CN213678674U

CN213678674U - Automatic feeding device

Info

Publication number: CN213678674U
Application number: CN202022765759.2U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘通; 祝旭旺; 秦峥阳
Original assignee: Zhuozhou Branch Of Aerospace Information Co ltd
Current assignee: Zhuozhou Branch Of Aerospace Information Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-24
Filing date: 2020-11-24
Publication date: 2021-07-13
Anticipated expiration: 2030-11-24

Abstract

The utility model provides an automatic feeding device, which comprises a vibration disk, a linear slideway and a material collecting unit, wherein the input end of the linear slideway is connected with the output end of the vibration disk, the material collecting unit is arranged on the output end of the linear slideway, and the vibration disk is used for conveying materials to the material collecting unit through the linear slideway; the automatic feeding device further comprises a blowing unit, and the blowing unit is used for applying thrust to the materials on the linear slideway so as to accelerate the moving speed of the materials on the linear slideway. The utility model discloses an automatic feeding device has higher material loading efficiency to can reduce workman intensity of labour.

Description

Automatic feeding device

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an automatic feeding equipment technical field, in particular to automatic feeding device.

Background

In the production process of electronic products, assembled electronic components and shells need to be assembled, at present, in the assembly process of the electronic components and the shells, operators need to manually grab the shells for assembly, and then manually place the shells in a positioning tool; the existing electronic product shell assembly line has the following problems: one is that one piece operation, production efficiency are low, all will snatch the shell by hand at every turn and assemble, and it is the product supplied materials requirement height, and the requirement of putting the product is comparatively strict, if put nonconformity, will increase the workman and move, increase workman's work load.

An automatic feeding mechanism is introduced in the assembly process of part of electronic product shells, the automatic feeding mechanism sends out the product shells orderly through a vibrating disc, and assembly by operators is facilitated; however, the current automatic feeding structure still has the defects that: the feeding speed of the vibration disc is low, and the requirement on assembly efficiency is difficult to meet.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of this, the utility model aims at providing an automatic feeding device to can have better result of use.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme of the utility model is realized like this:

an automatic feeding device comprises a vibrating disk, a linear slideway and a material collecting unit, wherein the input end of the linear slideway is connected with the output end of the vibrating disk, the material collecting unit is arranged at the output end of the linear slideway, and the vibrating disk is used for conveying materials to the material collecting unit through the linear slideway; and the automatic feeding device also comprises an air blowing unit, wherein the air blowing unit is used for applying thrust to the material on the linear slideway so as to accelerate the moving speed of the material on the linear slideway.

Further, the vibration dish adopts double track way formula vibration dish, the straight line slide is for two that set up side by side, two the input of straight line slide with two output one-to-one of double track way formula vibration dish is connected.

Further, the automatic feeding device further comprises linear vibrators, wherein the linear vibrators are arranged at the bottoms of the two linear sliding ways and used for driving the two linear sliding ways to move materials.

Further, the automatic feeding device further comprises a support, the linear vibrator is fixedly arranged on the top end of the support, and the mounting height of the linear vibrator on the support is set to be adjustable.

Further, a mounting plate is arranged on the linear vibrator, and a plurality of mounting holes are formed in the mounting plate; the support comprises a support column and a plurality of screw rods fixedly arranged on the support column, the screw rods are correspondingly inserted into the mounting holes one by one, two nuts are respectively screwed on the screw rods, and the two nuts are used for clamping the mounting plate.

Further, the linear slideway comprises a bottom plate, a first side plate and a second side plate which are fixedly connected with two opposite sides of the bottom plate respectively and extend upwards, and a cover plate which is fixedly connected with the top end of the first side plate and extends towards the second side plate, wherein a gap is formed between the cover plate and the second side plate.

Furthermore, the blowing unit comprises a blowing pipe fixedly arranged on the linear slideway, and an air outlet of the blowing pipe faces the gap.

Furthermore, the linear slideway is formed by welding stainless steel plates.

Furthermore, the automatic feeding device also comprises a control unit and a detection unit, wherein the control unit is in communication connection with the detection unit and is in control connection with the vibration disc; the detection unit is used for sending a signal to the control unit when detecting the material, and the control unit is used for controlling the vibration disc to be closed when receiving the signal.

Furthermore, the detection unit comprises a correlation type photoelectric switch arranged on the linear slideway, and a transmitting end and a receiving end of the correlation type photoelectric switch are respectively arranged on two opposite sides of the material moving path.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model discloses following advantage has:

the automatic feeding device of the utility model has the advantages that through the arrangement of the vibration disk, the linear slide way and the air blowing unit, materials can be conveyed to the linear slide way orderly by the vibration disk, so that the automatic feeding device is convenient for workers to carry out subsequent assembly; the blowing unit can improve the moving speed of the materials on the linear slide way, the time for the materials to move to the material collecting unit is also shortened, the waiting time of workers is reduced, and therefore the production efficiency can be improved.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof, are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the invention without undue limitation. In the drawings:

fig. 1 is a schematic axial view of an automatic feeding device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a front view of the automatic feeding device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a top view of the automatic feeding device according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken at A-A of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a partial enlarged view of the portion B in FIG. 4;

fig. 6 is a schematic view of an installation of the detecting unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Description of reference numerals:

1-vibrating disk, 2-linear slideway, 21-bottom plate, 22-first side plate, 23-second side plate, 24-cover plate, 201-gap, 3-material collecting unit, 4-blowing unit, 5-linear vibrator, 51-mounting plate, 6-bracket, 61-support column, 62-screw rod, 63-nut, 64-supporting plate, 7-detecting unit, 71-transmitting end and 72-receiving end.

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.

The embodiment relates to an automatic feeding device, which is shown in fig. 1 and comprises a vibrating disk 1, a linear slideway 2 and a material collecting unit 3, wherein the input end of the linear slideway 2 is connected with the output end of the vibrating disk 1, the material collecting unit 3 is arranged at the output end of the linear slideway 2, and the vibrating disk 1 is used for conveying materials to the material collecting unit 3 through the linear slideway 2; the automatic feeding device of this embodiment also includes the unit of blowing 4, and the unit of blowing 4 is used for exerting thrust to the material on the straight line slide 2 to accelerate the translation rate of material on straight line slide 2.

The vibrating plate 1 of the present embodiment preferably adopts a double-track vibrating plate 1, that is, the vibrating plate 1 of the present embodiment can orderly output two rows of materials; compared with the single-track type vibrating disk 1, the double-track type vibrating disk 1 can improve the conveying efficiency of materials by two times; it should be noted that it is still feasible to adopt the single-track type vibration plate 1, and the single-track type vibration plate and the double-track type vibration plate can both adopt the existing mature products, and the structure and the working principle are not detailed herein, and after materials, such as the shell of an electronic product, are put into the vibration plate 1, the vibration plate 1 can output the materials orderly.

Because vibration dish 1 is the metal material usually, the surface of material may be gouged, in this embodiment, vibration dish 1, can with the material contact the contact surface on the cladding have the gelatinous layer to replace the metal surface and the material contact of vibration dish 1 by the gelatinous layer, with this surface of avoiding the material by vibration dish 1 gouge. The colloidal layer is not shown in the drawings of the present embodiment since it does not affect understanding.

Corresponding to the above-mentioned double-rail type vibration disk 1, the number of the linear slide ways 2 of this embodiment is two, and the input ends of the two linear slide ways 2 are connected with the two output ends of the double-rail type vibration disk 1 in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and the materials output by the two rails of the vibration disk 1 can enter the two linear slide ways 2 respectively.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the automatic feeding device of the present embodiment further includes a linear vibrator 5, and the linear vibrator 5 is disposed at the bottom of the two linear chutes 2 and is used for driving the materials on the two linear chutes 2 to move. The linear vibrator 5 may be an existing product, and its structure and operation principle will not be described in detail herein. Compared with the method that the vibration plate 1 provides power for moving the material forwards, the linear vibrator 5 provides power for moving the material forwards on the linear slideway 2, so that the moving speed of the material can be further increased, and the waiting time of workers is reduced; on the other hand can make the length of the linear slideway 2 of this embodiment can set up longer to make the linear slideway 2 of this embodiment can hold more materials, also make this automatic feeding device can hold more materials, thereby can reduce the frequency of adding the material to this automatic feeding device.

The embodiment further provides a mounting structure for enabling the linear vibrator 5 to have a good use effect, specifically, the automatic feeding device of the embodiment further includes a bracket 6, the linear vibrator 5 is specifically and fixedly arranged on the top end of the bracket 6, and the mounting height of the linear vibrator 5 on the bracket 6 is set to be adjustable. Through the mounting height of adjustment linear vibrator 5 on support 6, can be convenient with the input of linear slideway 2 and the output of vibration dish 1 to and the input leveling of the output of linear slideway 2 and material collection unit 3, thereby make the material have better sliding effect.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the bracket 6 of this embodiment includes a supporting column 61 and a plurality of screws 62 fixed on the top end of the supporting column 61, and the axial direction of each screw 62 is parallel to the height direction of the supporting column 61; the bottom of the linear vibrator 5 is provided with a mounting plate 51, the mounting plate 51 is provided with through holes corresponding to the screw rods 62 one by one, each through hole is sleeved on the corresponding screw rod 62, two nuts 63 are respectively screwed on the screw rods 62, and the mounting plate 51 can be clamped by the two nuts 63.

Specifically, referring to fig. 1 and 2, the support column 61 is made of a square tube, a square support plate is fixedly arranged at the top end of the support column 61, and the screws 62 are fixedly arranged on the top end surface of the support plate, in this embodiment, the number of the screws 62 is specifically four, and four screws 62 are respectively located at four corners of a rectangle, each screw 62 is parallel to the height of the support column 61, that is, each screw 62 is vertically arranged; corresponding to the four screw rods 62, four through holes are formed in the mounting plate 51, and the four through holes can be respectively sleeved on the four screw rods 62 in a one-to-one correspondence manner; two nuts 63 are respectively screwed on each screw 62, and the two nuts 63 on each screw 62 are respectively positioned on two opposite sides of the mounting plate 51, so that the mounting plate 51, namely the linear vibrator 5, can be fixed on the supporting column 61 by clamping the mounting plate 51 by the two nuts 63 on each screw 62. And the height of the mounting plate 51, that is, the linear vibrator 5 can be adjusted by rotating the four nuts 63 at the lower side of the mounting plate 51.

In this embodiment, a structure of a better linear slideway 2 is further provided, specifically, referring to fig. 3 to 5, each linear slideway 2 includes a bottom plate 21, and two side plates fixedly connected to two opposite sides of the bottom plate 21 and extending upward, for convenience of description, the two side plates are referred to as a first side plate 22 and a second side plate 23, respectively; the linear slideway 2 of the present embodiment further includes a cover plate 24 fixedly connected to the top end of the first side plate 22 and extending to the top end of the second side plate 23, and the cover plate 24 is not connected to the second side plate 23, that is, a gap 201 is formed between the cover plate 24 and the second side plate 23; the bottom plate 21, the two side plates and the cover plate 24 enclose a channel for the circulation of the material. Through setting up linear slideway 2 for foretell structure, can prevent by apron 24 that the material from flying out in linear slideway 2 on the one hand, on the other hand can make the unit 4 of blowing have better acceleration effect to the material.

In this embodiment, the linear slideway 2 is formed by welding stainless steel plates; preferably, in this embodiment, each inner wall of the channel is further polished to reduce friction force on the material.

Referring to fig. 1 and 3, the air blowing unit 4 of the present embodiment is specifically an air blowing pipe fixedly disposed with respect to the linear slideway 2, one end of the air outlet pipe is connected to an external air supply device, and the other end is disposed toward a gap 201 between the second side plate 23 and the cover plate 24; the outside air supply equipment can blow air to the inside of the linear channel through the air blowing pipe, so that thrust is applied to the materials in the linear slideway 2, the moving speed of the materials in the linear slideway 2 is accelerated, and the moving speed of the materials is improved. Compared with the mode of improving the moving speed of the materials in the linear slideway 2 by improving the vibration frequency of the linear vibrator 5, the method has the advantages that the moving speed of the materials is increased by adopting the air blowing mode, so that the method is not only more effective, but also lower in cost.

The automatic feeding device of the embodiment further comprises a control unit and a detection unit 7, wherein the control unit is in communication connection with the detection unit 7 and is in control connection with the vibration disc 1; the detection unit 7 is used for sending a signal to the control unit when detecting the material, and the control unit is used for controlling the vibration disc 1 to close when receiving the signal.

Corresponding to the two linear sliding ways 2, the number of the detecting units 7 is also two, the two detecting units 7 are respectively used for detecting the material states on the two linear sliding ways 2, the working principles of the two detecting units 7 are the same, and one of the detecting units is taken as an example in the embodiment for description. In this embodiment, referring to fig. 6, each of the detecting units 7 is a correlation photoelectric switch, and the emitting end 71 and the receiving end 72 of the correlation photoelectric switch are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the material moving path, and along the material moving direction, the correlation photoelectric switch is located downstream of the blowing pipe and upstream of the linear vibrator 5. When the material passes between the transmitting end 71 and the receiving end 72, the optical signal between the transmitting end 71 and the receiving end 72 is blocked, the opposite type photoelectric switch sends a signal to the control unit, and the control unit can control the vibration disc 1 to be closed. It should be noted that, in the present embodiment, the optical signal between the transmitting end 71 and the receiving end 72 is blocked, which means that the control unit considers that the optical signal between the transmitting end 71 and the receiving end 72 is blocked only after the material stays between the transmitting end 71 and the receiving end 72 for a period of time; the working principle that the control unit controls the vibration disc 1 to be closed according to the signal can refer to the prior mature technology, and the detailed description is omitted here.

The working principle of the detection unit 7 and the control unit is as follows: when the material in the linear slideway 2 is not full, the material will move forward continuously due to the blowing of the blowing unit 4, and the optical signal transmission between the transmitting end 71 and the receiving end 72 will not be blocked; when the material at the tail end of the conveying is full and is not taken out in time, so that the material is blocked, the blowing unit 4 is difficult to blow the material, the material blocks an optical signal between the transmitting end 71 and the receiving end 72, at the moment, the correlation type photoelectric switch sends a signal to the control unit, and the control unit controls the vibration disc 1 to be closed; when the material at the end of the conveying is taken out, the material will move forward again due to the action of the linear vibrator 5, and the blowing unit 4 can also blow away the material blocked between the transmitting end 71 and the receiving end 72 again, at this time, the correlation type photoelectric switch will send a signal to the control unit, and the control unit will control the vibration disk 1 to be turned on again.

The working process of the automatic feeding device of the embodiment is as follows: materials are put into the vibrating disc 1, the vibrating disc 1 conveys the materials to the linear slideway 2 in order, after the materials are moved to the linear slideway 2, the materials are moved to the material collecting unit 3 in an accelerating manner through the air blowing of the air blowing unit 4, and operators can take the materials one by one to carry out processes such as assembly; when the material collecting unit 3 is full of materials, the materials at the opposite-type photoelectric switch are stagnated to block the transmission of optical signals between the transmitting end 71 and the receiving end 72, the opposite-type photoelectric switch sends signals to the control unit, and the control unit controls the vibration disc 1 to be closed; until the material blocking the optical signal transmission between the transmitting end 71 and the receiving end 72 is removed, the control unit controls the vibration disk 1 to be opened again to continue the automatic feeding of the material.

To sum up, the automatic feeding device of this embodiment through setting up vibration dish 1, sharp slide 2 and the unit 4 of blowing, can make things convenient for the workman to assemble by vibration dish 1 with neat orderly transport to sharp slide 2 of material, can improve the moving speed of material on sharp slide 2 by the unit 4 of blowing, also shortens the time that the material removed to material collection unit 3 promptly, reduces the time that the workman waited for to can improve production efficiency.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and should not be taken as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. The utility model provides an automatic loading attachment which characterized in that: the automatic feeding device comprises a vibrating disk, a linear slideway and a material collecting unit, wherein the input end of the linear slideway is connected with the output end of the vibrating disk, the material collecting unit is arranged at the output end of the linear slideway, and the vibrating disk is used for conveying materials to the material collecting unit through the linear slideway; and the automatic feeding device also comprises an air blowing unit, wherein the air blowing unit is used for applying thrust to the material on the linear slideway so as to accelerate the moving speed of the material on the linear slideway.

2. The automatic feeding device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the vibration dish adopts double track way formula vibration dish, the straight line slide is for two that set up side by side, two the input of straight line slide with two output one-to-one of double track way formula vibration dish is connected.

3. The automatic feeding device according to claim 2, characterized in that: the automatic feeding device further comprises linear vibrators, wherein the linear vibrators are arranged at the bottoms of the two linear sliding ways and used for driving the two linear sliding ways to move materials.

4. The automatic feeding device according to claim 3, characterized in that: the automatic feeding device further comprises a support, the linear vibrator is fixedly arranged on the top end of the support, and the mounting height of the linear vibrator on the support is set to be adjustable.

5. The automatic feeding device according to claim 4, characterized in that: the linear vibrator is provided with a mounting plate, and the mounting plate is provided with a plurality of mounting holes; the support comprises a support column and a plurality of screw rods fixedly arranged on the support column, the screw rods are correspondingly inserted into the mounting holes one by one, two nuts are respectively screwed on the screw rods, and the two nuts are used for clamping the mounting plate.

6. The automatic feeding device according to claim 1, characterized in that: the linear slideway comprises a bottom plate, a first side plate and a second side plate which are fixedly connected with two opposite sides of the bottom plate respectively and extend upwards, and a cover plate which is fixedly connected with the top end of the first side plate and extends towards the second side plate, wherein a gap is arranged between the cover plate and the second side plate.

7. The automatic feeding device according to claim 6, characterized in that: the blowing unit comprises a blowing pipe fixedly arranged on the linear slideway, and an air outlet of the blowing pipe faces the gap.

8. The automatic feeding device according to claim 6, characterized in that: the linear slideway is formed by welding stainless steel plates.

9. The automatic feeding device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that: the automatic feeding device also comprises a control unit and a detection unit, wherein the control unit is in communication connection with the detection unit and is in control connection with the vibration disc; the detection unit is used for sending a signal to the control unit when detecting the material, and the control unit is used for controlling the vibration disc to be closed when receiving the signal.

10. The automatic feeding device according to claim 9, characterized in that: the detection unit comprises a correlation type photoelectric switch arranged on the linear slideway, and the transmitting end and the receiving end of the correlation type photoelectric switch are respectively arranged on two opposite sides of the material moving path.