Plain thrust bearing retainer final product quality detects method for separating and device automatically
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of detection devices suitable for bearing retainer final product quality, in particular to a kind of to be suitable for putting down
The automatic detection sorting unit of face thrust bearing retainer surface scratch, ball clearance and ball missing.
Background technique
Plain thrust bearing is a common part in automobile ABS anti-lock braking system, and retainer is largely determined
The performance of bearing is determined.Plain thrust bearing retainer, as a basic part of automobile plain thrust bearing, ball trip
Gap size and surface defect will affect the working condition and service life of bearing, and then will affect the complete vehicle quality and safety of automobile
Performance is also related to the reputation and benefit of vehicle factor.To prevent unqualified part from flowing into the Assembling Production of subsequent bearing to cause
Security risk need to pass through stringent quality inspection in plain thrust bearing retainer factory.
Currently, mainly to pass through manual operation dial gauge to the detection of plain thrust bearing retainer clearance complete for relevant enterprise
At, ball to be measured is first pushed down into the table bar bottom of dial gauge, ball is made to be in extreme lower position, read dial gauge indicator instruction
Value, then withstands ball to be measured from ball bottom using a lever upwards, so that ball to be measured is in extreme higher position, then read hundred
The indicator indicated value of point table, the indicator indicated value finally read with second subtract the indicator indicated value of reading for the first time to get
To the clearance value of ball to be measured, then it will test result typing computer;It is then completely logical for the detection of ball missing and surface defect
The mode for crossing artificial naked-eye observation is screened.As purchaser is higher and higher to product yield requirement, or even require to reach
100%, this just needs manufacturing enterprise to detect each retainer, however traditional detection mode inefficiency, worker's labour
Intensity is big, and long-term work after-vision fatigue is easily made mistakes, and testing result reliability is poor, has been unable to satisfy purchaser to product matter
Measure the demand of the requirement and enterprise itself Transformation Development examined.
Therefore, develop it is a set of can clearance size to plain thrust bearing retainer, lack pearl situation and surface defect carries out
The automatic device for detecting and sorting is particularly important, and the quality testing of product can be rapidly completed, and will test result deposit number
According to library, the product quality detectability and quality tracing management system of promotion and perfect enterprise.
Summary of the invention
For the deficiency of background technique, the purpose of the present invention is to provide one kind to be used for plain thrust bearing retainer surface
The automatic detection sorting unit of scratch, ball clearance and ball missing.
The technical solution adopted by the present invention to solve the technical problems is:
Detection device in the present invention includes detection module and feeding and sorting module, and the detection module includes ball clearance
With scarce pearl detection module, surface scratch detection module, the feeding and sorting module include charging barrel, positive and reverse screening module,
Lack material and emergency disposal module, ball locating module, mobile self-clamping module.
The charging barrel is connected by material path with ball locating module, and positive and reverse screening module is mounted in charging barrel, is lacked
Material is placed in right above material path with emergency disposal module;Ball locating module, ball clearance and scarce pearl detection module and surface are drawn
Trace detection module is successively installed at a certain distance on the same axis;Mobile self-clamping module is mounted on ball locating module and detection mould
In front of block.
The ball clearance and scarce pearl detection module include bracket, retainer fixed link, retainer support base, eight positions
Displacement sensor, eight mandrils and five telescopic cylinders.Bracket is made of Europe superscript aluminum profile, by angle bar and T-type screw connection, is consolidated
It is fixed;Telescopic cylinder one, two and three, which is connected through a screw thread, to be fixed on bracket;The output end link retainer of telescopic cylinder two is fixed
Bar;Retainer support base and telescopic cylinder four and five are fixed on the table;Eight displacement sensors are fixed on by telescopic cylinder
On one and three hoistable platforms driven;Eight mandrils are fixed on the hoistable platform driven by telescopic cylinder four and five.
The surface scratch detection module includes front face surface scratch detection module and reverse side surface scratch detection module,
Its structure is consistent, is made of bracket, camera, light source and retainer support base.Bracket is made of Europe superscript aluminum profile, by angle bar and T
Type screw connection, fixation;Camera and light source, which are connected through a screw thread, to be fixed on connecting plate, and connecting plate, which is connected through a screw thread, to be fixed on
On bracket;Retainer support base is fixed on the base.
The charging barrel is vibrating screw feeder, including feeding motor, vibrating motor, spiral, charging basket and feed bin.
Its feeding motor, vibrating motor respectively switch, and control Oscillation Amplitude is adjustable, material can be made automatically into spiral;Spiral and charging basket
It is flexible coupling between feed bin, disassembly is light;There are valve and forward-reverse switch in barrel lower end, easy to clean.
The positive and reverse screening module includes that four claw-likes screen grid, is mounted on charging barrel spiral tail portion.Utilize holding
Frictional force different characteristic in frame front and back sides makes the only retainer of reverse side upward can be face-up by four screening grids
Retainer is fallen into feed bin, again feeding.
The scarce material and emergency disposal module includes Hall sensor, bracket, indicator light.Hall sensor is fixed on branch
On frame, and it is located at right above material path;Indicator light is mounted on cantilever tip.
The ball locating module includes bracket, light-duty cylinder, compression cylinder, feeding seat, sliding seat, bracket, sliding rail
With binder set.Light-duty cylinder is fixed on workbench, and the output end of light-duty cylinder is connected with sliding seat;Feeding seat is fixed on branch
On frame;Bracket is fixed on sliding seat;Compression cylinder is fixed on bracket, and the output end of compression cylinder is equipped with binder set, binder
Set is located at right above feeding seat.
The mobile self-clamping module includes displacement cylinder, slide unit, sliding rail, lifter plate, lifting cylinder and four cylinder machines
Machinery claw.Displacement cylinder is fixed on the base, and sliding rail is mounted on the base, and installation direction is parallel with displacement cylinder, slide unit and displacement
Cylinder output is connected, and moves in the case where displacement cylinder drives along guide rail;Four cylinder grippers are fixed on lifter plate;Lifting air
Cylinder is mounted on lifter plate, and the output end of lifting cylinder is fixed on slide unit.
The method that plain thrust bearing retainer surface scratch, ball clearance and scarce pearl are detected using above-mentioned apparatus
It is as follows:
A large amount of plain thrust bearing retainer is set to keep reverse side upward and uniformly by charging barrel and positive and reverse screening module first
Orderly is sent into material receiving device by material strip.By lacking in material and emergency disposal module detection material strip whether lack material, if lacking material,
Then stop feeding and detection immediately, and passes through the operation of manual intervention recovery device.Retainer initially enters ball by material strip
Locating module to one pressure of retainer and is rotated by compression cylinder, and steel ball is made to reach specified position.Pass through light-duty cylinder band
Dynamic sliding seat reaches specified position, is clamped by cylinder gripper one, under the phorogenesis of displacement cylinder, first presss from both sides retainer
Get ball clearance and scarce pearl detection module.Measure eight balls on same retainer simultaneously by eight precise displacement sensors
The displacement of high-low limit position, the i.e. size of ball clearance;If the ball clearance value measured is zero, determine herein to be scarce
Pearl.It after detection, is clamped by cylinder gripper two, if ball clearance passes through with the detection of scarce pearl, in the translation of displacement cylinder
Under effect, by retainer clamping to reverse side surface defects detection module.If ball clearance does not pass through with the detection of scarce pearl, by shifting
When cylinder drives cylinder gripper two to be moved to reverse side surface defects detection module from ball clearance and scarce pearl detection module, by list
Only gas circuit control cylinder gripper two unclamps finger, and retainer investment is located at ball clearance and scarce pearl detection module and reverse side table
Waste product blanking groove between planar defect detection module.After retainer reaches reverse side defects detection module, original graph is acquired by camera
Picture is handled image by computer, to judge retainer reverse side with the presence or absence of surface defect.After detection, by gas
Cylinder gripper three clamps, if reverse side surface defects detection passes through, under the phorogenesis of displacement cylinder, retainer clamping is arrived
Front face surface defects detection module.In translation motion, by the rotating mechanism being fixed on lifter plate, cylinder gripper three is rotated
180 °, make retainer turn-over.If reverse side surface defects detection does not pass through, cylinder gripper three is driven from the negative by displacement cylinder
When surface defects detection module is to front reverse side defects detection module, finger is unclamped by independent gas circuit control cylinder gripper, it will
Retainer puts into the waste product blanking groove between reverse side surface defects detection module and front face surface defects detection module.It keeps
After frame reaches positive defects detection module, original image is acquired by camera, image is handled by computer, to judge to protect
Frame front is held with the presence or absence of surface defect.After detection, clamped by cylinder gripper four, it, will under the drive of displacement cylinder
Retainer puts into sub-material mouth, is judged to put into qualified product case according to the signal of front face surface defects detection module output or not conformed to
Lattice product case is rotated by the baffle of motor control sub-material mouth, realizes the sorting of retainer.Meanwhile device can realize line tact
Operation greatly improves detection efficiency, realizes quality testing continuous to retainer, efficient and sorting.
Compared with the background art, the beneficial effects of the present invention are:
1. single to protect using the ball clearance size and scarce pearl situation of eight precise displacement sensor detection retainers in the present invention
The detection efficiency for holding frame is high, and clearance detection accuracy lacks pearl recognition success rate up to 100% up to 10 μm, 0 ~ 1mm of detection range.
2. identified to retainer surface defect in the present invention using machine vision detection method, using image procossing with
Depth learning technology improves product detection efficiency, recognition success rate >=97%.
3. apparatus of the present invention work, retainer automatic charging lacks material, failure automatic pause, while can realize assembly line
Detection is completed in beat operation, the synchronous clamping of four cylinder grippers and translation retainer, detection efficiency >=5000/8 hour
Retainer realize automatic sorting, operate it is convenient.
4. single detection data real-time display is, it can be achieved that by the thrust bearing retainer clearance of different model, lack pearl, scratch
Function in the quantity of three kinds of defects and respective qualification rate classification deposit database server, the database can according to
Family needs to generate daily, report weekly, monthly or annual, helps to promote the product quality detectability with perfect enterprise
With quality tracing management system.
5. precise displacement sensor used in apparatus of the present invention carries out periodic calibration by standard gauge block, so as to make to roll
Pearl clearance measurement result is traced to the source to national length standard.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is master-plan block diagram of the invention
Fig. 2 is software functional block diagram of the invention.
Fig. 3 is that plain thrust bearing retainer final product quality detects sorting unit three-dimensional structure diagram automatically.
Fig. 4 is automatic charging and ball locating module three-dimensional structure diagram.
Fig. 5 is to maintain frame positive and reverse screening module three-dimensional structure diagram.
Fig. 6 is to maintain frame ball clearance and scarce pearl detection module three-dimensional structure diagram.
Fig. 7 is to maintain frame front and back sides surface defects detection module three-dimensional structure diagram.
Fig. 8 is to maintain the mobile self-clamping module three-dimensional structure diagram of frame.
Fig. 9 is to maintain frame automatic sorting module three-dimensional structure diagram.
Figure 10 is gas circuit control figure of the invention.
Figure 11 is path profile of tracing to the source of the invention.
Specific embodiment
Below in conjunction with attached drawing, the invention will be further described.
As shown in Fig. 3,4,5, retainer is first conveyed into ball-positioning device 4 through material path 12 by loader 2.Wherein, it keeps
Frame carries out the screening of front and back sides in loader 2 via positive and reverse screening module 21, guarantees that the retainer for being sent into material strip 12 is all
Reverse side is upward.It is equipped with above material path 12 and lacks material and emergency disposal device 3, when sensor 15, which detects, lacks material in material path 12,
Stop feeding immediately, and passes through the operation of emergency disposal device recovery device.After retainer leaves material path 12, that is, it is sent into feeding seat
16, bracket 18 is mounted on Mobile base 20, and feeding seat 16 is installed on mount 18, and 18 upper end of bracket is equipped with compression cylinder 13,
The output end of compression cylinder 13 is equipped with clamping sleeve 14, and light-duty cylinder 19 is connected through a screw thread with Mobile base 20, under sliding seat 20
Sliding rail 17 is installed.Ball-positioning device 4 is driven to be moved to cylinder gripper from one end close to material path 12 in light-duty cylinder 19
During 52 clip positions, compression cylinder 13 is pushed and is rotated, and the steel ball of retainer is made to reach specified position.
As shown in fig. 6, retainer is after ball positions, by cylinder gripper 52 by retainer from the upper of ball locating module
Material seat 16 is clamped to the feeding seat 31 of ball clearance Yu scarce pearl detection module.Telescopic cylinder 23,25,27 is fixed on by connector
On bracket.The output end of telescopic cylinder 25 is connected with retainer fixed link 28, there is 8 grooves in retainer fixed link 28, corresponds to 8
A precise displacement sensor 29, groove location are located at right above ball.26 phase of output end and lifter plate of telescopic cylinder 23 and 27
Even, 8 precise displacement sensors 29 are fixed on lifter plate 26.Feeding seat 31 is fixed on the base, have on feeding seat 31 8 it is recessed
Slot, corresponding 8 mandrils 24, groove location are located at immediately below ball.Telescopic cylinder 30 and 32 is fixed on the base, telescopic cylinder 30
It is connected with 32 output end with lifter plate 33,8 mandrils 24 are fixed on lifter plate 33.Carrying out ball clearance and the detection of scarce pearl
When, a pressing force is applied to retainer by retainer fixed link 28 firstF 1, fix retainer.Again by 23 He of telescopic cylinder
27 drive lifter plate 26 to decline, and then 8 precise displacement sensors 29 are driven to decline, and apply a lower pressure to ballF 2, when
After displacement sensor 29 can not decline again, i.e., after the numerical stability of displacement sensor 29, current value is read, is denoted asL 1.Then
It drives lifter plate 33 to rise by telescopic cylinder 30 and 32, then 8 mandrils 24 is driven to rise, a upper pressure is applied to ballF 3, and F1>F 3>F 2, so that ball is generated a upward displacement, after the numerical stability of displacement sensor 29, read current number
Value, is denoted asL 2, by formula
Ball clearance size can be calculated, if the ball clearance size being calculated is zero, can determine that herein as scarce pearl.If rolling
Pearl clearance sizeDo not meet examination criteria, or when judgement has scarce pearl phenomenon, then by cylinder instrument pawl 50 by retainer lose into
Waste product feed opening 56;If ball clearance sizeDetection qualification and intact pearl phenomenon, then pressed from both sides retainer by cylinder instrument pawl 50
It holds to the feeding seat 37 of reverse side surface defects detection module 7.
As shown in fig. 7, feeding seat 37 is fixed on the base, light source 36 is fixed on bracket 34 by connector, is located at upper
Expect right above seat 31, CCD camera 35 is fixed on bracket 34 by connector, is located at right above light source 36.Reverse side surface defect
Detection module 7 is consistent with the structure of front face surface defects detection module 8.When carrying out retainer surface defects detection, first by
CCD camera 35 acquires original image judges whether retainer reverse side surface defect is qualified after algorithm process image.If anti-
Face surface defects detection is unqualified, then is lost retainer into waste product feed opening 55 by cylinder gripper 46;If reverse side surface defect
Detection is qualified, then is clamped retainer to the feeding seat 41 of front face surface defects detection module 8 by cylinder gripper 46.Such as Fig. 8
Shown, cylinder gripper 46 is mounted on rotating device 47, and when cylinder gripper 46 clamps retainer, surface defect is examined from the negative
Module 7 is surveyed toward when the movement of front face surface defects detection module 8, rotating device 47 controls cylinder gripper 46 and rotates 180 °, realizes
The overturning of retainer front and back sides then carries out front face surface defects detection.After the completion of retainer front face surface defects detection, by gas
Retainer is put into sub-material mouth by cylinder gripper 45, and sub-material mouth controls baffle 54 by motor 53 and rotates, and then controlling retainer is to throw
Enter qualified product case 10 or rejected product case 11.
As shown in Figure 10, gas circuit design is divided into three parts: main motion module gas circuit, compression module gas circuit and clearance measurement mould
Block gas circuit.Main motion module gas circuit is used to provide aerodynamic force for cylinder manipulator 45,46,50,52, realize cylinder manipulator 45,
46,50,52 between modules to measured piece fold up and transfer movement.Compression module gas circuit is used to carry out clearance detection
When, pressing force is provided when being fixed to retainer.Clearance measurement module gas circuit is for pushing displacement sensor and mandril
Fast lifting and reset.
As shown in figure 11, periodic calibration is carried out to precise displacement sensor used in apparatus of the present invention, so as to make to roll
Pearl clearance measurement result is traced to the source to national length standard.
The above is only presently preferred embodiments of the present invention, is not intended to limit the invention in any way, it is all according to the present invention
Technical spirit any simple modification to the above embodiments, change and equivalent structural changes, still fall within skill of the present invention
In the protection scope of art scheme.