CN205537591U - A air supporting moving platform for roughness measurement - Google Patents
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The utility model provides an air supporting moving platform for roughness measurement, including platform, the slip table that is used for bearing the work piece, slip table X to mobile device and slip table Y to the mobile device, slip table X is in to the mobile device setting to mobile device and slip table Y on the platform, and be used for the drive respectively the removal of X direction and Y direction is followed to the slip table, the slip table sets up on the platform, the slip table bottom is provided with a plurality of air bearing holes, be provided with air bearing in the air bearing hole, be provided with the trachea passageway in the slip table, the one end of trachea passageway with air bearing hole intercommunication, the other end communicates the outside of slip table. According to the utility model discloses an air supporting moving platform for roughness measurement, the operation is light simple and convenient, and reducible human labor reduces the wearing and tearing of platform.
Description
Technical field
This utility model belongs to roughness concentration workpiece mobile positioning technique field, particularly relate to a kind of for
The air-floated movable platform of roughness concentration.
Background technology
At present, air-floated movable technology mainly should be on three coordinate measuring machine, owing to air-float guide rail has without friction,
Without advantages such as abrasion, linearity and angle pendulum are less, thus it is widely used on high-precision measuring machine.
The working surface roughness of Components is to the assembling of part, sealing, fatigue, abrasion, burn into
Noises etc. all have considerable influence, and it is one of important content of evaluation surface quality, therefore, to surface of the work
Roughness is carried out objective, the detection of science and evaluation, become an important step in manufacture field.
At present, the detection major part of domestic and international roughness still uses contact roughness contourgraph, contact
The mobile platform of roughness contourgraph is mainly realized by upper and lower ball-screw and line slideway, and this moves flat
In platform for the frictional resistance between lower surface and the marble platform of the slide unit carrying workpiece relatively greatly, thus,
Manually promote slide unit to move more laborious (particularly when the workpiece that slide unit carrying is heavier), thus cause this shifting
Moving platform operation is the hardest.Further, and friction bigger between slide unit so that marble platform is worn and torn relatively
Hurry up.It addition, excessive friction makes mobile platform running fix degree of accuracy relatively low.
Utility model content
Technical problem to be solved in the utility model is for the existing mobile platform for roughness concentration
Operate the hardest defect, it is provided that a kind of air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration.
The technical scheme that the above-mentioned technical problem of this utility model solution is used is as follows:
There is provided a kind of air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration, including platform, for carrying the cunning of workpiece
Platform, slide unit X are to mobile device and slide unit Y-direction mobile device, and described slide unit X is to mobile device and slide unit Y
Arrange on the platform to mobile device, and be respectively used to drive described slide unit in X direction and Y-direction
Mobile, described slide unit is arranged on the platform, is provided with multiple air-bearing shafts bearing bore, institute bottom described slide unit
State and air-bearing shafts bearing bore is provided with air-bearing, in described slide unit, be provided with air pipe passway, described air pipe passway
One end connect with described air-bearing shafts bearing bore, the other end is communicated to the outside of described slide unit.
Further, the upper end of described air-bearing shafts bearing bore is communicated with an air-bearing adjustment hole, described air-bearing shafts
The upper surface of described slide unit, the upper end of described air-bearing and described air-bearing are run through in the upper end holding adjustment hole
A steel ball it is provided with between adjustment hole.
Further, described air-bearing adjustment hole is screwed hole, from up in described air-bearing adjustment hole
Lower screw-in one screw, described steel ball is pushed down in the lower end of described screw.
Further, described slide unit X to mobile device include support baseboard, sliding floor, optical axis, first
Limit base, the second limit base, the first buffer and the second buffer, described support baseboard is fixed on described flat
On the one side of platform, described first limit base and the second limit base are separately fixed at the two ends of described support baseboard,
The two ends of described optical axis are separately fixed on described first limit base and the second limit base, and described sliding floor is sliding
Being automatically connected on described optical axis, described first buffer is arranged on described optical axis and is positioned at described first spacing
Between seat and described sliding floor, described second buffer is arranged on described optical axis and is positioned at described second limit
Between position seat and described sliding floor.
Further, described slide unit X also includes that to mobile device X finely tunes gear to tooth bar and first, described
X is fixed on described support baseboard to tooth bar, and described first fine setting pinion rotation is connected to described sliding floor
Above and engage to tooth bar with described X.
Further, described slide unit Y-direction mobile device includes cross bar, limit base and buffing pad, described cross bar
One end be fixed on described sliding floor, described buffing pad is fixed on described cross bar at the bottom of the described slip
One end of plate, described limit base is fixed on the one end on described cross bar away from described sliding floor, described slide unit
Bottom be formed with guide groove, the inwall sliding contact of described cross bar and described guide groove.
Further, described slide unit Y-direction mobile device also includes Y-direction tooth bar and the second fine setting gear, described
Y-direction tooth bar is fixed on described cross bar, and and the inwall interval of described guide groove, described second fine setting gear turns
It is automatically connected on described slide unit and engages with described Y-direction tooth bar.
Further, described air-floated movable platform also includes manual overvide, described manual overvide bag
Include air valve switch, first handle seat, first handle, second handle seat, second handle and handle pad, described
First handle seat and second handle seat are separately fixed at the both sides of described slide unit, described first handle and second-hand
Handle is separately fixed on described first handle seat and second handle seat, and described handle pad is fixed on described first-hand
On handle seat, described air valve switch is fixed on described handle pad, and described air valve switch is by flexible pipe and described gas
Tube passage connects.
Further, described slide unit top is provided with a plurality of T-slot.
According to the air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration of the present utility model, outside source of the gas passes through trachea
Passage is ventilated to air-bearing so that just to described platform upper surface gas pore bottom air-bearing
Blowout, so so that air-bearing floats and produces a space with platform upper surface, the air-bearing floated
And then make slide unit be suspended in the air, owing to the most directly connecing between the air-bearing floated and slide unit and platform
Touch wiping, so, moved at X/Y plane to mobile device and slide unit Y-direction mobile device by slide unit X
During slide unit, frictional resistance is minimum such that it is able to workpiece (the particularly weight easily carried on Mobile Slide
Bigger workpiece).Visible, this air-floated movable platform operations is the easiest, can reduce manual labor, reduces flat
The abrasion of platform.
Accompanying drawing explanation
Fig. 1 is the solid of the air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration that this utility model one embodiment provides
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Fig. 2 is the vertical view of the air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration that this utility model one embodiment provides
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Fig. 3 is the sectional view in Fig. 2 along A-A direction；
Fig. 4 is the sectional view in Fig. 2 along B-B direction.
Reference in Figure of description is as follows:
1, platform；2, slide unit；21, air-bearing shafts bearing bore；22, air-bearing adjustment hole；23, guide groove；
24, T-slot；3, slide unit X is to mobile device；31, support baseboard；32, sliding floor；33, optical axis；
34, the first limit base；35, the second limit base；36, the first buffer；37, the second buffer；38、X
To tooth bar；39, the first fine setting gear；4, slide unit Y-direction mobile device；41, cross bar；42, limit base；
43, buffing pad；44, Y-direction tooth bar；45, the second fine setting gear；5, air-bearing；6, Non-follow control
Device；61, air valve switch；62, first handle seat；63, first handle；64, second handle seat；65、
Second handle；66, handle pad；7, steel ball；8, screw.
Detailed description of the invention
In order to make this utility model be solved the technical problem that, technical scheme and beneficial effect clearer,
Below in conjunction with drawings and Examples, this utility model is described in further detail.Should be appreciated that this
Specific embodiment described by place, only in order to explain this utility model, is not used to limit this utility model.
As shown in Figures 1 to 4, the air supporting for roughness concentration that this utility model one embodiment provides moves
Moving platform, including platform 1, for carrying the slide unit 2 of workpiece, slide unit X to mobile device 3 and slide unit Y
To mobile device 4, described slide unit X is arranged on described flat to mobile device 3 and slide unit Y-direction mobile device 4
On platform 1, and being respectively used to drive described slide unit 2 in X direction and the movement of Y-direction, described slide unit 2 sets
Put on described platform 1.X herein to and Y-direction shown in Figure 2.
In the present embodiment, platform 1 is marble platform.
As shown in Figures 3 and 4, multiple air-bearing shafts bearing bore 21, described air supporting it are provided with bottom described slide unit 2
Being provided with air-bearing 5 in dead eye 21, the air inlet of described air-bearing 5 is positioned at its sidepiece, described gas
Floating axle holds the venthole of 5 and is positioned at bottom it and just to described platform 1 upper surface, is provided with in described slide unit 2
Air pipe passway (does not indicates in figure), and one end of described air pipe passway connects, separately with described air-bearing shafts bearing bore 21
One end is communicated to the outside of described slide unit 2.So, outside source of the gas can be via air pipe passway to air-bearing shafts
Hold 5 ventilations.
As shown in Figures 3 and 4, the upper end of described air-bearing shafts bearing bore 21 is communicated with an air-bearing adjustment hole 22,
The upper surface of described slide unit 2 is run through in the upper end of described air-bearing adjustment hole 22, described air-bearing 5 upper
It is provided with a steel ball 7 between end and described air-bearing adjustment hole 22.
In the present embodiment, as shown in Figures 3 and 4, described air-bearing adjustment hole 22 is screwed hole, described
Screwing in a screw 8 in air-bearing adjustment hole 22 from top to bottom, described steel ball is pushed down in the lower end of described screw 8
7.By controlling the screw 8 screw-in depth in air-bearing adjustment hole 22, air-bearing 5 can be controlled
And the space between platform 1 upper surface, such as when air-bearing 5 works, air-bearing 5 and platform 1
Space between upper surface is 5mm.
In the present embodiment, in slide unit 2, the position at substantially four angles is each provided with an air-bearing shafts bearing bore 21, right
Should ground air-bearing 5 be four, be attached separately in corresponding air-bearing shafts bearing bore 21.Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 shows
This four air-bearing shafts bearing bore 21 and air-bearing 5.
As it is shown in figure 1, in the present embodiment, described slide unit X includes support baseboard 31 to mobile device 3, slides
Dynamic base plate 32, optical axis the 33, first limit base the 34, second limit base the 35, first buffer 36 and second delay
Rushing device 37, described support baseboard 31 is fixed on the one side of described platform 1, described first limit base 34
And second limit base 35 be separately fixed at the two ends of described support baseboard 31, the two ends of described optical axis 33 are respectively
Being fixed on described first limit base 34 and the second limit base 35, described sliding floor 32 is slidably connected at institute
Stating on optical axis 33, described first buffer 36 is arranged on described optical axis 33 and is positioned at described first limit base
Between 34 and described sliding floor 32, described second buffer 37 is arranged on described optical axis 33 and is positioned at institute
State between the second limit base 35 and described sliding floor 32.So, when sliding floor 32 slides on optical axis,
It is capable of buffer shock-absorbing effect by the first buffer 36 and the second buffer 37, and spacing by first
Seat 34 and the second limit base 35, it is possible to the limit slippage base plate 32 sliding stroke on optical axis, limit with this
The X-direction stroke of slide unit 2.
As it is shown in figure 1, to mobile device 3, described slide unit X also includes that X is to tooth bar 38 and the first fine setting tooth
Wheel 39, described X is fixed on described support baseboard 31 to tooth bar 38, described first fine setting gear 39 turns
It is automatically connected on described sliding floor 32 and engages to tooth bar 38 with described X.So, when preliminary along X side
When Mobile Slide 2 to a certain position, by rotating the first fine setting gear 39, it is possible to make sliding floor 32
Slight distance is moved to tooth bar 38, it is achieved X-direction is finely tuned accurately relative to X.
As it is shown in figure 1, in the present embodiment, described slide unit Y-direction mobile device 4 includes cross bar 41, limit base
42 and buffing pad 43, one end of described cross bar 41 is fixed on described sliding floor 32, described buffing pad 42
Being fixed on described cross bar 41 one end near described sliding floor 32, described limit base 42 is fixed on described
Away from one end of described sliding floor 32 on cross bar 41, the bottom of described slide unit 2 is formed with guide groove 23, institute
State the inwall sliding contact of cross bar 41 and described guide groove 23, so that slide unit 2 is moved guiding.
As it is shown in figure 1, described slide unit Y-direction mobile device 4 also includes Y-direction tooth bar 44 and the second fine setting tooth
Wheel 45, described Y-direction tooth bar 44 is fixed on described cross bar 41, and and the inwall interval of described guide groove 23,
Described second fine setting pinion rotation is connected on described slide unit and engages with described Y-direction tooth bar.So, originally
When walking along Y-direction Mobile Slide 2 to a certain position, by rotating the second fine setting gear 45, it is possible to make sliding
Platform 2 moves slight distance relative to Y-direction tooth bar 44, it is achieved Y-direction is finely tuned accurately.
So, by above-mentioned slide unit X to mobile device 3 and slide unit Y-direction mobile device 4, it is possible to simultaneously
Realize the slide unit accurate running fix at X/Y plane.
As shown in Figures 1 and 2, described air-floated movable platform also includes manual overvide 6, described manual control
Device 6 processed include air valve switch 61, first handle seat 62, first handle 63, second handle seat 64,
Two handles 65 and handle pad 66, described first handle seat 62 and second handle seat 64 are separately fixed at described cunning
The both sides of platform 2, described first handle 63 and second handle 65 be separately fixed at described first handle seat 62 and
On second handle seat 64, described handle pad 66 is fixed on described first handle seat 62, described air valve switch
61 are fixed on described handle pad 66, and described air valve switch 61 passes through flexible pipe (not shown) with described
Air pipe passway connects.Air valve switch 61 is connected to a source of the gas, flexible pipe one end by pipeline (not indicating in figure)
Being connected on air valve switch 61, the other end is connected on air pipe passway, and air pipe passway connects air-bearing 5 sidepiece
Air inlet.So, air valve switch 61 can control the supply of air-bearing 5 and die.
It addition, as it is shown in figure 1, described slide unit 2 top is provided with a plurality of T-slot 24.In Fig. 1, slide unit
2 tops are provided with crisscross four T-slot.Some folders being used for fixing workpiece can be installed on T-slot
Tool.
Its work process of air-floated movable platform of the present embodiment is as follows:
First being fixed on slide unit 2 by fixture by workpiece, open air valve switch 61, compressed air flows through and sets
Air-bearing 5 bottom slide unit 2, makes air-bearing 5 float by the pore in each air-bearing 5,
And producing the space of 0.5mm between platform 1, air-bearing 5 floats rear support launching platform 2 thus supports work
Part, then manual manipulation first handle 63 and second handle 65 (open mode at air valve switch 61 time mobile),
Slide unit 2 is by the slide unit X X-direction guide effect to mobile device 3 and the Y of slide unit Y-direction mobile device 4
The movement of the guide effect in direction X/Y plane on platform, thus carried on light Mobile Slide 2
The workpiece of heavier-weight, then be accurately positioned by the first fine setting gear 39 and the second fine setting gear 45.
Then, utilize the probe of existing roughness measuring device, the essence of workpiece roughness and profile tolerance can be realized
Really measure.
According to the air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration of this utility model above-described embodiment, outside gas
Ventilated to air-bearing by air pipe passway in source so that just to described gas pore bottom air-bearing
Platform upper surface blows out, so so that air-bearing floats and produces a space with platform upper surface, floats
Air-bearing so that make slide unit be suspended in the air, due between the air-bearing floated and slide unit and platform
The most directly contact friction, so, by slide unit X to mobile device and slide unit Y-direction mobile device at XY
During planar movement slide unit, frictional resistance is minimum such that it is able to the workpiece easily carried on Mobile Slide is (special
It not the workpiece that weight is bigger).Visible, this air-floated movable platform operations is the easiest, can reduce manual labor,
Reduce the abrasion of platform.
The foregoing is only preferred embodiment of the present utility model, not in order to limit this utility model,
All any amendment, equivalent and improvement etc. made within spirit of the present utility model and principle, all should
Within being included in protection domain of the present utility model.
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1. the air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration, it is characterised in that include platform, for holding
Carry the slide unit of workpiece, slide unit X fills to mobile to mobile device and slide unit Y-direction mobile device, described slide unit X
Put and slide unit Y-direction mobile device is arranged on the platform, and be respectively used to drive described slide unit in X direction
And the movement of Y-direction, described slide unit arranges on the platform, is provided with multiple air supporting bottom described slide unit
Dead eye, is provided with air-bearing in described air-bearing shafts bearing bore, be provided with air pipe passway, institute in described slide unit
The one end stating air pipe passway connects with described air-bearing shafts bearing bore, and the other end is communicated to the outside of described slide unit.
Air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration the most according to claim 1, it is characterised in that
The upper end of described air-bearing shafts bearing bore is communicated with an air-bearing adjustment hole, the upper end of described air-bearing adjustment hole
Run through the upper surface of described slide unit, arrange between upper end and the described air-bearing adjustment hole of described air-bearing
There is a steel ball.
Air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration the most according to claim 2, it is characterised in that
Described air-bearing adjustment hole is screwed hole, screws in a screw from top to bottom in described air-bearing adjustment hole,
Described steel ball is pushed down in the lower end of described screw.
Air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration the most according to claim 1, it is characterised in that
Described slide unit X includes support baseboard, sliding floor, optical axis, the first limit base, the second limit to mobile device
Position seat, the first buffer and the second buffer, described support baseboard is fixed on the one side of described platform,
Described first limit base and the second limit base are separately fixed at the two ends of described support baseboard, the two of described optical axis
End is separately fixed on described first limit base and the second limit base, and described sliding floor is slidably connected at described
On optical axis, described first buffer is arranged on described optical axis and is positioned at described first limit base and described slip
Between base plate, described second buffer is arranged on described optical axis and is positioned at described second limit base and described cunning
Between dynamic base plate.
Air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration the most according to claim 4, it is characterised in that
Described slide unit X also includes that to mobile device X finely tunes gear to tooth bar and first, and described X is fixed on to tooth bar
On described support baseboard, described first fine setting pinion rotation be connected on described sliding floor and with described X to
Tooth bar engages.
6., according to the air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration described in claim 4 or 5, its feature exists
In, described slide unit Y-direction mobile device includes that cross bar, limit base and buffing pad, one end of described cross bar are fixed
On described sliding floor, described buffing pad is fixed on described cross bar the one end near described sliding floor,
Described limit base is fixed on the one end on described cross bar away from described sliding floor, and the bottom of described slide unit is formed
There is the inwall sliding contact of guide groove, described cross bar and described guide groove.
Air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration the most according to claim 6, it is characterised in that
Described slide unit Y-direction mobile device also includes Y-direction tooth bar and the second fine setting gear, and described Y-direction tooth bar is fixed on
On described cross bar, and and the inwall interval of described guide groove, described second fine setting pinion rotation is connected to described cunning
Engage on platform and with described Y-direction tooth bar.
Air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration the most according to claim 1, it is characterised in that
Described air-floated movable platform also include manual overvide, described manual overvide include air valve switch,
One handle seat, first handle, second handle seat, second handle and handle pad, described first handle seat and
Two handle sets are separately fixed at the both sides of described slide unit, and described first handle and second handle are separately fixed at institute
Stating on first handle seat and second handle seat, described handle pad is fixed on described first handle seat, described gas
Threshold switch is fixed on described handle pad, and described air valve switch is connected with described air pipe passway by flexible pipe.
Air-floated movable platform for roughness concentration the most according to claim 1, it is characterised in that
Described slide unit top is provided with a plurality of T-slot.
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