An automatic upper cover picking device for wave soldering

By automatically taking the upper cover with the robot arm, the quality problems and safety hazards caused by manual operation of the wave soldering fixture are solved, efficient and stable automated operation is achieved, and costs and risks are reduced.

CN113859963BActive Publication Date: 2025-05-30FLEXTRONICS ELECTRONICS TECH SUZHOU
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Patent Information

Application Number
CN202111262088.0
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Patents(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2021-10-28
Publication Date
2025-05-30
Estimated Expiration
2041-10-28

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Technical Problem

When taking the upper cover of the wave soldering fixture, the personnel are usually manually operated, resulting in irregular operation, stress affecting the quality of the PCBA, high risk of burns in personnel, low working efficiency and reduced fixture life.

Method used

The robot arm is used instead of manual labor, and the upper cover is automatically removed through the robot clamping module, including the robot positioning seat, the jaw lifting cylinder, the mounting seat, the upper cover grabbing cylinder and the jaw to ensure high accuracy and stability.

Benefits of technology

Reduce labor costs, reduce scrap management costs caused by manual operations, improve customer satisfaction, and improve work efficiency and reduce personnel injury risks.

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Abstract

The present invention discloses an automatic upper cover picking device for wave soldering, which corresponds to the base and the upper cover up and down. Positioning seats are arranged at the four corners of the base, and feet are arranged at the bottom of the upper cover corresponding to the positioning seats one by one. The device includes a manipulator gripper module, which includes a manipulator positioning seat, a manipulator gripper lifting cylinder, a mounting seat, a manipulator upper cover grabbing cylinder and a manipulator upper cover grabbing gripper. The manipulator gripper lifting cylinder is longitudinally arranged below the manipulator positioning seat, and a mounting seat parallel to the manipulator positioning seat is arranged at the driving end. Two manipulator upper cover grabbing cylinders are arranged on the mounting seat horizontally and in opposite directions, and manipulator upper cover grabbing grippers corresponding to the upper cover are longitudinally arranged at the driving ends of the two manipulator upper cover grabbing cylinders respectively. The present invention uses a robotic arm to replace manual picking, which has high precision, stability, reduces labor costs, reduces the management costs caused by scrapping due to manual operation, and improves customer satisfaction.
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Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to the field of electronic industry assembly, and particularly to an automatic upper cover taking device for wave soldering. Background Art

[0002] When taking the upper cover with a wave soldering fixture, it is usually manually operated by personnel. Once the operation is not standardized, the stress caused will affect the quality of the PCBA. The just-out-of-furnace wave soldering carrier has a high temperature, which will scald personnel. Usually, it is necessary to wait for the temperature of the wave soldering carrier to drop before operating, resulting in a reduction in work efficiency. Moreover, personnel operation will reduce the service life of the fixture. Summary of the Invention

[0003] The main technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an automatic upper cover taking device for wave soldering, which uses a robotic arm to replace manual taking, has high precision, is stable, reduces labor costs, reduces the management costs caused by scrapping due to manual operation, and improves customer satisfaction.

[0004] To solve the above technical problem, a technical solution adopted by the present invention is: to provide an automatic upper cover taking device for wave soldering, which corresponds to the base and the upper cover up and down. Positioning seats are arranged at the four corners of the base, and feet are arranged at the bottom of the upper cover corresponding to the positioning seats one by one. It includes a robotic arm gripper module, and the robotic arm gripper module includes a robotic arm positioning seat, a robotic arm gripper lifting cylinder, a mounting seat, a robotic arm upper cover grabbing cylinder and a robotic arm upper cover grabbing gripper. The robotic arm gripper lifting cylinder is longitudinally arranged below the robotic arm positioning seat, and the driving end is provided with a mounting seat parallel to the robotic arm positioning seat. Two robotic arm upper cover grabbing cylinders are arranged on the mounting seat horizontally and in opposite directions. The driving ends of the two robotic arm upper cover grabbing cylinders are respectively longitudinally provided with robotic arm upper cover grabbing grippers corresponding to the upper cover.

[0005] In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, elastic claw fasteners are respectively arranged on two opposite sides of the base and are correspondingly clamped with the upper surfaces of the two sides of the upper cover.

[0006] In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a positioning block protrudes horizontally on the back of any one of the elastic claw fasteners.

[0007] In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, robotic arm gripper ejector rods are longitudinally arranged along the two opposite side edges of the robotic arm positioning seat corresponding to the positioning block up and down.

[0008] In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a grabbing groove is arranged on the edge side of the upper cover.

[0009] In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a limiting groove is concavely arranged on the outer side surface of the robotic arm upper cover grabbing gripper and is correspondingly clamped with the edge of the grabbing groove of the upper cover.

[0010] The beneficial effects of the present invention are as follows: An automatic upper cover picking device for wave soldering proposed by the present invention uses a robotic arm to replace manual picking, which has high precision, stability, reduces labor costs, lowers the management costs caused by scrapping due to manual operations, and improves customer satisfaction. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0011] In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the following will briefly introduce the drawings required for the description of the embodiments. Obviously, the following described drawings are only some embodiments of the present invention. For those of ordinary skill in the art, without creative efforts, other drawings can also be obtained based on these drawings, where:

[0012] Figure 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of an automatic upper cover picking device for wave soldering of the present invention;

[0013] Figure 2 is Figure 1 the front view of

[0014] Figure 3 is Figure 1 the side view of DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

[0015] The following will clearly and completely describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are only some of the embodiments of the present invention, rather than all of them. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts fall within the scope of protection of the present invention.

[0016] Please refer to Figure 1 Combined with Figures 2 - 3 as shown, the embodiments of the present invention include:

[0017] An automatic upper cover picking device for wave soldering corresponds to the base 1 and the upper cover 2 up and down. Positioning seats 3 are arranged at the four corners of the base 1, and feet 4 are arranged at the bottom of the upper cover 2 corresponding to the positioning seats 3 one by one for positioning and placing the upper cover 2 on the base 1. A grasping groove 5 is arranged on the edge side of the upper cover 2 for convenient grasping and positioning after soldering.

[0018] Elastic claw catches 6 are respectively arranged on two opposite sides of the base 1 and are correspondingly clamped with the upper surfaces of both sides of the upper cover 2. When the upper cover 2 is placed, the elastic claw catches 6 are pushed outward. After the upper cover 2 is stably placed, the elastic claw catches 6 rebound and are clamped to fix the upper cover 2. A positioning block 7 protrudes transversely on the back of any one of the elastic claw catches 6 for conveniently driving the elastic claw catch 6 to open to release the clamping of the upper cover 2.

[0019] The wave soldering automatic cover removal device comprises a manipulator gripper module, which comprises a manipulator positioning seat 8, a manipulator gripper lifting cylinder 9, a mounting seat 10, a manipulator upper cover grabbing cylinder 11 and a manipulator upper cover grabbing gripper 12.

[0020] Among them, the robot positioning seat 8 is longitudinally provided with robot clamping claw top rods 13 corresponding to the positioning block 7 up and down. When the robot positioning seat 8 is pressed down, the robot clamping claw top rods 13 can resist the positioning block 7 and open the elastic buckle 6 that fixes the upper cover 2.

[0021] The manipulator gripper lifting cylinder 9 is longitudinally arranged below the manipulator positioning seat 8 and a mounting seat 10 parallel to the manipulator positioning seat 8 is arranged at the driving end. The mounting seat 10 is installed with the lower structure and can be driven by the manipulator gripper lifting cylinder 9 to perform lifting action.

[0022] The manipulator upper cover grasping cylinders 11 are provided with two and are laterally arranged opposite to each other on the mounting seat 10 to realize driving grasping in opposite directions.

[0023] The driving ends of the two manipulator upper cover grabbing cylinders 11 are respectively longitudinally provided with manipulator upper cover grabbing claws 12 corresponding to the upper cover 2 .

[0024] The outer side surface of the manipulator upper cover grabbing claw 12 is concavely provided with a limiting groove 14 which is correspondingly engaged with the edge of the grabbing groove 5 of the upper cover 2; the manipulator upper cover grabbing cylinder 11 drives the manipulator upper cover grabbing claw 12 to move outward, and is correspondingly engaged with the edge of the grabbing groove 5 of the upper cover 2 through the limiting groove 14.

[0025] Working principle:

[0026] During the downward movement of the manipulator positioning seat, the manipulator gripper push rod presses down to open the elastic claw, the manipulator gripper lifting cylinder drives the mounting seat to descend, the manipulator upper cover grabbing cylinder pushes out, the manipulator upper cover grabs the gripper gripper upper cover, the manipulator gripper lifting cylinder drives the mounting seat to rise, and the manipulator positioning seat removes the cover under the gripping of the manipulator.

[0027] In summary, the present invention discloses an automatic wave soldering cover removal device, which uses a mechanical arm to replace manual removal, has high precision and stability, reduces labor costs, reduces management costs caused by manual operation and scrapping, and improves customer satisfaction.

[0028] The above descriptions are merely embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to limit the patent scope of the present invention. Any equivalent structure or equivalent process transformation made using the contents of the present invention specification, or directly or indirectly applied in other related technical fields, are also included in the patent protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An automatic upper cover picking device for wave soldering, corresponding to the base and the upper cover up and down. There are positioning seats arranged at the four corners of the base, and feet are arranged at the bottom of the upper cover corresponding to the positioning seats one by one. Characterized in that, it includes a manipulator jaw module, and the manipulator jaw module includes a manipulator positioning seat, a manipulator jaw lifting cylinder, a mounting seat, a manipulator upper cover grabbing cylinder and a manipulator upper cover grabbing jaw. The manipulator jaw lifting cylinder is longitudinally arranged below the manipulator positioning seat, and a mounting seat parallel to the manipulator positioning seat is arranged at the driving end. Two manipulator upper cover grabbing cylinders are arranged horizontally and oppositely on the mounting seat, and manipulator upper cover grabbing jaws are longitudinally arranged at the driving ends of the two manipulator upper cover grabbing cylinders corresponding to the upper cover; Elastic claw catches are respectively arranged on two opposite sides of the base corresponding to and clamping the upper surfaces of both sides of the upper cover. A positioning block protrudes horizontally from the back of any one of the elastic claw catches. Manipulator jaw ejector rods are longitudinally arranged on the two opposite side edges of the manipulator positioning seat corresponding to the positioning block up and down; A grabbing groove is arranged on the edge side of the upper cover, and a limiting groove is concavely arranged on the outer side surface of the manipulator upper cover grabbing jaw corresponding to and clamping the edge of the grabbing groove of the upper cover.

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