CN216188380U

CN216188380U - Battery transfer mechanism

Info

Publication number: CN216188380U
Application number: CN202122420663.7U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 曹海霞; 毛德智; 梁荷
Original assignee: Zhuhai Higrand Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhuhai Higrand Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-10-08
Filing date: 2021-10-08
Publication date: 2022-04-05
Anticipated expiration: 2031-10-08

Abstract

A battery transfer mechanism comprising: the battery carrier is arranged on the carrier synchronous belt, the carrier synchronous belt forms a closed-loop path in a vertical plane, the closed-loop path comprises an upper-layer carrying section and a lower-layer no-load section which are arranged in parallel from top to bottom, and the upper-layer carrying section and the lower-layer no-load section extend horizontally. The battery transfer mechanism adopts a vertical layout structure, and the loading section and the idle section which are parallel up and down are arranged in the space in the height direction, so that the space occupied by the battery transfer mechanism on the horizontal plane is reduced, and the structure is more compact.

Description

Battery transfer mechanism

Technical Field

The utility model belongs to the technical field of lithium battery manufacturing equipment, and particularly relates to a battery transfer mechanism for transferring batteries among operation stations.

Background

In the production process of the cylindrical lithium battery, the production equipment transfers the battery to each operation station of the equipment through the conveying line, and the battery sequentially moves to complete corresponding post-processing blanking through each station. As shown in fig. 1, a conventional cylindrical lithium battery transfer mechanism generally adopts a horizontal zigzag layout that rotates on a plane, a battery moves along a closed-loop path in a horizontal plane by the transfer mechanism, and a plurality of work stations (101, 102, 103, 104) are sequentially arranged on the moving path of the battery. The closed loop path generally has two straight line segments connected to form a closed loop and form circular arc turning segments at the positions of the driving wheel and the driven wheel. The conventional battery moving mechanism is characterized in that an operation station is arranged beside a certain linear path, a feeding manipulator 105 and a discharging manipulator 106 are arranged beside two ends of the other linear path, a battery conveyed by a feeding conveying line 107 is fed by the feeding manipulator 105, then is processed by sequentially passing through each operation station, is discharged by the discharging manipulator 106, is placed on a discharging conveying line 108, and is conveyed to equipment of the next process. However, the horizontally arranged transfer mechanism and the various parts of the working industry occupy a large space because they are distributed on a plane. In order to vacate an installation space for an operation station, the loading manipulator, the unloading manipulator and the operation station are respectively arranged on two opposite outer sides of a moving path of the annular battery, the battery after loading can be continuously moved to the front of the operation station only through an arc rotation section, the battery before unloading can be continuously moved to an unloading position only through an arc rotation section, when the equipment runs at a high speed, the circular motion of the battery when passing through the arc rotation section can generate centrifugal force, the battery is easy to fall off from a carrier, and the running stability of the equipment is influenced.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims to provide a battery moving mechanism which has a compact structure and can reduce the installation space.

In order to achieve the purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical solutions:

a battery transfer mechanism comprising: the battery carrier is arranged on the carrier synchronous belt, the carrier synchronous belt forms a closed-loop path in a vertical plane, the closed-loop path comprises an upper-layer carrying section and a lower-layer no-load section which are arranged in parallel from top to bottom, and the upper-layer carrying section and the lower-layer no-load section extend horizontally.

Further, synchronous belt drive mechanism includes synchronous belt drive wheel, synchronous belt from driving wheel and synchronous belt drive unit, the synchronous belt drive wheel with the synchronous belt is followed driving wheel and is passed through the support mounting on the equipment platform, the synchronous belt drive wheel with the axis and the equipment platform parallel of synchronous belt from the driving wheel.

The carrier support comprises a first guide slide rail, a second guide slide rail and a slide rail mounting base arranged on the equipment platform, the first guide slide rail and the second guide slide rail are arranged on the slide rail mounting base in an up-and-down parallel mode, and the synchronous belt driving wheel and the synchronous belt driven wheel are respectively arranged at two ends of the first guide slide rail and the second guide slide rail; the carrier synchronous belt is arranged on the first guide slide rail and the second guide slide rail and moves along the first guide slide rail and the second guide slide rail.

Furthermore, all be provided with the spout on the first direction slide rail with the second direction slide rail, the opening of the spout of first direction slide rail up, the opening of the spout of second direction slide rail down, the carrier hold-in range set up in the spout.

Furthermore, the synchronous belt driving unit is a motor, the synchronous belt transmission mechanism further comprises a cam divider, an output shaft of the motor is connected with an input shaft of the cam divider through a coupler, and an output shaft of the cam divider is connected with the synchronous belt driving wheel.

Further, a torque limiter is arranged on an output shaft of the cam divider.

Further, the battery carrier is a claw-shaped clamp, and/or when the battery carrier bears the battery, the axis of the battery is perpendicular to the surface of the carrier synchronous belt.

Furthermore, a magnet is arranged on the claw-shaped clamp.

Further, still include material loading manipulator and unloading manipulator, material loading manipulator and unloading manipulator set up respectively in the both ends of upper strata year thing section.

Further, one side of upper strata year thing section sets gradually the operation station, material loading manipulator, unloading manipulator and operation station are located same one side of carrier hold-in range.

According to the technical scheme, the battery transfer mechanism adopts a vertical layout structure, and the carrying section and the no-load section are arranged in the space in the height direction, so that the space occupied by the battery transfer mechanism on the horizontal plane is reduced, and the structure is more compact. And in preferred technical scheme, with the setting of upper and lower unloading manipulator at the both ends of carrying the thing section, material loading and unloading are all accomplished at straight section, and the battery carrier need not to load the battery and passes through circular arc gyration section, and stable rectilinear motion is done to the battery transfer in-process, and the transfer process is steady, can avoid taking place the battery and take place from the condition that the carrier dropped when passing through the gyration section to the operating efficiency of equipment can be improved.

Drawings

In order to illustrate the embodiments of the present invention more clearly, the drawings that are needed in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and that other drawings can be obtained by those skilled in the art without inventive effort.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a horizontally arranged battery moving mechanism;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a top view of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a front view of an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of a battery carrier and carrier timing belt assembled together according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged partial view of portion B of FIG. 5;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a carrier bracket according to an embodiment of the utility model.

The following describes embodiments of the present invention in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention more apparent, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 2, 3 and 4, the battery transfer mechanism of the present embodiment includes a battery carrier 1, a carrier holder 2, a carrier timing belt 3 and a timing belt transmission mechanism, wherein the timing belt transmission mechanism includes a timing belt driving wheel 4, a timing belt driven wheel 5 and a timing belt driving unit (not shown). Hold-in range drive wheel 4 and hold-in range follow driving wheel 5 and pass through the support mounting on horizontally equipment platform A, and hold-in range drive wheel 4 and hold-in range follow the axis of driving wheel 5 and extend along the horizontal direction, and axis and equipment platform A parallel promptly to carrier hold-in range 3 is walked around hold-in range drive wheel 4 and hold-in range and is followed the driving wheel 5 back, is gyration in vertical plane.

Referring to fig. 5 and 6, a plurality of battery carriers 1 are mounted on a carrier timing belt 3 through carrier mounting seats 6, and the carrier timing belt 3 moves to drive the battery carriers 1 to move together. The battery carrier 1 of the present embodiment is a claw-shaped jig, and a magnet 7 is provided on the claw-shaped jig, so that the battery can be attached to the battery carrier 1 by the magnet. In order to facilitate the operation stations to process the batteries, as a preferred embodiment of the present invention, when the battery carrier 1 carries the batteries, the fixing direction of the batteries is perpendicular to the surface of the carrier synchronous belt 3, i.e. the axis of the batteries is perpendicular to the surface of the carrier synchronous belt, so that the mechanical arm and each operation station can conveniently take/place or process the batteries on the battery carrier 1. The carrier synchronous belt 3 is provided with a mounting plate 30, and the carrier mounting seat 6 is fixed with the mounting plate 30 through a threaded fastener, so that the battery carrier 1 is mounted on the carrier synchronous belt 3.

As shown in fig. 7, the carrier bracket 2 of the present embodiment includes a first guide rail 2-1, a second guide rail 2-2, and a rail mounting base 2-3, wherein the first guide rail 2-1 and the second wire rail 2-2 are fixed on the equipment platform a through the rail mounting base 2-3 and extend along a horizontal direction, and the first guide rail 2-1 is located above the second wire rail 2-2. The first guide slide rail 2-1 and the second guide slide rail 2-2 of the present embodiment have the same structure, and both the first guide slide rail and the second guide slide rail are provided with a sliding groove a, and the battery carrier 1 and the carrier synchronous belt 3 are disposed in the sliding groove a and move along the sliding groove a. The opening of the sliding chute a of the first guide sliding rail 2-1 faces upwards, and the opening of the sliding chute a of the second guide sliding rail 2-2 faces downwards.

The carrier synchronous belt 3 forms a closed loop moving path in a vertical plane, the moving path is divided into an upper layer carrying section (a first guide sliding rail section) and a lower layer no-load section (a second guide sliding rail section), each operation station (101, 102, 103, 104) is sequentially arranged at the side of the upper layer carrying section, a feeding manipulator 8 and a discharging manipulator 9 are respectively arranged at two ends of a first guide sliding rail 2-1 (the moving direction of a battery), the battery conveyed from a feeding conveying line is fed by the feeding manipulator 8 and is placed in the battery carrier 1, the battery carrier 1 loaded with the battery moves in the upper layer carrying section and sequentially passes through each operation station, each operation station processes and manufactures the battery, when the battery carrier 1 moves to the tail end of the upper layer carrying section, the discharging manipulator 9 takes the battery from the battery carrier 1, places the battery on the discharging conveying line and transfers the battery to equipment of the next process, the empty battery carrier 1 moves to the lower layer empty loading section, advances towards the feeding manipulator, and repeats the cycle process of feeding, processing and discharging. In order to make the structure more compact, it is preferable that the operation stations, the feeding manipulator 8 and the discharging manipulator 9 are all arranged on the same side of the carrier synchronous belt 3, and when the operation stations are arranged in this way, the battery can be fed and discharged on the same side of the carrier synchronous belt 3, and when passing through each operation station, the operation stations can conveniently take/place or process the battery. The feeding manipulator 8 and the discharging manipulator 9 are arranged at two ends of the first guide sliding rail 2-1, the empty battery carrier 1 is fed by the feeding manipulator 8 after passing through the arc rotation section, and the battery carrier 1 is discharged by the discharging manipulator 9 after moving the tail end of the first guide sliding rail 2-1, so that the battery carrier 1 is empty when passing through the arc section, the problem that a battery falls off from the carrier cannot occur, and the running stability of the equipment is ensured.

As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a motor is used as a timing belt driving unit, the motor transmits power to a timing belt driving wheel, and the timing belt transmission mechanism of the present embodiment further includes a coupling 10, a cam divider 11, and a torque limiter 12. An output shaft 20 of the motor is connected with an input shaft of the cam divider 11 through a coupling 10, the output shaft of the cam divider 11 is connected with the synchronous belt driving wheel 4, and a torque limiter 12 is arranged on the output shaft of the cam divider 11 and used for preventing mechanical overload. The power of motor is passed through self output shaft 20 and shaft coupling 10 and is transmitted for cam divider 11, and cam divider 11 is to hold-in range drive wheel 4 output intermittent type rotary power to hold-in range drive wheel 4 drives carrier hold-in range 3 intermittent type rotary motion in vertical plane. In the moving process, the carrier bracket 2 bears the weight of the synchronous belt assembly, the battery carrier and the battery, and limits the movement of the battery carrier, so that the stable movement of the battery carrier is ensured. The tension of the synchronous belt can be adjusted through the synchronous belt transmission wheel.

Certainly, the technical concept of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and many different specific schemes can be obtained according to the concept of the present invention, for example, the carrier synchronous belt can be a chain belt or a belt, and is selected accordingly according to the structures of the driving wheel and the driven wheel, when the driving wheel and the driven wheel adopt chain wheels, the synchronous belt adopts a chain belt, when the driving wheel and the driven wheel adopt friction wheels, the synchronous belt adopts a belt, the transmission structure of the synchronous belt is a conventional mechanical transmission structure, and a proper scheme can be adopted according to the requirements; such modifications and equivalents are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A battery transfer mechanism comprising: battery carrier, carrier hold-in range and drive the hold-in range drive mechanism that the carrier hold-in range removed, the battery carrier set up in on the carrier hold-in range, its characterized in that: the carrier synchronous belt forms a closed-loop path in a vertical plane, the closed-loop path comprises an upper-layer carrying section and a lower-layer idle section which are arranged in parallel up and down, and the upper-layer carrying section and the lower-layer idle section extend horizontally.

2. The battery transfer mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the synchronous belt transmission mechanism comprises a synchronous belt driving wheel, a synchronous belt driven wheel and a synchronous belt driving unit, the synchronous belt driving wheel and the synchronous belt driven wheel are mounted on a horizontal equipment platform through a support, and the axis of the synchronous belt driven wheel is parallel to the equipment platform.

3. The battery transfer mechanism of claim 2, wherein: the carrier support comprises a first guide slide rail, a second guide slide rail and a slide rail mounting base arranged on the equipment platform, the first guide slide rail and the second guide slide rail are arranged on the slide rail mounting base in an up-down parallel mode, and the synchronous belt driving wheel and the synchronous belt driven wheel are respectively arranged at two ends of the first guide slide rail and the second guide slide rail; the carrier synchronous belt is arranged on the first guide slide rail and the second guide slide rail and moves along the first guide slide rail and the second guide slide rail.

4. The battery transfer mechanism of claim 3, wherein: the first direction slide rail with all be provided with the spout on the second direction slide rail, the opening of the spout of first direction slide rail up, the opening of the spout of second direction slide rail down, the carrier hold-in range set up in the spout.

5. The battery transfer mechanism of claim 2, wherein: the synchronous belt driving unit is a motor, the synchronous belt transmission mechanism further comprises a cam divider, an output shaft of the motor is connected with an input shaft of the cam divider through a coupler, and an output shaft of the cam divider is connected with the synchronous belt driving wheel.

6. The battery transfer mechanism of claim 5, wherein: and a torque limiter is arranged on an output shaft of the cam divider.

7. The battery transfer mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the battery carrier is a claw-shaped clamp, and/or when the battery carrier bears a battery, the axis of the battery is vertical to the surface of the carrier synchronous belt.

8. The battery transfer mechanism of claim 7, wherein: and a magnet is arranged on the claw-shaped clamp.

9. The battery transfer mechanism of claim 1, wherein: the automatic feeding device is characterized by further comprising a feeding mechanical arm and a discharging mechanical arm, wherein the feeding mechanical arm and the discharging mechanical arm are respectively arranged at two ends of the upper-layer carrying section.

10. The battery transfer mechanism of claim 9, wherein: one side of upper strata year thing section sets gradually the operation station, material loading manipulator, unloading manipulator and operation station are located same one side of carrier hold-in range.