CN113488302A - Automatic potentiometer assembling machine - Google Patents

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CN113488302A
CN113488302A CN202110696551.6A CN202110696551A CN113488302A CN 113488302 A CN113488302 A CN 113488302A CN 202110696551 A CN202110696551 A CN 202110696551A CN 113488302 A CN113488302 A CN 113488302A
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The invention belongs to the technical field of non-standard automation equipment, and discloses an automatic potentiometer assembling machine, which comprises a carrying seat, a material pushing mechanism, a turbine feeding mechanism, a turbine overturning mechanism, a turbine dislocation mechanism, an electric brush feeding mechanism, a carrying manipulator and a control system for controlling the operation of the mechanisms; the turbine turnover mechanism comprises a semicircular guide part and a limiting part sleeved outside the guide part, and a semicircular material channel is formed between the guide part and the limiting part; the turbine feeding mechanism is used for conveying the turbine to the material inlet; the turbine dislocation mechanism is used for conveying the turbine at the material outlet to the turbine inlet; the conveying manipulator is used for conveying the electric brush at the discharge port of the electric brush feeding mechanism to a press-fitting station; and the pushing mechanism is used for conveying the turbine at the inlet of the turbine to the press-fitting station.

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Automatic potentiometer assembling machine
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of non-standard automation equipment, and particularly relates to an automatic potentiometer assembling machine.
Background
The potentiometer is a common electronic device and mainly comprises a turbine and an electric brush, in the prior art, the electric brush is manually installed in an electric brush installation groove of the turbine, the production efficiency is low, and therefore, equipment for automatically assembling the potentiometer needs to be developed to improve the assembly efficiency of the potentiometer.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the above problems in the prior art, the present invention aims to provide an automatic potentiometer assembling machine.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
the automatic potentiometer assembling machine comprises a carrier seat, a material pushing mechanism, a turbine feeding mechanism, a turbine overturning mechanism, a turbine dislocation mechanism, an electric brush feeding mechanism, a carrying manipulator and a control system;
the carrier seat is provided with a through conveying groove along a first horizontal direction, the two ends of the conveying groove are respectively provided with a turbine inlet and a potentiometer outlet, a press-mounting station is arranged between the turbine inlet and the potentiometer outlet, the top wall of the conveying groove is provided with a guide convex edge extending downwards along the first horizontal direction, and the top wall of the conveying groove positioned at the press-mounting station is provided with a vertical through avoiding hole;
the turbine turnover mechanism comprises a semicircular guide part and a limiting part sleeved outside the guide part; a gap is formed between the guide part and the limiting part, a semi-annular material channel is formed, a material inlet and a material outlet are respectively arranged at two ends of the material channel, the material inlet is positioned above the material outlet, and an annular guide ridge is protruded outwards from the outer circular surface of the guide part;
the turbine feeding mechanism is used for conveying the turbine to the material inlet and clamping the limiting groove of the turbine outside the annular guide edge;
the turbine dislocation mechanism is used for conveying the turbine at the material outlet to the turbine inlet;
the conveying manipulator is used for conveying the electric brush at the discharge port of the electric brush feeding mechanism to a press-fitting station and installing the electric brush into the installation groove of the turbine;
the pushing mechanism is used for conveying the turbine at the inlet of the turbine to a press-fitting station and conveying the turbine at the press-fitting station to the outlet of the potentiometer;
the control system is used for controlling the operation of the material pushing mechanism, the turbine feeding mechanism, the turbine overturning mechanism, the turbine dislocation mechanism, the electric brush feeding mechanism and the carrying manipulator.
As a further alternative of the automatic potentiometer assembling machine, the electric brush feeding mechanism comprises a vibration feeder and an electric brush dislocation mechanism which are arranged in sequence; the brush dislocation mechanism includes: the device comprises a dislocation part butted with an outlet of the vibration feeder and a pressing part arranged at the outlet of the vibration feeder;
in the conveying direction of the vibration feeder, the dislocation part is provided with a home position and a moving position, the dislocation part is connected with a first driving part which drives the dislocation part to slide in the home position and the moving position in a reciprocating manner, the top surface of the dislocation part is provided with a positioning groove for positioning the electric brush, and when the dislocation part is positioned at the home position, the positioning groove is butted with an outlet of the vibration feeder; the bottom of the positioning groove is provided with an air hole which is connected with a vacuum generator;
the pressing component is used for pressing the electric brush at the outlet of the vibrating feeder.
As a further alternative of the automatic potentiometer assembling machine, the automatic potentiometer assembling machine further comprises: the secondary positioning mechanism is positioned between the press-fitting station and the electric brush dislocation mechanism;
the secondary positioning mechanism includes: the device comprises a positioning block, a first pushing block and a second pushing block;
the top surface of the positioning block is provided with a rectangular placing groove; two adjacent side walls of the rectangular placing groove are respectively provided with a first sliding groove and a second sliding groove;
the first pushing block is in sliding fit with the first sliding groove, and the first pushing block is connected with a second driving part for driving the first pushing block to slide in a reciprocating mode;
the second pushing block is in sliding fit with the second sliding groove and is connected with a third driving part for driving the second pushing block to slide in a reciprocating manner;
the carrying manipulator is used for carrying the electric brushes in the dislocation parts at the moving point position to the rectangular placing groove and carrying the electric brushes in the rectangular placing groove to the press-fitting station.
As a further alternative of the automatic potentiometer assembling machine, a damping part is arranged at the press-fitting station; the damping part comprises a pressing block and an elastic part; the pressing block is arranged in a sliding mode in the direction vertical to the first horizontal direction, two ends of the pressing block are provided with guide angles in the first horizontal direction, and the two guide angles are distributed in a splayed mode; the elastic component is used for driving the pressing block to move towards the conveying groove so as to increase the movement resistance of the turbine in the conveying groove.
As a further alternative to the automatic potentiometer assembling machine, the pusher mechanism includes: the second horizontal direction is vertical to the first horizontal direction; the material pushing plate is provided with at least two material pushing claws which extend along the second horizontal direction; the plurality of pushing claws are uniformly distributed along the first horizontal direction, and the position of each pushing claw in the first horizontal direction can be adjusted;
the lateral wall that the conveyer trough is close to the scraping wings has been seted up and has been kept away the dead slot, keeps away the dead slot and all runs through along first horizontal direction and second horizontal direction.
As a further alternative of the automatic potentiometer assembling machine, the pushing claw is arranged in a sliding manner along a first horizontal direction, a long hole along the first horizontal direction is formed in the top surface of the pushing claw, and a threaded hole is formed in the pushing plate corresponding to the long hole.
As a further alternative of the automatic potentiometer assembling machine, the material pushing plate is connected with a plurality of fixing blocks, the fixing blocks correspond to the material pushing claws one to one, and each fixing block is provided with an adjusting screw hole penetrating through the fixing plate along the first horizontal direction.
As a further alternative of the automatic potentiometer assembling machine, the turbine dislocation mechanism comprises a sliding component and a fifth driving component for driving the sliding component to slide back and forth between the material outlet and the turbine inlet;
the material outlet and the turbine inlet are positioned on the same side of the sliding component;
a turbine placing groove is formed in one side, facing the material outlet, of the sliding component, a positioning edge extending downwards is arranged on the top wall of the turbine placing groove, and the positioning edge is in butt joint with an annular guide edge at the material outlet;
the size of the turbine placing groove and the end, far away from the turbine inlet, of the sliding component is not smaller than the distance between the material outlet and the turbine inlet.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
under the control of a control system, a turbine feeding mechanism sends a turbine to a material inlet of a turbine turnover mechanism, the turbine is turned over for 180 degrees by utilizing the gravity of the turbine and a semi-annular material channel, a mounting groove of the turbine is arranged upwards, and a turbine dislocation mechanism conveys the turbine with the mounting groove upwards to the turbine inlet; the pushing mechanism conveys the turbine at the inlet of the turbine to a press-fitting station; the guide convex edges in the conveying groove can prevent the turbine from rotating in the conveying groove, so that the position of the mounting groove is ensured to be accurate; the electric brush at the discharge port of the electric brush feeding mechanism is conveyed to a press-fitting station by the conveying manipulator, and the electric brush is loaded into the mounting groove of the turbine; the pushing mechanism conveys the turbine at the inlet of the turbine to a press fitting station, and simultaneously conveys the turbine provided with the electric brush at the press fitting station to the outlet of the potentiometer; and repeating the steps until the assembly of all the brushes is completed.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the structure of a turbine in a potentiometer.
Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of the automatic potentiometer assembling machine of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a top view of fig. 2.
Fig. 4 is a plan view of the mounting base in the automatic potentiometer assembling machine shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 5 is a sectional view a-a in fig. 4.
Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken along line B-B in fig. 4.
Fig. 7 is a schematic view of a press block in the automatic potentiometer assembling machine shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 8 is a schematic view of a pusher mechanism in the automatic potentiometer assembling machine shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 9 is a schematic view of the turbine turnover mechanism in the automatic potentiometer assembling machine shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 10 is a schematic view of a guide member in the automatic potentiometer assembling machine shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 11 is an enlarged schematic view of the region C in fig. 10.
Fig. 12 is a schematic view of a turbine misalignment mechanism in the automatic potentiometer assembling machine shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 13 is an enlarged schematic view of region D in fig. 12.
Fig. 14 is a schematic view of a brush misalignment mechanism in the automatic potentiometer assembling machine shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 15 is a schematic view of a pressing member in the automatic potentiometer assembling machine shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 16 is a schematic view of a transfer robot in the automatic potentiometer assembling machine shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 17 is a schematic view of the dislocation part in the automatic potentiometer assembling machine shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 18 is a schematic view of a secondary positioning mechanism in the automatic potentiometer assembling machine shown in fig. 2.
Fig. 19 is an enlarged schematic view of the region E in fig. 18.
In the figure: 100-a carrier seat; 110-a conveying trough; 111-guide fins; 112-avoidance holes; 120-a damping member; 121-briquetting; 1211-guide angle; 122-a resilient member; 130-avoidance slot; 200-a material pushing mechanism; 210-a pusher plate; 220-a fourth drive component; 230-pushing claw; 231-elongated holes; 240-fixed block; 241-adjusting screw holes; 300-a turbine feed mechanism; 400-turbine turnover mechanism; 410-a guide member; 411-annular guide edge; 420-a stop member; 430-material channel; 500-turbine misalignment mechanism; 510-a sliding member; 511-turbine placement tank; 512-positioning edge; 520-a fifth drive component; 600-an electric brush feeding mechanism; 610-vibrating feeder; 620-brush dislocation mechanism; 621-a misalignment component; 6211-positioning grooves; 6212-stomata; 622-a pressing part; 623-a first drive member; 700-a handling robot; 710-a vacuum head; 800-a control system; 900-secondary positioning mechanism; 910-positioning block; 911-rectangular placement groove; 920-pushing block one; 930-pushing block two; 940-a second drive member; 950-a third drive component; 1000-turbine; 1010-mounting groove; 1020-limit groove.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the present invention will be briefly described below with reference to the accompanying drawings and the embodiments or the description in the prior art, it is obvious that the following description of the structure of the drawings is only some embodiments of the present invention, and other drawings can be obtained by those skilled in the art without creative efforts.
The technical solution provided by the present invention will be described in detail by way of embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the description of the embodiments is provided to help understanding of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
In some instances, some embodiments are not described or not in detail, as they are conventional or customary in the art.
The numbering of the components as such, e.g., "first", "second", etc., is used herein only to distinguish the objects as described, and does not have any sequential or technical meaning. The terms "connected" and "coupled" when used in this application, encompass both direct and indirect connections (and couplings) where appropriate and where not necessary contradictory.
As shown in fig. 1 to 19, the automatic potentiometer assembling machine of the present embodiment includes a carrier 100, a material pushing mechanism 200, a turbine feeding mechanism 300, a turbine turning mechanism 400, a turbine dislocation mechanism 500, an electric brush feeding mechanism 600, a handling robot 700, and a control system 800;
the carrier seat 100 is provided with a through conveying groove 110 along a first horizontal direction, two ends of the conveying groove 110 are respectively a turbine 1000 inlet and a potentiometer outlet, a press-fitting station is arranged between the turbine 1000 inlet and the potentiometer outlet, the top wall of the conveying groove 110 is provided with a guide convex edge 111 which extends downwards and along the first horizontal direction, and the top wall of the conveying groove 110 positioned at the press-fitting station is provided with a vertical through avoiding hole 112;
the turnover mechanism 400 of the turbine 1000 comprises a semicircular guide part 410 and a limiting part 420 sleeved outside the guide part 410; a gap is formed between the guide part 410 and the limiting part 420, a semi-annular material channel 430 is formed, a material inlet and a material outlet are respectively arranged at two ends of the material channel 430, the material inlet is positioned above the material outlet, and an annular guide ridge 411 is convexly arranged on the outer circular surface of the guide part 410;
the turbine 1000 feeding mechanism 300 is used for conveying the turbine 1000 to the material inlet, and the limiting groove 1020 of the turbine 1000 is clamped outside the annular guide edge 411;
the turbine 1000 dislocation mechanism 500 is used for conveying the turbine 1000 at the material outlet to the inlet of the turbine 1000;
the carrying manipulator 700 is used for carrying the electric brush at the discharge port of the electric brush feeding mechanism 600 to a press-fitting station and mounting the electric brush into the mounting groove 1010 of the turbine 1000;
the material pushing mechanism 200 is used for conveying the turbine 1000 at the inlet of the turbine 1000 to a press-fitting station and conveying the turbine 1000 at the press-fitting station to the outlet of the potentiometer;
the control system 800 is used for controlling the operation of the pushing mechanism 200, the turbine 1000 feeding mechanism 300, the turbine 1000 overturning mechanism 400, the turbine 1000 dislocation mechanism 500, the electric brush feeding mechanism 600 and the carrying manipulator 700.
The terms "upper", "lower", "horizontal", etc. used herein to indicate the orientation refer to the orientation of the automatic potentiometer assembling machine in the normal use state, and the person skilled in the art should not understand the present invention as limited thereto.
In the first horizontal direction, the conveying trough 110 may be provided with a plurality of stations, one of which is a press-fitting station. The avoiding hole 112 is used for avoiding the electric brush on the carrying manipulator 700 and a clamp for taking and placing the electric brush. The guide protruding ribs 111 are matched with the limiting grooves 1020 of the turbine 1000 to prevent the turbine 1000 from rotating, and the rotation of the turbine 1000 means that the turbine 1000 rotates around the central axis of the turbine 1000.
The width of the guiding protrusion 111 is slightly larger than or equal to the width of the limiting groove 1020, and the width refers to the dimension of the guiding protrusion 111 or the limiting groove 1020 in the second horizontal direction.
The semi-annular material channel 430 just turns the turbine 1000 by 180 degrees, and the material inlet is located above the material outlet, so that the turbine 1000 moves downward under the action of its own weight and the thrust between the turbines 1000. It will be appreciated that the amount of clearance between the guide member 410 and the stop member 420 should be greater than or equal to the thickness of one turbine 1000 and less than the thickness of two turbines 1000.
The annular guide rib 411 of the guide member 410 functions in concert with the guide rib 111 to prevent the turbine 1000 from rotating.
The feeding mechanism 300 of the turbine 1000 and the feeding mechanism 600 of the electric brush can be realized by adopting the existing flexible feeder or vibration feeding device. In one embodiment, the feeding mechanism 300 of the turbine 1000 is implemented by using a circular vibrating disk, and it can be understood that the material channel of the circular vibrating disk has a rib matched with the limiting groove 1020 to prevent the turbine 1000 from rotating, so that the opening of the installation groove 1010 of the turbine 1000 is downward, and then the installation groove 1010 of the turbine 1000 is upward through the turnover mechanism 400 of the turbine 1000 to facilitate the installation of the electric brush.
In one embodiment, the brush feed mechanism 600 includes a vibration feeder 610 and a brush misalignment mechanism 620, which are arranged in sequence; the brush misalignment mechanism 620 includes: a displacement member 621 abutting against an outlet of the vibrating feeder 610, and a pressing member 622 provided at the outlet of the vibrating feeder 610; in the conveying direction of the vibrating feeder 610, the dislocation component 621 has a home position and a moving position, the dislocation component 621 is connected with a first driving component 623 for driving the dislocation component to slide in a reciprocating manner at the home position and the moving position, a positioning groove 6211 for positioning an electric brush is arranged on the top surface of the dislocation component 621, and when the dislocation component 621 is located at the home position, the positioning groove 6211 is butted with an outlet of the vibrating feeder 610; an air hole 6212 is formed at the bottom of the positioning groove 6211, and the air hole 6212 is connected with a vacuum generator (not shown in the figure); the pressing member 622 is used to press the brush located at the outlet of the vibratory feeder 610. Initially, the misplacing component 621 is located at an original position, the vibrating feeder 610 vibrates, the electric brush at the outlet of the vibrating feeder 610 is conveyed to the positioning groove 6211 by means of thrust between the electric brushes, then the pressing component 622 presses the electric brush at the outlet of the vibrating feeder 610, and the pressing component 622 can be implemented by adopting the prior art such as an air cylinder, an electric cylinder and the like; then, the vacuum generator generates vacuum to suck the brush in the positioning groove 6211, and finally, the first driving member 623 drives the displacement member 621 to move to the moving point position along the conveying direction of the vibration feeder 610, thereby completing the displacement of the brush. The brush dislocation direction is overlapped with the conveying direction of the vibration feeder 610, so that the weak brush is prevented from deforming due to interaction between the brush in the positioning groove 6211 and the brush at the outlet of the vibration feeder 610; the vacuum generated by the vacuum generator holds the electric brush, and the electric brush is prevented from flying out of the positioning groove 6211 due to position change of factors such as vibration when the dislocation component 621 moves from the original point to the moving point, so that the carrying manipulator 700 can conveniently and accurately grab the electric brush. The first driving part 623 may be implemented by using a servo slide, a pneumatic slide, or other prior art.
The turbine 1000 dislocation mechanism 500 splits a whole row of turbines 1000 into single turbines 1000, and transfers the split single turbines 1000 to the inlets of the turbines 1000, which can be realized by adopting a structure that a manipulator is matched with a clamping jaw cylinder, the clamping jaw mechanism is used for clamping the turbines 1000 at the material outlets, then the manipulator is used for transferring the clamping jaw cylinder and the turbines 1000 to the inlets of the turbines 1000, then the clamping jaw cylinder is opened, and the pushing mechanism 200 sends the turbines 1000 on the clamping jaw cylinder into the conveying groove 110. In one embodiment, the turbine 1000 misalignment mechanism 500 includes a sliding member 510, and a fifth driving member 520 driving the sliding member 510 to slide back and forth between the material outlet and the inlet of the turbine 1000; the material outlet and the turbine 1000 inlet are located on the same side of the sliding member 510; a turbine 1000 placing groove 511 is formed in one side, facing the material outlet, of the sliding component 510, a positioning ridge 512 extending downwards is arranged on the top wall of the turbine 1000 placing groove 511, and the positioning ridge 512 is in butt joint with an annular guide ridge 411 at the material outlet; the size of the placing groove 511 and the end of the sliding component 510 far away from the inlet of the turbine 1000 is not smaller than the distance between the material outlet and the inlet of the turbine 1000. The turbine 1000 placing groove 511 is used for being in butt joint with the material channel 430, so that the turbine 1000 in the material channel 430 smoothly enters the turbine 1000 placing groove 511 under the action of the self gravity and the thrust between the turbine 1000; the fifth driving member 520 drives the turbine 1000 placing groove 511 of the sliding member 510 to slide from the material outlet to the inlet of the turbine 1000, the size of the turbine 1000 placing groove 511 and the end, far away from the inlet of the turbine 1000, of the sliding member 510 is not smaller than the distance between the material outlet and the inlet of the turbine 1000, in the sliding process of the sliding member 510, the sliding member 510 blocks one end, close to the sliding member 510, of the material channel 430, so that the turbine 1000 in the material channel 430 cannot slide out of the material channel 430, the positioning rib 512 is in butt joint with the annular guiding rib 411, and in the sliding process of the turbine 1000 from the material channel 430 to the turbine 1000 placing groove 511, the positioning rib 512 guides the turbine 1000, and rotation of the turbine 1000 is avoided. The fifth driving part 520 may be implemented by a telescopic cylinder such as a cylinder and a cylinder.
The transfer robot 700 may be implemented using an existing multi-axis robot and the vacuum suction head 710, the vacuum suction head 710 is mounted at the end of the multi-axis robot, the vacuum suction brushes are sucked by the vacuum, the multi-axis robot is then used to move the vacuum suction head 710 and the brushes to the press-fitting station, and finally the multi-axis robot drives the vacuum suction head 710 and the brushes to move downward, so that the brushes are mounted in the mounting grooves 1010 of the turbine 1000. Vacuum tip 710 may be implemented by making holes in the metal block or by fixing existing vacuum cups to the holes in the metal block.
The material pushing mechanism 200 can be realized by adopting a multi-stroke cylinder, the multi-stroke cylinder firstly pushes the turbine 1000 at the inlet of the turbine 1000 to a press-fitting station, after the carrying manipulator 700 mounts the electric brush to the mounting groove 1010 of the turbine 1000, the multi-stroke cylinder then pushes the turbine 1000 with the electric brush mounted out of the outlet of the potentiometer outside the conveying groove 110, and the operation is repeated in such a way. In one embodiment, the pusher mechanism 200 includes: the material pushing plate 210 and the fourth driving part 220 for driving the material pushing plate 210 to slide in a reciprocating manner in a first horizontal direction and a second horizontal direction respectively, wherein the second horizontal direction is vertical to the first horizontal direction; the material pushing plate 210 is provided with at least two material pushing claws 230 which extend along the second horizontal direction; the plurality of pushing claws 230 are uniformly distributed along the first horizontal direction, and the position of each pushing claw 230 in the first horizontal direction can be adjusted; the side wall of the conveying trough 110 close to the material pushing plate 210 is provided with a clearance groove, and the clearance groove penetrates through the conveying trough along both the first horizontal direction and the second horizontal direction. The plurality of pushing claws 230 are arranged, so that the turbines 1000 at different stations can be transferred simultaneously, and the production efficiency is improved; it will be appreciated that the number of pusher dogs 230 is equal to the number of stations of the feed chute 110. The fourth drive component 220 may be implemented using an orthogonal robot arm. The fourth driving component 220 drives the pusher claw 230 to enter the conveying trough 110 through the clearance trough, and then drives the pusher claw 230 to move along the first horizontal direction, so as to transfer the turbine 1000 of each station. The position of each pushing claw 230 in the first horizontal direction can be adjusted, so that the distance between the pushing claws 230, the stroke of the fourth driving component 220 in the first horizontal direction and the distance between the stations can be matched by adjusting the position of each pushing claw 230.
The position of the pushing claw 230 can be adjusted by using an existing adjusting structure, in one embodiment, the pushing claw 230 is slidably disposed along a first horizontal direction, a long hole 231 along the first horizontal direction is formed on the top surface of the pushing claw 230, and a threaded hole is formed in the pushing plate 210 corresponding to the long hole 231. The pushing claw 230 is fixed to the material pushing plate 210 by a way that a screw passes through the elongated hole 231 to be connected with the threaded hole, the screw is unscrewed, then the pushing claw 230 is slid along the first horizontal direction, the position of the pushing claw 230 can be adjusted, and then the screw is tightened. On this basis, the material pushing plate 210 is connected with a plurality of fixing blocks 240, the fixing blocks 240 correspond to the material pushing claws 230 one by one, and each fixing block 240 is provided with an adjusting screw hole 241 penetrating along a first horizontal direction. The adjusting screw hole 241 can be in threaded connection with an adjusting bolt, the screw is unscrewed, the adjusting bolt is rotated to drive the pushing claw 230 to slide along the first horizontal direction, on one hand, the moving distance of the pushing claw 230 can be calculated according to the thread pitch and the number of rotating turns of the adjusting bolt, and therefore the position of the pushing claw 230 can be adjusted more accurately; on the other hand, the position of the pushing claw 230 can be marked through the adjusting bolt, and the position of the pushing claw 230 can be determined conveniently and rapidly under the condition that the pushing claw 230 is replaced and the like.
The control system 800 can be implemented by the existing control system 800 such as a single chip microcomputer and a PLC, and the driving components of each mechanism are electrically connected with the control system 800, and the specific structure of the connection is known in the art and is not described herein again.
In one embodiment, the automatic potentiometer assembling machine further comprises: the secondary positioning mechanism 900 is positioned between the press-fitting station and the electric brush dislocation mechanism 620; the secondary positioning mechanism 900 includes: a positioning block 910, a first pushing block 920 and a second pushing block 930; a rectangular placing groove 911 is formed on the top surface of the positioning block 910; two adjacent side walls of the rectangular placing groove 911 are respectively provided with a first sliding groove and a second sliding groove; the first push block 920 is in sliding fit with the first sliding groove, and the first push block 920 is connected with a second driving part 940 for driving the first push block 920 to slide in a reciprocating manner; the second pushing block 930 is in sliding fit with the second sliding groove, and the second pushing block 930 is connected with a third driving part 950 for driving the second pushing block to slide in a reciprocating manner; the carrying manipulator 700 is used for carrying the electric brushes in the dislocation parts 621 located at the moving point position to the rectangular placing groove 911 and carrying the electric brushes in the rectangular placing groove 911 to the press-fitting station.
Secondary positioning mechanism 900 carries out the accurate positioning to the brush, and transport manipulator 700 carries the brush after the accurate positioning to the pressure equipment station to install the brush to turbine 1000, the installation accuracy is higher. The second driving part 940 and the third driving part 950 can be realized by telescopic cylinders such as air cylinders and oil cylinders.
The carrying manipulator 700 places the electric brushes in the rectangular placing groove 911, and the second driving part 940 and the third driving part 950 respectively drive the first push block 920 and the second push block 930 to move towards the electric brushes, so that two vertical surfaces of the electric brushes are abutted against the other two side walls of the rectangular placing groove 911, and secondary positioning of the electric brushes is achieved.
The carrying manipulator 700 may carry the electric brush in the dislocation component 621 located at the moving point position to the rectangular placing groove 911, and then carry the electric brush in the rectangular placing groove 911 to the press-fitting station; the carrying robot 700 may have two vacuum nozzles 710, and carry the brushes in the positioning members 621 positioned at the moving point to the rectangular placement groove 911 and carry the brushes in the rectangular placement groove 911 to the press-fitting station. In one embodiment, the handling robot 700 includes two vacuum tips 710 on a rotating handling mechanism and a stationary rotating handling mechanism; the distance between the two vacuum suction heads 710, the distance between the positioning groove 6211 located at the movable point position and the rectangular placing groove 911, and the distance between the rectangular placing groove 911 and the press-fitting station are matched, thereby improving the carrying efficiency.
In one embodiment, a damping member 120 is provided at the press-fitting station; the damping member 120 includes a pressing piece 121 and an elastic member 122; the pressing block 121 is slidably arranged in a direction perpendicular to a first horizontal direction, in the first horizontal direction, two ends of the pressing block 121 are provided with guide angles 1211, and the two guide angles 1211 are distributed in a shape of a Chinese character 'ba'; the elastic member 122 is used for driving the pressing block 121 to move into the conveying trough 110 so as to increase the movement resistance of the turbine 1000 in the conveying trough 110. The movement resistance of the turbine 1000 is increased through the damping part 120, so that the situation that the position of the turbine 1000 at a press-fitting station is deviated due to too high speed when the pushing mechanism 200 transfers the turbine 1000 from one station to another station, and the electric brush cannot be installed in the installation groove 1010 is avoided. It can be understood that when the damping member 120 is not provided, one end of the pushing claw 230 facing the turbine 1000 may be provided with a U-shape or a V-shape, that is, the turbine 1000 is clamped by the U-shape or the V-shape, so as to avoid the position of the turbine 1000 in the press-fitting station from being shifted.
The elastic member 122 may be implemented by a spring or the like.
The top wall of the guide groove is provided with a vertical sliding groove; the sliding groove is in sliding fit with the pressing block 121. A limiting structure is arranged between the sliding groove and the pressing block 121 to limit the downward movement distance of the pressing block 121. The limiting structure can be realized by adopting the existing pin structure of the strip hole 231, and in the embodiment, the pressing block 121 and the sliding groove are both in a step shape with a large upper part and a small lower part, so that the limiting purpose is achieved by the steps of the pressing block 121 and the sliding groove.
By providing the guide angle 1211, the turbine 1000 can be smoothly introduced between the pressing piece 121 and the wall of the guide groove.
The invention is not limited to the above alternative embodiments, and any other various forms of products can be obtained by anyone in the light of the present invention, but any changes in shape or structure thereof, which fall within the scope of the present invention as defined in the claims, fall within the scope of the present invention.

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1. The automatic potentiometer assembling machine is characterized by comprising a carrier seat, a material pushing mechanism, a turbine feeding mechanism, a turbine overturning mechanism, a turbine dislocation mechanism, an electric brush feeding mechanism, a carrying manipulator and a control system;
the carrier seat is provided with a through conveying groove along a first horizontal direction, the two ends of the conveying groove are respectively provided with a turbine inlet and a potentiometer outlet, a press-mounting station is arranged between the turbine inlet and the potentiometer outlet, the top wall of the conveying groove is provided with a guide convex edge extending downwards along the first horizontal direction, and the top wall of the conveying groove positioned at the press-mounting station is provided with a vertical through avoiding hole;
the turbine turnover mechanism comprises a semicircular guide part and a limiting part sleeved outside the guide part; a gap is formed between the guide part and the limiting part, a semi-annular material channel is formed, a material inlet and a material outlet are respectively arranged at two ends of the material channel, the material inlet is positioned above the material outlet, and an annular guide ridge is protruded outwards from the outer circular surface of the guide part;
the turbine feeding mechanism is used for conveying the turbine to the material inlet and clamping the limiting groove of the turbine outside the annular guide edge;
the turbine dislocation mechanism is used for conveying the turbine at the material outlet to the turbine inlet;
the conveying manipulator is used for conveying the electric brush at the discharge port of the electric brush feeding mechanism to a press-fitting station and installing the electric brush into the installation groove of the turbine;
the pushing mechanism is used for conveying the turbine at the inlet of the turbine to a press-fitting station and conveying the turbine at the press-fitting station to the outlet of the potentiometer;
the control system is used for controlling the operation of the material pushing mechanism, the turbine feeding mechanism, the turbine overturning mechanism, the turbine dislocation mechanism, the electric brush feeding mechanism and the carrying manipulator.
2. The automatic potentiometer assembling machine according to claim 1, wherein the brush feeding mechanism comprises a vibration feeder and a brush dislocation mechanism arranged in sequence; the brush dislocation mechanism includes: the device comprises a dislocation part butted with an outlet of the vibration feeder and a pressing part arranged at the outlet of the vibration feeder;
in the conveying direction of the vibration feeder, the dislocation part is provided with a home position and a moving position, the dislocation part is connected with a first driving part which drives the dislocation part to slide in the home position and the moving position in a reciprocating manner, the top surface of the dislocation part is provided with a positioning groove for positioning the electric brush, and when the dislocation part is positioned at the home position, the positioning groove is butted with an outlet of the vibration feeder; the bottom of the positioning groove is provided with an air hole which is connected with a vacuum generator;
the pressing component is used for pressing the electric brush at the outlet of the vibrating feeder.
3. The automatic potentiometer assembling machine according to claim 2, further comprising: the secondary positioning mechanism is positioned between the press-fitting station and the electric brush dislocation mechanism;
the secondary positioning mechanism includes: the device comprises a positioning block, a first pushing block and a second pushing block;
the top surface of the positioning block is provided with a rectangular placing groove; two adjacent side walls of the rectangular placing groove are respectively provided with a first sliding groove and a second sliding groove;
the first pushing block is in sliding fit with the first sliding groove, and the first pushing block is connected with a second driving part for driving the first pushing block to slide in a reciprocating mode;
the second pushing block is in sliding fit with the second sliding groove and is connected with a third driving part for driving the second pushing block to slide in a reciprocating manner;
the carrying manipulator is used for carrying the electric brushes in the dislocation parts at the moving point position to the rectangular placing groove and carrying the electric brushes in the rectangular placing groove to the press-fitting station.
4. An automatic potentiometer assembling machine according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein a damping component is arranged at the press-fitting station; the damping part comprises a pressing block and an elastic part; the pressing block is arranged in a sliding mode in the direction vertical to the first horizontal direction, two ends of the pressing block are provided with guide angles in the first horizontal direction, and the two guide angles are distributed in a splayed mode; the elastic component is used for driving the pressing block to move towards the conveying groove so as to increase the movement resistance of the turbine in the conveying groove.
5. An automatic potentiometer assembling machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said pusher mechanism comprises: the second horizontal direction is vertical to the first horizontal direction; the material pushing plate is provided with at least two material pushing claws which extend along the second horizontal direction; the plurality of pushing claws are uniformly distributed along the first horizontal direction, and the position of each pushing claw in the first horizontal direction can be adjusted;
the lateral wall that the conveyer trough is close to the scraping wings has been seted up and has been kept away the dead slot, keeps away the dead slot and all runs through along first horizontal direction and second horizontal direction.
6. The automatic potentiometer assembling machine according to claim 5, wherein the pushing claw is slidably disposed along the first horizontal direction, the top surface of the pushing claw is provided with a long hole along the first horizontal direction, and the pushing plate is provided with a threaded hole corresponding to the long hole.
7. The automatic potentiometer assembling machine according to claim 6, wherein the material pushing plate is connected with a plurality of fixing blocks, the fixing blocks correspond to the material pushing claws one by one, and each fixing block is provided with an adjusting screw hole penetrating along the first horizontal direction.
8. A potentiometer automatic assembling machine according to any of claims 1-3, wherein the turbine wheel misalignment mechanism comprises a sliding member, and a fifth driving member for driving the sliding member to slide back and forth between the material outlet and the turbine wheel inlet;
the material outlet and the turbine inlet are positioned on the same side of the sliding component;
a turbine placing groove is formed in one side, facing the material outlet, of the sliding component, a positioning edge extending downwards is arranged on the top wall of the turbine placing groove, and the positioning edge is in butt joint with an annular guide edge at the material outlet;
the size of the turbine placing groove and the end, far away from the turbine inlet, of the sliding component is not smaller than the distance between the material outlet and the turbine inlet.
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