Automatic laminating equipment for ink filling

Abstract

The invention belongs to the technical field of equipment for ink filling, and provides automatic laminating equipment for ink filling. Automatic laminating equipment for ink filling comprises a workbench, and further comprises a plurality of glass substrates, a feeding part, a laminating working part and a material receiving part which are all arranged on the workbench; the glass carrying joint robot can be rotatably arranged on the workbench in the circumferential direction and is arranged between the glass sheet conveying transfer table located on the left side and a transfer area located on the front side of the vacuum laminating machine; and a drying and cleaning chamber is arranged in the vacuum laminating machine. Compared with the prior art, in the whole glass substrate ink filling and attaching process, manual operation is not needed in the process from feeding in the feeding machine to finished product discharging; by adopting the glass carrying joint robot, the glass substrate can be carried in a reciprocating manner, so that the process operation is more flexible; and in addition, the drying and cleaning chamber is arranged, so that the frosting and dewing phenomena cannot occur in a low-temperature environment.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of ink filling equipment, and in particular relates to an automatic laminating equipment for ink filling. Background Art

[0002] Electronic paper, also known as digital paper, is an ultra-thin and ultra-light display screen, which can be understood as "a display that is as thin, soft, and rewritable as paper." Figuratively speaking, electronic paper is a thin film, and the layer of charged material "coated" on the film is electronic ink. This can also be seen as a thin embedded remote control display panel.

[0003] However, the production process of electronic paper products requires an automatic laminating process involving ink filling; in the prior art, for example, Chinese invention patent publication number CN116238955A discloses a fully automatic laminating device and laminating method for electronic paper and TFT workpiece, and specifically discloses that "the device includes a laminating station, on which a first flow station and a second flow station are arranged side by side; further includes a TFT feeding device, a TFT cleaning device, a TFT laminating device, a silver paste dot device and a TFT alignment stage sequentially arranged on the first flow station; and further includes an FPL feeding device sequentially arranged on the second flow station, and a FPL workpiece is placed on the FP The L loading device is moved to the bonding device for bonding with the TFT workpiece on the TFT alignment stage, and the unloading device is used to move the TFT workpiece bonded with the FPL workpiece away from the TFT alignment stage; a material transfer device is also provided on the work station platform on the side of the first assembly line station away from the second assembly line station, the TFT cleaning device and the silver paste dot device are respectively located at both ends of the material transfer device, and the unloading device is collinear with the material transfer device. Although the equipment can achieve the technical effect of "full-automatic bonding process of TFT and FPL can be realized with high bonding accuracy and high bonding efficiency" to a certain extent, there are still problems of manual operation and inflexible process operation in the process from loading in the loader to producing finished products. Summary of the invention

[0004] In view of the above problems existing in the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic laminating device for ink filling to solve at least one technical problem raised by the background art.

[0005] The purpose of the present invention can be achieved by the following technical solutions:

[0006] An automatic laminating device for ink filling, comprising a workbench, and also comprising a plurality of glass substrates, a loading part, a laminating work part and a receiving part, all of which are arranged on the workbench, wherein the loading part, the laminating work part and the receiving part are respectively linked by conveyor belts; the loading part comprises a loading machine, an upper substrate visual glue dispenser, and a plurality of glass sheet transmission transfer tables; the laminating work part comprises a vacuum laminating machine and a lower substrate glue dispenser; and the receiving part comprises a freezer and a finished product receiving machine;

[0007] It also includes a glass handling articulated robot that can be rotatably arranged on the workbench in a circumferential direction, and the glass handling articulated robot is arranged between the glass sheet conveying transfer table located on the left side and the transfer area on the front side of the vacuum laminating machine; the vacuum laminating machine is equipped with a dry clean room.

[0008] As a preferred technical solution of the present invention, the loading machine includes a lifting mechanism with multiple driving wheels and a grabbing fixture, and the multiple driving wheels of the lifting mechanism are respectively in contact with the glass substrate;

[0009] When the glass substrate falls onto the driving wheel, the driving wheel drives the glass substrate to move forward to a fixed position, and then the grabbing fixture grabs the glass substrate and places it on a work station. At this time, the lifting mechanism moves down one grid, and the above actions are repeated.

[0010] As a preferred technical solution of the present invention, the upper substrate visual glue dispenser is an online gantry-type UV glue dispenser, which is started and uses the lifting mechanism after the glass substrate is placed;

[0011] At this time, the four sides of the glass substrate are positioned, and the glue dispensing starts by visually grabbing the target of the online gantry-type UV glue dispensing machine, and the glue dispensing track of the online gantry-type UV glue dispensing machine can be imported into the DXF document for recognition.

[0012] As a preferred technical solution of the present invention, the vacuum laminating machine includes a lower substrate ink dot machine, the upper and lower bottom plates of the vacuum laminating machine fix the glass substrate up and down by using an electrostatic chuck, and the lower substrate ink dot machine cooperates with the glass panel ink dot;

[0013] The lower base plate of the vacuum laminating machine is a low-temperature plate with a temperature value of -45°C, and the upper base plate of the vacuum laminating machine is configured with an online gantry UV dispensing machine UVW visual alignment platform, a pressure sensor and a UV pre-curing unit. The pressing mechanism of the vacuum laminating machine adopts a servo plus screw method and senses pressure through a pressure sensor for pressing.

[0014] As a preferred technical solution of the present invention, the lower substrate ink dot machine is a cantilever ink dot machine, which extends into the pressing cavity of the vacuum laminating machine through a single cantilever to perform ink dot action. The controller of the vacuum laminating machine can import a DXF trajectory file to identify the trajectory. The cantilever ink dot machine is placed as a whole on the marble platform bottom plate of the workbench.

[0015] As a preferred technical solution of the present invention, the dry clean room adopts a 20P refrigerated adsorption dryer for drying, and the dew point temperature of the dry clean room is -60°C.

[0016] As a preferred technical solution of the present invention, the dry clean air flow rate of the dry clean room is 1.8 cubic meters per minute, which can achieve complete replacement of the gas in the clean room within 5 minutes.

[0017] As a preferred technical solution of the present invention, the glass handling articulated robot comprises at least 6 articulated robots, and the glass handling articulated robot adopts four-side clamping and grabs the glass substrate by cooperating with an electrostatic chuck.

[0018] As described above, the present invention relates to an automatic laminating device for ink filling, which has the following beneficial effects:

[0019] Compared with the prior art, the present invention utilizes the above-mentioned automatic laminating equipment for ink filling, and the entire glass substrate ink filling and laminating process, from loading materials from the feeder to the output of the finished product, does not require manual operation; and a glass handling joint robot is used to reciprocate the glass substrate, making the process operation more flexible; in addition, a dry clean room is provided to prevent frost and condensation in a low temperature environment.

[0020] The present invention will be further described below in conjunction with specific implementation modes. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0021] Figure 1 A top view of the automatic laminating device for ink filling applied for the present invention;

[0022] Figure 2 A schematic diagram of the structure of a part of the frame of the automatic laminating device for ink filling applied for the present invention;

[0023] Figure 3 A schematic diagram of the working process of the automatic laminating device for ink filling applied for by the present invention;

[0024] Figure 4 A schematic diagram of the structure of a loading machine in an automatic laminating device for ink filling according to the present invention;

[0025] Figure 5 This is a schematic diagram of the structure of a UV glue dispenser in the automatic laminating equipment for ink filling applied for by the present invention;

[0026] Figure 6 One of the structural schematic diagrams of the glass handling joint robot included in the automatic laminating equipment for ink filling applied for by the present invention;

[0027] Figure 7 The second schematic diagram of the structure of the glass handling joint robot included in the automatic laminating equipment for ink filling applied for by the present invention;

[0028] Figure 8 The automatic laminating device for ink filling applied for the present invention includes a schematic diagram of the structure of a vacuum laminating machine;

[0029] Fig. 9 A schematic diagram of the structure of the ink dispenser for the lower substrate in the automatic laminating device for ink filling applied for by the present invention;

[0030] Fig.10 This is a schematic diagram of ink dotting by an ink dotting machine for a lower substrate in the automatic laminating equipment for ink filling applied for by the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0031] The following is a description of the implementation of the present invention by means of specific embodiments. Those skilled in the art can easily understand other advantages and effects of the present invention from the contents disclosed in this specification.

[0032] It should be noted that the structures, proportions, sizes, etc. illustrated in the drawings of this specification are only used to match the contents disclosed in the specification for people familiar with this technology to understand and read, and are not used to limit the limiting conditions that the present invention can be implemented, so they have no substantial technical significance. Any modification of the structure, change in the proportional relationship, or adjustment of the size should still fall within the scope of the technical content disclosed by the present invention without affecting the effects that the present invention can produce and the purposes that can be achieved. At the same time, the terms such as "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "middle" and "one" quoted in this specification are only for the convenience of description, and are not used to limit the scope of the implementation of the present invention. The change or adjustment of the relative relationship should also be regarded as the scope of the implementation of the present invention without substantial changes in the technical content. The specific structure can be described with reference to the drawings of the patent application.

[0033] Example 1

[0034] The present invention provides an automatic laminating device for ink filling, combined with Figures 1 to 10As shown, in this embodiment, it includes a workbench 1, and also includes a plurality of glass substrates 2, a loading part 3, a bonding work part 4 and a receiving part 5, all of which are arranged on the workbench 1. The loading part 3, the bonding work part 4 and the receiving part 5 are respectively connected to each other through a conveyor belt to realize transmission linkage; the loading part 3 includes a loading machine 30, an upper substrate visual glue dispenser 31, and a plurality of glass sheet transmission transfer tables 32, the bonding work part 4 includes a vacuum bonding machine 40, a lower substrate glue dispenser 41, and the receiving part 5 includes a freezer 50 and a finished product receiving machine 51;

[0035] It also includes a glass handling articulated robot 6 which can be rotatably arranged on the workbench 1 in the circumferential direction. The glass handling articulated robot 6 is arranged between the glass sheet conveying transfer table 32 located on the left side and the transfer area on the front side of the vacuum laminating machine 40; the vacuum laminating machine 40 is equipped with a dry clean room 7.

[0036] It should be noted that the process of automated production of the present invention is as follows: Figures 1 to 8 As shown, first, the glass substrate 2 to be processed needs to be manually placed on the upper substrate loading machine 30, and then the glass substrate 2 is conveyed to the upper substrate visual glue dispenser 31 by a conveyor belt for visual glue dispense. After the upper substrate visual glue dispenser 31 completes the glue dispense, the glass substrate 2 after the glue dispense is transported to the dry clean room 7 by the glass sheet conveying transfer table 32, and the upper substrate is transported to the upper platform by the glass handling joint robot 6. At this time, the upper substrate is in a waiting stage; at the same time, the lower substrate is fed to the loading machine 30, and the lower substrate is transported to the dry clean room 7 by the conveyor belt. Then, the glass handling joint robot 6 transports the lower substrate to the lower platform, and then the lower substrate is inked. After the ink dispense of the lower substrate is completed, the glass substrate is transported to the pressure in the vacuum bonding machine 40 in combination with the glass handling joint robot 6. The cavity is pressed together, and the dry clean room is vacuumed for 30 seconds to the standard value, and then the upper and lower substrates are used to realize visual alignment and pressing of the glass substrate 2, and then UV pre-curing is performed. After curing, the upper and lower platforms are separated, and the pressure of the pressing cavity in the vacuum laminating machine 40 is released to realize opening the vacuum cavity, and then the glass handling joint robot 6 transports the processed glass substrate 2 to the receiving machine, and finally the glass substrate product is completed through the UV curing process; in this way, the entire glass substrate ink filling and laminating process, from loading in the feeder to the finished product, does not require manual operation; and the glass handling joint robot 6 is set to be able to reciprocate and transport the glass substrate 2, so that the process operation is more flexible; in addition, a dry clean room is equipped to prevent frost and condensation in a low temperature environment.

[0037] The working rhythm involved in the above working principle is shown in Figure 3 shown.

[0038] Please combine Figures 1 to 5 As shown, in this embodiment, the loading machine 30 includes a lifting mechanism 300 with multiple driving wheels (not shown in the figure, all hereinafter) and a grabbing fixture (not shown in the figure, all hereinafter), and the multiple driving wheels of the lifting mechanism 300 are respectively in contact with the glass substrate 2;

[0039] When the glass substrate 2 falls onto the driving wheel, the driving wheel drives the glass substrate 2 to move forward to a fixed position, and then the grabbing fixture grabs the glass substrate 2 and places it on a work station. At this time, the lifting mechanism 300 moves down one grid, and the above actions are repeated.

[0040] Please combine Figure 1 and Figure 5 As shown, in this embodiment, the upper substrate visual glue dispenser 31 is an online gantry-type UV glue dispenser, which is started after the glass substrate 2 is placed and the lifting mechanism 300 is adopted;

[0041] At this time, the four sides of the glass substrate 2 are positioned, and the glue dispensing starts by visually grabbing the target of the online gantry-type UV glue dispensing machine, and the glue dispensing track of the online gantry-type UV glue dispensing machine can be imported into the DXF document for recognition.

[0042] Example 2

[0043] Based on Example 1, please combine Figure 1 , Figures 8 to 10 As shown, in this embodiment, the vacuum laminating machine 40 includes a lower substrate ink dotting machine, and the upper and lower bottom plates of the vacuum laminating machine 40 fix the glass substrate 2 up and down by using an electrostatic chuck, and the lower substrate ink dotting machine cooperates with the glass panel 2 to dot ink;

[0044] The lower bottom plate of the vacuum laminating machine 40 is a low-temperature plate with a temperature value of -45°C, and the upper bottom plate of the vacuum laminating machine 40 is equipped with an online gantry UV dispensing machine UVW visual alignment platform, a pressure sensor, and a UV pre-curing unit. The pressing mechanism of the vacuum laminating machine 40 adopts a servo screw method and presses by sensing pressure through a pressure sensor. The air volume of the vacuum cavity of the vacuum laminating machine 40 is 0.4 cubic meters, and the closing cavity adopts a cylinder pressurized closing cavity; the side panels of the vacuum cavity of the vacuum laminating machine 40 are equipped with reinforcing ribs to prevent deformation, and the bottom plate table adopts a thick marble platform to ensure its flatness.

[0045] Example 3

[0046] Based on Example 1, please combine Figures 8 to 10As shown, in this embodiment, the lower substrate ink dotting machine is a cantilever ink dotting machine, which extends into the pressing cavity of the vacuum laminating machine 40 through a single cantilever to perform ink dotting. The controller of the vacuum laminating machine 40 can import a DXF trajectory file to identify the trajectory, and the cantilever ink dotting machine is placed as a whole on the marble platform bottom plate of the workbench. In this way, through the above design, its parallelism can be guaranteed. The ink dotting head needs to be stabilized at a low temperature of -15°C, the ink supply pressure tank is immersed in a constant temperature tank of -15°C, and the pipeline between the ink supply pressure tank and the ink dotting head is installed in the cold water circulation pipeline of the constant temperature tank, which can ensure the low temperature of the ink supply pipeline (as shown in the black figure). In this embodiment, the dry clean room 7 is dried by a 20P refrigerated adsorption dryer, and the dew point temperature of the dry clean room 7 is -60°C. The above method is adopted, and the external opening is made as small as possible to keep the dry clean room at a positive air pressure, which has the technical effect of preventing the backflow of outside air.

[0047] Please note: Please refer to Figure 8 As shown, the dry clean room 7 used in the above-mentioned application of the present invention is 2700 cm long, 2600 cm wide, and 1900 cm high, with a volume of 14 cubic meters. Excluding the volume occupied by the equipment, there is still 9 cubic meters of air space.

[0048] In this embodiment, the dry clean air flow rate of the dry clean room 7 is 1.8 cubic meters per minute, and the gas in the clean room can be completely replaced within 5 minutes.

[0049] Please combine Figures 1 to 8 As shown, in this embodiment, the glass handling articulated robot 6 includes at least 6 articulated robots. The glass handling articulated robot 6 adopts four-side clamping and grabs the glass substrate 2 by cooperating with the electrostatic chuck 8 .

[0050] In summary, the present invention effectively overcomes various shortcomings of the prior art and has high industrial utilization value.

[0051] The above embodiments are merely illustrative of the principles and effects of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention. Anyone familiar with the art may modify or alter the above embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, all equivalent modifications or alterations made by a person of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit and technical concept disclosed by the present invention shall still be covered by the claims of the present invention.

Claims

1. An automatic laminating device for ink filling, comprising a workbench, and also comprising a plurality of glass substrates, a loading part, a laminating work part and a receiving part, all of which are arranged on the workbench, wherein the loading part, the laminating work part and the receiving part are respectively linked by conveyor belts; the loading part comprises a loading machine, an upper substrate visual glue dispenser, and a plurality of glass sheet transmission transfer tables; the laminating work part comprises a vacuum laminating machine and a lower substrate glue dispenser; and the receiving part comprises a freezer and a finished product receiving machine; Features: It also includes a glass handling articulated robot that can be rotatably arranged on the workbench in a circumferential direction, and the glass handling articulated robot is arranged between the glass sheet conveying transfer table located on the left side and the transfer area on the front side of the vacuum laminating machine; the vacuum laminating machine is equipped with a dry clean room.

2. The automatic laminating device for ink filling according to claim 1, characterized in that: The loading machine comprises a lifting mechanism with a plurality of driving wheels and a grabbing fixture, wherein the plurality of driving wheels of the lifting mechanism are respectively in contact with and cooperate with the glass substrate; When the glass substrate falls onto the driving wheel, the driving wheel drives the glass substrate to move forward to a fixed position, and then the grabbing fixture grabs the glass substrate and places it on a work station. At this time, the lifting mechanism moves down one grid, and the above actions are repeated.

3. The automatic laminating device for ink filling according to claim 2, characterized in that: The upper substrate visual glue dispenser is an online gantry-type UV glue dispenser, which is started after the glass substrate is placed and uses the lifting mechanism; At this time, the four sides of the glass substrate are positioned, and the glue dispensing starts by visually grabbing the target of the online gantry-type UV glue dispensing machine, and the glue dispensing track of the online gantry-type UV glue dispensing machine can be imported into the DXF document for recognition.

4. The automatic laminating device for ink filling according to claim 2, characterized in that: The vacuum laminating machine comprises a lower substrate ink dotting machine, the upper and lower bottom plates of the vacuum laminating machine fix the glass substrate up and down by using an electrostatic chuck, and the lower substrate ink dotting machine cooperates with the glass panel ink dotting; The lower base plate of the vacuum laminating machine is a low-temperature plate with a temperature value of -45°C, and the upper base plate of the vacuum laminating machine is configured with an online gantry UV dispensing machine UVW visual alignment platform, a pressure sensor and a UV pre-curing unit. The pressing mechanism of the vacuum laminating machine adopts a servo plus screw method and senses pressure through a pressure sensor for pressing.

5. The automatic laminating device for ink filling according to claim 4, characterized in that: The lower substrate ink dotting machine is a cantilever ink dotting machine, which extends into the pressing cavity of the vacuum laminating machine through a single cantilever to perform ink dotting. The controller of the vacuum laminating machine can import a DXF trajectory file to identify the trajectory. The cantilever ink dotting machine is placed as a whole on the marble platform bottom plate of the workbench.

6. An automatic laminating device for ink filling according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that: The dry clean room is dried by a 20P refrigerated adsorption dryer, and the dew point temperature of the dry clean room is -60°C.

7. The automatic laminating device for ink filling according to claim 6, characterized in that: The dry clean air flow rate of the dry clean room is 1.8 cubic meters per minute, and the gas in the clean room can be completely replaced within 5 minutes.

8. An automatic laminating device for ink filling according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that: The glass handling articulated robot comprises at least 6 articulated robots. The glass handling articulated robot adopts four-side clamping and grabs the glass substrate by cooperating with an electrostatic chuck.

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