CN210160710U

CN210160710U - Universal joint assembling equipment

Info

Publication number: CN210160710U
Application number: CN201920785964.XU
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张海横
Original assignee: Jiangling Motors Corp Ltd
Current assignee: Jiangling Motors Corp Ltd
Priority date: 2019-05-28
Filing date: 2019-05-28
Publication date: 2020-03-20
Anticipated expiration: 2029-05-28

Abstract

The utility model provides a universal joint assembling device, which comprises a fixed clamp; the two bearing bowl pushing mechanisms are symmetrically arranged on two opposite sides of the fixed clamp and comprise bearing bowl material channels, receiving platforms arranged at discharge ports of the bearing bowl material channels and pushing assemblies used for pushing the bearing bowls into the mounting holes from the receiving platforms so as to be sleeved on the shaft ends of the cross shafts; two jump ring push mechanisms, the symmetry sets up in the relative both sides of mounting fixture, including guide sleeve, drive guide sleeve reciprocating motion's reciprocal driver and locate the jump ring material way of guide sleeve top, be equipped with the jump ring entry on guide sleeve's the section of thick bamboo wall, the discharge gate that the jump ring material was said is just to the jump ring entry, the top pushes away subassembly and guide sleeve arrange on same straight line, the top pushes away the subassembly and still is arranged in pushing away the mounting hole with the jump ring from the guide sleeve. The utility model provides a universal joint rigging equipment realizes automatic assembling to the universal joint, improves assembly efficiency, simultaneously better assurance product quality's uniformity.

Description

Universal joint assembling equipment

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a universal joint assembly technical field, in particular to universal joint rigging equipment.

Background

The universal joint is also called universal joint, is a machine part for realizing variable-angle power transmission, is generally arranged at a position where the direction of a transmission axis needs to be changed, and is a joint part of a universal transmission device of an automobile driving system. The universal joint is combined with a transmission shaft and is called a universal joint transmission device.

As shown in fig. 1 to 2, the universal joint generally includes a universal joint yoke 1, a flange yoke 2, a cross shaft 3, a plurality of bearing bowls 4, and a plurality of snap springs 5, the cross shaft 3 connects the universal joint yoke 1 and the flange yoke 2, the universal joint yoke 1 and the flange yoke 2 are both provided with mounting holes 6 for installing shaft ends of the cross shaft 3, the bearing bowls 4 are assembled on the shaft ends of the cross shaft 3 and are accommodated in the mounting holes 6, and the snap springs 5 are clamped in snap spring grooves 601 formed in inner walls of the mounting holes 6 to limit the bearing bowls 4 from being separated from the cross shaft 3.

Among the prior art, rely on the manual work to accomplish the whole assembling process of universal joint at present, it is inefficient, and hardly guarantee product quality's uniformity.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

Based on this, the utility model aims at providing a universal joint rigging equipment to solve the technical problem that current universal joint assembly efficiency is low.

According to the utility model discloses among the embodiment a universal joint rigging equipment, equipment includes:

the universal joint preassembly comprises a universal joint fork, a flange fork and a cross shaft, wherein mounting holes are formed in the universal joint fork and the flange fork, and the shaft end of the cross shaft correspondingly penetrates through each mounting hole;

the two bearing bowl pushing mechanisms are symmetrically arranged on two opposite sides of the fixing clamp and comprise bearing bowl material channels, receiving platforms arranged at discharge ports of the bearing bowl material channels and pushing assemblies used for pushing the bearing bowls into the mounting holes from the receiving platforms so as to be sleeved on the shaft ends of the universal joint shafts;

the clamp spring pushing mechanisms are symmetrically arranged on two opposite sides of the fixing clamp and comprise guide sleeves, reciprocating drivers for driving the guide sleeves to reciprocate and clamp spring material channels arranged above the guide sleeves, clamp spring inlets are formed in the cylinder walls of the guide sleeves, discharge ports of the clamp spring material channels are right opposite to the clamp spring inlets, the pushing assemblies and the guide sleeves are arranged on the same straight line, and the pushing assemblies are further used for pushing clamp springs into the mounting holes from the interior of the guide sleeves.

In addition, among the embodiments of the present invention, the universal joint assembling apparatus may further have the following additional technical features:

further, the two guide sleeves are coaxially arranged, and when the universal joint pre-assembly is fixed on the fixing clamp, the axes of the guide sleeves and one of the axes of the cross shaft are in the same straight line.

Further, the bearing bowl pushing mechanism further comprises a lifting driver, and the lifting driver is connected with the bearing bowl material channel.

Furthermore, the two bearing bowl material channels are connected into a whole and share one lifting driver.

Furthermore, a CCD camera is arranged at a discharge port of the bearing bowl material channel.

Further, the fixing jig includes:

the positioning turntable is provided with a positioning pin matched with the flange plate mounting hole of the flange yoke;

the rotary pressure head is rotatably arranged on the periphery of the positioning turntable and can rotate to press the flange fork fixed on the positioning turntable;

the two apexes are arranged on two sides of the positioning rotary table and used for jacking and pressing two ends of the cross shaft;

the vibration magnetic chuck is arranged on the positioning turntable and used for fixing the cross shaft in a magnetic way;

and the clamping jaw is arranged above the positioning rotary table and used for clamping and fixing the universal joint fork.

Furthermore, the universal joint assembling equipment further comprises a rack, and the fixing clamp and the mechanisms are fixed on the rack.

Furthermore, the inner diameter of the guide sleeve at the clamp spring inlet corresponds to the outer diameter of the clamp spring, and the inner diameter of the guide sleeve is gradually reduced from the clamp spring inlet to one end close to the fixing clamp.

Further, the fixing clamp further comprises a plurality of wedge-shaped positioning blocks, and the wedge-shaped positioning blocks are used for lifting the universal joint fork to a specified height, so that the mounting hole of the universal joint fork and the pushing assembly are coaxial.

Further, the universal joint assembling device further comprises two vibration generators, and one vibration generator is arranged on each guide sleeve.

Above-mentioned universal joint rigging equipment, during the assembly, can assemble the universal joint fork in advance, flange fork and cross, and be fixed in universal joint preassembly on the mounting fixture, then say through bearing bowl material with the bearing bowl fall into accept the bench, and through top push subassembly with the bearing bowl from accepting the bench push into the mounting hole in order to embolia the cross axle and serve, then say through the jump ring material with the jump ring from the jump ring entry fall into the guide sleeve in, and push the jump ring through top push subassembly from the guide sleeve in push into the mounting hole with the card income jump ring inslot, consequently this universal joint rigging equipment can realize automatic assembling the universal joint, the assembly efficiency is improved, simultaneously better assurance product quality's uniformity.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is an assembled perspective view of a gimbal;

FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the gimbal;

FIG. 3 is an assembled perspective view of a gimbal pre-assembly;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural view of a gimbal mounting apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a vibrating magnetic chuck according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is an assembly view of a guide sleeve according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic view of the assembly of the center and the wedge-shaped positioning block according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic view of the assembly of the jaws in the first embodiment of the invention;

fig. 9 is a diagram showing a state of use of the gimbal assembly apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a use state diagram of another state of the gimbal mounting apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural view of a gimbal mounting apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is an enlarged view taken at I in FIG. 11;

fig. 13 is a schematic structural view of the circlip material channel in the third embodiment of the present invention.

The following detailed description of the invention will be further described in conjunction with the above-identified drawings.

Detailed Description

In order to facilitate understanding of the present invention, the present invention will be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings. Several embodiments of the invention are given in the accompanying drawings. The invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" another element, it can be directly on the other element or intervening elements may also be present. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present. The terms "vertical," "horizontal," "left," "right," and the like as used herein are for illustrative purposes only.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

Referring to fig. 1 to 2, the universal joint assembling apparatus in the following embodiments may be used to assemble the universal joint 200 shown in the figures, where the universal joint 200 includes a universal joint yoke 1, a flange yoke 2, a cross shaft 3, a plurality of bearing bowls 4, and a plurality of clamp springs 5, the cross shaft 3 connects the universal joint yoke 1 and the flange yoke 2, and the universal joint yoke 1 and the flange yoke 2 are both provided with mounting holes 6 into which shaft ends of the cross shaft 3 are inserted, the mounting holes 6 are provided with clamp spring grooves 601, the bearing bowls 4 are assembled on the shaft ends of the cross shaft 3 and are accommodated in the mounting holes 6, and the clamp springs 5 are clamped in the clamp spring grooves 601 in the mounting holes 6 to limit the bearing bowls 4 from being separated from the cross shaft 3.

In addition, the flange yoke 2 is provided with a flange mounting hole 201 and a shaft center hole 202, and the flange mounting hole 201 and the shaft center hole 202 can be used for connecting a transmission shaft. The cross shaft 3 comprises a cross shaft 301 and a longitudinal shaft 302 which are connected in a cross manner, two sides of the intersection position of the cross shaft 301 and the longitudinal shaft 302 are respectively provided with a recess 303, the recess 303 is square, the peripheral side walls of the recess are all arranged outwards in an inclined manner, when the cross shaft 3 is horizontally placed, the two recesses 303 are respectively arranged upwards and downwards, and after the cross shaft 3 is assembled with the flange yoke 2, the recess 303 is opposite to the central through hole 201 of the flange yoke 2.

Referring to fig. 3, a structure diagram of a pre-assembly 300 of a universal joint is shown, wherein the pre-assembly 300 of the universal joint comprises a universal joint yoke 1, a flange yoke 2 and a cross shaft 3, and is a manually pre-assembled whole before the assembly of the universal joint, and the whole is not provided with a bearing bowl 4, so that the cross shaft 3 at this moment is movable and is clamped and fixed by a subsequent vibration magnetic chuck 24 and a tip 23.

Referring to fig. 4 to 8, a universal joint assembling apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention is shown, which includes a frame 10, and a fixing fixture 20, two bearing bowl pushing mechanisms 30, two clamp spring pushing mechanisms 40, and two vibration generators 50, which are disposed on the frame 10.

In the present embodiment, the frame 10 includes a bottom plate 11 and a vertical plate 12 disposed on top of the bottom plate 11. The fixing clamp 20 is used for clamping the fixed universal joint preassembly 300 and comprises a positioning turntable 21, two rotary pressing heads 22, two apexes 23, a vibrating magnetic chuck 24, a clamping jaw 25 and four wedge-shaped positioning blocks 26.

The positioning turntable 21 is rotatably disposed on the bottom plate 11 and connected to a rotating motor 212 to rotate under the driving of the rotating motor 212, and the rotating motor 212 is disposed at the bottom of the bottom plate 11. The positioning dial 21 is provided with a positioning pin 211 which is engaged with the flange mounting hole 301 of the flange yoke 2. Four flange plate mounting holes 201 are formed in the flange yoke 2, the four flange plate mounting holes 201 are arranged in a rectangular shape and are located at four corner points of the rectangular shape, and after the flange yoke 2 rotates by 90 degrees, the positioning pin 211 can still be inserted into one flange plate mounting hole 201 to fix the flange yoke 2.

Wherein, the rotary pressure head 22 is rotatably connected with the bottom plate 11, is arranged at the periphery of the positioning turntable 21, and can rotate to press the flange fork 2 fixed on the positioning turntable 21. In this embodiment, the rotating shaft of the rotary ram 22 is connected to a direct drive motor 221, the direct drive motor 221 is fixed on the bottom plate 11, and the direct drive motor 221 is used for realizing automatic rotation of the rotary ram 22. In other embodiments, the rotary indenter 22 can be configured to rotate manually, and the number of rotary indenters 22 can be increased or decreased according to actual requirements.

Two apexes 23 are disposed on two sides of the positioning turntable 21 along the first direction X and are in the same straight line, and are used for pressing two ends of the cross shaft 3 to fix the cross shaft 3 to a specified height. Specifically, the center 23 is connected to a pressing cylinder 231, the pressing cylinder 231 is fixed on the bottom plate 11 through a bracket (as shown in fig. 7), and the pressing cylinder 231 is used for driving the center 23 to move towards or away from the fixing clamp 20 (the moving stroke can be preset) so as to press or release the cross shaft 3.

The vibrating magnetic chuck 24 is disposed at a central portion of the positioning turntable 21 and is used for magnetically fixing the cross shaft 3 to ensure that the cross shaft 3 is in a horizontal state. Referring to fig. 5, a structure diagram of the vibration magnetic chuck 24 is shown, which includes a fixing bracket 241, a vibration generator 242, an electromagnetic generator 243, and a positioning block 244 made of a magnetic conductive material. The vibration generator 242 is fixedly disposed on the fixing bracket 241 and is used for driving the fixing bracket 241 to vibrate. The electromagnetic generating device 243 is fixedly arranged at the top of the fixing support 241, the positioning block 244 is fixedly arranged at the top of the electromagnetic generating device 243, the electromagnetic generating device 243 is used for enabling the positioning block 244 to generate magnetism, the positioning block 244 is matched with the recess 303 of the cross shaft 3, and the positioning block 244 is smaller than the shaft center hole 202. The vibration generator 242 may be, but is not limited to, a pneumatic vibrator, an electromagnetic vibrator, or a vibration motor.

Further, in order to realize the lifting of the positioning block 244, the cross axle fixing clamp further includes a driving cylinder 245, the fixing bracket 241 includes an upper bracket 2411 and a lower bracket 2413 slidably connected with the upper bracket 2411 through a guide rod 2412, and the driving cylinder 245 is connected between the upper bracket 2411 and the lower bracket 2413 and is used for driving the upper bracket 2411 to slide up and down along the guide rod 13. When the gimbal preassembly 300 is fixed to the fixing jig 20, the recess 303 is located above the positioning block 244, so that when the positioning block 244 is lifted, the positioning block will fall into the recess 303. In other embodiments, the sliding structure of the driving cylinder 245 and the bracket may be omitted, and the positioning block 244 may be disposed at a predetermined height.

Wherein the clamping jaw 25 is arranged above the positioning turntable 21 and is used for clamping and fixing the universal joint fork 1. Specifically, the jaw 25 includes two clamping arms 251 arranged in parallel, the jaw 25 is connected with a two-shaft cylinder 252, the two clamping arms 251 are respectively connected with one output shaft of the two-shaft cylinder 251 to clamp or release the universal joint yoke 1 under the driving of the two-shaft cylinder 251, and the two-shaft cylinder 252 is fixed on the vertical plate 12 (as shown in fig. 8).

The four wedge-shaped positioning blocks 26 are symmetrically distributed on two sides of the fixing clamp 20 along the first direction X, and the wedge-shaped positioning blocks 26 are used for lifting the universal joint fork 1, so that the mounting hole 6 of the universal joint fork 1 and the subsequent pushing assembly 33 are coaxial. In the present embodiment, each wedge-shaped positioning block 26 is connected to a propulsion cylinder 261, the propulsion cylinder 261 is fixed on the bottom plate 11 through a bracket (as shown in fig. 7), and the propulsion cylinder 261 is used for driving the corresponding wedge-shaped positioning block 26 to move towards the fixing clamp 20 (the moving stroke can be preset), so that the wedge-shaped positioning block 26 is inserted below the mounting lug (the position where the mounting hole is arranged) of the universal joint fork 1, so as to raise the universal joint fork 1 to a specified height. In other embodiments, the number of wedge-shaped positioning blocks 26 can be reduced according to practical requirements, for example, two wedge-shaped positioning blocks 26 arranged diagonally are provided.

It should be pointed out that this universal joint rigging equipment will pack into bearing bowl 4 and jump ring 5 in earlier two mounting holes 6 on the flange fork 2, then with the rotatory 90 backs of universal joint, pack into bearing bowl 4 and jump ring 5 in two mounting holes 6 on the universal joint fork 1 again, whole anchor clamps fixed process is:

firstly, the flange yoke 2 is fixed on the positioning rotary table 21 by the positioning of the positioning pin 211, the mounting hole 6 of the flange yoke 2 is oriented to the second direction Y (as shown in fig. 9), the second direction Y is perpendicular to the first direction X, then the rotary press head 22 is rotated to press on the flange of the flange yoke 2, then the universal joint yoke 1 is clamped by the claw 25, then the air cylinder 245 is driven to drive the positioning block 244 to ascend by a specified height, the positioning block 244 passes through the axle center hole 202 on the flange yoke 2 and sinks into the recess 303 at the bottom of the cross shaft 3 to support the cross shaft 3 at the specified height, then the vibration generator 242 is started to vibrate the positioning block 244, so as to realize the centering of the positioning block 244 and the recess by the vibration action, the cross shaft 3 is ensured to be in a horizontal state, then the electromagnetic generating device 243 is started (namely electrified) to make the positioning block 244 generate magnetism, the cross shaft 3 is fixed at a specified height in a magnetic attraction manner, and then two apexes 23 are used for jacking and pressing two ends of the cross shaft 3 so as to further fix the cross shaft 3;

after the bearing bowls 4 and the clamp springs 5 in the two mounting holes 6 on the flange yoke 2 are installed, the rotary pressure head 22, the positioning block 244, the clamping jaws 25 and the ejector pins 23 are driven by respective driving mechanisms to reset, the positioning rotary table 21 rotates 90 degrees to rotate the universal joint 90 degrees (as shown in fig. 10), the rotary pressure head 22 rotates to press on a flange plate of the flange yoke 2, the four wedge-shaped positioning blocks 26 are inserted below mounting lugs of the universal joint yoke 1 to lift the universal joint yoke 1 to a designated height, then the universal joint yoke 1 is clamped by the clamping jaws 25, and then the vibrating magnetic chuck 24 and the clamping jaws 23 fix the cross shaft 3 in the same manner.

In this embodiment, the two bearing bowl pushing mechanisms 30 are symmetrically disposed on two opposite sides of the fixing fixture 20 along the second direction Y, and each bearing bowl pushing mechanism 30 includes a bearing bowl channel 31, a receiving platform 32 fixedly disposed at a discharge port of the bearing bowl channel 31, and a pushing assembly 33 for pushing the bearing bowl 4 from the receiving platform 32 into the mounting hole 6 to be sleeved on the shaft end of the cross shaft 3. The pushing assembly 33 includes a pushing rod 331 and a pushing cylinder 332 connected to the pushing rod 331, the pushing cylinder 332 may be fixed on the bottom plate 11 through a bracket, and the pushing cylinder 332 is used for driving the pushing rod 331 to move toward or away from the fixing clamp 20 (the moving stroke may be preset).

In addition, the bearing bowl pushing mechanism 30 further includes a lifting driver (not shown), the lifting driver is fixed on the vertical plate 12, the two bearing bowl material channels 31 are connected into a whole, and are connected with the vertical plate 12 in a sliding manner, and are connected with the lifting driver 34 to share one lifting driver, and the lifting driver is used for driving the bearing bowl material channels 31 to ascend or descend (the lifting stroke can be preset). Wherein, the lifting driver can be but not limited to cylinder, hydraulic stem, motor drive mechanism etc. when the lifting driver is the cylinder, the lifting driver can be fixed in the riser 11 back, and its piston shaft end connects bearing bowl material way 31.

In this embodiment, the two circlip pushing mechanisms 40 are symmetrically disposed on two opposite sides of the fixing fixture 20 along the second direction Y, and the circlip pushing mechanism 40 includes a guide sleeve 41, a reciprocating driver 42 for driving the guide sleeve 41 to move back and forth, and a circlip material channel 43 disposed above the guide sleeve 41. The cylinder wall of the guide sleeve 41 is provided with a clamp spring inlet 411, the discharge hole of the clamp spring material channel 43 is opposite to the clamp spring inlet 411, the pushing assembly 33 and the guide sleeve 41 are arranged on the same straight line, the pushing assembly 33 is further used for pushing the clamp spring 5 into the mounting hole 6 from the guide sleeve 41, so that the clamp spring 5 is clamped into the clamp spring groove 601, the two guide sleeves 41 are arranged coaxially, and when the universal joint pre-assembly body 300 is fixed on the fixing clamp 20, the axis of the guide sleeve 41 and one axis of the cross shaft 3 are on the same straight line. In a specific implementation, the guiding sleeve 41 may be fixed on a sliding bracket 13, the sliding bracket 13 is slidably connected with the bottom plate 11, the reciprocating driver 42 may be fixed on the bottom plate 11 and fixedly connected with the sliding bracket 13 (as shown in fig. 6) to drive the sliding bracket 13 to move, so as to drive the guiding sleeve 41 to reciprocate, the sliding bracket 13 may perform a guiding function, and the reciprocating driver 42 may be, but is not limited to, an air cylinder, a hydraulic rod, a motor driving mechanism, and the like, and is preferably an air cylinder.

Preferably, the inner diameter of the guide sleeve 41 at the snap spring inlet 411 corresponds to the outer diameter of the snap spring 5, so that when the snap spring 5 falls into the guide sleeve 41 from the snap spring inlet 411, the snap spring will cling to the inner wall of the guide sleeve 10, and it is ensured that the snap spring 5 will not tilt or fall down. The inner diameter of the guide sleeve 41 is gradually reduced from the circlip inlet 411 to the end close to the fixing jig 20, and the outer diameter of the guide sleeve 41 is larger than the diameter of the mounting hole 6, while the inner diameter of the guide sleeve 41 is larger than the outer diameter of the ejector rod 331 so that the ejector rod 331 can be inserted into the guide sleeve 41.

In this embodiment, a vibration generator 50 is provided on each guide sleeve 41, and the vibration generator 50 is used to cooperate with the reciprocating driver 42 to shake the assembled universal joint. The vibration generator 50 may be, but is not limited to, a pneumatic vibrator, an electromagnetic vibrator, or a vibration motor.

Referring to fig. 9 to 10, the present gimbal assembly apparatus is described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings:

during assembly, the universal joint yoke 1, the flange yoke 2 and the cross shaft 3 can be assembled together in advance to form a universal joint preassembly 300, then the universal joint preassembly 300 is fixed on the fixing clamp 20 (the fixing process is described in the foregoing, and is not described any more), at this time, the mounting holes 6 of the flange yoke 2 are arranged towards the second direction Y (as shown in fig. 9), then the bearing bowl material channel 31 falls to a specified height, the bearing bowl 4 falls onto the receiving table 32 through the bearing bowl material channel 31 (the bearing bowl 4 can be automatically thrown by a person or an apparatus), then the pushing cylinder 332 drives the pushing rod 331 to move towards the fixing clamp 20 for a first stroke, the pushing rod 331 penetrates through the guide sleeve 41 to push the bearing bowl 4 on the receiving table 32 into the mounting hole 6 on the flange yoke 2, and the bearing bowl 4 is sleeved on the shaft end of the cross shaft 3, and the bearing bowl assembly is completed;

then the pushing rod 331 is reset, and the clamp spring 5 falls into the guide sleeve 41 from the clamp spring inlet 411 through the clamp spring material channel 43 (the clamp spring 5 can be automatically thrown in by a person or equipment), the reciprocating driver 42 then drives the guide sleeve 41 to move against the outer side of the mounting lug of the setting-up fork 2, then the pushing cylinder 332 drives the pushing rod 331 to move towards the fixing clamp 20 for a second stroke, the pushing rod 331 penetrates through the guide sleeve 41 to push the clamp spring 5 in the guide sleeve 41 into the mounting hole 6, in the pushing process, as the inner diameter of the guide sleeve 41 becomes smaller, the clamp spring 5 is compressed continuously, at the moment when the snap spring 5 is pushed out from the guide sleeve 41, the snap spring 5 loses the compression force and expands outward, so as to be clamped on the inner wall of the mounting hole 6, and then the push rod 331 continues to push the clamp spring 5, so that the clamp spring 5 is pushed to be clamped in the clamp spring groove 601, and clamp spring assembly is completed;

then the pushing rod 331 is reset, the two guide sleeves 41 are driven by the respective reciprocating drivers 42 to generate equal-amplitude (small-amplitude) reciprocating movement, and the vibration generator 50 is started to knock the mounting lugs of the flange yoke 2 from two sides until the knocking time reaches a set time (such as 5s), because the two guide sleeves 41 are coaxially arranged and symmetrically arranged at two sides of the fixing clamp 20, and simultaneously the central axis of the guide sleeve 41 and the axis of the cross shaft 3 are on the same straight line, two equal-amplitude and equal-frequency vibration knocking forces act on two ends of the cross shaft 3 and pass through the axes, so that the cross shaft 3 is forced to be centered, and the matching gaps at the two ends of the cross shaft 3 are effectively guaranteed to be equal after vibration knocking;

after the bearing bowls 4 and the snap springs 5 in the two mounting holes 6 on the flange yoke 2 are completely installed, the universal joint is rotated by 90 degrees and then fixed on the fixing clamp 20 (as shown in fig. 10, the fixing process is described in the foregoing, and therefore, the description is omitted), and then the bearing bowls 4 and the snap springs 5 in the mounting holes 6 on the universal joint yoke 1 are assembled in the same manner as described above.

To sum up, the utility model discloses universal joint rigging equipment in the middle of the above-mentioned embodiment realizes automatic assembling to the universal joint, improves assembly efficiency, better assurance product quality's uniformity simultaneously, the assembly clearance of each axle head of cross is adjusted to the mode that adopts two-way shake to strike after the equipment, and the assembly clearance that can each axle head of effectual assurance cross equals, compares in traditional assembly mode, has improved the life of universal joint by a wide margin.

Referring to fig. 11 to 12, a universal joint assembling apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention is shown, and the universal joint assembling apparatus according to this embodiment is different from the universal joint assembling apparatus according to the first embodiment in that the universal joint assembling apparatus further includes a CCD vision detecting system:

the CCD visual detection system comprises a CCD camera 60 and a processing device (not shown) connected with the CCD camera 60, the CCD camera 60 is arranged at a discharge port of the bearing bowl material channel 31 and used for photographing a bearing bowl on the receiving table 32 and transmitting the photographed image to the processing device, and the processing device analyzes whether a rolling needle or a reverse needle is missing in the bearing bowl 4 or not according to a bearing bowl picture, so that the bearing bowl 4 with problems is identified, alarmed and isolated.

It should be noted that the device provided by the second embodiment of the present invention, which implements the same principle and produces some technical effects as the first embodiment, can refer to the corresponding contents in the first embodiment for the sake of brief description, where this embodiment is not mentioned.

Referring to fig. 13, a structure diagram of a circlip material channel 43 of a gimbal assembly apparatus in a third embodiment of the present invention is shown, where the difference between the gimbal assembly apparatus in this embodiment and the gimbal assembly apparatus in the first embodiment is:

the clamp spring material channel 43 comprises a discharging pipe 431, a material storage pipe 432, a material pushing rod 433 and a material pushing driver 434, wherein the discharging pipe 431 is vertically arranged above the guide sleeve 41 and can be fixed on the vertical plate 12, a discharge hole at the bottom of the discharging pipe is opposite to the spring inlet 411, the material storage pipe 432 is arranged on one side of the discharging pipe 431 and is communicated with the discharging pipe 431, a clamp spring 5 is placed in the material storage pipe 432, and the material pushing driver 434 is connected with the material pushing rod 433 and is used for driving the material pushing rod 433 to go deep into the material storage pipe 432 so as to push the clamp spring 5 in the material storage pipe 432 into the discharging pipe 431, so that the clamp spring 5 can be automatically put in. The material pushing actuator 434 may be, but is not limited to, any one of an air cylinder, a hydraulic rod, a linear motor, a ball screw structure, and the like.

Preferably, the inner diameter of the storage pipe 432 corresponds to the outer diameter of the clamp spring 5 stored therein, and the feeding pipe 431 can be a flat pipe, so that the clamp spring 5 can slide down along the inner wall of the feeding pipe 431, and then accurately fall into the clamp spring inlet 411.

In other embodiments, when there are multiple specifications of snap springs 5, multiple storage pipes 432, pushing rods 433, and pushing drivers 434 may be correspondingly arranged, and during assembly, according to the required size of the snap springs, the corresponding pushing drivers 434 are controlled to drive the pushing rods 433 to penetrate into the storage pipes 432 by the width of one snap spring 5, so that one snap spring 5 in the storage pipes 432 is just pushed into the discharging pipe 431, and falls into the guide sleeve 41 from the snap spring inlet 411 after sliding through the discharging pipe 431, and automatic discharging is completed. In addition, in other embodiments, the bearing bowl material channel 31 may also be designed according to the structure of the circlip material channel 43, so as to realize automatic throwing of the bearing bowl 4.

It should be noted that the third embodiment of the present invention provides a device, which has the same implementation principle and produces some technical effects as the first embodiment, and for the sake of brief description, the corresponding contents in the first embodiment can be referred to where this embodiment is not mentioned.

The above-mentioned embodiments only represent some embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is specific and detailed, but not to be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit of the present invention, several variations and modifications can be made, which are within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be subject to the appended claims.

Claims

1. A gimbal assembly apparatus, comprising:

2. The joint assembling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the two guide sleeves are coaxially arranged, and when the joint pre-assembly is fixed to the fixing jig, the axis of the guide sleeve is aligned with one of the axes of the cross.

3. The gimbal assembly device of claim 1, wherein the bearing bowl pushing mechanism further comprises a lift drive connected to the bearing bowl feed channel.

4. The gimbal assembly apparatus of claim 3, wherein the two bearing bowl feed channels are integrally connected and share a single lift drive.

5. The universal joint assembling device according to claim 1, further comprising a CCD vision detecting system, wherein the CCD vision detecting system comprises a CCD camera and a processing device connected to the CCD camera, and the CCD camera is disposed at a discharge port of the bearing bowl material channel.

6. The gimbal assembly apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the fixing jig includes:

7. The gimbal assembly apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a frame, wherein the fixture and each mechanism are secured to the frame.

8. The universal joint assembling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an inner diameter of the guide sleeve at the clamp spring inlet corresponds to an outer diameter of the clamp spring, and the inner diameter of the guide sleeve is gradually reduced from the clamp spring inlet to an end close to the fixing jig.

9. The gimbal assembly apparatus of claim 6, wherein the fixture further comprises wedge-shaped locating blocks for raising the gimbal fork to a specified height such that the mounting hole of the gimbal fork is coaxial with the ejection assembly.

10. The joint fitting apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 9, further comprising two vibration generators, one provided on each of the guide sleeves.