CN220844144U

CN220844144U - Sealing ring feeding system for assembling battery top cover

Info

Publication number: CN220844144U
Application number: CN202322340211.7U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 钟龙飞; 钟辉; 卢进; 卜锋; 王宏; 李海辉
Original assignee: Hymson Laser Technology Group Co Ltd
Current assignee: Hymson Laser Technology Group Co Ltd
Priority date: 2023-08-30
Filing date: 2023-08-30
Publication date: 2024-04-26
Anticipated expiration: 2033-08-30

Abstract

The utility model discloses a sealing ring feeding system for assembling a battery top cover, which comprises a flexible vibration disc assembly, a visual positioning assembly, a robot taking and discharging assembly and a transfer assembly, wherein the flexible vibration disc assembly is connected with the visual positioning assembly; the flexible vibration disc assembly comprises a flexible vibration disc and a sealing ring supplementing bin, the flexible vibration disc is used for placing the sealing ring and vibrating the sealing ring, and the visual positioning assembly comprises a bracket and a camera arranged on the bracket; the robot material taking and discharging assembly comprises a four-axis robot and a material taking and discharging mechanism, and the material taking and discharging mechanism is arranged at the free end of the four-axis robot; the transfer assembly comprises a transfer supporting platform, a guide column and a stripping mechanism, wherein the guide column and the stripping mechanism are arranged on the transfer supporting platform. The sealing ring feeding system can avoid the problem of blocking and jamming in the feeding process of the sealing ring, and improves the stability and production efficiency of top cover assembly.

Description

Sealing ring feeding system for assembling battery top cover

Technical Field

The utility model relates to the technical field of battery assembly, in particular to a sealing ring feeding system for battery top cover assembly.

Background

The power/energy storage battery part mainly comprises a top cover, an aluminum shell and a winding core, wherein the top cover and the shell form a sealed whole through laser welding, and the top cover assembly comprises a top cover plate, an explosion-proof valve, a sealing ring, a pole and the like. Because the sealing ring is mainly made of fluororubber, the hardness is about 70 ℃, the product can be distorted and deformed in the processes of production molding, packaging and storage and transportation, and the assembly and the sealing performance of the product can be influenced. The sealing ring is produced and formed in the earlier stage, the defective products in the packaging, storage and transportation processes can be reversely assembled in the production line and the assembly process, and the defects such as wrong assembly and the like can occur, and particularly the blocking and clamping of the common vibrating disk in the industry are serious in the feeding process.

Disclosure of utility model

In order to overcome the defects of the prior art, the utility model provides a sealing ring feeding system for assembling a battery top cover, which is used for solving the problem that blocking and clamping occur in the feeding process of the existing sealing ring, ensuring that defective products cannot flow into a later-stage process in the assembling production process of the sealing ring, and improving the stability and production efficiency of top cover assembly.

The technical scheme adopted for solving the technical problems is as follows:

A sealing ring feeding system assembled by a battery top cover comprises a flexible vibration disc assembly, a visual positioning assembly, a robot material taking and discharging assembly and a transfer assembly; the visual positioning assembly comprises a bracket and a camera arranged on the bracket, and the camera is used for photographing and positioning the sealing ring in the flexible vibration disc; the robot material taking and discharging assembly comprises a four-axis robot and a material taking and discharging mechanism, wherein the material taking and discharging mechanism is arranged at the free end of the four-axis robot and is used for sucking a sealing ring of the flexible vibration disc; the transfer assembly comprises a transfer supporting platform, a guide column and a stripping mechanism, wherein the guide column and the stripping mechanism are arranged on the transfer supporting platform, the taking and placing mechanism is further used for releasing the sucked sealing ring on the guide column, and the stripping mechanism is used for stripping the sealing ring on the guide column.

As a further improvement of the technical scheme, the flexible vibration disc assemblies are provided with a plurality of cameras, the number of the cameras is the same as that of the flexible vibration disc assemblies, one camera is arranged right above each flexible vibration disc, and the numbers of the transfer assemblies and the robot taking and discharging assemblies are also the same as that of the flexible vibration disc assemblies.

As a further improvement of the above technical solution, the camera includes a camera body, a camera lens and a light source plate, both of which are fixedly mounted on the stand, and the light source plate is located below the camera lens.

As a further improvement of the technical scheme, the material taking and discharging mechanism comprises a connecting seat and a sealing ring suction nozzle, and the connecting seat is connected with the free ends of the surrounding robots.

As a further improvement of the technical scheme, the sealing ring suction nozzles are provided with a plurality of sealing ring suction nozzles, and the material taking and discharging mechanism further comprises a first power module for driving the sealing ring suction nozzles to independently lift.

As a further improvement of the above technical solution, the first power module includes a plurality of first power units fixed on the connecting base, and the sealing ring suction nozzle is mounted at a free end of the first power units.

As the further improvement of above-mentioned technical scheme, first power module still includes suction nozzle mounting panel and fixed plate, the fixed plate sets up on the connecting seat, just be provided with a plurality of vertical guide rails on the fixed plate, equal sliding connection has a slider on every guide rail, be fixed with the connecting plate on the slider, the free end and the connecting plate of first power unit are connected, the suction nozzle mounting panel is fixed in the bottom of connecting plate, the sealing washer suction nozzle is installed on the suction nozzle mounting panel.

As a further improvement of the technical scheme, the stripping mechanism comprises a stripping plate and a second power module for driving the stripping plate to lift, wherein the stripping plate is provided with stripping holes, and the guide posts are slidably connected in the stripping holes.

As a further improvement of the technical scheme, the second power module comprises a second power unit arranged on the transfer supporting platform, a stripping push block is arranged at the free end of the second power unit, the stripping plate is connected with a sliding connection plate, the bottom of the sliding connection plate is provided with a sliding push block, the sliding push block is positioned right above the stripping push block, and the free end of the second power unit drives the stripping push block to push the sliding push block to move upwards when stretching out so as to synchronously drive the stripping plate to move upwards.

As the further improvement of above-mentioned technical scheme, transfer supporting platform includes support base and backup pad, second power unit installs on support base, the guide post is fixed at the upper surface of backup pad, be connected with rotatory module between backup pad and the support base, rotatory module is used for driving the backup pad and rotates.

The beneficial effects of the utility model are as follows: the flexible vibration dish subassembly carries out roundness analysis, positive and negative judgement and provides corresponding coordinate to the internal sealing washer of flexible vibration dish with the incoming material sealing washer product through vibration dispersion at whole flexible vibration dish, visual positioning assembly, the robot is got the internal sealing washer of blowing subassembly and is accurately absorbed to the internal sealing washer of flexible vibration dish through the coordinate that visual positioning assembly provided, the sealing washer pay-off after the absorption is to the transfer subassembly, the follow-up equipment of being convenient for takes, the problem of putty card material appears in the in-process that can avoid current ordinary vibration dish to directly carry out the sealing washer pay-off like this, thereby ensure that the defective products sealing washer can not appear in the equipment production process and flow into the back end process, the stability and the production efficiency of promotion battery top cap equipment.

Drawings

The utility model will be further described with reference to the drawings and examples.

FIG. 1 is an assembly schematic of a gasket feed system for battery top cap assembly of the present utility model;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a flexible vibratory pan assembly and a visual positioning assembly in the seal ring feeding system of the present utility model;

FIG. 3 is a front view of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a side view of FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a robotic pick-and-place assembly in the seal ring loading system of the present utility model;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a loading and unloading mechanism in the seal ring loading system of the present utility model;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural view of a transfer assembly in the seal ring feeding system of the present utility model.

Reference numerals: 1. a visual positioning assembly; 11. a bracket; 12. a camera; 121. a light source board; 122. a light source fixing block; 123. a camera lens; 124. a camera body; 125. a camera mounting plate; 2. the robot takes and puts the material assembly; 21. a robot mounting base; 22. four-edge robots; 23. a material taking and discharging mechanism; 231. sealing ring suction nozzle; 232. a suction nozzle mounting plate; 233. a first rail-slider structure; 2331. a guide rail; 2332. a slide block; 234. a fixing plate; 235. a connecting seat; 236. a suction nozzle lifting cylinder; 237. a connecting plate; 3. a transfer assembly; 31. a support base; 32. a cylinder mounting seat; 33. a stripping cylinder; 34. stripping the pushing block; 35. sliding the push block; 36. sliding support plates; 37. a second guide rail slide block structure; 38. a sliding connection plate; 39. a stripping plate; 310. a guide post; 311. a support plate; 312. a rotary cylinder; 4. a frame; 5. a flexible vibratory pan assembly; 51. a flexible vibration plate; 52. and (5) a sealing ring supplementing bin.

Detailed Description

The conception, specific structure, and technical effects produced by the present utility model will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the embodiments and the drawings to fully understand the objects, features, and effects of the present utility model. It is apparent that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present utility model, but not all embodiments, and that other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without inventive effort are within the scope of the present utility model based on the embodiments of the present utility model. In addition, all the coupling/connection relationships referred to in the patent are not direct connection of the single-finger members, but rather, it means that a better coupling structure can be formed by adding or subtracting coupling aids depending on the specific implementation. The technical features in the utility model can be interactively combined on the premise of no contradiction and conflict.

1-7, A sealing ring feeding system assembled by a battery top cover comprises a frame 4, a flexible vibration disc assembly 5, a visual positioning assembly 1, a robot material taking and discharging assembly 2 and a transfer assembly 3, wherein the flexible vibration disc assembly 5, the visual positioning assembly 1, the robot material taking and discharging assembly 2 and the transfer assembly 3 are arranged on the frame 4; the flexible vibration disc assembly 5 comprises a flexible vibration disc 51 and a sealing ring supplementing bin 52, the visual positioning assembly 1 comprises a bracket 11 and a camera 12 arranged on the bracket 11, and the camera 12 is used for photographing and positioning a sealing ring in the flexible vibration disc 51; the robot material taking and discharging assembly 2 comprises a four-axis robot and a material taking and discharging mechanism 23; the transfer assembly 3 includes a transfer support platform, a guide post 310 provided on the transfer support platform, and a peeling mechanism.

The sealing ring feeding process of the embodiment is as follows: the sealing ring supplementing bin 52 is used for feeding sealing rings into the flexible vibration disc 51, the sealing rings are dispersed through vibration of the flexible vibration disc 51, the camera 12 of the visual positioning assembly 1 is used for photographing the sealing rings in the flexible vibration disc 51 to conduct roundness analysis and front and back face conveying judgment, corresponding coordinates are provided, the robot taking and placing assembly 2 is used for accurately sucking the sealing rings in the flexible vibration disc 51 through the coordinates provided by the visual positioning assembly 1, the sucked sealing rings are fed to the transferring assembly 3, the taking and placing mechanism 23 is used for sleeving the sealing rings on the guide post 310, and the stripping mechanism is used for stripping the sealing rings on the guide post 310 from the guide post 310 when the sealing rings are assembled with the top cover.

Preferably, the flexible vibration disk assembly 5 is provided with a plurality of, correspondingly, the quantity of the camera 12, the transfer assembly 3 and the robot taking and placing assembly 2 is the same as the quantity of the flexible vibration disk assembly 5, so that the quantity of the sealing ring material loading is improved, and the working efficiency of the sealing ring material loading is improved. In this embodiment, the number of the flexible vibration disc assemblies 5, the cameras 12, the transfer assembly 3 and the robot picking and placing assembly 2 is 2, wherein, referring to fig. 3, two flexible vibration disc assemblies 5 are located at two sides of the bracket 11, and two flexible vibration discs 51 are respectively located under two cameras 12, and the transfer assembly 3 and the robot picking and placing assembly 2 are adapted to be disposed beside the flexible vibration discs 51.

In a specific embodiment, referring to fig. 2, the camera 12 includes a camera mounting plate 125, a camera body 124, a camera lens 123, a light source fixing block 122 and a light source plate 121, the camera body 124 is fixedly mounted on the bracket 11 through the camera mounting plate 125, the light source plate 121 is fixedly mounted on the bracket 11 through the light source fixing block 122, and the light source plate 121 is located below the camera lens 123, and is used for providing light when photographing the camera body 124, so as to improve the visual positioning effect.

In a specific embodiment, referring to fig. 5, the robot picking and placing assembly 2 includes a robot mounting base 21, a four-axis robot and a picking and placing mechanism 23, the four-axis robot is mounted on the robot mounting base 21, the picking and placing mechanism 23 is mounted at a free end of the four-axis robot, in this embodiment, the four-axis robot may be a SCARA robot (specifically, a robot model is selected, namely, a schiff technology CS-1000), and the four-axis robot may drive the picking and placing mechanism 23 to move to a specified coordinate position, so as to accurately suck a sealing ring.

Further, referring to fig. 6, the pick-and-place mechanism 23 includes a connection base 235, a first power module, and a sealing ring suction nozzle 231, where the connection base 235 is connected with the free ends of the peripheral robots 22. The sealing ring suction nozzles 231 are provided with a plurality of, preferably 4, first power modules, and the first power modules comprise a plurality of first power units fixed on the connecting seat 235, and the first power units are correspondingly provided with 4 first power units, in this embodiment, the first power units adopt cylinders and are marked as suction nozzle lifting cylinders 236, in other embodiments, the first power units can adopt linear modules such as electric cylinders and linear motors, and the sealing ring suction nozzles 231 are connected to the free ends of the suction nozzle lifting cylinders 236 through suction nozzle mounting plates 232. Through such setting, when four-axis robot drives gets blowing mechanism 23 and removes to appointed coordinate position, suction nozzle lift cylinder 236 stretches out and drives sealing washer suction nozzle 231 and move down to absorb the sealing washer or transfer on the subassembly 3 release sealing washer in flexible vibration dish 51, and can absorb four sealing washer in proper order in getting material work through four suction nozzle lift cylinders 236, improve the work efficiency of sealing washer pay-off.

Still further, referring to fig. 6, the first power module further includes a fixing plate 234 and a first rail-slider structure 233, the fixing plate 234 is disposed on the connecting seat 235, and 4 vertical rails 2331 are disposed on the fixing plate 234, each rail 2331 is slidably connected with a slider 2332, a connecting plate 237 is fixed on the slider 2332, a free end of the nozzle lifting cylinder 236 is connected with the connecting plate 237, the nozzle mounting plate 232 is fixed on the bottom of the connecting plate 237, and the sealing ring nozzle 231 is mounted on the nozzle mounting plate 232. When the suction nozzle lifting cylinder 236 stretches, the connecting plate 237 is driven to slide up and down on the fixed plate 234, and the stability of the up-and-down movement of the sealing ring suction nozzle 231 can be improved through the arrangement of the first guide rail sliding block structure 233.

In a specific embodiment, referring to fig. 7, the transfer support platform of the transfer assembly 3 includes a support base 31 and a support plate 311, and the guide posts 310 have 4 sealing rings fixed on the upper surface of the support plate 311 and are used for receiving 4 sealing rings fed by the pick-and-place mechanism 23. Further, the stripping mechanism comprises a stripping plate 39 and a second power module for driving the stripping plate 39 to lift, the stripping plate 39 is provided with a stripping hole, the guide post 310 is slidably connected in the stripping hole, and when the stripping plate 39 moves upwards, the sealing ring on the guide post 310 is pushed away from the guide post 310, so that the assembly work of the sealing ring and the top cover is avoided.

Further, the second power module includes a second power unit and a transmission unit, in this embodiment, the second power unit adopts a cylinder and is labeled as a stripping cylinder 33, in other embodiments, the second power unit may adopt a linear module such as an electric cylinder, a linear motor, etc., the stripping cylinder 33 is fixedly connected to the supporting base 31 through a cylinder mounting seat 32, and a stripping push block 34 is disposed at a free end of the stripping cylinder 33; the transmission unit comprises a sliding connection plate 38 and a sliding support plate 36, the sliding support plate 36 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the support plate 311, the sliding connection plate 38 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the stripping plate 39, a second guide rail sliding block structure 37 is connected between the sliding connection plate 38 and the sliding support plate 36, namely, the sliding connection plate 38 is in sliding connection with the sliding support plate 36, a sliding push block 35 is arranged at the bottom of the sliding connection plate 38, the sliding push block 35 is located right above the stripping push block 34, and therefore, when the free end of the stripping cylinder 33 stretches out, the stripping push block 34 is driven to push the sliding push block 35 to move upwards, the stripping plate 39 is synchronously driven to move upwards, and then a sealing ring on the guide post 310 is pushed down.

Preferably, a rotating module is connected between the supporting plate 311 and the supporting base 31, the rotating module is used for driving the supporting plate 311 to rotate, the rotating module adopts a rotating cylinder 312, the rotating cylinder 312 is fixedly installed on the supporting base 31, and the bottom center of the supporting plate 311 is installed at the free end of the rotating cylinder 312, so that the rotating cylinder 312 drives the supporting plate 311 to rotate on the horizontal plane, the position of the sealing ring is adjusted, and the subsequent assembly work of the sealing ring is facilitated.

While the preferred embodiment of the present utility model has been described in detail, the present utility model is not limited to the embodiments, and those skilled in the art can make various equivalent modifications or substitutions without departing from the spirit of the present utility model, and the equivalent modifications or substitutions are included in the scope of the present utility model as defined in the appended claims.

Claims

1. A gasket feed system for battery top cap assembly, comprising:

The flexible vibration disc assembly comprises a flexible vibration disc and a sealing ring supplementing bin, and the flexible vibration disc is used for placing the sealing ring and vibrating and dispersing the sealing ring;

The visual positioning assembly comprises a bracket and a camera arranged on the bracket, wherein the camera is used for photographing and positioning a sealing ring in the flexible vibration disc;

the robot material taking and discharging assembly comprises a four-axis robot and a material taking and discharging mechanism, wherein the material taking and discharging mechanism is arranged at the free end of the four-axis robot and is used for sucking a sealing ring of a flexible vibration disc;

The transfer assembly comprises a transfer supporting platform, a guide column and a stripping mechanism, wherein the guide column and the stripping mechanism are arranged on the transfer supporting platform, the taking and placing mechanism is further used for releasing the sucked sealing ring on the guide column, and the stripping mechanism is used for stripping the sealing ring on the guide column.

2. The gasket feeding system of claim 1, wherein a plurality of the flexible vibration disk assemblies are provided, the number of the cameras is the same as the number of the flexible vibration disk assemblies, and one camera is arranged right above each flexible vibration disk; the number of the transfer assemblies and the robot taking and discharging assemblies is the same as that of the flexible vibration disc assemblies.

3. The gasket feed system of claim 2, wherein the camera includes a camera body, a camera lens, and a light source plate, both fixedly mounted on the bracket, the light source plate being positioned laterally below the camera lens.

4. The gasket feeding system of claim 1, wherein the pick-and-place mechanism comprises a connection base and a gasket nozzle, the connection base being connected to the free ends of the peripheral robots.

5. The gasket feeding system of claim 4, wherein a plurality of gasket nozzles are provided, and the pick-and-place mechanism further comprises a first power module for driving the plurality of gasket nozzles to individually lift.

6. The gasket feed system of claim 5, wherein the first power module includes a plurality of first power units secured to the connection base, the gasket nozzle being mounted to a free end of the first power units.

7. The gasket feeding system of claim 6, wherein the first power module further comprises a nozzle mounting plate and a fixing plate, the fixing plate is arranged on the connecting seat, a plurality of vertical guide rails are arranged on the fixing plate, a sliding block is slidably connected to each guide rail, a connecting plate is fixed on each sliding block, the free end of the first power unit is connected with the connecting plate, the nozzle mounting plate is fixed at the bottom of the connecting plate, and the gasket nozzle is mounted on the nozzle mounting plate.

8. The gasket feeding system of claim 1, wherein the stripping mechanism comprises a stripping plate and a second power module for driving the stripping plate to lift, the stripping plate is provided with a stripping hole, and the guide post is slidably connected in the stripping hole.

9. The gasket feeding system of claim 8, wherein the second power module comprises a second power unit mounted on the transfer support platform, a peeling push block is arranged at the free end of the second power unit, the peeling plate is connected with a sliding connection plate, the sliding push block is arranged at the bottom of the sliding connection plate and is located right above the peeling push block, and the peeling push block is driven to push the sliding push block to move upwards when the free end of the second power unit stretches out so as to synchronously drive the peeling plate to move upwards.

10. The gasket feeding system of claim 9, wherein the transfer support platform comprises a support base and a support plate, the second power unit is mounted on the support base, the guide post is fixed on the upper surface of the support plate, a rotating module is connected between the support plate and the support base, and the rotating module is used for driving the support plate to rotate.