CN115008022A

CN115008022A - Feeding device and laser marking equipment

Info

Publication number: CN115008022A
Application number: CN202210721368.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郑凯文; 陈强; 周小亮; 朱昱畡; 叶凯云; 盛辉; 周学慧; 张凯
Original assignee: Ted Laser Huizhou Co ltd
Current assignee: Ted Laser Huizhou Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-06-23
Filing date: 2022-06-23
Publication date: 2022-09-06

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of laser marking, in particular to a feeding device and laser marking equipment. The feeding device comprises a workpiece transfer mechanism and a magazine, the workpiece transfer mechanism is arranged on one side of the magazine, the magazine comprises a magazine body, a jacking assembly and a sensor, the magazine body is used for placing workpieces to be processed, the magazine body is provided with a discharge port and a position-giving port which are arranged oppositely, the jacking assembly is connected to one side of the magazine body, the jacking assembly penetrates through the position-giving port and abuts against the surface of the workpieces to be processed, the sensor is arranged on one side of the discharge port, and the sensor is used for detecting position information of the workpieces to be processed. According to the technical scheme, the jacking assembly is arranged at the bottom of the material box, the workpiece to be machined is jacked out and then transferred through the jacking assembly, the occupied space of the feeding device can be reduced, and the workpiece to be machined is compactly placed and is not easy to fall off.

Description

Feeding device and laser marking equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of laser marking, in particular to a feeding device and laser marking equipment.

Background

Laser marking is a marking method in which a workpiece is irradiated locally with high-energy-density laser to vaporize a surface layer material or to undergo a chemical reaction of color change, thereby leaving a permanent mark. Along with laser marking equipment's continuous perfect, automatic feeding device need design according to particular case, and traditional handicraft's loading attachment is placed in laser marking equipment both sides, and occupation space is great, and the loading attachment anchor clamps among the traditional handicraft carry on spacingly from single direction to the work piece, can make the work piece put not compactly, the condition that drops can appear even.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly aims to provide a feeding device, and aims to solve the problem that a clamp of the feeding device causes a workpiece to be placed compactly and even fall off.

In order to achieve the above object, the feeding device provided by the present invention is applied to a laser marking device, and comprises a workpiece transfer mechanism and a magazine, wherein the workpiece transfer mechanism is arranged on one side of the magazine, and the magazine comprises:

the material box comprises a material box body, wherein the material box body is used for placing a workpiece to be machined and is provided with a discharge port and a relief port which are oppositely arranged;

the jacking assembly is connected to one side of the material box body and penetrates through the position giving opening to abut against the surface of the workpiece to be machined; and

the sensor is arranged on one side, provided with the discharge port, of the material box body and used for detecting position information of the workpiece to be machined.

In an embodiment of this application, work piece shifts mechanism includes four-axis manipulator and sucking disc subassembly, sucking disc subassembly connect in four-axis manipulator, sucking disc subassembly is used for snatching treat the machined part.

In an embodiment of the present application, the cartridge body comprises:

the workpiece to be machined is placed on the bottom plate, and the abdicating port is formed in the bottom plate; and

the two side plates are connected to the bottom plate and arranged oppositely, an accommodating space for accommodating a workpiece to be machined is formed by the two side plates and the bottom plate together, and the discharge port is formed in one side, far away from the bottom plate, of the accommodating space.

In an embodiment of the present application, a plurality of limiting grooves for abutting against a workpiece to be processed are formed in opposite side surfaces of the two side plates.

In an embodiment of the present application, the jacking assembly includes:

a mounting plate connected to the base plate;

the driving piece is connected to the mounting plate, and the output end of the driving piece is inserted in the bottom plate and slides relative to the bottom plate; and

the guide bar, the guide bar connect in the mounting panel, the guide bar is provided with two, two the guide bar set up respectively in the output both sides of driving piece.

In an embodiment of the application, the output of driving piece and two the one end of guide bar is provided with the connecting plate, the connecting plate makes the output of driving piece and two the synchronous motion is realized to the guide bar.

The invention also provides laser marking equipment which comprises a rack, a multi-station turntable, a laser marking device, a code scanning device, a discharging device and the feeding device, wherein the multi-station turntable, the laser marking device, the code scanning device, the discharging device and the feeding device are all arranged on the rack, and the feeding device, the laser marking device, the code scanning device and the discharging device are sequentially and circumferentially arranged around the multi-station turntable.

In an embodiment of the application, the multi-station turntable is provided with a plurality of jigs along a circumferential direction thereof.

In an embodiment of the present application, the jig is provided with a plurality of vacuum absorption holes, and the jig is connected with a vacuum pumping device.

In an embodiment of the application, the laser marking device with sweep a yard device and set up along the processing order in proper order, sweep a yard device and be used for reading the bar code information after the mark and upload to data processing center.

According to the technical scheme, the jacking assembly is arranged at the bottom of the material box, the workpiece to be machined is jacked out and then transferred through the jacking assembly, the occupied space of the feeding device can be reduced, and the workpiece to be machined is compactly placed and is not easy to fall off.

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 structures shown in the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of one embodiment of a laser marking apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a magazine of the feeding device of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is another schematic view of the feeding device of the present invention.

The reference numbers illustrate:

reference numerals	Name (R)	Reference numerals	Name (R)
				100	Feeding device	10	Workpiece transfer mechanism
30	Material box	31	Material box body
				311	Base plate	313	Side plate
315	Limiting groove	33	Jacking assembly
				331	Mounting plate	333	Driving member
335	Guide rod	35	Sensor with a sensor element
				200	Rack	300	Multi-station turntable
400	Laser marking device	500	Sweep a yard device
				600	Discharging device	700	Jig tool

The implementation, functional features and advantages of the objects of the present invention will be further explained with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

It should be noted that all the directional indicators (such as up, down, left, right, front, and rear … …) in the embodiment of the present invention are only used to explain the relative position relationship between the components, the movement situation, etc. in a specific posture (as shown in the drawing), and if the specific posture is changed, the directional indicator is changed accordingly.

In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly, and for example, "secured" may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or an integral part; 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 addition, the descriptions related to "first", "second", etc. in the present invention are only for descriptive purposes 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 addition, the meaning of "and/or" appearing throughout is to include three juxtapositions, exemplified by "A and/or B," including either the A or B arrangement, or both A and B satisfied arrangement. In addition, technical solutions between various embodiments may be combined with each other, but must be realized by a person skilled in the art, and when the technical solutions are contradictory or cannot be realized, such a combination should not be considered to exist, and is not within the protection scope of the present invention.

Along with laser marking equipment's continuous perfect, automatic feeding device need design according to particular case, and among the correlation technique, loading attachment places in laser marking equipment both sides, and occupation space is great, and its anchor clamps generally carry on spacingly from the single direction to the work piece, can make the work piece put not compactly, the condition that can appear droing even.

In order to solve the above technical problems, referring to fig. 1 to 3, the present invention provides a feeding device 100, the feeding device 100 includes a workpiece transfer mechanism 10 and a magazine 30, the workpiece transfer mechanism 10 is disposed on one side of the magazine 30, the magazine 30 includes a magazine body 31, a jacking assembly 33 and a sensor 35, the magazine body 31 is used for placing a workpiece to be processed, the magazine body 31 is provided with a discharge port (not labeled) and a relief port (not labeled) which are oppositely disposed, the jacking assembly 33 is connected to one side of the magazine body 31, the jacking assembly 33 passes through the relief port and abuts against the surface of the workpiece to be processed, the sensor 35 is disposed on one side of the magazine body 31 where the discharge port is disposed, and the sensor 35 is used for detecting position information of the workpiece to be processed. Set up jacking subassembly 33 and set up sensor 35 in the position of magazine 30 discharge gate through setting up jacking subassembly 33 in magazine 30 bottom, will treat with jacking subassembly 33 that the machined part pushes away to the position of discharge gate, and sensor 35 detects the positional information who treats the machined part to feed back to control system, control system control work piece transfer mechanism 10 treats processing and snatchs, and places and beat the mark process in the machining-position. The arrangement not only enables the workpieces to be placed neatly and not to fall off easily, but also facilitates grabbing, and the processing efficiency is high.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, in an embodiment of the present application, the workpiece transfer mechanism 10 may be a mechanism with multi-dimensional motion capability and a grabbing function, such as a four-axis robot cooperating with a chuck assembly or an X-axis moving module, a Y-axis moving module and a Z-axis moving module cooperating with a chuck assembly, where the chuck assembly may also be a gripper assembly, which is not limited herein. The magazine body 31 can be the carrier that has the accommodation space of the spacing two relative directions of circumference, for example, the carrier of the box body of tetragonal shape or the splint that have two relative settings, and magazine body 31 is equipped with the discharge gate of relative setting and lets the position mouth, is connected with jacking subassembly 33 in the bottom of magazine body 31, and jacking subassembly 33 can drive the push pedal for the cylinder and rise and contract and realize treating the jacking of machined part. Jacking subassembly 33 passes and lets the position mouth and butt in treating the machined part surface, and the shape size of the position mouth of giving way and jacking subassembly 33's push pedal looks adaptation, and the push pedal both can bear and treat the machined part, also can will treat that the machined part is released. Be provided with sensor 35 in one side of discharge gate, sensor 35 is used for detecting the positional information who treats the machined part, is convenient for cooperate work piece transfer mechanism 10 to treat the machined part and snatchs, detects the position of treating the machined part arrival discharge gate when sensor 35, then feeds back positional information to control system, and control system assigns the instruction of grabbing and is implemented by work piece transfer mechanism 10, and the course of working links up closely, and machining efficiency is high.

Further, the workpiece transfer mechanism 10 includes a four-axis robot (not shown) and a chuck assembly (not shown) connected to the four-axis robot, the chuck assembly being configured to grasp the workpiece to be processed. Arm parts of the four-axis manipulator can move freely in a geometric plane and have strong rigidity, so that the four-axis manipulator can work at high speed and high repeatability, can realize high-speed taking and placing in cooperation with the sucker assembly, and is high in working efficiency.

Further, the magazine body 31 includes a bottom plate 311 and two side plates 313, the workpiece to be processed is placed on the bottom plate 311, the abdicating opening is formed in the bottom plate 311, the two side plates 313 are connected to the bottom plate 311, the two side plates 313 are oppositely arranged, the two side plates 313 and the bottom plate 311 jointly form an accommodating space for placing the workpiece to be processed, and the discharge opening is formed in one side of the accommodating space far away from the bottom plate 311. The workpiece is limited from two directions, so that the workpiece is placed neatly and is not easy to fall off.

Referring to fig. 2 and 3, the magazine body 31 may be an accommodating groove formed by a bottom plate 311 and two side plates 313, the two side plates 313 are arranged opposite to each other, the height of the two side plates 313 determines the height of the to-be-processed workpiece, and the bottom plate 311 and the two side plates 313 together form the accommodating groove which can bear the to-be-processed workpiece. An abdicating opening is formed in the bottom plate 311 and used for penetrating through the jacking assembly 33, a discharging opening is formed in one side, away from the bottom plate 311, of the two side plates 313, and the workpiece to be machined is pushed to the discharging opening by the jacking assembly 33 and then is grabbed by the workpiece transfer mechanism 10.

Furthermore, a plurality of limiting grooves 315 for abutting against the workpiece to be machined are formed in the opposite side surfaces of the two side plates 313. The opposite side surfaces of the two side plates 313 can be provided with limiting grooves 315 matched with the shapes of the workpieces to be processed, so that the workpieces to be processed are further limited, and the workpieces to be processed are stably placed.

In an embodiment of the present application, the jacking assembly 33 includes a mounting plate 331, a driving member 333, and two guide rods 335, the mounting plate 331 is connected to the base plate 311, the driving member 333 is connected to the mounting plate 331, an output end of the driving member 333 is inserted into the base plate 311 and slides relative to the base plate 311, the guide rods 335 are connected to the mounting plate 331, and two guide rods 335 are disposed on two sides of the output end of the driving member 333. The driving member 333 provides power for pushing out the workpiece to be processed, and the guide rod 335 can make the pushing-out process more stable.

Referring to fig. 3, the mounting plate 331 may be a flat plate and two short plates disposed perpendicular to the flat plate, there is an operating space between the mounting plate 331 and the base plate 311 sufficient for the driving member 333 to retract, and the mounting plate 331 may be fixed to the base plate 311 by means of a bolt connection. The driving member 333 may be a cylinder, a cylinder body of the cylinder is fixedly connected to the mounting plate 331 through a bolt, a piston rod of the cylinder passes through the mounting plate 331 and is connected to a connecting plate (not labeled), the connecting plate passes through the relief opening of the bottom plate 311 and abuts against the surface of the workpiece to be machined, a contact area between the connecting plate and the workpiece to be machined is larger, and the ejection is more stable. The two sides of the piston rod can also be provided with guide rods 335, the two guide rods 335 can penetrate through the mounting plate 331 and slide relative to the mounting plate 331, the ends of the two guide rods 335 are connected and fixed on the connecting plate, and the connecting plate can be guided and limited by the two guide rods 335, so that ejection is more stable.

Further, the output end of the driving member 333 and one end of the two guide rods 335 are provided with a connecting plate, which enables the output end of the driving member 333 and the two guide rods 335 to move synchronously. The driving part 333 can be an air cylinder, a piston rod of the air cylinder and the two guide rods 335 are both connected to the connecting plate, the connection can be a threaded connection, the piston rod and the two guide rods 335 can move synchronously by setting the connecting plate, and the guide rods 335 can limit and guide the piston rod, so that the piston rod can move more stably.

The invention further provides laser marking equipment, which comprises a rack 200, a multi-station turntable 300, a laser marking device 400, a code scanning device 500, a discharging device 600 and any one of the feeding devices 100, wherein the specific structure of the feeding device 100 refers to the above embodiments, and the laser marking equipment adopts all the technical schemes of all the embodiments, so that the laser marking equipment at least has all the beneficial effects brought by the technical schemes of the above embodiments, and the details are not repeated. Wherein, multistation carousel 300, laser marking device 400, sweep yard device 500, discharge apparatus 600 and loading attachment 100 and all install in frame 200, and loading attachment 100, laser marking device 400, sweep yard device 500 and discharge apparatus 600 are around multistation carousel 300 circumference setting in proper order.

Further, the multi-station turntable 300 is provided with a plurality of jigs 700 along a circumferential direction thereof. Because add man-hour treat the machined part singly and beat the mark process, set up a plurality of tools 700 and can make a plurality ofly treat that the machined part can link up closely, improve machining efficiency.

Further, the jig 700 is provided with a plurality of vacuum absorption holes, and the jig 700 is connected with a vacuum pumping device. The machined part can be treated through evacuation equipment and absorption hole and adsorb fixedly, makes and beats the mark precision higher.

In an embodiment of the present application, the laser marking device 400 and the code scanning device 500 are sequentially disposed along the processing sequence, and the code scanning device 500 is configured to read the marked barcode information and upload the barcode information to the data processing center. The code scanning device 500 is arranged in the subsequent process of the laser marking device 400, the code scanning device 500 can read the marked bar code information and feed back the read information to the data processing center, and the data processing center judges the scanned information to distinguish finished products from defective products, so that the defective products can be recycled and processed again.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all equivalent structural changes made by using the contents of the present specification and the drawings, or any other related technical fields, which are directly or indirectly applied to the present invention, are included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a loading attachment, is applied to laser marking equipment, a serial communication port, loading attachment includes work piece transfer mechanism and magazine, work piece transfer mechanism set up in magazine one side, the magazine includes:

the jacking assembly is connected to one side of the material box body and penetrates through the position-giving opening to abut against the surface of the workpiece to be machined; and

2. The loading device according to claim 1, wherein said workpiece transfer mechanism comprises a four-axis robot and a chuck assembly, said chuck assembly being attached to said four-axis robot, said chuck assembly being adapted to grasp said workpiece to be processed.

3. The loading device according to claim 1, characterized in that said cartridge body comprises:

4. The feeding device according to claim 3, wherein a plurality of limiting grooves for abutting against a workpiece to be machined are formed in opposite side surfaces of the two side plates.

5. The loading device according to claim 4, wherein the jacking assembly comprises:

a mounting plate connected to the base plate;

the driving piece is connected to the mounting plate, and the output end of the driving piece is inserted into the bottom plate and slides relative to the bottom plate; and

6. A loading apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the output end of the driving member and one end of each of the two guide rods are provided with a connecting plate which enables the output end of the driving member and the two guide rods to move synchronously.

7. The laser marking equipment is characterized by comprising a rack, a multi-station turntable, a laser marking device, a code scanning device, a discharging device and the feeding device as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the multi-station turntable, the laser marking device, the code scanning device, the discharging device and the feeding device are all installed in the rack, and the feeding device, the laser marking device, the code scanning device and the discharging device are wound on the multi-station turntable in sequence and in circumferential direction.

8. The laser marking apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the multi-station turntable is provided with a plurality of jigs along a circumferential direction thereof.

9. The laser marking device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the jig is provided with a plurality of vacuum suction holes, and the jig is connected with a vacuum pumping device.

10. The laser marking apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the laser marking device and the code scanning device are arranged in sequence along the processing sequence, and the code scanning device is configured to read the marked barcode information and upload the barcode information to a data processing center.