A method for rapid positioning of mechanical equipment

Abstract

This invention relates to a rapid positioning method for connecting mechanical equipment, comprising: moving equipment A to the production line; rapidly connecting and positioning equipment A and equipment B, enabling equipment A to quickly reuse multiple positioning coordinates within the area of ​​equipment B; aligning the alignment component of equipment A with two reference points on equipment B, forming two new reference coordinates for equipment A; providing the old and new reference coordinates to a positioning system, which calculates the difference between the new and old reference coordinates; equipment A providing the positioning system with all coordinates of the current product model that need to be positioned within the area of ​​equipment B, which calculates the corresponding coordinate differences; the positioning system providing the calculated coordinate values ​​to equipment A for use; and moving the required equipment to the corresponding production line position when changing to different products. This method enables rapid connection and alignment between equipment and the production line, saving significant downtime for debugging, thereby reducing production costs and improving production efficiency.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The present application relates to the field of equipment connection, in particular to a quick positioning method for connecting mechanical equipment. BACKGROUND

[0002] With the rapid development of science and technology, the order quantity of manufacturing industry at home and abroad is rapidly increasing, the styles are various, the demand for automation to replace manual work is rapidly increasing, and flexible and reliable automation solutions are urgently needed. Before the previous equipment is used with other equipment, various coordinate positioning needs to be debugged to achieve the action of taking and placing raw materials, products and mechanical testing, or to test or assemble and sort products.

[0003] However, due to limited factory space and equipment, it is not possible to have a special production line and special whole-line equipment for each product or model (a factory may have hundreds of product types or models for production worldwide). Generally, equipment needs to be universal, but when changing from product A to product B, it is necessary to stop the line and arrange the debugging of the equipment and the matching between the equipment, debug the mechanical coordinates and system positioning coordinates, and there are many complex equipment step processes, which will greatly affect the production efficiency. SUMMARY

[0004] Therefore, it is necessary to provide a quick positioning method for connecting mechanical equipment to solve the problems in the prior art.

[0005] A quick positioning method for connecting mechanical equipment, characterized in that it comprises:

[0006] Step 1: moving the A equipment to the production line, at this time the production line has multiple equipment, including the B equipment which needs to be connected with the A equipment;

[0007] Step 2: quickly connecting and positioning the A equipment and the B equipment, so that the A equipment can quickly reuse the multiple positioning coordinates of the last connection in the area of the B equipment;

[0008] Step 3: aligning the A equipment alignment part with the two reference points on the B equipment respectively to form two new reference coordinates of the A equipment;

[0009] Step 4: providing the old reference coordinates and the new reference coordinates to the positioning system, and the positioning system calculates the difference between the new reference coordinates and the old reference coordinates;

[0010] Step 5: the A equipment provides all the coordinates of the current product model that need to be positioned in the B equipment area to the positioning system, and the positioning system calculates the corresponding coordinate values according to the difference relationship;

[0011] Step 6: the positioning system provides the calculated coordinate values to the A equipment for use.

[0012] In one of the embodiments, the old reference coordinates are the reference coordinates of the A device and the B device when they are last connected.

[0013] In one of the embodiments, the B device has two reference points, and the alignment members of the A device are respectively aligned with the two reference points, so as to form two new reference coordinates.

[0014] In one of the embodiments, the alignment members in the A device are the hardware of the A device itself, which are formed when the A device is designed.

[0015] In one of the embodiments, the two reference points in the B device are the hardware of the B device itself, which are formed when the B device is designed.

[0016] In one of the embodiments, the B device is an original device of a production line, or a movable device which has a coordinate position relationship with the original device of the production line, or a model fixture which can be removed and replaced on the A device.

[0017] In one of the embodiments, the A device and the B device are installed with a positioning system.

[0018] The above-mentioned method for quickly positioning the connection between the mechanical devices can realize the quick connection and alignment of the devices and the production line when the required devices are moved to the corresponding positions of the production line, thereby saving a large amount of downtime debugging time, reducing the production cost, and improving the production efficiency. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0019] In order to make the above-mentioned objects, features and advantages of the present application more apparent and easy to understand, the specific embodiments of the present application are described in detail below. In the following description, a large number of specific details are set forth in order to facilitate a full understanding of the present application. However, the present application can be implemented in many other ways different from those described herein, and those skilled in the art can make similar improvements without departing from the spirit of the present application, so the present application is not limited to the specific embodiments disclosed below.

[0020] It should be noted that when an element is referred to as being "fixed" to another element, it can be directly on the other element or there can be an intervening element. When an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or there can be an intervening element. In contrast, when an element is referred to as being "directly on" another element, there is no intervening element. The terms "vertical", "horizontal", "left", "right", and similar expressions used herein are for illustrative purposes only.

[0021] Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs. The terminology used in the description herein is for describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the application. The use herein of the terms "and / or" includes a set of one or more associated listed items.

[0022] A method for quick positioning of a mechanical device, comprising:

[0023] Step 1: moving the A device to the production line, where there are multiple devices, including the B device that needs to be connected with the A device;

[0024] Step 2: quickly connecting and positioning the A device with the B device, so that the A device can quickly reuse the multiple positioning coordinates of the last connection in the area of the B device (since the device has been moved and split, the coordinate relationship has changed, so it cannot be directly used and needs to be processed);

[0025] Step 3: aligning the A device alignment part with the two reference points on the B device respectively, forming two new reference coordinates of the A device;

[0026] Step 4: providing the old reference coordinates and the new reference coordinates to the positioning system, and the positioning system calculates the difference between the new reference coordinates and the old reference coordinates;

[0027] Step 5: the A device provides all the coordinates of the current product model that need to be positioned in the B device area to the positioning system, and the positioning system calculates the corresponding coordinates according to the difference relationship;

[0028] Step 6: the positioning system provides the calculated coordinate values to the A device for use.

[0029] When changing different products, the required device is moved to the corresponding production line position. By this method, the device can be quickly connected and aligned with the production line, saving a lot of downtime debugging time, thereby reducing production costs and improving production efficiency.

[0030] In the above steps, the number of new reference coordinates is small, so the remaining coordinates of the A device need to be inferred through the new reference coordinates and the original coordinates of the A device. Therefore, in this embodiment, the old reference coordinates in step 4 are the reference coordinates when the A device and the B device were last connected. After obtaining the old reference coordinates of the A device, the relationship between the original coordinates of the A device can be obtained, so that after determining the new reference coordinates of the A device, the new coordinates of the A device can be inferred.

[0031] For step 3, the A device alignment part is aligned with the two reference points on the B device respectively, specifically, the alignment part on the A device is aligned with the two reference points on the B device respectively, thereby forming two new reference coordinates. That is, the alignment part on the A device is moved to align with the reference points, thereby determining a new reference coordinate of the A device, in order to form two new reference coordinates, the reference points of the B device are provided with two, and the alignment part of the A device is aligned with the two reference points respectively, thereby forming two new reference coordinates.

[0032] At the same time, the alignment part in the A device is the A device itself hardware, which is formed when the A device is designed, and the reference point in the B device is the B device itself hardware, which is formed when the B device is designed. That is, the alignment part in the A device and the reference point in the B device at this time are all pre-designed.

[0033] At this time, the A device needs to be aligned with the B device which has determined the positional relationship, therefore, in the embodiment, the B device is the original equipment of the production line, that is, the A device is the equipment which needs to be used with the production line, and in the process of use, the A device is connected with the B device of the production line, thereby completing the updating and replacement of the coordinates of the A device (mechanical coordinates and system positioning coordinates).

[0034] At the same time, the B device can also be a movable device which has determined the coordinate positional relationship with the original equipment of the production line, that is, the production line can need to be used in series with multiple devices at this time, and the B device at this time is the device which has determined the positional relationship with the production line and updated the coordinates, and at this time, the position and coordinates of the A device are determined by taking the B device as a reference, thereby connecting the A device with the B device and the production line equipment.

[0035] Since the coordinates of the A device and the B device need to be calculated, in the embodiment, the A device and the B device are provided with a positioning system to facilitate the transmission of data.

[0036] The technical features of the above embodiments can be combined arbitrarily, in order to make the description simple, not all possible combinations of the technical features in the above embodiments are described, however, as long as the combinations of the technical features do not exist contradictory, they should be considered as the scope of the present application.

[0037] The above embodiments only express several embodiments of the present application, the description is more specific and detailed, but it cannot be understood as the limitation of the scope of the patent. It should be pointed out that for ordinary skilled in the art, without departing from the concept of the present application, a number of variations and improvements can be made, which all belong to the protection scope of the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application patent should be subject to the appended claims.

Claims

1. A method for quick positioning of a mechanical device in connection with another mechanical device, characterized in that, The application relates to a method for quickly positioning a device A in a production line, comprising the following steps: Step 1: moving the device A to the production line, wherein the production line comprises a plurality of devices, including a device B which needs to be connected with the device A; Step 2: quickly connecting and positioning the device A with the device B, so that the device A can quickly reuse a plurality of positioning coordinates of the last connection in the area of the device B; Step 3: aligning a positioning part of the device A with two reference points on the device B respectively, so as to form two new reference coordinates of the device A; Step 4: providing the old reference coordinates and the new reference coordinates to a positioning system, and the positioning system calculates the difference between the new reference coordinates and the old reference coordinates, wherein the old reference coordinates are the reference coordinates when the device A is last connected with the device B; Step 5: providing all coordinates of the current product model which need to be positioned in the area of the device B to the positioning system, and the positioning system calculates corresponding coordinate values according to the difference relationship; Step 6: providing the calculated coordinate values to the device A for use. The number of new reference coordinates is small, and the remaining coordinates of the device A are inferred through the new reference coordinates and the original coordinates of the device A; after obtaining the old reference coordinates of the device A, the relationship between the original coordinates of the device A is obtained; after determining the new reference coordinates of the device A, the new coordinates of the device A are inferred.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, The reference points of the device B are provided with two, and the positioning part of the device A is aligned with the two reference points respectively, so as to form two new reference coordinates.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein, The positioning part in the device A is the hardware of the device A itself, and is formed when the device A is designed.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein, The reference points in the device B are the hardware of the device B itself, and are formed when the device B is designed.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, The device B is an original device of the production line, or a movable device which has determined the coordinate position relationship with the original device of the production line, or a model fixture which can be removed and replaced on the device A.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein, The device A and the device B are provided with the positioning system.