CN111483797A

CN111483797A - Flow guiding device

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Publication number: CN111483797A
Application number: CN202010357111.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 许成; 陈志广; 沈关波; 陈阳; 熊培; 胡家泉; 贾玉龙; 王向红
Original assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai; Gree Wuhan Electric Appliances Co Ltd
Current assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai; Gree Wuhan Electric Appliances Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-04-29
Filing date: 2020-04-29
Publication date: 2020-08-04

Abstract

The invention provides a flow guide device, relates to the technical field of air conditioners and solves the technical problems of time and labor waste and low efficiency of manual wire feeding and discharging. The flow guide device is arranged between a front production line and a rear production line and used for realizing automatic loading and unloading of workpieces, comprises a material receiving module, a material turning module and a material feeding module which are sequentially connected in a material conveying manner, wherein the material turning module can turn the workpieces received from the material receiving module by a set turning angle and then send the workpieces into the material feeding module. The automatic feeding and discharging device is used for automatic feeding and discharging of two assemblies between drying and welding production lines, has the characteristics of simple operation method, automatic feeding and discharging, stable work and higher production efficiency, and can reduce the labor intensity, improve the production efficiency, simultaneously ensure that the working process tends to be stable and eliminate uncontrollable factors because workers do not need to operate.

Description

Flow guiding device

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of air conditioners, in particular to a flow guide device for realizing automatic on-line and off-line of two-device assemblies between a drying production line and a welding production line.

Background

The two-component production line is used for translation drying due to the need, the manual line is put off vertically and is placed on the welding production line after drying, and the next welding procedure is carried out, so that the manual work piece transferring work not only increases the labor intensity of personnel, wastes time and energy and has low work efficiency, but also easily causes the problem that the work piece placing direction is wrong due to the manual work negligence to influence the normal welding.

Therefore, how to develop a flow guide device which can automatically go on and off the line of the assembly and meet the production requirement of the line body for reducing the labor intensity of workers and improving the production efficiency is a technical problem which needs to be solved urgently by technical personnel in the field.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a flow guide device to solve the technical problems that manual loading and unloading are time-consuming and labor-consuming and the efficiency is low in the prior art.

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

the invention provides a flow guide device which is arranged between a front production line and a rear production line and used for realizing automatic loading and unloading of workpieces.

On the basis of the technical scheme, the invention can be further improved as follows.

As a further improvement of the invention, the turning angle of the material turning module is set to be 90 degrees.

As a further improvement of the invention, the material receiving module and the feeding module both comprise two belt conveyor lines, the first conveyor line and the second conveyor line in the material receiving module are arranged in parallel side by side, and the third conveyor line and the fourth conveyor line in the feeding module are arranged at a right angle.

As a further improvement of the invention, the material turning module comprises a bracket, a first driving mechanism which is in transmission connection with the bracket and can drive the bracket to turn in the vertical direction, a material conveying mechanism which is arranged on the bracket and can convey a workpiece, a second driving mechanism and a third driving mechanism which are arranged on the bracket and are in transmission connection with the material conveying mechanism and can drive the material conveying mechanism to translate and lift.

As a further improvement of the invention, the bracket is U-shaped, two free ends are respectively located at two sides of the receiving module, the material conveying mechanism comprises three belt conveying lines, wherein a fifth conveying line and a sixth conveying line are arranged in parallel side by side and are respectively connected with the two free ends of the bracket through supporting pieces, a seventh conveying line is arranged perpendicular to the sixth conveying line, and two sets of third driving mechanisms are respectively arranged at the bottoms of the two supporting pieces; the second driving mechanism is fixed on the supporting piece, and the fifth conveying line is connected with the supporting piece through the second driving mechanism.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the second driving mechanism includes a translation cylinder, or the second driving mechanism includes a translation motor, a lead screw and a lead screw nut.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the third driving mechanism includes a lifting cylinder, or the third driving mechanism includes a lifting motor, a lead screw and a lead screw nut.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the first driving mechanism includes a turnover motor, a first gear and a second gear, one end of the bracket is rotatably disposed on the worktable, the first gear is disposed on an output shaft of the turnover motor, the second gear is disposed on a rotating shaft of the bracket connected to the worktable, and the first gear and the second gear are in meshed connection.

As a further improvement of the invention, an anti-falling structure is arranged on the bracket and above the fifth conveying line.

As a further improvement of the invention, blocking frames for preventing the workpieces from falling off are arranged beside the seventh conveying line and beside the third conveying line.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:

according to the flow guide device provided by the invention, the dryer roller line is butted with the belt line and flows onto the turnover module; the bottom of the bracket of the overturning module is provided with a driving mechanism which can drive the bracket to overturn and reset; the positions of the two sides and the front part of the belt line are provided with a translation component and a lifting component which can make the conveying line on one side on the bracket move back and forth and make the conveying lines on the two sides move up and down; when the workpiece needs to be turned over, the conveying line on one side of the bracket moves back and forth to the position below the workpiece, then the conveying line moves upwards to support the workpiece, the bracket is turned over to change the flowing direction of the workpiece, and the workpiece is vertically placed and flows to a belt line of the butt welding line; the belt line of the butt joint drying line does not need to stop waiting for the reset of the turnover module, the workpiece continues to flow, after the workpiece on the turnover module completely flows out, the bracket is toppled, the conveying line positioned on one side moves to form translation expansion, the width between the two conveying lines is larger than the length of the workpiece, the conveying lines descend to return to the position below the belt line, and the circulation action is performed again; the turnover module in the flow guide device provided by the invention is not limited by product structure and mechanical action, and the production efficiency can be synchronous with a dryer and a welding production line; the flow guide device provided by the invention has the characteristics of simple operation method, automatic on-line and off-line, stable work and higher production efficiency, and the operation is not required by staff, so that the labor intensity is reduced, the production efficiency is improved, the working process tends to be stable, and uncontrollable factors are eliminated.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a front view of the deflector of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of the deflector of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a side view of the deflector of the present invention.

In the figure 1, a receiving module; 11. a first conveyor line; 12. a second conveyor line; 2. a material turning module; 21. a bracket; 211. an anti-falling structure; 22. a material conveying mechanism; 221. a fifth conveyor line; 222. a sixth conveyor line; 223. a seventh conveyor line; 23. a translation cylinder; 25. a first gear; 26. a second gear; 3. a feeding module; 31. a third conveyor line; 32. a fourth conveyor line; 100. a work bench.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the technical solutions of the present invention will be described in detail below. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, and not restrictive of the full scope of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the examples given herein without any inventive step, are within the scope of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1, the invention provides a flow guiding device, which is arranged between a front production line and a rear production line and used for automatically loading and unloading workpieces, and comprises a material receiving module 1, a material turning module 2 and a feeding module 3 which are sequentially connected in a material conveying manner, wherein the material turning module 2 can turn the workpieces received from the material receiving module 1 by a set turning angle and then feed the workpieces into the feeding module 3.

The following description will be made in detail by taking a workpiece to be processed as two components, and the front and rear production lines as a drying production line and a welding production line, respectively.

In the invention, after the two components are dried, the two components need to be turned over by 90 degrees and enter a welding production line for welding operation.

As an optional implementation mode, the material turning module 2 is set to have a turning angle of 90 degrees, specifically, in time, the material turning module 2 can turn the two assemblies from a horizontally placed state to a vertical state, and the two assemblies which are vertically placed after turning need to be conveyed in the vertical state.

Further, the flow guide device also comprises a workbench 100, the bottom of the workbench 100 is supported by a frame body, and the receiving module 1, the turning module 2 and the feeding module 3 are all arranged on the workbench 100;

as shown in fig. 2, in the present invention, the material receiving module 1 and the feeding module 3 each include two belt conveyor lines, the first conveyor line 11 and the second conveyor line 12 in the material receiving module 1 are arranged side by side in parallel, and the third conveyor line 31 and the fourth conveyor line 32 in the feeding module 3 are arranged at a right angle.

It should be noted that an interval is formed between the first conveying line 11 and the second conveying line 12, the size of the interval can be determined according to the length of the processed workpiece, the third conveying line 31 and the fourth conveying line 32 are both located on the rear side of the tail end of the material receiving module 1, an interval is formed between the third conveying line 31 and the fourth conveying line 32, and the material receiving module 1 and the material feeding module 3 are arranged in a staggered manner.

As an optional implementation manner, the material turning module 2 includes a bracket 21, a first driving mechanism connected to the bracket 21 in a transmission manner and capable of driving the bracket 21 to turn in a vertical direction, a material conveying mechanism 22 disposed on the bracket 21 and capable of conveying a workpiece, and a second driving mechanism and a third driving mechanism disposed on the bracket 21 and connected to the material conveying mechanism 22 in a transmission manner and capable of driving the material conveying mechanism 22 to translate and lift.

The bracket 21 is U-shaped, two free ends are respectively positioned at two sides of the material receiving module 1, the main body part of the bracket 21 is positioned at the tail end of the material receiving module 1, namely the opening of the bracket 21 faces the direction opposite to the material conveying direction of the material receiving module 1, the material conveying mechanism 22 comprises three belt conveying lines, wherein a fifth conveying line 221 and a sixth conveying line 222 are arranged in parallel side by side and are respectively connected with the two free ends of the bracket 21 through supporting pieces, a seventh conveying line 223 is arranged perpendicular to the sixth conveying line 222, and two sets of third driving mechanisms are respectively arranged at the bottoms of the two supporting pieces; the second driving mechanism is fixed on the supporting member, and the fifth conveying line 221 is connected with the supporting member through the second driving mechanism.

Further, the fifth conveying line 221 is arranged in parallel with the first conveying line 11, the fifth conveying line 221 is located outside the first conveying line 11, the sixth conveying line 222 is arranged in parallel with the second conveying line 12 and is located outside the second conveying line 12, the seventh conveying line 223 is located outside the sixth conveying line 222, and an L-shaped supporting belt surface layer is formed between belt surfaces of the sixth conveying line 222 and the seventh conveying line 223.

It should be noted that, the structure of the supporting member is not specifically limited, as long as the second driving mechanism is convenient to set and the sixth conveying line 222 is convenient to set, the second driving mechanism can drive the fifth conveying line 221 to be close to or far away from the first conveying line 11, so that the distance between the fifth conveying line 221 and the sixth conveying line 222 is increased and decreased, that is, the width of the material carried by the material conveying mechanism 22 is adjusted to be increased or decreased, and the requirements of products with different widths are met.

The second driving mechanism comprises a translation cylinder 23, or alternatively, the second driving mechanism comprises a translation motor, a lead screw and a lead screw nut. When the second driving mechanism is the translation cylinder 23, the cylinder main body part is fixed on the supporting piece, the piston rod of the cylinder is connected with the side part of the fifth conveying line 221, and the translation cylinder 23 can drive the fifth conveying line 221 to advance or retreat when stretching; when the second driving mechanism is a motor, a lead screw and a lead screw nut, the motor is arranged on the supporting piece, the lead screw is connected with an output shaft of the motor, the lead screw nut is arranged on the fifth conveying line 221, and the fifth conveying line 221 can be driven to advance or retreat by the rotation of the motor; inside if the lead screw crosses fifth transfer chain 221, screw nut fixes inside fifth transfer chain 221, can be both ends gyro wheel in the fifth transfer chain 221, middle cavity, also can fifth transfer chain 221 both ends gyro wheel, and the centre is solid, offers the through-hole in solid position and makes things convenient for screw nut to set up and the lead screw passes.

The third driving mechanism comprises a lifting cylinder, or the third driving mechanism comprises a lifting motor, a lead screw and a lead screw nut. The lifting cylinder is vertically arranged and used for pushing the material conveying mechanism 22 to enable the material conveying mechanism 22 to lift in the vertical direction, the width of the material conveying mechanism 22 is adjusted through the second driving mechanism, and the height of the material conveying mechanism 22 is adjusted through the third driving mechanism; during actual use, the fifth conveying line 221 in the material conveying mechanism 22 is driven by the second driving mechanism to be far away from or close to the first conveying line 11 so as to adapt to the width of a workpiece to be loaded and unloaded, after adjustment is completed, the material conveying mechanism 22 is lifted by the third driving mechanism so that the workpiece is taken down from the material receiving module 1 by the material conveying mechanism 22, the integral overturning of the bracket 21 is controlled by the first driving mechanism, the workpiece is overturned, when the bracket 21 is overturned for 90 degrees, the workpiece stops, at the moment, the fifth conveying line 221, the sixth conveying line 222 and the seventh conveying line 223 rotate together, and the workpiece is conveyed to the feeding module 3 in a translation manner;

as an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 3, the first driving mechanism includes a turnover motor, a first gear 25, and a second gear 26, one end of the bracket 21 is rotatably disposed on the working platform 100, further, the bracket 21 is rotatably connected to a side close to the feeding module 3, the first gear 25 is disposed on an output shaft of the turnover motor, the second gear 26 is disposed on a rotating shaft of the bracket 21 connected to the working platform 100, and the first gear 25 and the second gear 26 are engaged with each other. When the workpiece needs to be turned over, the turning motor is operated to drive the first gear 25 to rotate, and the second gear 26 rotates along with the first gear, so that the bracket 21 is lifted upwards relative to the workbench 100 to perform a turning action on the workpiece.

Since the workpiece needs to be turned over by 90 degrees, in order to prevent the workpiece from being turned over by an excessive angle due to the center of gravity and inertia, the carrier 21 is provided with a falling prevention structure 211 above the fifth transfer line 221. The specific structure of the anti-falling structure 211 is not limited specifically, and may be a frame, a plate, a bar, a rod, etc., as long as a certain limit can be formed on the front side of the fifth conveyor line 221, i.e., above the belt surface, when the bracket 21 is turned over by 90 degrees, so as to prevent the workpiece from being separated from the belt surface of the fifth conveyor line 221.

The stopper frames for preventing the workpieces from being released are arranged beside the seventh conveyor line 223 and beside the third conveyor line 31. The structure of the blocking frame is not specifically limited, and the blocking frame only has the same function as the anti-falling structure 211, so that the workpiece is limited.

The flow guide device can be used for both an evaporator product and a condenser product, the beat can reach 2.6 s/piece, compared with manual feeding and discharging in the prior art, the beat is 8 s/piece at the fastest, the material conveying efficiency is improved in response, the material conveying product in the prior art is single, the speed is low, the flow guide device is not only applicable to a wide range, but also high in speed, and the requirements that all line bodies of a robot which cannot be used for feeding and discharging at the present stage can be basically met.

It should be noted that "inward" is a direction toward the center of the accommodating space, and "outward" is a direction away from the center of the accommodating space.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "central," "longitudinal," "lateral," "length," "width," "thickness," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "clockwise," "counterclockwise," "axial," "radial," "circumferential," and the like are used in the orientations and positional relationships indicated in fig. 1 to facilitate the description of the invention and to simplify the description, but are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and are not to be considered as limiting the invention.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include at least one such feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means at least two, e.g., two, three, etc., unless specifically limited otherwise.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and can, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be directly connected or indirectly connected through intervening media, or they may be connected internally or in any other suitable relationship, unless expressly stated otherwise. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may be directly contacting the first and second features or indirectly contacting the first and second features through an intermediate. Also, a first feature "on," "over," and "above" a second feature may be directly or diagonally above the second feature, or may simply indicate that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature may be directly under or obliquely under the first feature, or may simply mean that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, various embodiments or examples and features of different embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all the changes or substitutions should be covered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a guiding device, sets up and is used for realizing automatic roll-on and roll-off the production line to the work piece between the front and back production line, its characterized in that, including material receiving module, stirring module and the pay-off module of material transport connection in proper order, stirring module can follow the work piece that material receiving module received sends into after setting for the upset of rotation angle in the pay-off module.

2. The deflector device of claim 1, wherein the set turning angle of the upender module is 90 degrees.

3. The flow guide device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the material receiving module and the feeding module each comprise two belt conveying lines, a first conveying line and a second conveying line in the material receiving module are arranged side by side in parallel, and a third conveying line and a fourth conveying line in the feeding module are arranged at a right angle.

4. The flow guide device of claim 3, wherein the material turning module comprises a bracket, a first driving mechanism in transmission connection with the bracket and capable of driving the bracket to turn in a vertical direction, a material conveying mechanism arranged on the bracket and capable of conveying workpieces, and a second driving mechanism and a third driving mechanism which are arranged on the bracket and in transmission connection with the material conveying mechanism and capable of driving the material conveying mechanism to translate and lift.

5. The flow guiding device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the bracket is U-shaped, two free ends are respectively located at two sides of the receiving module, the material conveying mechanism comprises three belt conveying lines, wherein a fifth conveying line and a sixth conveying line are arranged side by side in parallel and are respectively connected with the two free ends of the bracket through supporting pieces, a seventh conveying line is arranged perpendicular to the sixth conveying line, and the number of the third driving mechanisms is two, and the third driving mechanisms are respectively arranged at the bottoms of the two supporting pieces; the second driving mechanism is fixed on the supporting piece, and the fifth conveying line is connected with the supporting piece through the second driving mechanism.

6. The flow guiding device of claim 5, wherein the second driving mechanism comprises a translation cylinder, or wherein the second driving mechanism comprises a translation motor, a lead screw and a lead screw nut.

7. The flow guiding device of claim 5, wherein the third driving mechanism comprises a lifting cylinder, or the third driving mechanism comprises a lifting motor, a lead screw and a lead screw nut.

8. The diversion device of claim 5 wherein said first driving mechanism comprises a turnover motor, a first gear and a second gear, one end of said bracket is rotatably disposed on a work table, said first gear is disposed on an output shaft of said turnover motor, said second gear is disposed on a rotating shaft of said bracket connected to said work table, and said first gear and said second gear are engaged.

9. The flow guide device of claim 5, wherein the bracket is provided with an anti-falling structure above the fifth conveying line.

10. The flow guiding device as recited in claim 5, wherein a stopper frame for preventing the workpiece from falling off is disposed beside the seventh conveying line and beside the third conveying line.