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples. It is to be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not limiting of the invention. It should be further noted that, for the convenience of description, only some of the structures related to the present invention are shown in the drawings, not all of the structures.

In the description of the present invention, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the terms "connected," "connected," and "fixed" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as meaning permanently connected, removably connected, or integral to one another; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood in specific cases to those skilled in the art.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, "above" or "below" a first feature means that the first and second features are in direct contact, or that the first and second features are not in direct contact but are in contact with each other via another feature therebetween. Also, the first feature being "on," "above" and "over" the second feature includes the first feature being directly on and obliquely above the second feature, or merely indicating that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature includes the first feature being directly under and obliquely below the second feature, or simply meaning that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

In the description of the present embodiment, the terms "upper", "lower", "right", etc. are used in an orientation or positional relationship based on that shown in the drawings only for convenience of description and simplicity of operation, and do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first" and "second" are used only for descriptive purposes and are not intended to have a special meaning.

The technical scheme of the invention is further explained by the specific implementation mode in combination with the attached drawings.

The invention provides a tray recovery device, wherein fig. 1 is a schematic perspective structure of the tray recovery device, fig. 2 is a schematic exploded structure of the tray recovery device, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, the tray recovery device comprises a frame 10 supported as a whole, and a first clamping component 20 and a recovery component 30 are arranged on the frame 10.

A first clamping assembly 20 is provided on the chassis 10 for clamping or releasing the tray 1 to be recovered. When the LCD-containing tray 1 comes to the station of the first clamping assembly 20, the first clamping assembly 20 clamps the tray 1, a manipulator waits for the manipulator to take the LCD in the tray 1, after all the LCDs in the tray 1 are taken away, the other LCD-containing tray 1 is continuously sent to the station of the first clamping assembly 20, the other LCD-containing tray 1 is stacked on the empty tray 1 which is taken away before, the manipulator continuously takes the LCD, and after the LCD is taken away, the other LCD-containing tray 1 is continuously sent to the third tray 1. And so on, after the empty trays 1 at the first clamping assembly 20 are accumulated to a certain amount, the recycling assembly 30 is controlled to take away the empty trays 1.

A recovery assembly 30 is also provided on the frame 10 for recovering the empty tray 1 on the first clamping assembly 20. As shown in fig. 2, the recycling assembly 30 includes a first moving unit 31 and a second moving unit 32 connected to the first moving unit 31, the first moving unit 31 and the second moving unit 32 are disposed below the first clamping assembly 20, the first moving unit 31 is configured to move in a horizontal direction, and the second moving unit 32 is configured to move in a vertical direction, so that the first moving unit 31 and the second moving unit 32 form a driving module moving in an X direction and a Y direction, the first moving unit 31 drives the second moving unit 32 to move in the X direction, and the second moving unit 32 itself can move in the Y direction, so that the second moving unit 32 takes the tray 1 to be recycled from below the first clamping assembly 20 and moves to the recycling station.

When the tray 1 is taken, the first moving unit 31 drives the second moving unit to move to the position right below the first clamping assembly 20 along the X direction, and the movable end of the second moving unit 32 extends upwards along the Y direction to support the bottom of the tray 1, or the movable end of the second moving unit 32 can be configured with the adsorption force for adsorbing the tray 1, so that the tray 1 is supported on the second moving unit 32 more stably; after the second moving unit 32 holds the tray 1, the first clamping assembly 20 releases the tray 1, the movable end of the second moving unit 32 descends, and then the first moving unit 31 drives the second moving unit 32 to move to the recovery station for recovering the tray 1.

The invention can take the tray 1 away from the lower part of the tray 1 for recycling, avoids the problem that the tray 1 falls off due to unstable adsorption pressure when the tray 1 is sucked from the upper part of the tray 1 in the prior art, and ensures the smooth production.

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of the recycling assembly of the present invention, as shown in fig. 3, in one embodiment, the first moving unit 31 includes a rodless cylinder 311, and the second moving unit 32 is connected to a movable end of the rodless cylinder 311, where the connection of the second moving unit 32 to the movable end of the rodless cylinder 311 means that the second moving unit 32 can be connected to the movable end of the rodless cylinder 311 through another connecting member, so that the second moving unit 32 can be driven by the rodless cylinder 311, as shown in fig. 3. As a matter of course, the second moving unit 32 is provided at the top with a bracket 321 for holding the tray 1. The driving mechanism of the first moving unit 31 is set to be the rodless cylinder 311, so that the cost can be reduced compared with the motor driving in the prior art through the cylinder driving. In addition, the volume of the air cylinder is small, the volume of the whole machine can be reduced, and the space is saved.

Further, the first moving unit 31 further includes a sliding rail 312 and two sliding blocks 313 matched with the sliding rail, the two sliding rails 312 are respectively disposed at two ends of the rack 10, there are two corresponding sliding blocks 313, the two sliding blocks 313 are connected by a supporting plate 314, the second moving unit 32 is disposed on the supporting plate 314, the supporting plate 314 is connected with the movable end of the rodless cylinder 311, so that the movable end of the rodless cylinder 311 drives the supporting plate 314 to slide along the sliding rail 312, the second moving unit 32 is disposed on the supporting plate 314, and the second moving unit 32 can move along with the supporting plate 314. In this way, the second moving unit 32 is indirectly driven by the supporting plate 314, and the second moving unit 32 is not directly fixed to the movable end of the rodless cylinder 311, so that the two sliding rails 312 can be used to make the movement smoother. On the basis, as shown in fig. 3, in this design, the rodless cylinder 311 and one of the two slide rails 312 may be mounted on the same side, and the rodless cylinder 311 and the slide rail 312 may be mounted on the frame 10 by using the same mounting plate.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the tray recycling device of the present invention further includes a second clamping assembly 40 located at the recycling station, and the second clamping assembly 40 is disposed on the frame 10 and is used for clamping the tray 1 at the recycling station.

Fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of the second clamping assembly in the present invention, and as shown in fig. 4, the second clamping assembly 40 includes first air cylinders 41 located at both ends of the recycling station, a first clamping plate 42 is disposed at a movable end of the first air cylinder 41, and the first clamping plate 42 can clamp the tray 1 at the recycling station under the driving of the first air cylinder 41.

With continued reference to fig. 4, in one embodiment, the second clamping assembly 40 may further include a positioning plate 43, the positioning plate 43 is located at a corner of the recycling station, a cross-sectional shape of the positioning plate 43 matches a shape of the corner of the tray 1, and the positioning plate 43 abuts against the corner of the tray 1 at the recycling station to position the tray 1. The tray 1 is generally rectangular in shape, so the alignment plate 43 may also include two plates perpendicular to each other to form a right angle, which wraps around the corners of the tray 1 to align them. Preferably, as shown in fig. 4, the positioning plates 43 are four and are respectively distributed at four corners of the recycling station.

In one embodiment, as shown in fig. 5, the second moving unit 32 includes a second cylinder 322 and a third cylinder 323 connected to a movable end of the second cylinder 322, and the second cylinder 322 and the third cylinder 323 have different strokes. Referring to fig. 1, 2 and 5, since the second moving unit 32 needs to raise and lower the tray 1 at the first clamping assembly 20, and to raise and lower the tray 1 at the recycling station, i.e., at the second clamping assembly 40, and the second moving unit 32 may have different lifting heights at the first clamping assembly 20 and the second clamping assembly 40, two differently formed cylinders are required to form the second moving unit 32, wherein one cylinder is responsible for the lifting at the first clamping assembly 20, and the other cylinder is responsible for the lifting at the second clamping assembly 40.

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of the first clamping assembly in the present invention, and as shown in fig. 6, the first clamping assembly 20 includes a fourth cylinder 21 for abutting against both ends of the tray 1 to be recovered, and a fifth cylinder 22 for abutting against a corner of the tray 1 to be recovered, a movable end of the fourth cylinder 21 is provided with a second clamping plate 211, and the second clamping plate 211 can abut against an end of the tray 1 to be recovered under the driving of the fourth cylinder 21. The movable end of the fifth cylinder 22 is provided with a positioning block 221, the positioning block 221 is provided with a notch 2211 matched with the corner shape of the tray 1 to be recovered, and the positioning block 221 can abut against the corner of the tray 1 to be recovered under the driving of the fifth cylinder 22. When the fifth cylinder 22 drives the positioning block 221 to move towards the tray 1, the notch 2211 on the positioning block 221 clamps the corner of the tray 1, as shown in fig. 6, the shape of the notch 2211 is matched with the shape of the corner of the tray 1, and the notch 2211 is clamped at the corner of the tray 1 to limit the tray 1, so that the position of the tray 1 is limited, and positioning is realized.

Further, as shown in fig. 6, the first clamping assembly 20 may further include a positioning rod 23, and the positioning rod 23 is configured to abut against a side wall of the tray 1 to be recovered to position the tray 1 to be recovered. In one embodiment, the fifth air cylinders 22 may be directly disposed at four corners of the tray 1 to achieve complete positioning of the tray 1, but the fifth air cylinders 22 are positioned by the notches 2211 on the positioning blocks 221 to clamp the tray 1, and if the four corners are positioned by the notches 2211 of the positioning blocks 221, the notches 2211 need to be completely attached to the corners of the tray 1 to achieve positioning, and the requirement on control accuracy is high, so in a further embodiment of the present invention, the positioning rods 23 are disposed to cooperate with the fifth air cylinders 22 to position the tray 1. When the pallet 1 is positioned, the positioning rod 23 abuts against the side wall of the pallet 1, as shown in fig. 6. In addition, the positioning rod 23 can be cylindrical, so that the positioning rod 23 is in point contact with the tray 1, and the abrasion to the tray 1 can be reduced. Of course, the positioning rod 23 may have other shapes, such as a rectangular shape. Can regard two locating levers 23 as a set of, one of them locating lever 23 in two locating levers 23 pushes up and leans on the first side of tray 1, and another locating lever 23 pushes up and leans on another side adjacent with first side on tray 1, just so can utilize a set of locating lever 23 to realize the location in one of them corner of tray 1.

In one embodiment, referring to fig. 6, 7 and 8, the second clamping plate 211 is L-shaped, that is, the longitudinal section of the second clamping plate 211 is L-shaped, as shown in fig. 7, the second clamping plate 211 of the L-shape includes two sides, that is, a first side 2111 and a second side 2112, the first side 2111 is connected to the movable end of the fourth cylinder 21, and the second side 2112 extends inward along the horizontal direction, where the inward extension refers to the direction pointing to the center of the pallet 1 when the pallet 1 is clamped on the second clamping plate 211, and the second side 2112 extends inward along the horizontal direction, so that the second clamping plate 211 can hold the pallet 1 and clamp the pallet 1. The first side 2111 and the second side 2112 may be perpendicular to each other, or may be inclined at a certain angle, and the first side 2111 and the second side 2112 are preferably perpendicular to each other in a preferred embodiment.

In addition, the L-shaped structure of the second clamping plate 211 can facilitate the separation of the stacked trays 1 from the tray 1 when the empty tray 1 is recovered. Specifically, when the recycling unit 30 comes to the first holding unit 20 to recycle the empty trays 1, the empty trays 1 are recycled to the recycling station one by one, so that it is involved in the need to separate the empty trays 1 stacked together. When the second moving unit 32 of the recovery assembly 30 ascends to hold the empty trays 1 stacked together on the first clamping assembly 20, the first clamping assembly 20 releases the empty trays 1, so that the second moving unit 32 can remove the empty tray 1, after the first clamping assembly 20 releases the empty tray 1, the second moving unit 32 holds all the empty trays 1 stacked together and descends while separating the empty trays 1 by the second clamp plate 211, the fourth cylinder 21 drives the second clamp plate 211 to approach the empty trays 1, the second edge 2112 of the second clamp plate 211 is inserted into the gap between the bottommost one empty tray 1 and the penultimate one empty tray 1 among the plurality of empty trays 1 stacked together, and the second moving unit 32 holds the bottommost one empty tray 1 and continues descending, the other empty trays 1 are held by the second clamping plates 211, and thus the separation of the empty trays 1 is achieved. And the tray recovery unit among the prior art does not have the mechanism with empty tray 1 separation, and holds empty tray 1 from empty tray 1 top among the prior art and retrieves, and tray 1 drops easily when adsorption pressure is unstable, influences the production progress. In addition, the existing tray recovery device is basically driven by a servo motor, so that the cost is high and the size is large.

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of another embodiment of the second clamping plate of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 9, the second edge 2112 of the second clamping plate 211 can be made into a plurality of small insertion plates formed at the edge of the first edge 2111, so as to save materials.

It should be understood that the above-described embodiments of the present invention are merely examples for clearly illustrating the present invention, and are not intended to limit the embodiments of the present invention. Numerous obvious variations, adaptations and substitutions will occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention. And are neither required nor exhaustive of all embodiments. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. A tray recycling device, comprising:

a frame (10);

the first clamping assembly (20) is arranged on the rack (10) and is used for clamping or loosening the tray to be recovered;

the recycling assembly (30) is arranged on the rack (10), and the recycling assembly (30) comprises a first moving unit (31) and a second moving unit (32) connected with the first moving unit (31); the first moving unit (31) and the second moving unit (32) are arranged below the first clamping assembly (20), the first moving unit (31) is arranged to be movable along the horizontal direction, and the second moving unit (32) is arranged to be movable along the vertical direction, so that the second moving unit (32) takes the tray to be recovered from the lower part of the first clamping assembly (20) and moves the tray to the recovery station.

2. The TRAY recovery device according to claim 1, wherein said first moving unit (31) comprises a rodless cylinder (311), and said second moving unit (32) is connected to a movable end of said rodless cylinder (311).

3. The TRAY disc recycling device according to claim 2, wherein the first moving unit (31) further comprises two sliding rails (312) and sliding blocks (313) engaged with the sliding rails (312), the two sliding rails (312) are respectively disposed at two ends of the rack (10), the two sliding blocks (313) are connected by a supporting plate (314), the second moving unit (32) is disposed on the supporting plate (314), and the supporting plate (314) is connected with the movable end of the rodless cylinder (311).

4. The TRAY recycling apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a second clamping assembly (40) located at said recycling station, said second clamping assembly (40) being disposed on said frame (10) for clamping a TRAY at said recycling station.

5. The TRAY recycling device of claim 4, wherein said second clamping assembly (20) comprises first pneumatic cylinders (41) at both ends of said recycling station, the movable end of said first pneumatic cylinder (41) being provided with a first clamping plate (42), said first clamping plate (42) being adapted to clamp the TRAY at said recycling station under the actuation of said first pneumatic cylinder (41).

6. The TRAY recovery apparatus of claim 4 wherein said second clamping assembly (20) includes a positioning plate (43), said positioning plate (43) being located at a corner of said recovery station, said positioning plate (43) having a cross-sectional shape that matches the shape of the TRAY corner.

7. The TRAY recovery device according to claim 1, wherein said second moving unit (32) comprises a second cylinder (322) and a third cylinder (323) connected to a free end of said second cylinder (322), said second cylinder (322) having a different stroke from said third cylinder (323).

8. The TRAY recycling device of claim 1, wherein said first clamping assembly (20) comprises a fourth cylinder (21) for abutting against both ends of said TRAY to be recycled, a movable end of said fourth cylinder (21) is provided with a second clamping plate (211), and said second clamping plate (211) can abut against an end of said TRAY to be recycled under the driving of said fourth cylinder (21).

9. The TRAY recycling device of claim 8, wherein the first clamping assembly (20) further comprises a fifth cylinder (22) for abutting against the corner of the TRAY to be recycled, a positioning block (221) is disposed at the movable end of the fifth cylinder (22), a notch (2211) matched with the shape of the corner of the TRAY to be recycled is disposed on the positioning block (221), and the positioning block (221) can abut against the corner of the TRAY to be recycled under the driving of the fifth cylinder (22).

10. The TRAY recovery apparatus of claim 9 wherein said first clamping assembly (20) further comprises a positioning rod (23), said positioning rod (23) being configured to abut against a side wall of a TRAY to be recovered.