Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the present invention provides an apparatus and a method for automatically wrapping and press-fitting a gasket on a vehicle catalyst carrier, so as to improve the working efficiency and reduce the cost.
The invention provides a device for automatically wrapping and press-fitting a gasket on an automobile catalyst carrier, which comprises:
the gasket standby area is used for placing at least three gaskets to be used;
the liner working area is used for placing a liner to be worked;
the first material pushing mechanism is used for pushing the liner in the liner waiting area to the liner working area;
the weighing mechanism is used for weighing the weight of the liner;
the liner taking mechanism is arranged above the liner working area and used for conveying the liner on the liner working area to the weighing mechanism;
the carrier standby material area is used for placing standby carriers and is at least provided with three carriers;
the carrier working area is used for placing a carrier to be worked;
the second pushing mechanism is used for pushing the carrier in the carrier waiting area to the carrier working area;
the diameter measuring mechanism is used for measuring the diameter of the carrier;
the code spraying mechanism is used for spraying the two-dimensional code on the end face of the carrier;
the carrier taking mechanism is used for conveying the carrier to the diameter measuring mechanism;
a wrapping mechanism for wrapping the liner on the carrier;
the press-fitting mechanism is used for pressing the carrier wrapped with the liner into the metal cylinder;
the industrial computer is respectively with weighing mechanism, diameter measuring mechanism, first pushing equipment, liner extracting mechanism, second pushing equipment, spout a yard mechanism, carrier extracting mechanism, parcel mechanism and pressure equipment mechanism electric connection for save and derive liner weight data, carrier diameter data, still be used for automatic control first pushing equipment, liner extracting mechanism, second pushing equipment, spout a yard mechanism, carrier extracting mechanism, parcel mechanism and pressure equipment mechanism.
Preferably, the first pushing mechanism is a push rod.
Preferably, the gasket material taking mechanism comprises a lifting mechanism, an air cylinder and a contact pin, wherein the lifting mechanism is connected with the air cylinder and can drive the air cylinder to lift, the air cylinder is provided with an inflating piston, the inflating piston is connected with the contact pin, and the contact pin can be inserted into the gasket.
Preferably, the carrier take off mechanism is a robotic arm.
Preferably, the wrapping mechanism comprises a left wrapping piece and a right wrapping piece, the left wrapping piece and the right wrapping piece are respectively used for wrapping the left side and the right side of the gasket on the carrier, and the wrapping mechanism further comprises a tongue pressing mechanism used for pressing and wrapping the tongue of the gasket on the carrier.
Preferably, the press-fitting mechanism comprises a metal cylinder feeding mechanism and a press-fitting mold, the metal cylinder feeding mechanism is used for positioning the metal cylinder to a press-fitting position, the press-fitting mold is used for butting with the wrapping mechanism and limiting press-fitting, and the press-fitting mechanism further comprises a servo motor used for press-fitting the carrier into the metal cylinder.
A method for automatically wrapping and press-fitting a gasket on an automobile catalyst carrier comprises the following steps:
taking and weighing the liner, and recording the weight data of the liner;
taking and measuring the diameter of the carrier, and recording the diameter data of the carrier;
code spraying is carried out on the carrier after the diameter measurement;
wrapping the liner on a carrier;
and pressing the carrier comprising the gasket into the metal cylinder according to the selected number of the packaging carriers.
Based on the above purpose, the device and the method for automatically wrapping and press-fitting the gasket of the automobile catalyst carrier provided by the invention have the advantages that the gasket to be worked can be conveyed to the weighing mechanism for weighing by arranging the weighing mechanism and the gasket material taking mechanism, the diameter of the carrier to be wrapped can be measured by conveying the carrier to be wrapped to the diameter measuring mechanism by arranging the carrier material taking mechanism and the diameter measuring mechanism, the measured gasket weight data and the measured carrier diameter data can be exported and stored for being convenient for later tracking and searching, a set of highly-automatic carrier packaging equipment is provided by arranging an industrial personal computer, and control units for weighing the gasket, measuring the diameter of the carrier, wrapping the gasket by the carrier, press-fitting the carrier, coordinating and transporting all parts are organically combined by compiling a flexible program according with the field, so that a safe, efficient and stable carrier packaging process is formed. In the packaging process, the two-dimensional code is used for tracking identification and error prevention. The uniqueness and reliability of the three-way catalyst package are guaranteed.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is described in further detail below with reference to specific embodiments and the accompanying drawings.
It should be noted that all expressions using "first" and "second" in the embodiments of the present invention are used for distinguishing two entities with the same name but different names or different parameters, and it should be noted that "first" and "second" are merely for convenience of description and should not be construed as limitations of the embodiments of the present invention, and they are not described in any more detail in the following embodiments.
A device for automatically wrapping and press-mounting a gasket of an automobile catalyst carrier comprises a gasket waiting area and a gasket working area, wherein the gasket waiting area is used for placing the standby gasket and is at least three, the gasket working area is used for placing the to-be-operated gasket, the device also comprises a first material pushing mechanism used for pushing the gasket in the gasket waiting area to the gasket working area, a weighing mechanism used for weighing the weight of the gasket is arranged above the gasket working area, the gasket material taking mechanism is arranged above the gasket working area and is used for conveying the gasket on the gasket working area to the weighing mechanism, the device also comprises a carrier waiting area and a carrier working area, the carrier waiting area is used for placing the to-be-operated carrier and is at least three, the carrier working area is used for placing the to-be-operated carrier, the device also comprises a second material pushing mechanism used for pushing the carrier in the carrier waiting area to the carrier working area, and the device also comprises a diameter, the diameter of the carrier is measured, the code spraying mechanism is used for spraying two-dimensional codes on the end face of the carrier, the carrier material taking mechanism is used for conveying the carrier to the diameter measuring mechanism, the wrapping mechanism is used for wrapping the gasket on the carrier, the press-fitting mechanism is used for pressing the carrier wrapped with the gasket into the metal cylinder, the industrial personal computer is respectively connected with the weighing mechanism, the diameter measuring mechanism, the first material taking mechanism, the gasket material taking mechanism, the second material taking mechanism, the code spraying mechanism, the carrier material taking mechanism, the wrapping mechanism and the press-fitting mechanism in an electric connection mode, the gasket weight data are stored and derived, the carrier diameter data are further used for automatically controlling the first material taking mechanism, the gasket material taking mechanism, the second material taking mechanism, the code spraying mechanism, the carrier material taking mechanism, the wrapping mechanism and the press-fitting mechanism.
The invention can convey the liner to be worked into the weighing mechanism for weighing by arranging the weighing mechanism and the liner taking mechanism, can convey the carrier to be wrapped onto the diameter measuring mechanism for measuring the diameter of the carrier by arranging the carrier taking mechanism and the diameter measuring mechanism, can lead out and store the measured liner weight data and the measured carrier diameter data, is convenient for follow-up and reference, provides a set of high-automation carrier packaging equipment by arranging an industrial personal computer, and organically combines control units for weighing the liner, measuring the diameter of the carrier, wrapping the liner by the carrier, pressing the carrier, coordinately transporting all parts and the like by compiling a program which is flexible on site to form a safe, efficient and stable carrier packaging process. In the packaging process, the two-dimensional code is used for tracking identification and error prevention. The uniqueness and reliability of the three-way catalyst package are guaranteed.
As an implementation manner, the first material pushing mechanism is a push rod, that is, when the liner on the liner waiting area needs to be moved to the liner working area, the first material pushing mechanism is started, and the first material pushing mechanism pushes the liner on the liner waiting area to the liner working area.
As an embodiment, the liner taking mechanism comprises a lifting mechanism, a cylinder and pins, the lifting mechanism is connected with the cylinder and can drive the cylinder to lift, the cylinder is provided with an inflating piston, the inflating piston is connected with the pins, the pins can be inserted into the liner, for example, the pins can be arranged into 4 rows, when the liner taking mechanism is used, the lifting mechanism firstly lowers the cylinder to enable the device to be in contact with the liner, the 4 rows of pins are inserted into the liner under the action of outward movement of the inflating piston of the cylinder, after the liner is taken, the cylinder is lifted and conveyed above the weighing mechanism, if no liner is arranged on the weighing mechanism, the cylinder descends, the pins are separated from the liner under the action of retraction of an exhaust piston of the cylinder, and the liner falls onto the weighing mechanism for weighing, for example, the weighing mechanism can be selected as.
As an implementation mode, the carrier taking mechanism is a manipulator, when the carriers on the carrier working area are used up, the device automatically pushes the carriers on respective waiting areas to the carrier working area, the manipulator takes the required carriers according to the program setting, firstly, the manipulator concentrates on one end of the carriers, if no carrier is detected on the diameter measuring mechanism, the manipulator lifts the carriers and places the carriers on the diameter measuring mechanism for measuring the diameter of the carriers, and after the measurement is finished, the manipulator can also be used for taking out the carriers sprayed with the two-dimensional codes, placing the carriers on the liner horizontally and carrying out the next operation of wrapping the liner by the carriers.
As an implementation mode, the wrapping mechanism comprises a left wrapping piece and a right wrapping piece, wherein the left wrapping piece and the right wrapping piece are respectively used for wrapping the left side and the right side of the gasket on the carrier, the wrapping mechanism also comprises a tongue pressing mechanism used for pressing and wrapping the tongue of the gasket on the carrier, for example, the bottom of the wrapping mechanism can also be provided with an arc-shaped supporting die, the left wrapping piece and the right wrapping piece are arc-shaped movable dies driven by cylinders, when the wrapping is started, the supporting die with the arc-shaped supporting die extends out from the bottom of the wrapping mechanism and reaches the gasket to be positioned, the positioned gasket is limited in the dies, the gasket descends to the wrapping mechanism together with the dies, the gasket and the carrier are conveyed into the wrapping mechanism, the two arc-shaped movable dies on the upper part of the wrapping mechanism are closed under the pushing of the cylinders on the two sides, and the tongue pressing mechanism can press the tongue tip of the gasket through, with the liner and carrier completely in a closed loop arrangement, the liner is wrapped around the sides of the carrier loop, the loop being sized to achieve a desired force level for the liner and carrier.
As an implementation mode, the press-fitting mechanism comprises a metal cylinder feeding mechanism and a press-fitting mold, wherein the metal cylinder feeding mechanism is used for positioning the metal cylinder to a press-fitting position, the press-fitting mold is used for butting with the wrapping mechanism and limiting press-fitting, and the press-fitting mechanism further comprises a servo motor used for press-fitting the carrier into the metal cylinder. For example, after the carrier is circumferentially wrapped with the gasket, the wrapping mechanism and the press-fitting mold can be butted through the concave boss, and the carrier wrapped with the gasket is pushed to the specified position of the metal cylinder under the pushing of the servo motor. If three carriers are packaged in one metal cylinder, three times of packaging operation need to be carried out in the packaging mechanism in sequence, and the carriers are pushed in three times. If two carriers or one carrier is pressed in one metal cylinder, a corresponding program is selected in a man-machine conversation interface.
The device can carry out the encapsulation of one carrier or a plurality of carriers by the selection of the man-machine conversation window, thereby improving the use of equipment and saving the equipment investment; the labor amount is reduced, and the automation level and the production efficiency are improved. The production process is stable and orderly, the product quality is improved, and the production rate of unqualified products is greatly reduced.
The invention also provides a method for automatically wrapping and press-fitting the gasket on the automobile catalyst carrier, which comprises the following steps:
taking and weighing the liner, and recording the weight data of the liner;
taking and measuring the diameter of the carrier, and recording the diameter data of the carrier;
code spraying is carried out on the carrier after the diameter measurement;
wrapping the liner on a carrier;
and pressing the carrier comprising the gasket into the metal cylinder according to the selected number of the packaging carriers.
For example, the control units such as pad weighing, carrier diameter measuring, carrier wrapping of the pad, carrier press fitting and coordinated transportation of all parts can be organically linked through the industrial personal computer, and a control system with stable performance and convenient operation is formed.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the working process of the device, which is illustrated by taking the press-fitting of three carriers in the same technical cylinder as an example, that is, firstly, three stacks of standby liners are respectively placed in three liner standby areas 1, 2 and 3, when any liner in the working area of the three liners is used up, a material pushing mechanism in the working area of the liner pushes the liner in the corresponding standby area into the working area, and the liner is taken and weighed. If the liner in the liner working area 1 is taken, the needle type material taking mechanism is driven by the needle type material taking mechanism driving device to descend to be in contact with the liner, 4 rows of inserting needles are inserted into the liner under the action of outward movement of an air cylinder inflating piston, after the liner is taken, the material taking device ascends and is conveyed to the upper part of the weighing mechanism 13 through the conveying device, if the weighing mechanism 13 is not provided with the liner, the liner material taking device descends, the inserting needles are separated from the liner under the action of retraction of the air cylinder exhausting piston, and the liner falls onto the weighing mechanism for weighing. And the liner taking device takes and places the next liner. After the liner on the heavy mechanism 13 is weighed, the push rod pushes the liner to the liner positioning mechanism 18 of the wrapping mechanism 15, after the liner positioning mechanism 18 positions and fixes the liner, the air cylinder 17 contracts for the 1 st time to bring the liner to the wrapping mechanism 15, and the next carrier wrapping operation is carried out after the carrier is put in. The weighing data is stored, transmitted and called in the central processing unit. The weight data of the liner can be exported and stored, so that the subsequent tracking and consulting are convenient. Meanwhile, the carrier of the carrier working area corresponding to the pad is taken out by the manipulator and is placed on the diameter measuring mechanism 14 for diameter measurement, after the diameter measurement of the carrier is finished, the manipulator places the carrier 22 on the pad 19 and clamps the carrier to press the pad to descend into the wrapping device along with the air cylinder 17, the right wrapping piece 20 wraps the right side of the pad 19 in the wrapping mechanism, the left wrapping piece 21 wraps the left side of the pad 19 in the wrapping mechanism, meanwhile, the tongue pressing mechanism above presses the pad to press the tongue of the pad, and at the moment, the pad is wrapped around the carrier. After the package is finished, the package mechanism is in butt joint with the press-fitting mold, the metal cylinder feeding mechanism positions the metal cylinder to the press-fitting mechanism, and after all the molds are in butt joint, the servo motor is started to press-fit the carrier to the position required by the metal cylinder. And finishing press fitting of the first carrier. And then sequentially pressing a 2 nd carrier and a 3 rd carrier, wherein the process steps are similar to the pressing of the 1 st carrier.
Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: the discussion of any embodiment above is meant to be exemplary only, and is not intended to intimate that the scope of the disclosure, including the claims, is limited to these examples; within the idea of the invention, also features in the above embodiments or in different embodiments may be combined, steps may be implemented in any order, and there are many other variations of the different aspects of the invention as described above, which are not provided in detail for the sake of brevity.
In addition, well known power/ground connections to Integrated Circuit (IC) chips and other components may or may not be shown within the provided figures for simplicity of illustration and discussion, and so as not to obscure the invention. Furthermore, devices may be shown in block diagram form in order to avoid obscuring the invention, and also in view of the fact that specifics with respect to implementation of such block diagram devices are highly dependent upon the platform within which the present invention is to be implemented (i.e., specifics should be well within purview of one skilled in the art). Where specific details (e.g., circuits) are set forth in order to describe example embodiments of the invention, it should be apparent to one skilled in the art that the invention can be practiced without, or with variation of, these specific details. Accordingly, the description is to be regarded as illustrative instead of restrictive.
While the present invention has been described in conjunction with specific embodiments thereof, many alternatives, modifications, and variations of these embodiments will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art in light of the foregoing description. For example, other memory architectures, such as Dynamic RAM (DRAM), may use the discussed embodiments.
The embodiments of the invention are intended to embrace all such alternatives, modifications and variances that fall within the broad scope of the appended claims. Therefore, any omissions, modifications, substitutions, improvements and the like that may be made without departing from the spirit and principles of the invention are intended to be included within the scope of the invention.