CN115716598A

CN115716598A - Automatic upset loading attachment and contain device's automatic radium carving equipment

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Publication number: CN115716598A
Application number: CN202111459885.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 唐永平; 曹瑜
Original assignee: Suzhou New Continent Precision Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou New Continent Precision Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-12-02
Filing date: 2021-12-02
Publication date: 2023-02-28

Abstract

The invention discloses an automatic overturning feeding device and automatic laser etching equipment comprising the same, wherein the feeding device comprises a lifting mechanism and an overturning mechanism which are arranged on a machine platform; a feeding station is formed on the feeding device, the feeding device can pick up materials from the material conveying device and feed the materials to the feeding station, and the material conveying device can convey the materials placed on the feeding station; the lifting mechanism lifts the materials on the material conveying device; the turnover mechanism is arranged on the material conveying device, and the self-lifting mechanism configured on the turnover mechanism picks up the lifted material and turns the picked material to the material loading station; after the materials on the lifting mechanism are picked up by the turnover mechanism, the no-load lifting mechanism resets, and the materials on the material conveying device are fed onto the lifting mechanism again. According to the feeding device disclosed by the invention, the feeding interference is reduced by lifting the materials away from the conveying belt, and the time and space requirements for material circulation are reduced by turning over the materials.

Description

Automatic upset loading attachment and contain device's automatic radium carving equipment

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of laser equipment, in particular to an automatic overturning and feeding device and automatic laser etching equipment comprising the same.

Background

Laser processing, also known as laser processing, is a processing process of irradiating a high-energy-density light beam on the surface of a material to vaporize the material or change the color of the material, and is an advanced manufacturing technology, and has the advantages of no contact, no need of tools and dies, high efficiency, convenient implementation of numerical control and capability of being used for special processing, thus being widely applied to the fields of automobiles, metallurgy, aerospace, machinery, textile, chemical engineering, construction, shipbuilding, instruments and meters, microelectronic industry, artware manufacturing, daily living goods and industrial goods manufacturing and the like, and being used for punching, cutting, milling, welding, etching, strengthening and repairing of large parts, material surface modification and material synthesis, rapid manufacturing of dies, models and parts, art production and cleaning, product marking, anti-counterfeiting and the like.

Laser processing is also increasingly applied to the technical field of manufacturing of precision instruments such as notebook computers, mobile phones and the like, the precision instruments have high requirements on laser position precision, and certain products need to be subjected to laser special marks at specific positions, so that high-precision operations such as determining the processing surface, the processing angle, the processing specific position positioning and the like at the specific positions are needed in the laser process, and the requirements on product positioning and adjustability of laser equipment in the processing process are high. And present laser beam machining equipment is mostly semi-automatic mode, and there is great promotion space in the automation level, and the participation of people is higher under the semi-automatic mode, thinks the error great in the course of working, and it is not suitable for the high positioning accuracy requirement of precision instruments. On this basis current radium carving equipment takes up an area of the space great, and the material has taken up more time in the circulation between each station, and the station design is unreasonable, leads to production cycle to lengthen. Therefore, there are many defects and shortcomings in the production of the existing semi-automatic laser processing equipment, and there is a need to improve the existing technology and design a laser processing equipment with higher automation degree for precise instruments.

Disclosure of Invention

This section summarizes some aspects of the present disclosure and briefly introduces some preferred embodiments. Simplifications or omissions in this section as well as the description in the abstract or the title may be made to avoid obscuring the purpose of this section, the abstract or the title. Such simplifications or omissions are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure.

The invention aims to provide a feeding device with an automatic overturning and feeding function, which comprises an action mechanism for lifting and turning over materials, shortens the circulation time of the materials between stations through lifting and turning over, and realizes the reduction of the station space through the arrangement of a turning station. And a plurality of stations are correspondingly arranged on the machine table, the stations are connected reasonably, the material circulation mode is met, and the material circulation time is saved. The detailed technical scheme of the invention is as follows:

an automatic overturning and feeding device comprises a machine table, and a lifting mechanism and an overturning mechanism which are respectively arranged on the machine table;

a feeding station is formed on the feeding device, the feeding device is configured to pick up materials from a material conveying device and place the picked materials on the feeding station, the material conveying device is arranged on the machine table, and the material conveying device is configured to transport the materials placed on the material conveying device;

the lifting mechanism is configured to effect lifting of material on the material transfer device;

the turnover mechanism is arranged on the material conveying device in a structural mode, the self-lifting mechanism configured on the turnover mechanism picks up the lifted material and turns the picked material to a feeding station of the feeding device, the feeding device finishes feeding, and a subsequent processing device picks up the material from the feeding station;

after the materials on the lifting mechanism are picked up by the turnover mechanism, the lifting mechanism with no load resets, and the materials on the material conveying device are fed onto the lifting mechanism again.

The technical scheme is further that a feeding station and a jacking station are sequentially arranged on the material conveying device along the material conveying direction.

Furthermore, a feeding device is arranged on the feeding station, the feeding device is used for placing materials to be subjected to laser etching on the material conveying device at equal intervals one by one, the materials to be subjected to laser etching are placed in a material containing disc, and the material containing disc bearing the materials to be subjected to laser etching is placed on the material conveying device through the feeding device.

Further, when the lifting mechanism is at an initial position, the jacking station is formed on the lifting mechanism, and when the lifting mechanism lifts the material upwards from the initial position, the jacking station is lifted upwards to form a loading overturning station; and when the unloaded lifting mechanism is reset, the lifting mechanism is reset to the jacking station.

Furthermore, the material conveying device comprises a conveying belt and a driving motor for driving the conveying belt to move, the conveying belt is configured to convey materials, and the lifting mechanism lifts the materials conveyed to the conveying belt from the conveying belt.

Furthermore, the material conveying device further comprises a material containing disc, the material containing disc is arranged on a feeding station of the conveying belt and configured to contain materials, the material containing disc containing the materials moves along with the conveying belt on the conveying belt, and the material containing disc is driven by the conveying belt to move from the feeding station to a jacking station.

Furthermore, the machine table is relatively provided with two lifting mechanisms, and the two lifting mechanisms are oppositely arranged on two sides of the conveying belt along the width direction of the conveying belt.

Furthermore, the lifting mechanism comprises a jacking block and a lifting driving assembly, the lifting driving assembly drives the jacking block to reciprocate up and down, the jacking block is close to the side edge of the conveyor belt, and the two jacking blocks which are oppositely arranged form a jacking station of the material storage disc.

At a certain moment, the height of the jacking block is basically flush with or lower than the upper surface of the conveying belt, after a material containing disc bearing materials is conveyed to the jacking station, the lifting driving assembly drives the jacking block to move upwards, so that the material containing disc is lifted away from the conveying belt, and the surface of the materials to be laser engraved is upwards placed in the material containing disc.

Furthermore, the turnover mechanism is adjacent to the lifting mechanism.

Furthermore, tilting mechanism includes the mount and connects upset subassembly on the mount, be provided with one or more sucking discs on the upset subassembly, the sucking disc forms loading position of loading attachment, the sucking disc of loading position department is towards deviating from the direction setting of conveyer belt.

Further, the turnover assembly is configured to rotate along the fixing frame, so that a suction disc on the turnover assembly rotates towards the jacking station and picks up materials on the material containing disc from the jacking station, the turnover assembly rotates and returns to the feeding station after the materials are picked up, and the surface to be laser etched of the materials is placed downwards on the suction disc.

Furthermore, the turnover assembly comprises a turnover shaft connected to the fixed frame and a turnover arm connected with the turnover shaft, and the turnover arm is provided with the sucker; at a certain moment, the overturning arm is horizontally arranged on one side of the overturning shaft, the material containing disc is arranged on the other side of the overturning disc, and the sucking disc on the overturning arm deviates from the conveying belt to form a feeding station; after the material containing disc is jacked from the jacking station to the material overturning station, the overturning arm rotates along the central axis of the overturning shaft to drive the sucker to rotate towards the direction of the conveyor belt, so that the sucker adsorbs and picks up materials from the material overturning station; after the materials are picked up, the overturning arm rotates along the central axis of the overturning shaft to reset to the feeding station, the empty material containing disc resets to the jacking station along with the descending of the jacking block, and the surface of the materials to be laser engraved at the feeding station faces the conveying belt.

Further, the central axis of the turnover shaft is perpendicular to the central axis of the conveyor belt.

Based on the automatic turning and feeding device, the invention also provides automatic laser etching equipment, which not only comprises the automatic turning and feeding device, but also comprises:

transfer device, positioner, radium carving device and unloader of setting on the board, wherein:

the transfer device is configured to pick up materials from the feeding device, place the picked materials on the positioning device for positioning, and transfer the positioned materials to a laser etching station of the laser etching device;

the laser etching device is configured to realize laser etching on the surface of the material at the laser etching station;

the transfer device is further configured to transfer material from the laser engraving station that has completed laser engraving onto the blanking device;

the blanking device is configured to effect transfer of material transferred thereto to a subsequent station.

The automatic laser etching equipment is loaded by the configured loading device.

Above-mentioned technical scheme is further, transfer device includes base, first linking arm, second linking arm, third linking arm and adsorption component, base and board fixed connection, the one end of first linking arm with base swing joint, the other end with second linking arm swing joint, the one end of third linking arm with second linking arm swing joint, the other end with adsorption component swing joint.

Furthermore, first linking arm can be relative the horizontal rotation of base, the second linking arm with first linking arm rotates relatively in vertical direction, the third linking arm with the second linking arm rotates relatively in vertical direction, adsorption component is relative the third linking arm rotates relatively in vertical direction, just adsorption component can follow it with the rotation of third linking arm junction.

Furthermore, the adsorption component comprises a claw disc and one or more suckers arranged on the claw disc, and the transfer device adsorbs materials from the feeding device through the suckers and places the adsorbed materials on the positioning device.

Furthermore, the positioning device comprises a positioning clamp, and the positioning clamp comprises a positioning panel, a positioning assembly arranged at the edge of the positioning panel, and a positioning adsorption piece; the positioning panel is erected on the machine table through a support, a through hole is formed in the center of the positioning panel, and the positioning adsorption piece is installed in the through hole through a connecting plate.

Further, the locating panel is the rectangle panel, and it has two relative long limits that set up and two minor faces that set up relatively, is provided with certainly on a long limit and the minor face respectively the inside sunken recess in rectangle panel edge, the embedded locating piece that is equipped with of recess, the card is equipped with the screens piece in the outer fringe of another minor face, is provided with a plurality of support arch on the locating panel that is close to another long limit.

Furthermore, transfer device will adsorb the material place on the locating panel, locating piece, screens piece with it is right jointly that the support arch forms the location the material, the location is adsorbed the piece right the material adsorbs fixedly, the wait radium carving face of material is towards the location adsorbs the piece.

Further, when the transfer device picks up the positioned material from the positioning fixture, the positioning adsorption piece releases the adsorbed material.

Further, the radium carving device has a laser light source, the light beam that the laser light source sent penetrates directly the radium carving station, the material that transfer device will accomplish the location is transported extremely radium carving station department, and will the waiting radium carving face of material faces laser light source, works as radium carving device accomplishes the radium carving back to the material, transfer device with the material of radium carving after transporting extremely on the unloader, transfer device will the surface that the material has accomplished the radium carving is arranged in down on the unloader.

Further, unloader with the adjacent setting of loading attachment, unloader with the loading attachment structure is the same, belongs to sucking disc on unloader's the tilting mechanism forms the unloading station, transfer device will accomplish the material of radium carving and transport to on the unloading station, unloader's tilting mechanism orientation the material storage disc on unloader's the elevating system rotates, the material storage disc is located unloading upset station, and the material of accomplishing radium carving is settled by the release of sucking disc on the unloading device in the material storage disc, the surface that the material had accomplished radium carving is arranged in up in the material storage disc, and the material storage disc that is bearing the material of accomplishing radium carving falls along with unloader's elevating system descends to fall back station department, fall back station is located on the conveyer belt, the drive belt will be bearing the material of accomplishing radium carving the material storage disc is carried to back dust removal station.

Compared with the prior art, the automatic overturning and feeding device provided by the invention comprises the action mechanism for lifting and overturning the material, the circulation time of the material between stations is shortened through lifting and overturning, and the reduction of the station space is realized through the arrangement of the overturning station. The structural design mode is more reasonable in connection among all the stations, the material circulation mode is met, and the material circulation time is saved.

Furthermore, a plurality of functional devices for feeding, transferring, positioning, laser etching and discharging are integrated on the automatic laser etching equipment with the automatic overturning feeding device, all the devices are coordinated and matched, the automation degree is high, people do not need to participate in the laser etching process, the positioning of the laser etching position is adjusted by a machine standard, a batch of manufactured products have a uniform production standard, the problems of inaccurate positioning and no uniform positioning standard caused by human intervention are integrally reduced, and the production efficiency can be improved by a full-automatic production mode; furthermore, the arrangement among all stations of the automatic laser etching equipment is reasonable, the material is accelerated to flow through the lifting, overturning and omnibearing transfer devices, the material flowing time and distance are shortened, and the material laser etching efficiency is improved.

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 other drawings can be obtained by those skilled in the art without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a change in a position state of a material flowing in a laser etching apparatus when the apparatus is used to perform a single-sided laser etching on the material;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating an overall structure of a laser etching apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a feeding device of a laser etching apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present invention at a viewing angle;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a transferring device of the laser etching apparatus provided by the present invention at a viewing angle in one embodiment;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a positioning apparatus of a laser etching apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present invention at a viewing angle;

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a part of a laser etching apparatus provided by the present invention in one embodiment, in which a feeding device and a discharging device mounted on a material conveying device are shown;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating a positioning panel of the laser etching apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic view of a material receiving tray on a self-jacking station of a turnover mechanism of the loading device in one embodiment of the invention when adsorbing materials; (ii) a

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of the turning mechanism shown in fig. 8 after the material adsorption is completed and the material is turned over and reset;

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating a state of a feeding device when the transferring device of the present invention places the material subjected to laser etching on a suction cup of a turnover mechanism of the feeding device according to an embodiment of the present invention; (ii) a

Fig. 11 is a schematic view of the turnover mechanism of the blanking device shown in fig. 10 adsorbing materials through a suction cup and driving the materials to be turned over and released into a material receiving tray on a jacking station of the blanking device;

fig. 12 is a schematic view of an overall layout structure of a full-automatic laser etching apparatus production line including 7 laser etching apparatuses in one embodiment.

Wherein: 10-a machine platform;

20-a material transfer device; 21-a conveyor belt; 22-a drive motor; 23-a material receiving tray;

30-a feeding device; 31-a lifting mechanism; 311-jacking blocks; 312-a lift drive assembly; 32-a turnover mechanism; 321-a fixing frame; 322-a flip assembly; 323-overturning shaft; 324-a flipping arm; 325-suction cup;

40-a transfer device; 41-a base; 42-a first connecting arm; 43-a second linking arm; 44-a third connecting arm; 45-an adsorption component; 451-claw disk;

50-a positioning device; 51-a positioning fixture; 511-positioning the panel; 5111-a through-hole; 512-a positioning assembly; 5121-positioning blocks; 5122-fastener; 5123-support protrusions; 513-a positioning adsorption piece; 5131-a connecting plate;

60-laser etching device; 61-laser light source;

70-a blanking device; 71-a lifting mechanism; 711-jacking block; 712-a lift drive assembly; 72-a turnover mechanism; 721-a fixed mount; 722-a flip assembly; 723-overturning shaft; 724-turning over the arm; 725-suction cup;

80-mobile phone back shell; a-the back surface of the back shell of the mobile phone; b, the front surface of the rear shell of the mobile phone;

-the back side of the back shell of the mobile phone after laser engraving is finished;

90-a dust removal device;

the device comprises a feeding station a, a jacking station b, a loading overturning station c, a loading station d, a positioning station e, a radium carving station f, a blanking station g, a blanking overturning station h, a falling station i and a dedusting station j.

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in further detail below.

The detailed description of the present invention is presented primarily in terms of procedures, steps, logic blocks, processes, or other symbolic representations that directly or indirectly simulate operations of aspects of the present invention. Those skilled in the art will be able to utilize the description and illustrations herein to effectively introduce other skilled in the art to their working essence.

Reference herein to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment can be included in at least an implementation of the invention. The appearances of the phrase "in one embodiment" in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments mutually exclusive of other embodiments. Additionally, the order of blocks in a method, flowchart, or functional block diagram representing one or more embodiments is not a fixed order, but rather is a fixed order, referring to any particular order, and is not intended to limit the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1, a schematic diagram of a position state change of a material flowing in a device when the laser etching device provided by the present invention is used for performing a designated single-sided laser etching on the material is shown. A flat rectangular material is schematically shown in the figure, which can be understood as having a front side and a back side, defining the side marked a in the figure as the back side, which is also the surface of the object to be laser engraved, and the side marked B as the front side, which need not be laser engraved. Therefore, the materials shown in the figure need to be set into laser etching equipment to automatically turn over and position to realize appointed single-sided laser etching. Labeled as in FIG. 1

The surface of (A) is the surface A after the laser etching is finished. In one embodiment, the material may be a back cover of a commercially available apple cell phone, and the back surface of the back cover of the cell phone is required to be subjected to pattern laser etching.

The standard process for performing laser etching on the material shown in the figure 1 by using the laser etching equipment provided by the invention is as follows:

step one, feeding, namely sequentially placing material containing discs 23 bearing materials on a conveyor belt 21 of a material conveying device 20, wherein the surfaces of the materials to be laser engraved are upward and placed in the material containing discs 23, the material containing discs 23 can be made of foam and other isolation materials and used for protecting the outer surfaces of the materials so as to avoid surface abrasion in the conveying process, and the material containing discs 23 bearing the materials can be placed on the conveyor belt 21 manually or by using a feeding device such as a mechanical arm;

secondly, loading, wherein the loading device 30 lifts and picks up materials from the conveyor belt 21 through the lifting mechanism 31, the materials are adsorbed from the lifting mechanism 31 through the suction cup 325 of the turnover mechanism 32, and after the materials are adsorbed, the turnover mechanism 32 is turned over and reset, so that the surface of the materials to be laser-etched is placed on the suction cup 325 in a downward mode;

thirdly, the materials are transported to a laser etching station for laser etching, and the third step specifically comprises the following steps: through transfer device 40 from pick up the material on the sucking disc 325 of tilting mechanism 32, and will the material is placed and is fixed a position on positioner 50, and the back is accomplished in the location, transfer device 40 certainly pick up the material on positioner 50 and transport the material to radium carving station department of radium carving device 60, makes the radium carving surface of treating of material is towards radium carving device 60's laser light source 61, radium carving device 60 accomplishes radium carving to the material.

Step four, discharging the materials which are subjected to laser etching to a conveyor belt 21 and conveying the materials to a next station, wherein the steps are as follows: the material completing the laser etching is transferred to a sucking disc 725 of a turnover mechanism 72 of a discharging device 70 through a transferring device 40, the surface of the material completing the laser etching is downwards arranged on the sucking disc 725, the turnover mechanism 72 of the discharging device 70 drives the material to overturn towards an elevating mechanism 71 of the discharging device 70, so that the sucking disc 725 releases the material in a material storage disc 23 on a jacking station of the elevating mechanism 71, the surface of the material completing the laser etching is upwards arranged in the material storage disc 23, the elevating mechanism 71 descends and resets to enable the material storage disc 23 bearing the completed laser etching to be arranged on a conveying belt 21, and the material storage disc 23 bearing the completed laser etching is conveyed to a rear dust removal station by the conveying belt 21. Thus, a complete laser etching process of a material is completed.

In order to improve the efficiency of material laser etching, on a single device, starting from the four steps, an automatic device for each operation step can be developed in a targeted manner, so that the automation of the operation step is realized. Further, it is necessary to develop a suitable sub-device or mechanism for the sub-step in each step to automate the sub-step. For example, for the loading device 30, since this step includes two sub-steps of material lifting, material adsorbing and turning, etc., it may be necessary to develop two sub-devices or mechanisms for the two sub-steps. Of course, in order to realize the automation of the whole process of material laser etching, the automation devices for all the steps can be integrated together. The present invention is proposed based on the above inventive concept, and the following examples will exemplarily describe the automated apparatus for each operation step and the whole set of material automatic laser etching apparatus of the present invention.

Material conveying device

In this embodiment, the present invention provides a material conveying apparatus 20, where the material conveying apparatus 20 may include a conveyor belt 21 and a driving motor 22 for driving the conveyor belt 21 to move, the conveyor belt 21 is configured to realize conveying of a material, the feeding apparatus 30 picks up the material from the conveyor belt 21, and the discharging apparatus 70 conveys the material transferred thereto to a subsequent station through the conveyor belt 21. Therefore, the material conveying device 20 is mainly used for being matched with the feeding device 30 and the discharging device 70 to realize feeding of materials to be laser etched and recycling and transferring of the materials which are laser etched, and is an important functional device for realizing automation of the laser etching equipment.

Of course, referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 shows a structure of the material conveying device 20 in an embodiment, the illustrated material conveying device 20 mainly passes through a main body of a main conveying line of the conveyor belt 21, which is a more general technical implementation means in the conveying device at the present stage, certainly, on the premise of ensuring the functions, the conveyor belt 21 has low cost, strong versatility, and perfect development of replacing the maintenance means, and the application of the conveyor belt 21 in the actual production is an efficient production means for saving the cost and reducing the difficulty of fault maintenance.

With continued reference to fig. 6, the illustrated material conveying apparatus 20 is further provided with a material receiving tray 23, the material receiving tray 23 is disposed on the conveyor belt 21, the material receiving tray 23 is configured to receive materials, the material receiving tray 23 receiving materials moves on the conveyor belt 21 along with the conveyor belt 21, the use of the material receiving tray avoids the abrasion of the surface of the materials, and the use of a mechanical structure to realize automatic feeding in the feeding process can also avoid the abrasion of hard objects such as the mechanical structure to the materials.

Feeding device

In the present embodiment, the present invention provides a material loading device 30. It can realize carrying out radium carving to the material loading of material, can supply transfer device 40 to pick up the back with material loading to material loading station department.

This loading attachment 30 can be treated the material of radium carving and carry and overturn, and at this moment, the reality that goes on in this loading attachment 30 has two processes, and the preceding process is the material loading process, and the process that is next is the upset process promptly. Obviously, the feeding device 30 can also be divided into a feeding device 30 and an overturning device according to the process, and the divided feeding device 30 can also be used as the feeding device 30 of other material handling devices, and the embodiment is not particularly limited.

As shown in fig. 3, 6, 8 and 9, a lift-up station and a loading station are formed in the loading device 30 in the embodiment of the present invention. The feeding device 30 may include two oppositely disposed lifting mechanisms 31, and a turnover mechanism 32 disposed adjacent to the lifting mechanisms 31.

In one embodiment, referring to fig. 6, the two lifting mechanisms 31 are oppositely arranged at two sides of the conveyor belt 21 in the width direction, the lifting mechanism 31 includes a jacking block 311 and a lifting driving assembly 312, the lifting driving assembly 312 drives the jacking block 311 to reciprocate up and down, the jacking block 311 is close to the side edge of the conveyor belt 21, and the two jacking blocks 311 which are oppositely arranged form a jacking station of the material receiving tray 23. This lift drive assembly 312 can be one and drive actuating cylinder, and it has the actuating lever, and the actuating lever links to each other with jacking piece 311, drives actuating cylinder and can realize jacking or fall back to jacking piece 311 according to equipment controlling means's control.

At a certain moment, the height of the jacking blocks 311 is basically flush with the upper surface of the conveyor belt 21 or lower than the upper surface of the conveyor belt 21, so that the material receiving disc 23 can be ensured to be freely conveyed on the conveyor belt 21 and cannot be blocked by the jacking blocks 311. Of course, the distance between the two oppositely arranged jacking blocks 311 is smaller than the distance between the material receiving discs 23 in the width direction of the conveyor belt 21. After the material receiving tray 23 carrying the material is conveyed to the jacking station, the lifting driving assembly 312 drives the jacking block 311 to move upwards, so that the material receiving tray 23 is lifted from the conveying belt 21, and the surface of the material to be laser engraved is upward and placed in the material receiving tray 23.

In an embodiment, the above-mentioned turnover mechanism 32 may include a fixing frame 321 and a turnover assembly 322 connected to the fixing frame 321, the turnover assembly 322 is provided with one or more suction cups 325, the turnover assembly 322 is configured to rotate along the fixing frame 321, so that the suction cups 325 thereon pick up the material on the material receiving tray 23 from the jacking station, after the material is picked up, the turnover assembly 322 is rotated and reset, so that the material to be laser-etched is placed on the suction cups 325 with the surface to be laser-etched facing downward, the turnover mechanism 32 is turned over so that the surface to be laser-etched faces downward, and then when the material is transferred to the positioning device 50 by the transferring device 40 during the transferring process, the surface to be laser-etched faces the positioning panel 511 for precise positioning.

In one embodiment, the fixing frame 321 of the turnover mechanism 32 may include two oppositely disposed brackets, which are respectively disposed on two sides of the conveyor belt 21 in the width direction, and the turnover assembly 322 is mounted on the two brackets.

In one embodiment, the tilting assembly 322 includes a tilting shaft 323 connected to the fixing frame 321, and a tilting arm 324 connected to the tilting shaft 323, the sucking discs 325 are disposed on the tilting arm 324, two ends of the tilting shaft 323 are movably connected to the two supports, respectively, the tilting arm 324 and the tilting shaft 323 may be integrally formed or may be separately connected and fixed to each other, the tilting arm 324 may include one or more cantilever brackets extending from the side surfaces of the tilting shaft 323, and each cantilever bracket is disposed with one or more soft sucking discs 325. At a certain moment, the overturning arm 324 is horizontally arranged on one side of the overturning shaft 323, the material containing disc 23 is arranged on the other side of the overturning disc, and the suction cup 325 on the overturning arm 324 deviates from the conveyor belt 21 to form a feeding station.

When the material accommodating disc 23 is lifted to the proper position from the initial position, the turning arm 324 rotates along the central axis of the turning shaft 323 to drive the suction cup 325 to rotate towards the conveyor belt 21, so that the suction cup 325 adsorbs and picks up the material, as shown in fig. 8; after the materials are picked up, the turning arm 324 rotates and resets along the central axis of the turning shaft 323, the empty material storage disc 23 descends and resets along with the jacking block 311, and the surface of the materials to be laser etched faces the conveyor belt 21, as shown in fig. 9.

Referring to fig. 6, the central axis of the turning shaft 323 is perpendicular to the central axis of the conveyor belt 21, and the turning shaft 323 is mounted on the conveyor belt 21.

In an embodiment, the fixing frame 321 of the turning mechanism 32 may be an L-shaped bracket, one end of the bracket is installed at the side of the conveyor belt 21, the other end of the bracket is suspended above the conveyor belt 21, the turning assembly 322 may be connected to the bracket through a connecting member, so that one arm of the bracket suspension is used as a rotating shaft of the turning arm 324, and the turning arm 324 is movably connected to one arm of the bracket suspension, thereby realizing the adsorption and turning of the material.

It should be noted that the lifting mechanism 31 can be lowered and reset only after the material carried on the lifting mechanism 31 is picked up by the turnover mechanism 32, that is, when no material is on the jacking station, a closed loop feedback can be formed by the design, and when the material is conveyed to the turnover mechanism 32, the material on the lifting mechanism 31 is really conveyed away, so that the conveying is not in place, or the material on the lifting mechanism 31 falls back along with the price raising mechanism after not being picked up due to 'snapshot', and the material feeding disorder is caused, thereby reducing the possibility of error in production.

The feeding device 30 provided in the embodiment of the present invention may be used as an integral part, and integrated with the material conveying device 20, the transferring device 40, and the discharging device 70 to form a whole set of equipment for automatically circulating materials, and may be used in cooperation with the laser etching device 60, or in cooperation with other functional devices, and the embodiment is not particularly limited.

Of course, the lifting mechanism 31 and the tilting mechanism 32 in the feeding device 30 can also be used in different application scenarios according to functional separation, and the lifting mechanism 31 can be used as the feeding device 30 of other types of material processing devices, for example, the structure of the discharging device 70 in the present invention is the same as that of the feeding device 30, and is functionally butted with the transfer device 40, and the functional process of the discharging device 70 is the reverse thrust of the working process of the feeding device 30, that is, the feeding device 30 lifts and lifts the material first and then turns over the material, and the discharging device 70 overturns the material first and then lifts the material.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that when the turnover mechanism 32 is used as a stand-alone turnover device, a loading mechanism may be provided on the loading side of the turnover mechanism 32 to load the material to the loading position of the turnover mechanism 32.

When the feeding device 30 is used as a component of a whole set of automatic material packaging equipment, the specific process of the relevant operation after the feeding device 30 feeds the material to be laser engraved can refer to the relevant contents in the following embodiments.

Transfer device

In this embodiment, the present invention provides a transfer device 40. With reference to fig. 1 and 4, the transfer device 40 can pick up the material from the loading station, position the material in the positioning device 50, and transfer the material to the laser etching station for laser etching after the positioning is completed.

Referring to fig. 4, the transfer device 40 provided in this embodiment may include a base 41, a first connecting arm 42, a second connecting arm 43, a third connecting arm 44, and an adsorption component 45, where the base 41 is fixedly connected to the machine platform 10, one end of the first connecting arm 42 is movably connected to the base 41, the other end of the first connecting arm is movably connected to the second connecting arm 43, one end of the third connecting arm 44 is movably connected to the second connecting arm 43, and the other end of the third connecting arm is movably connected to the adsorption component 45.

In one embodiment, with continued reference to fig. 4, the first connecting arm 42 can rotate horizontally with respect to the base 41, in one instance, the first connecting arm 42 can be attached to the surface of the base 41, and the first connecting arm 42 can rotate along the central axis of the base 41, and the movement is flexible.

The second connecting arm 43 and the first connecting arm 42 rotate relatively in the vertical direction, in one instance, referring to fig. 4, one end of the first connecting arm 42 forms a connecting seat of the second connecting arm 43, the connecting seat is a groove, one end of the second connecting seat is movably inserted in the groove, and the second connecting arm 43 can rotate back and forth along the central axis of the groove.

The third connecting arm 44 and the second connecting arm 43 rotate relatively in the vertical direction, in one case, referring to fig. 4 as well, one end of the second connecting arm 43 forms a connecting seat of the third connecting arm 44, the connecting seat is a groove, one end of the third connecting seat is movably inserted into the groove, and the third connecting arm 44 can rotate back and forth along the central axis of the groove.

Adsorption component 45 is relative third linking arm 44 is rotatory relatively in vertical direction, just adsorption component 45 can follow it with the rotation of third linking arm 44 junction, promptly adsorption component 45 with third linking arm 44 has two degrees of freedom, refer to fig. 4, adsorption component 45's one end is provided with the rotating member, it can be a universal joint, this adsorption component 45 itself just has rotatory function, on this basis, the rotating member that itself can autogiration's adsorption component 45 connects in the recess of third linking arm 44 tip, adsorption component 45 can follow the central axis of recess and make a round trip to rotate, consequently, this transfer device 40 overall structure has high degree of freedom, can the transportation of omnidirectional realization material.

In one embodiment, referring to fig. 4, the suction assembly 45 may include a jaw plate 451, and one or more suction cups disposed on the jaw plate 451. The transfer device 40 adsorbs the material from the feeding device 30 through the suction cups, and places the adsorbed material on the positioning device 50. The jaw plate 451 shown in fig. 4 is a rectangular jaw plate 451, and one or more suction cups (not shown) may be provided on the lower surface of the jaw plate 451.

Certainly, the adsorption component 45 of the transfer device 40 provided by the embodiment can also be directly grabbed by a manipulator, but in practical application the manipulator easily scratches the surface of the material, and the uneven stress of the material in the grabbing process can cause the material after positioning to deviate under the grabbing stress state, so that the positioning accuracy is reduced or the positioning is ineffective.

It should be noted that the transfer device 40 provided in the embodiment of the present invention may be used as an independent device, or may be used as an integral part, and is integrated with the feeding device 30, etc. to form a whole set of automatic equipment.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that when the transfer device 40 is used as a stand-alone device, a feeding mechanism may be disposed on the feeding side of the transfer device 40 to feed the material to the feeding position of the transfer device, and a discharging mechanism may be disposed on the discharging side of the transfer device to receive the transferred material.

In the whole set of automation equipment, certain stations in two different functional devices can be overlapped or partially overlapped, and certain structural components can be reused. For example, the feeding station of the transfer device 40 is actually a feeding station formed on the suction cup 325 in the feeding device 30, and the discharging station of the transfer device 40 is actually a discharging station formed on the suction cup 325 in the discharging device 70, which is a station overlapping state formed after a plurality of functional devices are used in combination, and is a simplified borrowing of stations. I.e. the parts of the stations mentioned in this embodiment actually coincide in the construction of the apparatus.

Positioning device

In this embodiment, the present invention provides a positioning device 50. With reference to fig. 5 and 7, the positioning device 50 can realize accurate positioning of the material placed thereon, so as to ensure the positioning accuracy of the transferring device 40 during material taking.

In one embodiment, the positioning device 50 is mounted on the machine table 10, and may include a positioning fixture 51, where the positioning fixture 51 includes a positioning panel 511, a positioning component 512 mounted on an edge of the positioning panel 511, and a positioning suction member 513; the positioning panel 511 is erected on the machine table 10 through a bracket, the center of the positioning panel 511 is provided with a through hole 5111, and the positioning adsorption piece 513 is installed in the through hole 5111 through a connecting plate 5131.

Referring to fig. 7, the positioning panel 511 may be a rectangular panel, and has two long sides disposed opposite to each other and two short sides disposed opposite to each other, wherein one long side and one short side are respectively provided with a groove recessed inward from an edge of the rectangular panel, a positioning block 5121 is embedded in the groove, the outer edge of the other short side is provided with a locking member 5122 in a locking manner, and the positioning panel 511 close to the other long side is provided with a plurality of supporting protrusions 5123.

When the transfer device 40 places the adsorbed material on the positioning panel 511, the positioning block, the clamping element 5122 and the supporting protrusion 5123 together position the material, the positioning adsorption element 513 adsorbs and fixes the material, and the surface to be laser-etched of the material faces the positioning adsorption element 513; when the transfer device 40 picks up the positioned material from the positioning fixture 51, the positioning adsorption part 513 releases the adsorbed material.

In order to improve the positioning precision of the materials and meet the requirement of a high-precision instrument on the laser etching precision, the positioning device 50 is used for carrying out secondary positioning on the materials, and the materials are adsorbed and grabbed through the adsorption component 45 of the transfer device 40, so that the positioning precision of the materials is kept high.

Laser etching device

The present embodiment provides a laser etching apparatus 60, which can realize laser etching on the surface of a material.

In one embodiment, the laser etching device 60 has a laser source 61, a light beam emitted by the laser source 61 directly irradiates the laser etching station, the transferring device 40 transfers the positioned material to the laser etching station, and faces the surface of the material to be etched toward the laser source 61, after the laser etching device 60 finishes etching the material, the transferring device 40 transfers the material after laser etching to the blanking device 70, and the transferring device 40 places the surface of the material which has finished laser etching downward on the blanking device 70.

Blanking device

Reference is made to the above-described embodiment of the loading device 30. Referring to fig. 6, the blanking device 70 is disposed adjacent to the feeding device 30. The blanking device 70 has the same structure as the loading device 30, a suction cup 725 on a turnover mechanism 72 of the blanking device 70 forms a blanking station, the transfer device 40 transfers the material subjected to laser etching to the blanking station, see fig. 10, the turnover mechanism 72 of the blanking device 70 rotates towards a material storage disc 23 on a jacking station of the blanking device 70, the material subjected to laser etching is released by the suction cup 725 on the blanking device 70 and is placed in the material storage disc 23, see fig. 11, the surface of the material subjected to laser etching faces upwards and is placed in the material storage disc 23 of the blanking device 70, the material storage disc 23 carrying the material subjected to laser etching falls onto the conveyor belt 21 along with the lifting mechanism 71 of the blanking device 70, and the conveyor belt conveys the material storage disc 23 carrying the material subjected to laser etching to a subsequent dust removal station.

It should be noted that, in one embodiment, the loading device 30, the transferring device 40, the positioning device 50, the laser etching device 60, and the unloading device 70 are not necessarily completely independent in structure, and one or more structural members may be reused between the devices. Correspondingly, the processing stations in each device are not necessarily completely staggered in spatial position, and some stations may be partially or even completely overlapped. The condition of the structure multiplexing and the station coincidence can shorten the circulation distance and time of materials, save the occupied space of equipment and simplify the structure of the equipment.

In some embodiments, the interior of each device is provided with separate internal transfer components as needed that move only within the device to effect transfer of paper material between processing stations within the device, such as flipper 72, which is also actually a transfer mechanism within the unloader 70. A transfer device 40 is additionally disposed on the machine 10, and the transfer device 40 can reciprocate between the devices to transfer the material from one device to another device.

Automatic laser etching equipment with compact structure

As can be seen from the description in the above embodiment, the fully-automatic turning and positioning laser etching apparatus with a compact structure can be integrated by the material conveying device 20, the feeding device 30, the transferring device 40, the positioning device 50, the laser etching device 60 and the discharging device 70.

According to the device function, the feeding device 30 needs to be matched with material conveying, the discharging device 70 needs to be matched with material conveying, if the material mixing of the material to be etched and the material which is etched is avoided, corresponding material conveying mechanisms need to be distributed for the feeding device 30 and the discharging device 70 respectively, the material conveying cost is increased undoubtedly due to the arrangement, and the occupied space of the equipment is enlarged. Therefore, the layout of the functional devices needs to be further optimized, so that the laser etching equipment with compact structure and full-automatic overturning and positioning is more compact in structure, and material conveying is facilitated to prevent mixing.

In this embodiment, the present invention provides a compact-structure laser etching apparatus with full-automatic turning and positioning, which includes the material conveying device 20, the feeding device 30, the transferring device 40, the positioning device 50, the laser etching device 60, and the discharging device 70 mentioned in some embodiments above, and performs optimized layout on the layout of each functional device, or performs optimized layout on each operation station of the carton. When the structure of each functional component in the fully-automatic turning and positioning laser etching device with the compact structure is described, the related description and the related drawings in the above embodiment can still be used.

Before introducing the compact-structure fully-automatic turning positioning laser etching apparatus in this embodiment, we first define three coordinate axes: a first horizontal axis X, a second horizontal axis Y and a vertical axis Z. Wherein: the first horizontal axis X and the second horizontal axis Y are two coordinate axes perpendicular to each other on a horizontal plane, the vertical axis Z is a coordinate axis on a vertical plane, and the X axis, the Y axis, and the Z axis are perpendicular to each other two by two. Hereinafter, the arrangement of the stations on the laser etching apparatus will be described with reference to the three coordinate axes.

Referring to fig. 2 in combination with fig. 1, a feeding station a, a jacking station b, a loading turning station c, a loading station d, a positioning station e, a laser engraving station f, a blanking station g, a blanking turning station h, a falling station i, and a dust removal station j are formed on a machine table 10 of the laser engraving device with compact structure and full-automatic turning positioning in this embodiment, wherein:

the feeding station a, the jacking station b, the falling station i and the dust removal station j are sequentially arranged on a first axis parallel to the first horizontal axis X. The feeding overturning station c, the feeding station d, the discharging station g and the discharging overturning station h are sequentially arranged on a second axis parallel to the first horizontal axis X. The first axis and the second axis are parallel to each other and the level of the first axis is lower than the level of the second axis.

The feeding station d and the positioning station e are sequentially arranged on a third axis parallel to the second horizontal axis Y. The positioning station e and the laser etching station f are sequentially arranged on a fourth axis parallel to the longitudinal axis Z.

It should be noted that the schematic diagram of the position and state change of the material flowing in the equipment shown in fig. 1 is only a station arrangement diagram in a device layout mode, the arrangement sequence of the turnover mechanism and the lifting mechanism of the feeding device, and the arrangement sequence of the turnover mechanism and the lifting mechanism of the discharging device can be arranged according to actual conditions, and the problem of the arrangement sequence of the lifting mechanism and the turnover mechanism affects the rotation direction of the turnover arm of the turnover mechanism when the material is sucked and the installation position of the suction cup on the turnover arm. Without departing from the principle of the present invention, the person skilled in the art can obtain a diagram of the position state change of the material flowing in the apparatus according to fig. 1.

The laser etching apparatus in this embodiment includes a material conveying device 20, a loading device 30, a transferring device 40, a positioning device 50, a laser etching device 60, and a discharging device 70.

The feeding station a, the jacking station b, the falling-back station i and the dust removal station j are sequentially arranged on the material conveying device 20. The feeding overturning station c, the feeding station d, the discharging station g and the discharging overturning station h are sequentially arranged right above the material conveying device 20.

The laser etching equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention is used for performing laser etching on the reverse side of the mobile phone rear shell 80 shown in fig. 1, and the station circulation and the material state of the mobile phone rear shell 80 after the mobile phone rear shell 80 is fed to the laser etching equipment can be described as follows:

referring to fig. 1, a back surface a of a mobile phone rear shell 80 is placed in a material storage disc 23 upwards, the material storage disc 23 is placed on a conveyor belt 21 of a material conveying device 20, the material storage disc 23 is conveyed from a feeding station a on the conveyor belt 21 to a jacking station b, a sensor is arranged at the jacking station b, and when the material storage disc 23 is conveyed to the jacking station b, a lifting mechanism 31 at the jacking station b lifts the material storage disc 23 on the jacking station b upwards to a material overturning station c;

the turning arm 324 of the turning mechanism 32 located between the loading turning station c and the loading station d rotates from the initial position to the loading turning station c, so that the suction cup 325 on the turning arm 324 sucks the mobile phone rear shell 80 from the loading turning station c, as can be seen from fig. 1, the orientations of the front and the back of the mobile phone rear shell 80 are changed due to the turning of the turning mechanism 32, the back a of the mobile phone rear shell 80 at the loading turning station c faces upwards, and the front B of the back of the mobile phone at the loading station d faces upwards;

after the mobile phone rear shell 80 at the loading station d is sucked by the transfer device 40 through the flexible sucking disc 325 assembly, the mobile phone rear shell 80 is placed on the positioning panel 511 of the positioning device 50 for accurate positioning, the positioning panel 511 forms the positioning station e, after the positioning is completed, the transfer device 40 sucks the mobile phone rear shell 80 from the positioning station e, the transfer device 40 turns over the sucked mobile phone rear shell 80 through the first connecting arm 42, the second connecting arm 43 and the third connecting arm 44 on the transfer device 40 and the self-freedom degree of the adsorption component 45, so that the back surface A of the mobile phone rear shell 80 is turned over to a laser source facing the laser engraving device 60, the adsorption component 45 of the transfer device 40 adsorbs the mobile phone rear shell 80 and is placed on the laser engraving station f of the laser engraving device 60 in a suspended manner, at the moment, the adsorption component 45 actually forms the laser engraving station f, after the laser engraving device 60 finishes the back surface A of the mobile phone rear shell 80, the adsorption component 45 of the transfer device 40 adsorbs the mobile phone rear shell 80 to act again, so that the mobile phone rear shell 80 is placed on the mobile phone rear shell turning station B while turning over the mobile phone rear shell 70;

the turning arm 724 of the turning mechanism 72 of the blanking device 70 located between the blanking station g and the blanking turning station h rotates from an initial position to the blanking turning station h, the material storage disc 23 is placed on the blanking turning station h, the mobile phone shell on the blanking station h is placed in the material storage disc 23 through the turning arm 724, the lifting mechanism 71 of the blanking device 70 descends, the material storage disc 23 bearing the laser engraved mobile phone rear shell 80 returns to the position of the falling-back station i, the material storage disc 23 bearing the laser engraved mobile phone rear shell 80 moves to the position of the dust removal station j along with the conveyor belt 21 of the material conveying device 20 to remove dust, and the dust is packaged after being removed.

It should be noted that the material conveying device 20, the loading device 30, the transferring device 40, the positioning device 50, the laser etching device 60, and the unloading device 70 in the laser etching apparatus in this embodiment respectively adopt the structures in the foregoing embodiments. Since the detailed description of the specific structure and operation of these devices has been given above, further description is omitted here.

Please refer to fig. 1, in order to realize the automatic feeding of the material, the efficiency of the apparatus is further improved. Preferably, a storing mechanism located in the front of the feeding station a can be further formed on the machine table 10.

Finally, it should be noted that, in the above embodiments of the present invention, the respective components of the compact full-automatic turning positioning laser etching apparatus are described from different angles, some embodiments focus on describing one component, and other embodiments focus on describing another component, and detailed descriptions about one component in one embodiment can be used to understand the same component in another embodiment without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Full-automatic laser etching equipment production line

Based on foretell compact structure's full-automatic upset location radium carving equipment, this embodiment provides the automatic radium carving equipment of many linkages and produces the line, should produce the line and can constitute by a plurality of radium carving equipment, and many radium carving equipment realize the action synchronization basically under control system's control.

The action principle of the seven laser etching devices is briefly described as follows:

referring to fig. 12, the production line shown in the figure includes 7 laser etching apparatuses, the production line has a material conveying device for feeding materials, the material conveying device is linearly arranged on one side of the 7 laser etching apparatuses, the 7 laser etching apparatuses are arranged in a straight line at the same side of the material conveying device, one end of the material conveying device is used for feeding materials, and the other end of the material conveying device is provided with a dust removal device for removing dust from the materials subjected to laser etching;

in an initial state, the 7 laser etching devices are in standby, feeding is carried out on a conveyor belt of a material conveying device, the distance between every two materials is the same, when a first material placed on the conveyor belt reaches a 7 th laser etching device (the 7 devices are named in sequence along the material conveying direction of the material conveying device, an arrow P in fig. 12 represents the material conveying direction, the 7 laser etching devices are respectively a 1 st laser etching device, a 2 nd laser etching device, a 3 rd laser etching device, a 4 th laser etching device, a 5 th laser etching device, a 6 th laser etching device and a 7 th laser etching device, wherein the 7 th laser etching device is close to a dust removing device 90, a machine table under the 6 th laser etching device is not displayed, but it can be understood that the jacking stations of the 7 th laser etching device are practically the same), the situation that the previous stations of the 1-6 th laser etching device also have the materials is that the 7 th laser etching devices are close to the dust removing device 90, and the 7 th laser etching devices are started at the same time, the jacking stations of the 7 laser etching devices are certainly and the same in action, and the jacking times of the jacking devices are consistent to finish the same;

when 7 laser engraving devices start to act simultaneously, 7 jacking stations lift materials on the jacking stations away from the conveying belt, and no material exists on the conveying belt at the moment, so that the materials can be continuously conveyed on the conveying belt within the working time of the laser engraving devices until the materials reappear on the jacking station of the 7 th laser engraving device (the supplementary explanation is that after the materials on the jacking stations are picked up by the turnover mechanism, the lifting mechanism resets, and the jacking stations are flush with or slightly lower than the conveying belt again, so that the 7 laser engraving devices synchronously work, the 7 jacking stations synchronously reset, after resetting, the materials continue to be loaded on the conveying belt, and the 7 jacking stations have materials again), and the lifting mechanism lifts the materials on the jacking stations away from the conveying belt again;

after 7 radium carving equipment work were accomplished, the unloading of transfer device is received simultaneously to 7 unloading stations, through unloader's upset, fall back action, 7 materials of accomplishing radium carving are sent to the station dust removal in proper order and are removed dust.

In order to save man-hour, after transfer device accomplished the unloading to unloader, loading attachment had accomplished the material loading for material on the material loading station can directly be picked up by transfer device. Therefore, the description of the action principle of 7 machines in the production line forms an action period from the first feeding to the second feeding, and the production line can continuously operate and circulate according to the action period, so that the action period can be realized regardless of machine equipment on the production line in the action, the action of a plurality of laser engraving devices is basically synchronous, and the linkage of the plurality of laser engraving devices is realized.

Fig. 12 shows only one production line structure of multiple linked laser etching apparatuses, and in an embodiment, the material conveying devices may also be arranged in a curved shape, such as an S-shaped arrangement, which may save space when the production line apparatuses are densely arranged.

In an embodiment, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a linkage method for a multiple-linkage laser etching apparatus production line, which may include the following steps:

sequentially placing a plurality of material containing discs 23 bearing materials on a conveyor belt 21 of a material conveying device 20 at equal intervals one by one, so that materials are placed on jacking stations corresponding to all laser etching devices, starting the plurality of laser etching devices while being controlled by a control device, and placing the surfaces of the materials to be etched, which are to be etched, in the material containing discs 23;

the loading devices of the multiple laser etching devices respectively load materials on the respective jacking stations to the loading stations, so that each loading station is loaded with the materials, the transfer device of each laser etching device picks up the materials from the loading station corresponding to the transfer device, and the unloaded jacking stations are reset under the driving of the lifting mechanism of the loading device;

the transfer device of each laser etching device transfers the picked materials to the laser etching device for laser etching;

after the unloaded multiple jacking stations are reset, sequentially placing a plurality of material containing discs 23 bearing materials on a conveyor belt 21 of a material conveying device 20 at equal intervals one by one, so that the jacking stations corresponding to all the laser etching equipment are reloaded, feeding the materials on the jacking stations to a feeding station by a feeding device, and picking up the materials from the feeding station by a transfer device to be discharged;

the material that has accomplished radium carving is by transfer device unloading is to unloader's unloading station on, unloader will material on the unloading station is carried to on the conveyer belt, the conveyer belt will accomplish the material conveying of radium carving and say the station in the back.

The laser etching equipment production line with multiple linked machines can comprise a plurality of laser etching equipment, wherein one machine comprises the following action processes:

the feeding device 30 lifts and picks up materials from the conveyor belt 21 through the lifting mechanism 31, the materials are adsorbed from the lifting mechanism 31 through the sucking disc of the turnover mechanism 32, and after the materials are adsorbed, the turnover mechanism 32 is turned over and reset, so that the surface of the materials to be laser etched is placed on the sucking disc downwards;

the transferring device 40 picks up materials from the suction disc of the turnover mechanism 32 and places the materials on the positioning device 50 for positioning, after the positioning is completed, the transferring device 40 picks up the materials from the positioning device 50 and transfers the materials to a laser engraving station of the laser engraving device 60, so that the surface to be engraved with the materials faces to a laser light source 61 of the laser engraving device 60, and the laser engraving device 60 completes laser engraving of the materials;

the material that the laser carving is completed by the transferring device 40 is transferred to a sucking disc of a turnover mechanism 72 of a blanking device 70, the surface of the material that the laser carving is completed is arranged on the sucking disc downwards, the turnover mechanism 72 of the blanking device 70 drives the material to turn towards a lifting mechanism 71 of the blanking device 70, so that the sucking disc releases the material into a material accommodating disc 23 on a jacking station of the lifting mechanism 71, the surface of the material that the laser carving is completed is arranged in the material accommodating disc 23 upwards, the lifting mechanism 71 descends and resets to enable the material accommodating disc 23 bearing the completed laser carving to be arranged on a conveying belt 21, and the material accommodating disc 23 bearing the completed laser carving is conveyed to a next station by the conveying belt 21 to remove dust.

The invention has been described in sufficient detail with some particularity. It will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the descriptions of the embodiments are merely exemplary and that all changes and modifications made without departing from the true spirit and scope of the present invention shall fall within the protective scope of the present invention. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description of the embodiments.

Claims

1. An automatic overturning and feeding device is characterized by comprising a machine table, a lifting mechanism and an overturning mechanism, wherein the lifting mechanism and the overturning mechanism are respectively arranged on the machine table;

after the materials on the lifting mechanism are picked up by the turnover mechanism, the unloaded lifting mechanism resets, and the materials on the material conveying device are fed onto the lifting mechanism again.

2. The automatic overturning feeding device according to claim 1, wherein a feeding station and a jacking station are sequentially arranged on the material conveying device along a material conveying direction;

the feeding station is provided with a feeding device, the feeding device is used for placing materials to be laser engraved on the material conveying device at equal intervals one by one, the materials to be laser engraved are placed in a material containing disc, and the material containing disc bearing the materials to be laser engraved is placed on the material conveying device by the feeding device;

when the lifting mechanism lifts materials upwards from the initial position, the lifting station is lifted upwards to form a loading overturning station; and when the unloaded lifting mechanism is reset, the lifting mechanism is reset to the jacking station.

3. The automatic reverse feeding device according to claim 2,

the material conveying device (20) comprises a conveyor belt (21) and a driving motor (22) for driving the conveyor belt (21) to move, the conveyor belt (21) is configured to convey materials, and the lifting mechanism lifts the materials conveyed to the conveyor belt (21) from the conveyor belt (21);

the material conveying device (20) further comprises a material containing disc (23), the material containing disc (23) is arranged on a feeding station of the conveying belt (21), the material containing disc (23) is configured to contain materials, the material containing disc (23) containing the materials moves on the conveying belt (21) along with the conveying belt (21), and the material containing disc (23) is driven by the conveying belt to move from the feeding station to a jacking station.

4. The automatic reverse feeding device according to claim 3,

the machine table is relatively provided with two lifting mechanisms which are relatively arranged at two sides of the conveying belt along the width direction of the conveying belt;

the lifting mechanism (31) comprises a lifting block (311) and a lifting driving component (312), the lifting driving component (312) drives the lifting block (311) to reciprocate up and down, the lifting block (311) is close to the side edge of the conveyor belt (21), and two lifting blocks (311) which are oppositely arranged form a lifting station of the material containing disc (23);

at a certain moment, the height of the jacking block (311) is basically flush with the upper surface of the conveyor belt (21) or lower than the upper surface of the conveyor belt (21), after the material containing disc (23) carrying materials is conveyed to the jacking station, the lifting driving assembly (312) drives the jacking block (311) to move upwards, so that the material containing disc (23) is lifted away from the conveyor belt (21), and the surface of the materials to be laser engraved is upwards placed in the material containing disc (23).

5. The automatic reverse feeding device according to claim 3,

the turnover mechanism (32) is arranged adjacent to the lifting mechanism (31);

the turnover mechanism (32) comprises a fixed frame (321) and a turnover assembly (322) connected to the fixed frame (321), one or more suckers are arranged on the turnover assembly (322), the suckers form a feeding station of the feeding device, and the suckers at the feeding station are arranged in a direction departing from the conveying belt;

the overturning assembly (322) is configured to rotate along the fixing frame (321) so that a sucking disc on the overturning assembly rotates towards the jacking station and picks up materials on the material containing disc (23) from the jacking station, after the materials are picked up, the overturning assembly (322) rotates and returns to a feeding station, and the surface to be laser carved of the materials is placed downwards on the sucking disc.

6. The automatic reverse feeding device according to claim 5,

the overturning assembly (322) comprises an overturning shaft (323) connected to the fixing frame (321) and an overturning arm (324) connected with the overturning shaft (323), and the sucker is arranged on the overturning arm (324); at a certain moment, the overturning arm (324) is horizontally arranged on one side of the overturning shaft (323), the material containing disc (23) is arranged on the other side of the overturning disc, and a sucking disc on the overturning arm (324) deviates from the conveyor belt (21) to form a feeding station; after the material containing disc (23) is jacked to the material loading overturning station from the jacking station, the overturning arm (324) rotates along the central axis of the overturning shaft (323) to drive the sucker to rotate towards the conveyor belt (21), so that the sucker adsorbs and picks up materials from the material loading overturning station; after the materials are picked up, the overturning arm (324) rotates along the central axis of the overturning shaft (323) to reset to the feeding station, the unloaded material containing disc (23) descends along with the jacking block (311) to reset to the jacking station, and the surface of the materials to be laser-etched at the feeding station faces the conveyor belt (21);

the central axis of the turnover shaft (323) is vertical to the central axis of the conveyor belt (21).

7. An automated laser etching apparatus, comprising the automatic turnover feeding device of any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the feeding device is configured to feed the automated laser etching apparatus;

it still includes:

transfer device (40), positioner (50), radium carving device (60) and unloader (70) of setting on board (10), wherein:

the transfer device (40) is configured to pick up materials from the feeding device (30), position the picked materials on the positioning device (50), and transfer the positioned materials to a laser engraving station of the laser engraving device (60);

the laser etching device (60) is configured to realize laser etching on the surface of the material at the laser etching station;

the transfer device (40) is further configured to effect transfer of material from the laser engraving station completing the laser engraving onto the blanking device (70);

the blanking device (70) is configured to effect transfer of material transferred thereto to a subsequent station.

8. The automated laser etching apparatus of claim 7,

the transfer device (40) comprises a base (41), a first connecting arm (42), a second connecting arm (43), a third connecting arm (44) and an adsorption component (45), wherein the base (41) is fixedly connected with the machine table (10), one end of the first connecting arm (42) is movably connected with the base (41), the other end of the first connecting arm is movably connected with the second connecting arm (43), one end of the third connecting arm (44) is movably connected with the second connecting arm (43), and the other end of the third connecting arm is movably connected with the adsorption component (45);

the first connecting arm (42) can rotate horizontally relative to the base (41), the second connecting arm (43) and the first connecting arm (42) can rotate relatively in the vertical direction, the third connecting arm (44) and the second connecting arm (43) can rotate relatively in the vertical direction, the adsorption component (45) can rotate relatively in the vertical direction relative to the third connecting arm (44), and the adsorption component (45) can rotate along the connection position of the adsorption component and the third connecting arm (44);

the adsorption assembly (45) comprises a claw disc (451) and one or more suckers arranged on the claw disc (451), and the transfer device (40) adsorbs materials from the feeding device (30) through the suckers and places the adsorbed materials on the positioning device (50).

9. The automated laser etching apparatus of claim 7,

the positioning device (50) comprises a positioning clamp (51), wherein the positioning clamp (51) comprises a positioning panel (511), a positioning component (512) arranged at the edge of the positioning panel (511), and a positioning adsorption piece (513); the positioning panel (511) is erected on the machine table (10) through a bracket, a through hole (5111) is formed in the center of the positioning panel (511), and the positioning adsorption piece (513) is installed in the through hole (5111) through a connecting plate (5131);

the positioning panel (511) is a rectangular panel and is provided with two long sides which are arranged oppositely and two short sides which are arranged oppositely, grooves which are sunken inwards from the edge of the rectangular panel are respectively arranged on one long side and one short side, a positioning block (5121) is embedded in each groove, a clamping piece (5122) is clamped on the outer edge of the other short side, and a plurality of supporting bulges (5123) are arranged on the positioning panel (511) close to the other long side;

the transfer device (40) places the adsorbed material on the positioning panel (511), the positioning block, the clamping piece (5122) and the supporting protrusion (5123) together position the material, the positioning adsorption piece (513) adsorbs and fixes the material, and the surface to be laser-etched of the material faces the positioning adsorption piece (513);

when the transfer device (40) picks up the positioned material from the positioning clamp (51), the positioning adsorption piece (513) releases the adsorbed material;

laser carving device (60) have laser light source (61), the light beam direct injection that laser light source (61) sent the laser carving station, transfer device (40) will accomplish the material of location and transport to laser carving station department, and will the wait laser carving face of material faces laser light source (61), works as after laser carving device (60) accomplished the laser carving to the material, transfer device (40) transport the material after the laser carving to on unloader (70), transfer device (40) will the surface that the material had accomplished the laser carving is arranged in down on unloader (70).

10. The automated laser etching apparatus of claim 7,

unloader (70) with loading attachment (30) adjacent setting, unloader (70) with loading attachment (30) structure is the same, belongs to sucking disc on the tilting mechanism (72) of unloader (70) forms the unloading station, transfer device (40) will accomplish the material of radium carving and transport to on the unloading station, tilting mechanism (72) orientation of unloader (70) material receiving disc (23) on the elevating system of unloader (70) rotate, material receiving disc (23) are located unloading upset station, accomplish the material of radium carving and be settled in material receiving disc (23) by sucking disc (725) release on unloader (70), the surface that the material has accomplished radium carving is arranged up in material receiving disc (23), material receiving disc (23) that is bearing the material of accomplishing radium carving along with elevating system (71) of unloader (70) fall to the station, the station that falls back is located on conveyer belt (21), the dust removal that will bear the material receiving disc (23) of material is accomplished the dust removal track to the material receiving disc (23).