Pick-and-place mechanism for the mouse cover

Abstract

The invention discloses a picking and placing device for mouse upper covers. The picking and placing device can be arranged on automatic product assembling production equipment to pick and place mouse upper cover of different surface shape. The picking and placing device comprises a main driver, a main support frame and a negative-pressure suction apparatus, wherein the negative-pressure suction apparatus is arranged on the main support frame; the main support frame is connected with the main driver; the main driver can be used for driving the main support frame and the negative-pressure suction apparatus to move to a picking and placing position and a standby position; the negative-pressure suction apparatus is provided with three angle-adjustable negative-pressure suction heads; the negative-pressure suction heads are at least provided with brackets and sucking disks fixedly arranged on the brackets; the brackets are rotationally arranged on the main support frame; angles between the sucking disks and mouse upper covers to be picked and placed can be adjusted by rotating the brackets in order that the sucking surfaces of the sucking disks can be tightly matched with the sucked surfaces of the mouse upper covers to be picked and placed. The picking and placing device can be suitable for mouse upper covers having arc-shaped surfaces.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to an automatic assembly equipment, in particular to a pick-and-place device for the upper cover of the mouse that can be configured in the automatic product assembly production equipment, which is suitable for picking and placing the upper cover of the mouse with different surface shapes and can perform multiple actions assembly operation. Background technique [0002] Take the mouse used in a personal computer (PC) as an example. Due to the many brands of mice, most of the mouse components do not have uniform specifications and sizes. The mouse shapes and mouse components designed by various manufacturers The assembly methods or structural features (such as shells and buttons) are not exactly the same, so in the current production process of the mouse, the final assembly steps of components are still mainly assembled manually. A large amount of labor is required, and the production capacity is also limited by the number of manp...

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[0002] Take the mouse used in a personal computer (PC) as an example. Due to the many brands of mice, most of the mouse components do not have uniform specifications and sizes. The mouse shapes and mouse components designed by various manufacturers The assembly methods or structural features (such as shells and buttons) are not exactly the same, so in the current production process of the mouse, the final assembly steps of components are still mainly assembled manually. In addition to the need to hire A lot of labor, and the production capacity is also limited by the number of manpower. Although increasing manpower can increase production capacity, it will also increase production costs. Compared with other high-unit-priced electronic products, the unit price of the mouse is relatively low. For production costs For mouse manufacturers that are difficult to reduce and increase production capacity, how to reduce production costs and increase production capacity has always been one of the goals of the industry.

[0003] Known automatic assembly equipment usually includes a plurality of automatic assembly workstations arranged along the product assembly line, and a carrier that can move along the product assembly line to carry the product. The upper cover of the mouse performs automatic assembly of products on the passing carrier in sequence. In order to have the ability of the flexible manufacturing system (Flexible Manufacturing System, FMS) to be applicable to the automatic assembly of different types of products, a common method is through The combination of computerized industrial control system and robotic arm or automatic assembly robot, because the mechanical arm or automatic assembly robot usually has multi-joint or multi-degree-of-freedom activities (such as multi-axis robot), so when changing the product type In the state, it is not necessary to frequently replace the production machinery, and the automatic assembly of new products can be controlled by the updated control program to control the mechanical arm or the automatic assembly robot, but the cost of this automatic assembly equipment is still high

[0004] In practice, another technical problem faced by the automated assembly equipment for different types of mice includes picking and placing mouse covers with different shapes, especially for products such as mice, which have different shapes for different types of mice. The same, especially the shape of most mouse covers is mostly irregular or arc-shaped, in order to be able to pick and place mouse covers with various shapes, a known solution is aimed at different shapes The upper cover of the mouse is designed with a special pick-and-place tool, and then the robotic arm is used to automatically replace different pick-and-place tools to flexibly adapt to mouse covers with different shapes. However, this special pick-and-place tool is not flexible and is suitable for many Mouse covers of different shapes require multiple corresponding and applicable special pick-and-place tools, which still has the problem of increasing equipment costs

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