A fully automatic punching and blowing machine

By designing a fully automatic hole punching and blowing integrated machine, using intelligent robots and precision positioning devices, the problems of low production efficiency and large footprint caused by blowing nozzle formation in the manufacturing of inflation plates are solved, and an efficient, precise and safe production process is achieved.

CN119747487APending Publication Date: 2025-04-04宁波宁蒸铝业有限公司
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Application Number
CN202510080942.3
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Applications(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2025-01-20
Publication Date
2025-04-04

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Technical Problem

In the existing blowing plate manufacturing process, the formation of the blowing port causes the plate to bulge locally and cannot be easily stacked, resulting in a slow production rate of the blowing machine and a large footprint.

Method used

A fully automatic hole punching and blowing integrated machine is designed, using an intelligent multi-degree of freedom manipulator and precision positioning device to realize continuous loading and automatic hole punching and reaming of the board to form a blowing port.

Benefits of technology

Continuous loading is achieved, production efficiency is improved, product accuracy and safety is ensured, and manual operation risks are reduced.

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a fully automatic punching and inflating integrated machine, comprising a loading position, a punching position is provided on one side of the loading position, and a blowing position is provided on one side of the punching position; a unloading position is also provided on one side of the blowing position; a loading robot is provided between the loading position and the punching position, and the two sides of the blowing position are respectively a transfer robot responsible for loading and a unloading robot responsible for unloading; a material table transfer area is provided on the loading position, and a movable material table can be fixed on the material table transfer area; a plate fixing platform is provided at the punching position, and a punching device and a hole expanding device are provided on the punching side of the plate fixing platform; a plate positioning device is provided on the side of the plate fixing platform; the punching side of the plate fixing platform is also provided with a first anti-loosening device and a second anti-loosening device close to the punching device; the beneficial effects of the present invention are: less operation time is required after continuous loading, and higher production efficiency is achieved compared with single-plate loading.
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Technical Field

[0001] The invention relates to a full-automatic punching and blowing integrated machine, which is used for manufacturing a blowing plate. Background Art

[0002] The blown plate is a device widely used in industry. Its manufacturing generally includes the following parts: first, select the pre-produced high-quality multi-layer alloy plate, heat it, heat the plate to a suitable temperature, make it have good plasticity, and expand the heated plate in the mold through high-pressure gas to form a specific shape and structure, so that the formed plate is quickly cooled to fix its shape and performance. The latter several processes are all realized in the blower, and what we need to do is to punch holes in the plate and widen the holes to form a blowing port for the blower to blow.

[0003] However, this blowing port will form a local bulge on the sheet, making it impossible to conveniently stack the sheets on the inflation machine for fully automatic feeding. The existing method of our inflation machine is to use single-sheet feeding after machine punching, which greatly reduces the production rate of the inflation machine and increases the production area. Summary of the invention

[0004] In order to overcome the shortcomings of the existing blowing plate in the production process, such as slow single-piece feeding production rate and large space occupation, the present invention provides a fully automatic punching and blowing machine.

[0005] The technical solution of the present invention to solve the technical problem is: a fully automatic punching and inflation machine, comprising a loading position, a punching position is provided on one side of the loading position, and an inflation position is provided on one side of the punching position; a material unloading position is also provided on one side of the inflation position; a loading manipulator is provided between the loading position and the punching position, and a transfer manipulator responsible for loading and a material unloading manipulator responsible for unloading are provided on both sides of the inflation position; a material table transfer area is provided on the loading position, and a movable material table can be fixed on the material table transfer area; a plate fixing platform is provided at the punching position, and a punching device and a hole expanding device are provided on the punching side of the plate fixing platform; a plate positioning device is provided on the side of the plate fixing platform; a first anti-loosening device and a second anti-loosening device are also provided on the punching side of the plate fixing platform close to the punching device; The transfer manipulator and the unloading manipulator are intelligent multi-degree-of-freedom manipulators; The punching device includes but is not limited to a common drill-type punching machine, and also includes a vertical punching machine; The reaming device comprises an inclined platform, a front and rear driving cylinder is fixed on the inclined platform, an inclined rail is also provided on the inclined platform, a rotating cylinder is slidably provided on the inclined rail, the rotating cylinder is connected to the front and rear driving cylinders and can slide on the inclined rail under the drive of the cylinder, a pin is fixed on the rotating core of the rotating cylinder, the pin can be inserted into the drilled hole of the blowing plate when it moves forward, and the pin rotates to widen the aluminum plates on both sides separated from each other to form a blowing port; The plate positioning device comprises four groups of left movable positioning blocks, right movable positioning blocks, rear movable positioning blocks and front fixed positioning blocks to realize horizontal positioning; the left movable positioning block is driven by the left movable positioning block driving mechanism to move left and right, the right movable positioning block is driven by the right movable positioning block driving mechanism to move left and right, and the rear movable positioning block is driven by the rear movable positioning block driving mechanism to move forward and backward; The first anti-loosening device is a first clamping head that can be clamped downward, and the first clamping head is driven by a first anti-loosening cylinder to clamp the plate to be processed downward; The second anti-loosening device is a second clamping head that can be clamped downward, and the second clamping head is driven by a second anti-loosening cylinder to clamp the plate to be processed downward; The inflation position is provided with an inflation machine.

[0006] In order to increase the hole-digging effect, the digging needle of the hole-expanding device has a flat-blade digging head, and the flat-blade digging head is similar to a flat-blade screwdriver in structure and is easier to dig open the aluminum plate to form the inflation port.

[0007] In order to open the inflation port conveniently, the rotation angle of the rotating cylinder of the hole expansion device is 90 degrees.

[0008] To further increase the clamping strength of the loading robot and the transfer robot, the heads of the loading robot, the transfer robot and the unloading robot adopt a suction cup structure, wherein the loading robot and the transfer robot adopt multiple suction cups.

[0009] The loading robot is further optimized, and the loading robot includes a truss arranged on the loading position and the punching position, the truss is provided with a horizontal guide rail, and a movable table is movably provided on the horizontal guide rail. The movable table is driven by the horizontal guide rail driving motor and can move horizontally. An electric push rod is vertically provided on the movable platform, and a loading robot body is provided at the head of the electric push rod. The loading robot body is driven by the electric push rod and can move up and down; the loading robot body is a suction cup plate body with a plurality of suction cups.

[0010] In order to prevent shaking, a mounting plate is provided on the upper part of the movable platform, and a plurality of guide pillars for increasing the structural strength are provided on the upper end of the suction cup plate body, and the guide pillars are penetrated on the mounting plate.

[0011] A preferred embodiment of a movable positioning block, wherein the left movable positioning block driving mechanism is a motor-driven screw slider structure, which is installed on the left screw guide rail; the right movable positioning block driving mechanism is a motor-driven screw slider structure, which is installed on the left screw guide rail; the rear movable positioning block driving mechanism is a motor-driven screw slider structure, which is installed on the rear screw guide rail.

[0012] A movable positioning block structure is preferred, wherein the left movable positioning block driving mechanism, the right movable positioning block driving mechanism, and the rear movable positioning block driving mechanism are located on the lower side of the plate fixing platform, and the left movable positioning block, the right movable positioning block, and the rear movable positioning block pass through the through slots on the plate fixing platform to be exposed to the outside.

[0013] In order to facilitate accurate positioning, the left movable positioning block includes a left bottom plate, each of the two ends of the left bottom plate is provided with a fine-adjustment structure, and the fine-adjustment end of the fine-adjustment structure is provided with a left positioning baffle; the right movable positioning block includes a right bottom plate, each of the two ends of the right bottom plate is provided with a fine-adjustment structure, and the fine-adjustment end of the fine-adjustment structure is provided with a right positioning baffle; the rear movable positioning block includes a rear bottom plate, each of the two ends of the left bottom plate is provided with a fine-adjustment structure, and the fine-adjustment end of the fine-adjustment structure is provided with a rear positioning baffle.

[0014] Furthermore, the fine-tuning structure is composed of a fixing seat with a screw hole and a screw rod screwed on the fixing seat.

[0015] A preferred device for fixing a movable material table is provided with material table fixing clamps for fixing the movable material table on both sides of the material table docking area, and the material table fixing clamps are driven by the material table fixing cylinder to move forward and clamp the movable material table.

[0016] The present invention is used to transport the movable material platform full of plates to the material platform transfer area, and the next movable material platform responsible for transporting the finished products is placed in the unloading area. The material platform fixed clamping block in the material platform transfer area fixes the movable material platform, and then the loading robot transports the plate to the plate fixing platform of the punching position, and the rear movable positioning block first moves to push the front end of the plate to the front fixed positioning block to complete Y-axis positioning, and then the left and right movable positioning blocks realize X-axis positioning of the plate. After the positioning is completed, the first anti-loosening device and the second anti-loosening device move to clamp the plate, and the punching device punches holes in the plate. After the punching is completed, the front and rear driving cylinders of the hole expanding device operate to send the dialing needle to the punched hole, and then the rotating cylinder rotates to drive the dialing needle to rotate and dial out a blowing port, and then the anti-loosening device loosens the plate, the rear movable positioning block, the left movable positioning block, and the right movable positioning block reset to loosen the plate, the transfer robot clamps the plate with the air inlet processed and puts it into the inflation machine, and the inflation machine works to realize the inflation process of the inflation plate from the blowing port. After the inflation is completed, the unloading robot takes the finished product and places it on the movable material platform of the unloading area to complete a whole process.

[0017] The beneficial effects of the present invention are: 1. After continuous loading, less operation time is required, and the production efficiency is higher than that of single board loading. 2. Each time a single board is loaded, it is necessary to ensure that the board is accurately placed at the processing position. There may be a problem of unstable positioning accuracy, which affects the consistency of product quality. After continuous loading, the positioning of the board is guaranteed by the positioning accuracy of the manipulator and the movable positioning block, which has higher product accuracy. 3. The risk of manual operation in the process of single board loading is reduced. Single board loading is easily affected by human factors, such as operating errors, fatigue, poor safety, etc., and fully automatic equipment avoids such shortcomings. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0018] Figure 1 The figure is a schematic diagram of a blown plate to be processed in an embodiment.

[0019] Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

[0020] Figure 3 yes Figure 2 A is an enlarged schematic diagram.

[0021] Figure 4 It is a schematic diagram of another angle of an embodiment.

[0022] Figure 5 It is a partial enlarged schematic diagram of the punching position.

[0023] Figure 6 It is a schematic diagram of the feeding robot.

[0024] Figure 7 This is a schematic diagram of the punching position. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0025] The present invention is further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[0026] Example 1 Combined with Figures 1 to 7A fully automatic punching and inflating machine comprises a loading position 1, a punching position 2 is provided on one side of the loading position 1, and a blowing position 3 is provided on one side of the punching position 2; a material unloading position 4 is also provided on one side of the blowing position 3; a loading manipulator 5 is provided between the loading position 1 and the punching position 2, and a transfer manipulator 6 responsible for loading and a material unloading manipulator 7 responsible for unloading are provided on both sides of the blowing position 3; a material platform refueling area 8 is provided on the loading position 1, and a movable material platform 9 can be fixed on the material platform refueling area 8; a plate fixing platform 10 is provided on the punching position 2, and a punching device 11 and a hole expanding device 12 are provided on the punching side of the plate fixing platform 10; a plate positioning device 13 is provided on the side of the plate fixing platform 10; a first anti-loosening device 14 and a second anti-loosening device 15 are also provided on the punching side of the plate fixing platform 10 by the punching device 11; The transfer robot 6 and the unloading robot 7 are intelligent multi-degree-of-freedom robots; The punching device 11 includes but is not limited to a common drill-type punching machine, and also includes a vertical punching machine; The reaming device 12 includes an inclined platform 16, on which a front and rear driving cylinder 17 is fixed, and on which an inclined rail 18 is also provided. A rotating cylinder 19 is slidably provided on the inclined rail 18. The rotating cylinder 19 is connected to the front and rear driving cylinder 17 and can slide on the inclined rail 18 under the drive of the cylinder. A pin 20 is fixed on the rotating core of the rotating cylinder 19. The pin 20 can be inserted into the drilled hole of the blowing plate 21 when it moves forward. The pin 20 rotates to widen the aluminum plates on both sides to form a blowing port 22. The plate positioning device 13 includes four groups of left movable positioning blocks 23, right movable positioning blocks 24, rear movable positioning blocks 25, and front fixed positioning blocks 26 to achieve horizontal positioning; the left movable positioning block 23 is driven by a left movable positioning block driving mechanism 27 to move left and right, the right movable positioning block 24 is driven by a right movable positioning block driving mechanism 28 to move left and right, and the rear movable positioning block 25 is driven by a rear movable positioning block driving mechanism 29 to move forward and backward; The first anti-loosening device 14 is a first clamping head 30 that can be clamped downward, and the first clamping head 30 is driven by a first anti-loosening cylinder 31 to clamp the plate to be processed downward; The second anti-loosening device 15 is a second clamping head 32 that can be clamped downward, and the second clamping head 32 is driven by a second anti-loosening cylinder to clamp the plate to be processed downward; The inflation station 3 is provided with an inflation machine 33 .

[0027] In order to increase the hole-drilling effect, the drilling needle 20 of the hole-expanding device 12 has a flat-blade drilling head. The flat-blade drilling head is similar to a flat-blade screwdriver in structure and is more likely to open the aluminum plate to form an inflation port.

[0028] In order to open the inflation port conveniently, the rotation angle of the rotary cylinder 19 of the reaming device 12 is 90 degrees.

[0029] To further increase the clamping strength of the loading robot 5 and the transfer robot, the heads of the loading robot 5 , the transfer robot 6 and the unloading robot 7 adopt a suction cup structure, wherein the loading robot 5 and the transfer robot 6 adopt multiple suction cups 34 .

[0030] The loading robot 5 is further optimized, and the loading robot 5 includes a truss 35 arranged on the loading position 1 and the punching position 2, and a horizontal guide rail 36 is provided on the truss 35. A movable platform 37 is movably provided on the horizontal guide rail 36, and the movable platform 37 is driven by the horizontal guide rail driving motor 38 to move horizontally. An electric push rod 39 is vertically provided on the movable platform 37, and a loading robot body is provided at the head of the electric push rod 39. The loading robot body is driven by the electric push rod 39 to move up and down; the loading robot body is a suction cup plate 40 with a plurality of suction cups 34.

[0031] In order to prevent shaking, a mounting plate is provided on the upper portion of the movable platform 37, and a plurality of guide posts 41 for increasing structural strength are provided on the upper end of the suction cup plate body, and the guide posts 41 are penetrated on the mounting plate.

[0032] A preferred embodiment of a movable positioning block, the left movable positioning block driving mechanism 27 is a motor-driven screw slider structure, installed on the left screw guide rail; the right movable positioning block driving mechanism 28 is a motor-driven screw slider structure, installed on the left screw guide rail; the rear movable positioning block driving mechanism 29 is a motor-driven screw slider structure, installed on the rear screw guide rail.

[0033] A movable positioning block structure is preferred, wherein the left movable positioning block driving mechanism 27, the right movable positioning block driving mechanism 28, and the rear movable positioning block driving mechanism 29 are located on the lower side of the plate fixing platform 10, and the left movable positioning block 23, the right movable positioning block 24, and the rear movable positioning block 25 pass through the grooves on the plate fixing platform 10 to be exposed to the outside.

[0034] In order to facilitate accurate positioning, the left movable positioning block 23 includes a left bottom plate 42, and a fine-tuning structure is provided at each end of the left bottom plate 42, and the fine-tuning end of the fine-tuning structure is provided with a left positioning baffle 43; the right movable positioning block 24 includes a right bottom plate 44, and a fine-tuning structure is provided at each end of the right bottom plate 44, and a right positioning baffle 45 is provided at the fine-tuning end of the fine-tuning structure; the rear movable positioning block 25 includes a rear bottom plate 46, and a fine-tuning structure is provided at each end of the left bottom plate 42, and the fine-tuning end of the fine-tuning structure is provided with a rear positioning baffle 47.

[0035] Furthermore, the fine-tuning structure is composed of a fixing seat with a screw hole and a screw rod screwed on the fixing seat.

[0036] A preferred device for fixing a movable material table 9 is provided with material table fixing clamps 48 for fixing the movable material table 9 on both sides of the material table docking area 8. The material table fixing clamps 48 are driven by a material table fixing cylinder 49 to move forward and clamp the movable material table 9.

[0037] When the present invention is in use, the movable material table 9 filled with plates is transported to the material table transfer area 8, and the next movable material table 9 responsible for transporting the finished product is placed in the unloading area. The material table fixing clamp 48 of the material table transfer area 8 fixes the movable material table 9, and then the loading robot 5 transports the plate to the plate fixing platform 10 of the punching position 2, and the rear movable positioning block 25 first moves to push the front end of the plate to the front fixed positioning block 26 to complete the Y-direction positioning, and then the left and right movable positioning blocks 24 realize the X-direction positioning of the plate. After the positioning is completed, the first anti-loosening device 14 and the second anti-loosening device 15 move to clamp the plate, and the punching device 11 performs After the punching is completed, the front and rear driving cylinders 17 of the hole expanding device 12 are operated to send the dial pin 20 to the punched hole, and then the rotating cylinder 19 rotates to drive the dial pin 20 to rotate and dial out a blowing port 22, and then the anti-loosening device loosens the plate, the rear movable positioning block 25, the left movable positioning block 23, and the right movable positioning block 24 are reset to loosen the plate, and the transfer robot 6 clamps the plate with the air inlet processed and puts it into the inflation machine. The inflation machine works to realize the inflation process of the inflation plate 21 from the blowing port 22. After the inflation is completed, the unloading robot 7 takes the finished product and places it on the movable material table 9 in the unloading area to complete a whole process.

[0038] The beneficial effects of the present invention are: 1. After continuous loading, less operation time is required, and the production efficiency is higher than that of single board loading. 2. Each time a single board is loaded, it is necessary to ensure that the board is accurately placed at the processing position. There may be a problem of unstable positioning accuracy, which affects the consistency of product quality. After continuous loading, the positioning of the board is guaranteed by the positioning accuracy of the manipulator and the movable positioning block, which has higher product accuracy. 3. The risk of manual operation in the process of single board loading is reduced. Single board loading is easily affected by human factors, such as operating errors, fatigue, poor safety, etc., and fully automatic equipment avoids such shortcomings.

Claims

1. A fully automatic punching and blowing machine, characterized by: It comprises a loading position, a punching position is provided on one side of the loading position, and a blowing position is provided on one side of the punching position; a unloading position is also provided on one side of the blowing position; a loading robot is provided between the loading position and the punching position, and a transfer robot responsible for loading and a unloading robot responsible for unloading are provided on both sides of the blowing position; a material table transfer area is provided on the loading position, and a movable material table can be fixed on the material table transfer area; a plate fixing platform is provided at the punching position, and a punching device and a hole expanding device are provided on the punching side of the plate fixing platform; a plate positioning device is provided on the side of the plate fixing platform; a first anti-loosening device and a second anti-loosening device are also provided on the punching side of the plate fixing platform against the punching device; The reaming device comprises an inclined platform, a front and rear driving cylinder is fixed on the inclined platform, an inclined rail is also provided on the inclined platform, a rotating cylinder is slidably provided on the inclined rail, the rotating cylinder is connected to the front and rear driving cylinders and can slide on the inclined rail under the drive of the cylinder, a pin is fixed on the rotating core of the rotating cylinder, the pin can be inserted into the drilled hole of the blowing plate when it moves forward, and the pin rotates to widen the aluminum plates on both sides separated from each other to form a blowing port; The plate positioning device comprises four groups of left movable positioning blocks, right movable positioning blocks, rear movable positioning blocks and front fixed positioning blocks to realize horizontal positioning; the left movable positioning block is driven by the left movable positioning block driving mechanism to move left and right, the right movable positioning block is driven by the right movable positioning block driving mechanism to move left and right, and the rear movable positioning block is driven by the rear movable positioning block driving mechanism to move forward and backward; The first anti-loosening device is a first clamping head that can be clamped downward, and the first clamping head is driven by a first anti-loosening cylinder to clamp the plate to be processed downward; The second anti-loosening device is a second clamping head that can be clamped downward, and the second clamping head is driven by the first anti-loosening cylinder to clamp the plate to be processed downward; The inflation position is provided with an inflation machine.

2. The fully automatic punching and blowing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that: The setting needle of the hole expanding device has a flat setting head.

3. The fully automatic punching and blowing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that: The rotation angle of the rotary cylinder of the reaming device is 90 degrees.

4. The fully automatic punching and blowing machine according to claim 1 is characterized in that: The heads of the loading robot, the transfer robot and the unloading robot adopt a suction cup structure, wherein the loading robot and the transfer robot adopt multiple suction cups.

5. The fully automatic punching and blowing machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: The loading robot includes a truss arranged on the loading position and the punching position, the truss is provided with a horizontal guide rail, the horizontal guide rail is movably provided with a movable platform, the movable platform is driven by the horizontal guide rail driving motor to move horizontally, an electric push rod is vertically provided on the movable platform, the head of the electric push rod is provided with a loading robot body, and the loading robot body is driven by the electric push rod to move up and down; the loading robot body is a suction cup plate body with a plurality of suction cups.

6. The fully automatic punching and blowing machine according to claim 5, characterized in that: A mounting plate is arranged on the upper part of the movable platform, and a plurality of guide pillars for increasing the structural strength are arranged on the upper end of the suction cup plate body, and the guide pillars are penetrated on the mounting plate.

7. The fully automatic punching and blowing machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: The left movable positioning block driving mechanism is a motor-driven screw slider structure, which is installed on the left screw guide rail; the right movable positioning block driving mechanism is a motor-driven screw slider structure, which is installed on the left screw guide rail; the rear movable positioning block driving mechanism is a motor-driven screw slider structure, which is installed on the rear screw guide rail.

8. The fully automatic punching and blowing machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: The left movable positioning block driving mechanism, the right movable positioning block driving mechanism and the rear movable positioning block driving mechanism are located at the lower side of the plate fixing platform, and the left movable positioning block, the right movable positioning block and the rear movable positioning block pass through the through slots on the plate fixing platform and are exposed to the outside.

9. The fully automatic punching and blowing machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: The left movable positioning block includes a left bottom plate, a fine-adjustment structure is provided at each end of the left bottom plate, and a left positioning baffle is provided at the fine-adjustment end of the fine-adjustment structure; the right movable positioning block includes a right bottom plate, a fine-adjustment structure is provided at each end of the right bottom plate, and a right positioning baffle is provided at the fine-adjustment end of the fine-adjustment structure; the rear movable positioning block includes a rear bottom plate, a fine-adjustment structure is provided at each end of the left bottom plate, and a rear positioning baffle is provided at the fine-adjustment end of the fine-adjustment structure; the fine-adjustment structure is composed of a fixing seat with a screw hole and a screw screwed on the fixing seat.

10. The fully automatic punching and inflation machine according to claim 1, characterized in that: Material platform fixing clamps for fixing the movable material platform are arranged on both sides of the material platform docking area. The material platform fixing clamps are driven by the material platform fixing cylinder and can move forward to clamp the movable material platform.