CN216966963U - Automatic brush cutting machine for storage battery tabs - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model relates to the technical field of storage battery production equipment, in particular to an automatic cutting and brushing machine for a storage battery tab, which comprises a rack, a workbench, a feeding manipulator, a cutting and brushing station, a soldering flux station, a discharging manipulator and a translation manipulator, wherein the workbench is horizontally arranged at the top of the rack; the feeding manipulator is used for clamping the storage battery workpiece from the feeding side and then conveying the storage battery workpiece to the cutting and brushing station; cutting and brushing stations, cutting off redundant lengths of the tabs and brushing the surfaces of the tabs; the storage battery workpiece is positioned at the top of the scaling powder groove, and the pole lug is downwards inserted into the scaling powder groove to be stained with the scaling powder; the translation manipulator is used for clamping the storage battery workpiece from the positioning assembly of the cutting and brushing station and then conveying the storage battery workpiece to the top of the soldering flux groove of the soldering flux station; and the discharging manipulator is used for clamping the storage battery workpiece from the soldering flux station and then delivering the storage battery workpiece.

Description

Automatic brush cutting machine for storage battery tabs

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of storage battery production equipment, in particular to an automatic cutting and brushing machine for a storage battery tab.

Background

The cast-weld process of the storage battery comprises the following steps: molten lead liquid is injected into a cavity of the busbar mold, the tabs of the electrode plate group (namely, the electrode group) are inserted into the lead liquid in the cavity in an inverted mode, and the busbar formed by solidifying the lead liquid electrically connects all the tabs together. In order to ensure that the cast-weld between the bus bar and the tabs is firm and realize good conductivity, the tabs need to be pretreated before the cast-weld, oxide layers on the surfaces of the tabs are cleaned, all the tabs are cut to be uniform in length, then soldering flux is coated on the tabs, and then the tabs are sent to a storage battery cast-weld machine for the cast-weld process. The prior pretreatment of the lugs is usually carried out on different machines separately or is completed manually step by step, so that the working efficiency is low, the labor intensity is high, the lugs are difficult to be matched with a high-speed storage battery cast-weld machine, the high-efficiency mass production which is not suitable for the requirement is still needed to be solved.

Disclosure of Invention

The utility model aims to overcome the defects in the background technology and provide the automatic cutting and brushing machine for the storage battery tabs, which can automatically and efficiently finish the pretreatment of the storage battery tabs and is matched with a storage battery cast welding machine, thereby meeting the requirement of mass production.

The technical scheme adopted by the utility model is as follows:

the utility model provides an automatic machine of surely brushing of battery tab, includes: the automatic soldering machine comprises a rack, a workbench horizontally arranged at the top of the rack, a feeding manipulator, a cutting and brushing station, a soldering flux station, a discharging manipulator and a translation manipulator, wherein the feeding manipulator, the cutting and brushing station, the soldering flux station and the discharging manipulator are sequentially arranged on the workbench from front to back;

the feeding manipulator is used for clamping at least one row of storage battery workpieces from the feeding side and then conveying the storage battery workpieces to the cutting and brushing station;

the cutting and brushing station comprises a positioning assembly arranged on the workbench and a cutting and brushing assembly arranged on the machine frame below the positioning assembly, the lug is suspended downwards after the positioning assembly positions the storage battery workpiece, and the cutting and brushing assembly cuts off the redundant length of the lug and cleans the surface of the lug;

the storage battery work piece is positioned at the top of the soldering flux groove, and the pole lug is inserted into the soldering flux groove downwards to be dipped with the soldering flux;

the translation manipulator reciprocates between the cutting and brushing station and the soldering flux station, and conveys the storage battery workpiece to the top of a soldering flux groove of the soldering flux station after clamping the storage battery workpiece from a positioning assembly of the cutting and brushing station;

and the discharging manipulator is used for clamping the storage battery workpiece from the soldering flux station and then delivering the storage battery workpiece.

Preferably, the feeding manipulator and the discharging manipulator comprise a turnover motor, a turnover spindle, a rectangular frame and a pair of clamp assemblies; the overturning main shaft is horizontally arranged on the workbench through a first bearing seat, and the overturning motor drives the overturning main shaft to rotate; the rear end of the rectangular frame is fixed on the overturning main shaft, and the front end of the rectangular frame is outwards cantilevered along the direction vertical to the overturning main shaft; the butt clamp assemblies are arranged in the rectangular frame and respectively butt clamp the storage battery workpieces from the front direction and the rear direction, so that the storage battery workpieces are clamped.

Preferably, the butt-clamping assembly comprises a plurality of guide optical axes, a front clamping assembly and a rear clamping assembly; each guide optical axis is fixed in the rectangular frame along the front-back direction, and the adjacent guide optical axes keep the horizontal spacing which is adaptive to the width of the storage battery workpieces in the left-right direction, so that at least one clamping position is formed in the rectangular frame, and each clamping position can accommodate one row of storage battery workpieces; the front clamping assembly and the rear clamping assembly respectively comprise a clamping movable plate which is in sliding fit with the guide optical axis, and a clamping cylinder which drives the clamping movable plate to slide along the guide optical axis, the clamping movable plate extends along the left and right directions of the rectangular frame, and the sliding directions of the clamping movable plate of the front clamping assembly and the clamping movable plate of the rear clamping assembly are opposite.

Preferably, in the front clamping assembly and the rear clamping assembly, the clamping movable plate of one of the clamping assemblies is integral and is driven by at least one clamping cylinder, and the clamping movable plate of the other clamping assembly is segmented, and each segment corresponds to one clamping position and is driven by at least one clamping cylinder.

Preferably, in the cutting and brushing station, the positioning assembly comprises at least one positioning groove capable of accommodating a row of storage battery workpieces, the positioning groove horizontally extends along the front-back direction, and a through groove corresponding to the position of the lug is formed in the bottom of the positioning groove;

the cutting and brushing assembly comprises a sliding table, two first sliding pairs, a first driving assembly, two steel wire rollers and a hobbing cutter, the sliding table is slidably mounted on the rack below the positioning assembly through the two first sliding pairs, the first driving assembly drives the sliding table to slide in a left-right reciprocating mode, the two steel wire rollers and the hobbing cutter are horizontally arranged on the sliding table in the front-back direction and are respectively driven by a cutting and brushing motor, and the rotating directions of the two steel wire rollers are opposite.

Preferably, the sliding table comprises a brush roll panel, a hob panel, two sliding block fixing plates, a plurality of jacking screws and a plurality of locking screws;

the two slide block fixing plates extend along the left-right direction and keep a distance, and the bottom of each slide block fixing plate is fixed with a first slide block of a first slide pair; a through groove for mounting the steel wire roller is formed in the brush roller panel, and a through groove for mounting the hob is formed in the hob panel;

all install top height screw and locking screw on brush roll panel, the hobbing cutter panel, the lower extreme of top height screw supports and leans on the top surface at the slider fixed plate, can adjust the vertical interval of these two and slider fixed plate of brush roll panel, hobbing cutter panel through screwing and loosening top height screw, and the lower extreme and the slider fixed plate of locking screw are connected, realize the location of brush roll panel, hobbing cutter panel.

Preferably, the soldering flux groove comprises a groove body, a sponge block, a cover plate and a positioning optical axis;

the cell body is fixed on the workstation along the fore-and-aft direction, the opening part at cell body top is fixed to the apron, the apron top is provided with a plurality of location optical axis along the fore-and-aft direction, horizontal interval between the adjacent location optical axis suits with battery work piece width, thereby form at least one location area that can hold a list battery work piece, set up the logical groove that corresponds with utmost point ear on the apron of every location area below, the sponge piece sets up alone or passes through the tray setting in the cell body, utmost point ear from leading to pass the back and contact with the sponge piece, be stained with the scaling powder of adsorption in the sponge piece.

Preferably, the soldering flux station further comprises a soldering flux container and a suction pump driven by a drawing cylinder, a working port of the suction pump is connected with one interface of the three-way joint, the other interface of the three-way joint is provided with a one-way valve and is communicated with the soldering flux container, a third interface of the three-way joint is connected with the groove body through an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe, soldering flux is injected into the groove body or is drawn out of the groove body through the inlet pipe and the outlet pipe, and two sides of the groove body are connected with the soldering flux container through return pipes.

Preferably, the translation manipulator is installed above the workbench through two vertical frames and comprises a sliding plate, two second sliding pairs, a second driving assembly, a pneumatic gripper and a lifting cylinder;

the sliding plate is horizontally arranged on the two vertical frames through two second sliding pairs, the sliding plate reciprocates back and forth along the second sliding pairs under the driving of the second driving component, the pneumatic gripper is arranged on the sliding plate through a plurality of lifting optical axes, and fingers of the pneumatic gripper extend downwards; the lifting cylinder is fixed on the sliding plate, and the ejector rod of the lifting cylinder is vertically downward and connected with the pneumatic gripper to drive the pneumatic gripper to vertically lift.

Preferably, the device also comprises an auxiliary feeding table arranged on the front side of the rack, and the auxiliary feeding table comprises a base plate, a lifting plate, a guide shaft and a jacking cylinder, wherein the base plate is horizontally fixed on the rack, the lifting plate is arranged on the upper side of the base plate through the vertically arranged guide shaft, the jacking cylinder is fixed at the bottom of the base plate, and a mandril of the jacking cylinder is vertically upward and connected with the lifting plate to drive the lifting plate to vertically lift; the top of lifter plate is provided with a plurality of gibs, and the horizontal interval of adjacent gib block suits with battery work piece width to lead to battery work piece and make it arrange one row, supply the feeding manipulator clamp of the front side of frame to get.

The utility model has the beneficial effects that:

(1) the feeding manipulator, the discharging manipulator and the translation manipulator can clamp storage battery workpieces in a row, the lug is cleaned and cut by the cutting and brushing station, and the lug is sent out after being dipped with soldering flux, so that the feeding manipulator, the discharging manipulator and the translation manipulator are high in automation degree and working efficiency, can be matched with a storage battery cast-welding machine, and meet the requirement of mass production;

(2) the cutting and brushing station can move in a reciprocating way, the rotating directions of the two steel wire rollers are opposite, and the oxide layers on the surfaces of the lugs can be thoroughly cleaned;

(3) the soldering flux in the soldering flux groove can be automatically sucked, and the problem that the electrode lug is exposed to excessive soldering flux and lead is exploded in the subsequent cast-weld process is solved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic perspective view of the second embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a third schematic perspective view of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the infeed/outfeed robot.

Fig. 5 is a schematic top view of the infeed/outfeed robot.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the cutting and brushing station.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the cutting brush assembly.

Fig. 8 is a schematic sectional structure view of the cutting brush assembly.

Fig. 9 is a schematic view of the installation structure of the wire roll.

Fig. 10 is a partial structural schematic view of the slide table.

Fig. 11 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a flux channel.

Fig. 12 is a perspective view of a flux station.

Fig. 13 is a perspective view of the translation robot.

Fig. 14 is a schematic perspective view of the auxiliary feeding table.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples, but the present invention is not limited to the following examples, so that the objects, solutions and advantages of the present invention can be more clearly understood by those skilled in the art.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified and limited, specific meanings of the general terms in the present invention may be specifically understood by those skilled in the art.

As shown in fig. 1 to fig. 3, the present embodiment provides an automatic cutting and brushing machine for battery tabs, which includes: the automatic welding machine comprises a frame A, a workbench B horizontally arranged at the top of the frame A, a feeding manipulator F, a cutting and brushing station E, a soldering flux station G, a discharging manipulator C and a translation manipulator D, wherein the feeding manipulator F, the cutting and brushing station E, the soldering flux station G and the discharging manipulator C are sequentially arranged on the workbench B from front to back, and the translation manipulator D is arranged above the workbench B.

And the feeding manipulator F is used for clamping the storage battery workpiece H from the feeding side and then delivering the storage battery workpiece H to the cutting and brushing station E. The number of the storage battery workpieces H clamped by the feeding manipulator F each time can be determined according to actual production conditions, such as the cast-weld speed of the automatic cast-weld machine at the rear end, the feeding speed of the feeding side at the front end, and the like. In this embodiment, the feeding manipulator grips four rows of battery workpieces H each time, and each row has two battery workpieces H, and the two battery workpieces H are tightly attached together along the length direction of the battery workpieces H. And the subsequent cutting and brushing station E, the flux station G, the discharging manipulator C and the translation manipulator D all work according to the quantity of the storage battery workpieces H clamped by the feeding manipulator.

The cutting and brushing station E comprises a positioning component E8 arranged on the workbench B and a cutting and brushing component E1 arranged on the rack A below the positioning component E8. After the battery workpiece H is positioned by the positioning assembly E8, the tab H1 is suspended downwards, the cutting and brushing assembly E1 cuts the excess length of the tab H1 and cleans an oxide layer on the surface of the tab H1.

The soldering flux station G comprises two soldering flux grooves G2 arranged on a workbench B, a soldering flux container G1 and a suction pump G7 driven by a drawing air cylinder G5. And each scaling powder groove G2 can be used for positioning two rows of storage battery workpieces H at the same time to pick up the scaling powder, the tabs H1 are inserted into the scaling powder grooves G2 downwards after the storage battery workpieces H are positioned at the tops of the scaling powder grooves G2, and the scaling powder is picked up.

And the translation manipulator D reciprocates between the cutting and brushing station E and the soldering flux station G, picks up the storage battery workpiece H from a positioning assembly E8 of the cutting and brushing station E, and then conveys the storage battery workpiece H to the top of a soldering flux groove G2 of the soldering flux station G.

And the discharging manipulator C is used for clamping the storage battery workpiece H from the soldering flux station G and then delivering the storage battery workpiece H.

In this embodiment, the feeding manipulator F and the discharging manipulator C have the same structure and the same operation mode, and taking the discharging manipulator C shown in fig. 4 and 5 as an example, the feeding manipulator F and the discharging manipulator C each include a flipping motor C8, a flipping spindle C5, a rectangular frame C1, and an alignment clamp assembly. The overturning main shaft C5 is horizontally mounted on the workbench B through a first bearing seat C11, a driving gear C7 is arranged on a motor shaft of the overturning motor C8, a driven gear C6 is fixed at the end part of the overturning main shaft C5, and the overturning main shaft C5 is driven to rotate by the overturning motor C8 during operation. The turning angle of the turning main shaft C5 is generally 180 degrees, and the travel is limited by an optoelectronic switch C12 arranged on the first bearing seat C11 during the turning process. The rear end of the rectangular frame C1 is fixed to the main flipping axis C5 by a fixing lever C13, and the front end thereof is cantilevered in a direction perpendicular to the main flipping axis C5. The butt-clamping components are arranged in the rectangular frame C1 and respectively butt-clamp the storage battery workpieces H from the front direction and the rear direction, so that the storage battery workpieces H are clamped.

As shown in fig. 4 and 5, the pair of clamping assemblies includes a plurality of guide optical axes C4, a front clamping assembly, and a rear clamping assembly. Each guide optical axis C4 is fixed in the front-rear direction within the rectangular frame C1, and the adjacent guide optical axes C4 maintain a horizontal spacing in the left-right direction in accordance with the width of the battery workpieces H, thereby forming at least four holding positions C9 within the rectangular frame C1, each holding position C9 accommodating one row of battery workpieces H. Each of the front and rear clamp assemblies includes a clamp movable plate C2 slidably fitted on the guide optical axis C4, and a clamp cylinder C3 driving the clamp movable plate C2 to slide along the guide optical axis C4, the clamp movable plate C2 extending in the left-right direction of the rectangular frame C1. And buffer blocks C10 are fixed on the inner sides of the clamping movable plates and used for buffering when the storage battery workpieces H are clamped, and the sliding directions of the clamping movable plate C2 of the front clamping assembly and the clamping movable plate C2 of the rear clamping assembly are opposite.

Since the box body size of the battery workpieces H and the postures of the battery workpieces H are slightly different, the length of each row of battery workpieces H is different, in order to better clamp each row of battery workpieces H, the clamping movable plate C2 of one clamping assembly is integrated and driven by four clamping cylinders C3, and the clamping movable plate C2 of the other clamping assembly is segmented, each segment corresponds to one clamping position C9 and is driven by a single clamping cylinder C3.

As shown in fig. 6, in the cutting and brushing station E, the positioning assembly E8 includes four positioning grooves E7 capable of respectively accommodating a row of battery workpieces H, the positioning grooves E7 extend horizontally in the front-rear direction, and two first through grooves E9 corresponding to the tabs H1 are formed at the bottom of each positioning groove E7.

As shown in fig. 6 and 7, the cutting and brushing assembly E1 includes a sliding table, two first sliding pairs, a first driving assembly, two wire rollers E4, and a roller cutter E5. The first sliding pair can select the form that the first guide rail E10 is matched with the first sliding block E13, the two first guide rails E10 are fixed on the machine frame A below the positioning component E8 along the left-right direction, and the sliding table is slidably arranged on the two first guide rails E10 through the two first sliding blocks E13. The first driving assembly comprises a first driving motor E0 fixed on the sliding table, a first travelling gear fixed on an output shaft of the first driving motor E0, and a first rack E6 fixed on the rack A below the positioning assembly E8 and parallel to the first guide rail E10, the first travelling gear is meshed with the first rack E6, and when the first driving motor E0 works, the sliding table slides in a left-right reciprocating mode along the two first guide rails E10. The two wire rollers E4 and the hob cutter E5 are horizontally arranged on the sliding table along the front and back directions and are respectively driven by a cutting and brushing motor E11 through a belt E12 and a belt pulley E22, and the rotating directions of the two wire rollers E4 are opposite to each other and run in a contra-rotating mode.

As shown in fig. 7 and 8, the sliding table includes a brush roll panel E3, a hob panel E2, two slider fixing plates E17, a plurality of jacking screws E20, and a plurality of locking screws E19. The two slide block fixing plates E17 extend in the left-right direction with a certain distance, and the bottom of the two slide block fixing plates E13 is fixed with a first slide block E13 of a first slide pair. The brush roll panel E3 is provided with a through groove for mounting a steel wire roll E4, and the hob panel E2 is provided with a through groove for mounting a hob E5. The bottom of the brush roll panel E3 is fixedly provided with a first collecting box E14, the bottom of the hob panel E2 is fixedly provided with a second collecting box E15, the first collecting box E14 and the second collecting box E15 are both provided with an outlet E16, and a drawer E1.1 is arranged below the outlet E16.

As shown in fig. 9, for the convenience of installation and maintenance, the steel wire roller E4 is installed in the following manner: two ends of a mandrel E4.1 of the steel wire roller E4 are respectively provided with a second bearing seat E23, the second bearing seat E23 is fixed in the first collection box E14, a semicircular clamping shaft E24 is installed in the second bearing seat E23, one end of the semicircular clamping shaft E24 fixes the mandrel E4.1 of the steel wire roller E4 through a semicircular clamping sleeve E26 and a pin E25, and the other end of the semicircular clamping shaft E24 is fixed with the belt pulley E22. The installation mode of the hob cutter E5 is the same as that of the steel wire roller E4.

As shown in fig. 10, the brush roll panel E3 and the hob panel E2 are both provided with a jacking screw E20 and a locking screw E19, the lower end of the jacking screw E20 abuts against the top surface of the slider fixing plate E17, the vertical distance between the brush roll panel E3 and the hob panel E2 and the slider fixing plate E17 can be adjusted by screwing and unscrewing the jacking screw E20, and the lower end of the locking screw E19 is connected with the slider fixing plate E17, so that the brush roll panel E3 and the hob panel E2 are positioned.

Specifically, the bottom of the brush roll panel E3 and the bottom of the hob panel E2 are fixed with a reinforcing plate E18 through a fixing screw E21, the brush roll panel E3 and the hob panel E5 are respectively provided with a mounting hole for a jacking screw E20 and a locking screw E19, the reinforcing plate is provided with a screw hole corresponding to the mounting hole for the jacking screw E20, and a through hole corresponding to the locking screw E19, and the slider fixing plate E17 is provided with a screw hole corresponding to the locking screw E19. The jacking screw E20 is matched in the corresponding screw hole after passing through the mounting hole, the lower end of the jacking screw E20 abuts against the top surface of the slider fixing plate E17, and the locking screw E19 is fastened in the corresponding screw hole after passing through the mounting hole and the through hole.

After the steel wire roller E4 is worn, the height of the lug H1 can be adapted by adjusting the height of the brush roller panel E3, and the service life of the steel wire roller E4 is prolonged. When the height of the brush roll panel E3 needs to be adjusted to be high, the locking screw E19 is loosened, the top-up screw E20 is connected and locked on the reinforcing plate E18 in a threaded mode, the top-up screw E20 is screwed downwards, the brush roll panel E3 is lifted up, and the locking screw E19 is locked after the brush roll panel E3 is adjusted to be high. The same manner is adopted for the height adjustment of the hob E5.

As shown in fig. 11, the flux groove G2 includes a groove body G16, a sponge block G13, a cover plate G14 and a positioning optical axis G15. The cell body G16 is fixed on workstation B along the fore-and-aft direction, and the opening part at cell body G16 top is fixed to apron G14, and apron G14 top is provided with three location optical axis G15 along the fore-and-aft direction, and the horizontal interval between the adjacent location optical axis G15 suits with battery work piece H width to form two locating area G10 that can hold a battery work piece H respectively. Two second through grooves G11 corresponding to the pole lug H1 are formed in the cover plate G14 below each positioning area G10, the sponge blocks G13 are arranged in the groove bodies G16 through the trays G12, two sponge blocks G13 are arranged in each tray, the pole lug H1 penetrates through the second through grooves G11 and then contacts with the sponge blocks G13, and soldering flux adsorbed in the sponge blocks G13 is adsorbed.

As shown in fig. 12, a working port of the suction pump G7 is connected with one interface of a three-way joint G9, the other interface of the three-way joint G9 is provided with a one-way valve G8 and is communicated with a soldering flux container G1, a third interface of the three-way joint G9 is connected with a groove body G16 through an inlet pipe G3, soldering flux is injected into the groove body G16 through the inlet pipe G3 or is extracted from the groove body G16, two sides of the groove body G16 are connected with the soldering flux container G1 through a return pipe G4, and a V-shaped groove G17 for facilitating extraction of the soldering flux is formed at the bottom of the groove body G16. The outer wall of the soldering flux container G1 is provided with a liquid level observation tube G6, which is convenient for workers to replenish soldering flux in time.

Before a tab H1 of a storage battery workpiece H is dipped with soldering flux, a drawing cylinder G5 lifts a piston of a suction pump G7 upwards, the suction pump G7 draws the soldering flux, a one-way valve G8 is switched on, and the soldering flux is sucked into a pump body from a soldering flux container G1; the drawing cylinder G5 pushes the piston of the suction pump G7 downwards, the one-way valve G8 is stopped in one way, the soldering flux in the pump body is pumped into the groove body G16 through the inlet and outlet pipe G3, the redundant liquid overflows and flows back to the soldering flux container G1 from the return pipe G4, and the sponge block G13 adsorbs the soldering flux.

After the tab H1 of the storage battery workpiece H is stained with the soldering flux, the drawing cylinder G5 lifts the piston of the suction pump G7 upwards, and the aperture of the inlet pipe G3 is far larger than that of the one-way valve G8, so that the soldering flux in the groove body G16 can be sucked back into the pump body, and the soldering flux in the soldering flux container G1 can be sucked at the same time until the set suction amount is reached. By the circulation, the soldering flux is continuously pumped out of the soldering flux container G1 to the groove body G16 and flows back into the soldering flux container G1, and after the soldering flux is stained on the storage battery workpiece H, the soldering flux in the groove body G16 is sucked back into the pump body.

As shown in fig. 2, 3 and 13, the translation manipulator D is mounted above the worktable B by two stands D1, and includes a sliding plate D3, two second sliding pairs, a second driving assembly, a pneumatic gripper D9 and a lifting cylinder D5. The second sliding pair comprises two second guide rails D2 and a second sliding block D11 matched with the second guide rails D2, the two second guide rails D2 are fixed on two stand stands D1, the second driving assembly comprises a second driving motor D6, a driving pulley D12, a driven pulley D7, a tensioning pulley D13, a second walking gear D8 and a second rack D3, the driving pulley D12 is mounted on an output shaft of the second driving motor D6, an axle of the driven pulley D7 is vertically mounted on the sliding plate D3, the second walking gear is fixed at the lower end of the axle of the driven pulley D7 and meshed with the second rack D3, a second rack D2 is fixed on the stand D1 and parallel to the second guide rails D2, and the driving pulley D12 and the driven pulley D7 are connected through a synchronous belt and tensioned by the tensioning pulley D13.

The sliding plate D3 is horizontally installed on the two stand frames D1 through a second sliding pair, and is driven by a second driving component to reciprocate back and forth along the second sliding pair, the pneumatic gripper D9 is installed on the sliding plate D3 through a plurality of lifting optical axes D4, and a finger D10 of the pneumatic gripper D9 is hung downwards. The lifting cylinder D5 is fixed on the sliding plate D3, and the top rod of the lifting cylinder D5 is vertically downward and connected with the pneumatic gripper D9 to drive the pneumatic gripper D9 to vertically lift.

The storage battery workpieces H are conveyed and arranged from the feeding side at the front end when fed by the feeding manipulator F, in the embodiment, an auxiliary feeding table K is further arranged on the front side of the rack A, and as shown in fig. 2, 3 and 14, the auxiliary feeding table K comprises a base plate K1, a lifting plate K4, a guide shaft K5, a limiting shaft K7, a limiting block K8 and a jacking cylinder K6. The base plate K1 is horizontally fixed on the frame A, the lifting plate K4 is installed on the upper side of the base plate K1 through a guide shaft K5 which is vertically arranged, the limiting shaft K7 is vertically fixed at the bottom of the lifting plate K4 and penetrates through the base plate K1, the limiting block K8 is fixed at the lower end of the limiting shaft K7, and the stroke of the lifting plate K4 is limited. The jacking cylinder K6 is fixed at the bottom of the base plate K1, and the top rod of the jacking cylinder is vertically upward and connected with the lifting plate K4 to drive the lifting plate K4 to vertically lift. The top of lifter plate K4 is provided with a plurality of gib blocks K3, and the rear end of gib block K3 is fixed with spacing strip K2, and the horizontal interval of adjacent gib block K3 suits with battery work piece H width to guide battery work piece H and make it arrange into a line. In this embodiment, four rows of the lifting plate K4 are arranged in total, and each row of the two battery workpieces H is used for being gripped by the feeding manipulator F on the front side of the rack a. Obviously, the work of the auxiliary feeding table K can also be done by the equipment on the feeding side of the front end.

Obviously, all the electronic components in this embodiment are controlled by the control unit, and the stroke of each moving device may be limited by the optoelectronic switch, which will not be described in detail herein.

The working principle of the utility model is as follows:

the feeding manipulator F turns forwards to be in a horizontal state, the lifting cylinder K6 lifts the lifting plate K4, four rows of battery workpieces H arranged on the lifting plate K4 extend into four clamping positions of the feeding manipulator F, the front clamping assembly and the rear clamping assembly act to clamp the four rows of battery workpieces H at one time, tabs H1 of the four rows of battery workpieces H face upwards, the feeding manipulator F turns backwards 180 degrees, the four rows of battery workpieces H are conveyed to the positioning assembly E8 of the cutting and brushing station E and then rotate, the cutting and brushing assembly E1 moves once to clean an oxide layer on the surface of the tabs H1 and cut off the redundant length of the tabs H1, then the translation manipulator D translates to the upper part of the cutting and brushing station E, the lifting cylinder D5 pushes downwards, the pneumatic gripper D9 descends and grips the four rows of battery workpieces H at one time, the lifting cylinder D5 drives the pneumatic gripper D9 to contract upwards together with the battery workpieces H, and then translating to a scaling powder station G to dip the scaling powder, after dipping the scaling powder, turning the discharging manipulator forwards to the scaling powder station, clamping four rows of storage battery workpieces H at one time, turning the storage battery workpieces H backwards by 180 degrees, and feeding the storage battery workpieces H to an automatic cast-weld machine at the rear end.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. The utility model provides an automatic brush machine of cutting of battery tab which characterized in that includes: the device comprises a rack (A), a workbench (B) horizontally arranged at the top of the rack (A), a feeding manipulator (F), a cutting and brushing station (E), a soldering flux station (G), a discharging manipulator (C) and a translation manipulator (D) arranged above the workbench (B), wherein the feeding manipulator, the cutting and brushing station (E), the soldering flux station (G) and the discharging manipulator (C) are sequentially arranged on the workbench (B) from front to back;

the feeding manipulator (F) is used for clamping at least one row of storage battery workpieces (H) from a feeding side and then conveying the storage battery workpieces to a cutting and brushing station (E);

the cutting and brushing station (E) comprises a positioning component (E8) arranged on the workbench (B) and a cutting and brushing component (E1) arranged on the rack (A) below the positioning component (E8), after the positioning component (E8) positions the storage battery workpiece (H), the lug (H1) is hung downwards, the cutting and brushing component (E1) cuts off the redundant length of the lug (H1) and cleans the surface of the lug (H1);

the soldering flux station (G) comprises at least one soldering flux groove (G2) arranged on the workbench (B), the battery workpiece (H) is positioned behind the top of the soldering flux groove (G2), and the lug (H1) is downwards inserted into the soldering flux groove (G2) to pick up the soldering flux;

the translation manipulator (D) reciprocates between the cutting and brushing station (E) and the soldering flux station (G), and conveys the storage battery workpiece (H) to the top of a soldering flux groove (G2) of the soldering flux station (G) after the storage battery workpiece (H) is clamped by a positioning assembly (E8) of the cutting and brushing station (E);

and the discharging manipulator (C) is used for clamping the storage battery workpiece (H) from the soldering flux station (G) and then delivering the storage battery workpiece (H).

2. The automatic cutting and brushing machine for the storage battery tabs according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the feeding manipulator (F) and the discharging manipulator (C) respectively comprise a turnover motor (C8), a turnover spindle (C5), a rectangular frame (C1) and an opposite clamp assembly; the turnover spindle (C5) is horizontally arranged on the workbench (B) through a first bearing seat (C11), and the turnover motor (C8) drives the turnover spindle (C5) to rotate; the rear end of the rectangular frame (C1) is fixed on the main overturning shaft (C5), and the front end of the rectangular frame is cantilevered outwards along the direction vertical to the main overturning shaft (C5); the butt clamp assembly is arranged in the rectangular frame (C1) and is used for butt clamping the storage battery workpiece (H) from the front direction and the rear direction respectively to clamp the storage battery workpiece (H).

3. The automatic cutting and brushing machine for the storage battery tabs according to claim 2 is characterized in that: the butt-clamping assembly comprises a plurality of guide optical axes (C4), a front clamping assembly and a rear clamping assembly; each guide optical axis (C4) is fixed in the rectangular frame (C1) along the front-back direction, and the adjacent guide optical axes (C4) keep the horizontal spacing which is suitable for the width of the storage battery workpieces (H) in the left-right direction, so that at least one clamping position (C9) is formed in the rectangular frame (C1), and each clamping position (C9) can accommodate one row of the storage battery workpieces (H); the front clamping assembly and the rear clamping assembly respectively comprise a clamping movable plate (C2) which is in sliding fit with the guide optical axis (C4), and a clamping cylinder (C3) which drives the clamping movable plate (C2) to slide along the guide optical axis (C4), wherein the clamping movable plate (C2) extends along the left and right directions of the rectangular frame (C1), and the clamping movable plate (C2) of the front clamping assembly and the clamping movable plate (C2) of the rear clamping assembly slide in opposite directions.

4. The automatic cutting and brushing machine for the storage battery tabs according to claim 3 is characterized in that: the clamping movable plate (C2) of one of the front clamping assembly and the rear clamping assembly is integral and is driven by at least one clamping cylinder (C3), and the clamping movable plate (C2) of the other clamping assembly is segmented, each segment corresponds to one clamping position (C9) and is driven by at least one clamping cylinder (C3).

5. The automatic cutting and brushing machine for the storage battery tabs according to claim 1 is characterized in that: in the cutting and brushing station (E), the positioning assembly (E8) comprises at least one positioning groove (E7) capable of accommodating a row of storage battery workpieces (H), the positioning groove (E7) horizontally extends in the front-back direction, and a first through groove (E9) corresponding to the position of the lug (H1) is formed in the bottom of the positioning groove (E7);

cut brush subassembly (E1) including the slip table, two first sliding pairs, first drive assembly, two steel wire rolls (E4) and a hobbing cutter (E5), the slip table is installed on frame (A) of locating component (E8) below through two first sliding pairs slidable, reciprocating sliding about first drive assembly drives the slip table, two steel wire rolls (E4) and hobbing cutter (E5) all along fore-and-aft direction horizontal arrangement on the slip table, drive by cutting brush motor (E11) respectively, the direction of turning soon of two steel wire rolls (E4) is opposite.

6. The automatic cutting and brushing machine for the storage battery tabs according to claim 5 is characterized in that: the sliding table comprises a brush roll panel (E3), a hob panel (E2), two sliding block fixing plates (E17), a plurality of jacking screws (E20) and a plurality of locking screws (E19);

two slide block fixing plates (E17) extend along the left-right direction and keep a distance, and a first slide block (E13) of a first sliding pair is fixed at the bottom; a through groove for mounting a steel wire roller (E4) is formed in the brush roll panel (E3), and a through groove for mounting a hob (E5) is formed in the hob panel (E2);

all install on brush roll panel (E3), hobbing cutter panel (E2) top height screw (E20) and locking screw (E19), the lower extreme of top height screw (E20) supports and leans on the top surface at slider fixed plate (E17), can adjust brush roll panel (E3) through screwing and unscrewing top height screw (E20), the vertical interval of these two and slider fixed plate (E17) of hobbing cutter panel (E2), the lower extreme and the slider fixed plate (E17) of locking screw (E19) are connected, realize brush roll panel (E3), the location of hobbing cutter panel (E2).

7. The automatic cutting and brushing machine for the storage battery tabs according to claim 1 is characterized in that: the soldering flux groove (G2) comprises a groove body (G16), a sponge block (G13), a cover plate (G14) and a positioning optical axis (G15);

the groove body (G16) is fixed on the workbench (B) along the front-back direction, the cover plate (G14) is fixed at an opening at the top of the groove body (G16), a plurality of positioning optical axes (G15) are arranged above the cover plate (G14) along the front-back direction, the horizontal distance between adjacent positioning optical axes (G15) is matched with the width of the storage battery workpiece (H), so that at least one positioning area (G10) capable of accommodating a column of storage battery workpieces (H) is formed, a second through groove (G11) corresponding to a lug (H1) is formed in the cover plate (G14) below each positioning area (G10), the sponge block (G13) is independently arranged or arranged in the groove body (G16) through a tray (G12), the lug (H1) penetrates through the second through groove (G11) and then contacts with the sponge block (G13), and soldering flux adsorbed in the sponge block (G13) is adsorbed.

8. The automatic cutting and brushing machine for the tabs of the storage batteries according to claim 1 or 7 is characterized in that: the soldering flux station (G) further comprises a soldering flux container (G1) and a suction pump (G7) driven by a drawing cylinder (G5), a working port of the suction pump (G7) is connected with one interface of a three-way joint (G9), a one-way valve (G8) is installed at the other interface of the three-way joint (G9) and communicated with the soldering flux container (G1), a third interface of the three-way joint (G9) is connected with the groove body (G16) through an inlet pipe (G3), soldering flux is injected into the groove body (G16) or is drawn out from the groove body (G16) through an inlet pipe (G3), and the two sides of the groove body (G16) are connected with the soldering flux container (G1) through a return pipe (G4).

9. The automatic cutting and brushing machine for the tabs of the storage batteries according to any one of claims 1 to 7 is characterized in that: the translation manipulator (D) is installed above the workbench (B) through two vertical frames (D1) and comprises a sliding plate (D3), two second sliding pairs, a second driving assembly, a pneumatic gripper (D9) and a lifting cylinder (D5);

the sliding plate (D3) is horizontally arranged on two stand frames (D1) through two second sliding pairs and driven by a second driving component to reciprocate back and forth along the second sliding pairs, the pneumatic gripper (D9) is arranged on the sliding plate (D3) through a plurality of lifting optical axes (D4), and fingers (D10) of the pneumatic gripper (D9) are suspended downwards; the lifting cylinder (D5) is fixed on the sliding plate (D3), the mandril of the lifting cylinder is vertically downward and is connected with the pneumatic gripper (D9) to drive the pneumatic gripper (D9) to vertically lift.

10. The automatic cutting and brushing machine for the tabs of the storage batteries according to any one of claims 1 to 7 is characterized in that: still include one and set up supplementary pay-off platform (K) in frame (A) front side, including base plate (K1), lifter plate (K4), guiding axle (K5) and jacking cylinder (K6), base plate (K1) level is fixed on frame (A), lifter plate (K4) install the upside at base plate (K1) through vertical guiding axle (K5) of arranging, jacking cylinder (K6) are fixed in base plate (K1) bottom, its ejector pin is perpendicular upwards and be connected with lifter plate (K4), drive lifter plate (K4) vertical lift; the top of lifter plate (K4) is provided with a plurality of guide strips (K3), and the horizontal interval of adjacent guide strip (K3) suits with battery work piece (H) width to guide battery work piece (H) and make it arrange one row, supply feeding manipulator (F) the front side of frame (A) to press from both sides and get.

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