Battery sorting equipment

By coordinating the conveying and cleaning mechanisms and the collection mechanism, the battery can be rotated circumferentially for imaging and cleaning, solving the problem of incomplete detection in existing equipment and improving the detection accuracy and automated sorting efficiency of the battery sorting equipment.

CN120900976AActive Publication Date: 2025-11-07NANTONG AMERI POWER TOOLS CO LTD
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Application Number
CN202511432803.9
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Applications(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2025-10-09
Publication Date
2025-11-07
Estimated Expiration
2045-10-09

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Technical Problem

Existing battery sorting equipment has difficulty in completely inspecting the outer circumference of round batteries when sorting them, and dirt and impurities on the battery surface affect the test results, reducing the accuracy and efficiency of the test.

Method used

A conveying and cleaning mechanism is used to transport the batteries forward while they rotate. A collection mechanism is used to take circumferential pictures, and the batteries are detected by a CCD image acquisition module and an infrared temperature measurement module. An electrical performance detection module is used to detect the battery's charge, voltage, and resistance. A sorting mechanism performs automatic sorting.

Benefits of technology

It enables comprehensive battery testing, reduces testing errors, improves testing accuracy and efficiency, and ensures automated battery sorting and classification.

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Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of battery sorting equipment, in particular to battery sorting equipment which comprises an electric control cabinet, an automatic discharging mechanism used for discharging batteries is arranged on the right side of the top of the electric control cabinet, and a sorting mechanism is arranged on the left side of the top of the electric control cabinet. According to the device, the batteries are conveyed forwards while rotating, circumferential rotary shooting of the batteries is achieved through cooperation of the collecting mechanism, uniform shooting detection of the outsides of the batteries is facilitated, and compared with traditional single-point shooting detection, the detection error is small, and in the process of rotating forward conveying of the batteries, the cleaning assembly rotates in the opposite direction, so that the cleaning efficiency is improved. The device is simple in structure and convenient to operate, the outer portions of the batteries are conveniently and uniformly cleaned, the influence of oil stains and impurities on the surfaces of the batteries on the detection result is avoided, the detection accuracy is improved, a detachable conveying cloth bag is arranged in the sorting mechanism, the selected batteries are conveniently buffered, and battery collision caused by the fact that the batteries directly fall into a collecting box is avoided.
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TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The application belongs to the technical field of battery sorting equipment, and particularly relates to a battery sorting equipment. BACKGROUND

[0002] The battery sorting equipment is a key automatic equipment in the production and manufacturing process of lithium batteries, photovoltaic cells and the like, and is mainly used for automatically detecting, classifying and screening the batteries according to the performance parameters of the batteries, so as to ensure that the group batteries have high consistency, thereby improving the overall performance, safety and service life. The lithium battery circular battery is a relatively common type of battery, and the following problems exist in the sorting process of the lithium battery circular battery: 1. When the existing battery sorting equipment sorts the circular battery, a CCD image acquisition module is usually used to shoot the appearance of the battery, the shot picture is transmitted to a processing module for analysis and comparison, whether the battery appearance is damaged, whether the battery leaks, whether there is a depression, and whether the code is missed, and the unqualified battery is sorted out. The shooting angle of the CCD image acquisition module of the existing sorting equipment and the battery is fixed, and the outer circumference of the battery cannot be completely detected, which reduces the detection accuracy.

[0003] 2. During the conveying process of the battery sorting equipment, dirt, oil stains and impurities are attached to the surface of the battery, which can block the code, and if not cleaned, it will affect the detection result and then affect the subsequent sorting efficiency. SUMMARY

[0004] The purpose of the application is to provide a battery sorting equipment with simple structure and reasonable design to solve the above problems.

[0005] The application achieves the above purpose through the following technical solutions: A battery sorting equipment, comprising an electric control cabinet, wherein an automatic unloading mechanism for unloading batteries is arranged on the top right side of the electric control cabinet, and a sorting mechanism is arranged on the top left side of the electric control cabinet. Further comprising: An acquisition mechanism arranged on the rear side of the electric control cabinet, which is used to acquire the temperature and appearance image of the battery. A conveying and cleaning mechanism arranged on the top rear side of the electric control cabinet, which is used in cooperation with the acquisition mechanism to enable the acquisition mechanism to shoot the circumferential direction of the battery rotating and conveying, and an electrical performance detection mechanism for detecting the electrical performance of the battery is arranged between the conveying and cleaning mechanism and the sorting mechanism.

[0006] Preferably, the electric control cabinet bottom four corners are respectively fixedly installed with supporting legs, the electric control cabinet top left side is fixedly installed with a rack, the rack front side top is symmetrically installed with two touch screens, the rack top rear side is fixedly installed with a three-color warning light, the touch screen is internally provided with a main control module, and the electric control cabinet top corner is provided with a switch.

[0007] Preferably, the automatic discharging mechanism comprises a bottom plate fixedly installed on the electric control cabinet top right side, and the bottom plate is provided with an automatic discharging assembly for uniformly and automatically discharging the batteries.

[0008] Preferably, the conveying and cleaning mechanism comprises a guide chute fixedly installed at the discharging end of the automatic discharging assembly, a No. 2 servo motor arranged at the rear side of the guide chute, a rotating conveying assembly arranged on the guide chute, a cleaning assembly arranged at the top of the guide chute for cleaning the batteries, a through slot opened at the left bottom of the guide chute, and a supporting plate fixedly installed at the left bottom of the guide chute.

[0009] Preferably, the guide chute is internally provided with a receiving groove symmetrically arranged at the front and rear of the middle part, the rotating conveying assembly comprises a driving part, a spiral rubber roller, an ear block and a transmission rod, the driving part comprises a rotating shaft penetrating through the guide chute and the receiving groove, the rear end of the rotating shaft is fixedly connected with the output end of the No. 2 servo motor, two driving bevel gears are fixedly sleeved on the front and rear of the rotating shaft, a connecting shaft is rotatably installed on the inner wall bottom of the receiving groove, a driven bevel gear is fixedly sleeved on the right end of the connecting shaft and engaged with the driving bevel gear, a driving spur gear is fixedly sleeved on the middle part of the connecting shaft, a transmission rod penetrates through the left top of the receiving groove, a driven spur gear is fixedly sleeved on the right end of the transmission rod, a tooth belt is commonly engaged between the driven spur gear and the driving spur gear, a spiral rubber roller is fixedly sleeved on the middle part of the transmission rod, an ear block is rotatably installed on the left end of the transmission rod, the ear block is fixedly installed on the top of the guide chute, a stop block is fixedly installed on the left top of the guide chute, a driving belt pulley is fixedly sleeved on the middle part of the rotating shaft, a driven transmission belt pulley is rotatably installed inside the left side of the through slot, and a No. 2 belt body for conveying the batteries is commonly installed between the driving belt pulley and the driven transmission belt pulley.

[0010] Preferably, the cleaning assembly comprises a No. 1 gantry and a No. 2 gantry fixedly installed on the top of the guide chute in a left-right symmetrical manner, a transmission shaft is commonly rotatably installed between the No. 1 gantry and the No. 2 gantry, a cleaning roller and a cleaning brush are fixedly sleeved on the transmission shaft along the conveying direction of the No. 2 belt body, a servo motor is fixedly installed on the right end of the No. 2 gantry, the output end of the servo motor penetrates through the rear of the No. 2 gantry and is fixedly connected with the transmission shaft, a scraping plate for scraping off stains on the cleaning roller and the cleaning brush is fixedly installed on the right end of the front side of the guide chute, and a discharging chute is fixedly installed on the front side of the scraping plate.

[0011] Preferably, the electrical performance detection mechanism comprises a No. 2 cylinder fixedly installed at the rear side of the left end of the guide chute, a push plate for pushing the battery is installed at the output end of the No. 2 cylinder, a U-shaped groove is fixedly installed at the front side of the left end of the guide chute, a stop block is located between the No. 2 cylinder and the U-shaped groove, through holes are formed in the two side walls of the U-shaped groove, a limiting slide rail is fixedly installed at the middle of the bottom of the U-shaped groove, two sliding blocks are symmetrically and slidably installed on the limiting slide rail, an electrical detection module is arranged at the top of the sliding blocks, fixed arms are fixedly installed at the front sides of the two sliding blocks, and a double-acting cylinder is fixedly installed at the front side of the bottom of the U-shaped groove, and the two output ends of the double-acting cylinder are fixedly connected with the fixed arms.

[0012] Preferably, the collecting mechanism comprises a stand column arranged at the rear side of the electric control cabinet, and two installation rods are liftably installed on the stand column, and an infrared temperature measurement module and a CCD image collecting module are respectively installed on the two installation rods.

[0013] Preferably, the sorting mechanism comprises an intermittent conveying assembly, a conveying cloth bag, a baffle and a sorting chute, the intermittent conveying assembly comprises two side plates fixedly and symmetrically installed at the top of the electric control cabinet, two fixed shafts are rotatably installed between the two side plates, a conveying pulley is fixedly sleeved to the middle of each of the two fixed shafts, a No. 1 belt body is arranged between the two conveying pulleys, push blocks for pushing the battery are uniformly fixedly installed outside the No. 1 belt body, a fixing groove is formed in the top of the side plate at the rear side, and the position of the fixing groove corresponds to the position of the U-shaped groove.

[0014] Preferably, a fixed frame is fixedly installed at the top of the electric control cabinet, a No. 1 servo motor is fixedly installed on the fixed frame, the output end of the No. 1 servo motor is rotatably penetrated through the rear side of the side plate at the front side and fixedly connected with the front end of the fixed shaft at the right side, a supporting plate is fixedly installed at the top of the side plate at the rear side, a plurality of No. 1 cylinders are uniformly installed at the top of the supporting plate, a plurality of sorting chutes corresponding to the No. 1 cylinders are uniformly installed on the side plate at the front side, and the conveying cloth bag and the baffle are movably inserted into the front side of the sorting chute.

[0015] The present application has the following advantages: 1. Unlike the prior art, the present application realizes the rotation and forward conveying of the battery by the setting of the conveying and cleaning mechanism, realizes the circumferential rotation and shooting of the battery by the use of the collecting mechanism, facilitates the overall shooting and detection of the battery, and has small detection error and good effect compared with the traditional single-point shooting and detection.

[0016] 2. Unlike the prior art, the cleaning assembly rotates in the opposite direction during the rotation and forward conveying of the battery, which facilitates the uniform cleaning of the outside of the battery and avoids the influence of oil stains and impurities on the surface of the battery on the detection result, thereby improving the accuracy of the detection.

[0017] 3. Distinguish from prior art, through the CCD image acquisition module carries out the shooting collection outside the battery, utilizes the infrared temperature measurement module to carry out the battery temperature detection, utilizes the electrical detection module to detect the battery's electric quantity, voltage and resistance, the detection result is passed to the main control module and carries out the comparative analysis, then utilizes the sorting mechanism to carry out the sorting, is convenient for picking out the qualified battery, and simultaneously classifies the unqualified battery according to the unqualified item, realizes the automatic sorting of battery.

[0018] 4. Distinguish from prior art, the sorting mechanism is provided with detachable conveying cloth bag, is convenient for the buffer of the selected battery, avoids the battery knock caused by the battery directly falling into the collection box. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0019] Figure 1 It is the first perspective view schematic drawing of the overall structure of the application; Figure 2 It is the second perspective view schematic drawing of the overall structure of the application; Figure 3 It is the perspective view of the electric control cabinet, sorting mechanism and conveying cleaning mechanism of the application; Figure 4 It is the explosion view of the sorting mechanism of the application; Figure 5 It is the perspective view of the automatic unloading mechanism and conveying cleaning mechanism of the application; Figure 6 It is the perspective view of the electrical performance detection mechanism of the application; Figure 7 It is the perspective view of the conveying cleaning mechanism of the application; Figure 8 It is the partial sectional view of the conveying cleaning mechanism of the application Figure 9 It is the perspective view of the rotating conveying assembly of the application; Figure 10 It is the perspective view of the Figure 9 Enlarged schematic view of area A in the application; Figure 11 It is the perspective view of the acquisition mechanism of the application.

[0020] In the figure: 1, electric control cabinet; 2, sorting mechanism; 21, intermittent conveying assembly; 211, No. 1 servo motor; 212, fixed frame; 213, side plate; 214, No. 1 belt body; 215, fixed groove; 216, push block; 217, fixed shaft; 22, conveying cloth bag; 23, baffle; 24, sorting slide; 25, supporting plate; 26, No. 1 cylinder; 3, rack; 4, touch screen; 5, three-color warning light; 6, electric performance detection mechanism; 61, No. 2 cylinder; 62, electrical detection module; 63, limiting slide rail; 64, fixed arm; 65, two-way electric cylinder; 66, U-shaped groove; 67, positioning groove; 7, automatic discharging mechanism; 71, automatic discharging assembly; 711, stock bin; 712, rotating head; 713, pushing cylinder; 714, limiting plate; 72, bottom plate; 8, collecting mechanism; 81, stand column; 82, mounting rod; 83, infrared temperature measurement module; 84, CCD image acquisition module; 9, conveying and cleaning mechanism; 91, No. 2 servo motor; 92, cleaning assembly; 921, cleaning roller; 922, cleaning brush; 923, No. 1 gantry; 924, scraping plate; 925, No. 2 gantry; 926, discharge chute; 927, servo motor; 93, guide slide; 94, rotary conveying assembly; 941, driving part; 9411, driven spur gear; 9412, toothed belt; 9413, driving bevel gear; 9414, rotating shaft; 9415, driven bevel gear; 9416, connecting shaft; 9417, driving spur gear; 942, spiral rubber roller; 943, ear block; 944, transmission rod; 95, supporting plate; 96, No. 2 belt body; 97, through groove; 98, containing groove; 99, transmission pulley; 10, switch; 11, stop block. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0021] The application will be described in further detail below with reference to the drawings. It is necessary to point out here that the following detailed description is only used to further illustrate the application and cannot be understood as limiting the scope of protection of the application. Those skilled in the art can make some non-essential improvements and adjustments to the application according to the above application content.

[0022] Embodiment: Please refer to Figure 1 , Figure 2 and Figure 3A battery sorting equipment, including an electric control cabinet 1, the bottom four corners of the electric control cabinet 1 are fixedly installed with support legs, the top right side of the electric control cabinet 1 is provided with an automatic feeding mechanism 7 for feeding the battery, and the top left side of the electric control cabinet 1 is provided with a sorting mechanism 2; The rear side of the electric control cabinet 1 is provided with a collection mechanism 8, the collection mechanism 8 is used for collecting the temperature and appearance image of the battery, the top rear side of the electric control cabinet 1 is provided with a conveying and cleaning mechanism 9, the conveying and cleaning mechanism 9 and the collection mechanism 8 are used in cooperation, the collection mechanism 8 can make the battery rotate and convey the battery circumferentially, the electric performance detection mechanism 6 is arranged between the conveying and cleaning mechanism 9 and the sorting mechanism 2, the electric performance detection mechanism 6 is used for detecting the electric performance of the battery, the top left side of the electric control cabinet 1 is fixedly installed with a rack 3, two touch screens 4 are symmetrically installed on the top front side of the rack 3, a three-color warning light 5 is fixedly installed on the top rear side of the rack 3, a main control module is arranged in the touch screen 4, and a switch 10 is arranged at a corner of the top of the electric control cabinet 1.

[0023] In use, the automatic feeding mechanism 7 is used to realize uniform feeding of the battery, the conveying and cleaning mechanism 9 is used to rotate and convey the battery after feeding, realizes the rotation of the battery during conveying, the external image and the temperature of the battery during rotation and conveying are collected by the collection mechanism 8, the voltage, the capacity and the resistance data of the collected battery are collected by the electric performance detection mechanism 6, the collected data is transmitted to the main control module for analysis and judgment, whether the battery is qualified is obtained, the touch screen 4 is used to display the collected data and the judgment result, after the battery is judged, the sorting mechanism 2 is used for sorting, the rack 3 is used for installing the touch screen 4, and the switch 10 is used for turning on and off the equipment.

[0024] Please refer to Figure 2 and Figure 5 , the automatic feeding mechanism 7 comprises a bottom plate 72 fixedly installed on the top right side of the electric control cabinet 1, and an automatic feeding assembly 71 for uniformly and automatically guiding the battery is arranged on the bottom plate 72; The automatic feeding assembly 71 comprises a battery storage bin 711, a rotating head 712 for rotating and pushing material is arranged below the battery storage bin 711, the battery is uniformly and continuously fed by driving the rotating head 712 by a motor, the battery after feeding is pushed by a pushing cylinder 713, and the battery is sequentially fed under the limiting of a limiting plate 714 after being pushed.

[0025] Please refer to Figure 3 , Figure 5 and Figure 7 , the conveying and cleaning mechanism 9 comprises a guide chute 93 fixedly installed at the feeding end of the automatic feeding assembly 71, a No. 2 servo motor 91 is arranged on the rear side of the guide chute 93, a rotating conveying assembly 94 is arranged on the guide chute 93, a cleaning assembly 92 for cleaning the battery is arranged on the top of the guide chute 93, a through groove 97 is formed on the left bottom of the guide chute 93, and a supporting plate 95 is fixedly installed on the left bottom of the guide chute 93.

[0026] Please refer to Figure 5 , Figure 7 , Figure 8 , Figure 9 and Figure 10 , the middle part of the guide chute 93 is internally provided with a receiving groove 98, the rotating conveying assembly 94 comprises a driving part 941, a spiral rubber roller 942, an ear block 943 and a transmission rod 944, the driving part 941 comprises a rotating shaft 9414 penetrating through the guide chute 93 and the receiving groove 98, the rear end of the rotating shaft 9414 is fixedly connected with the output end of the second servo motor 91, the rotating shaft 9414 is symmetrically fixedly sleeved with two driving bevel gears 9413, a connecting shaft 9416 is rotatably installed on the inner wall bottom of the receiving groove 98, the right end of the connecting shaft 9416 is fixedly sleeved with a driven bevel gear 9415 meshing with the driving bevel gear 9413, the middle part of the connecting shaft 9416 is fixedly sleeved with a driving spur gear 9417, the left top of the receiving groove 98 is rotatably penetrated through the transmission rod 944, the right end of the transmission rod 944 is fixedly sleeved with a driven spur gear 9411, the toothed belt 9412 is jointly meshed between the driven spur gear 9411 and the driving spur gear 9417, the middle part of the transmission rod 944 is fixedly sleeved with the spiral rubber roller 942, the left end of the transmission rod 944 is rotatably installed with the ear block 943, the ear block 943 is fixedly installed on the top of the guide chute 93, the left side of the top of the guide chute 93 is fixedly installed with a stop block 11, the middle part of the rotating shaft 9414 is fixedly sleeved with a driving belt pulley, the left side of the inner part of the through groove 97 is rotatably installed with a driven transmission belt pulley 99, and the driving belt pulley and the driven transmission belt pulley 99 are jointly installed with a second belt body 96 for conveying batteries.

[0027] Please refer to Figure 5 and Figure 7 , the cleaning assembly 92 comprises a first gantry 923 and a second gantry 925 fixedly installed on the top of the guide chute 93, a transmission shaft is jointly rotatably installed between the first gantry 923 and the second gantry 925, a cleaning roller 921 and a cleaning brush 922 are fixedly sleeved with the transmission shaft along the conveying direction of the second belt body 96 respectively, a servo motor 927 is fixedly installed on the right end of the second gantry 925, the output end of the servo motor 927 is rotatably penetrated through the second gantry 925 and fixedly connected with the transmission shaft, a scraping plate 924 for scraping off stains on the cleaning roller 921 and the cleaning brush 922 is fixedly installed on the right end of the front side of the guide chute 93, and a discharging chute 926 is fixedly installed on the front side of the scraping plate 924.

[0028] When in use, firstly, the automatic feeding mechanism 7 realizes the uniform feeding of the single battery, and the battery is pushed into the guide chute 93 by the pushing cylinder 713, and the battery is slid down to the second belt body 96 by the guide chute 93, at this time, the second servo motor 91 is started, the output end of the second servo motor 91 drives the rotating shaft 9414 to rotate, synchronously drives the second belt body 96 to rotate, realizes the conveying of the battery along the second belt body 96 from right to left, the rotation of the rotating shaft 9414 synchronously drives the two driving bevel gears 9413 to rotate, synchronously drives the driven bevel gear 9415 and the connecting shaft 9416 thereon to rotate, at the same time, drives the driving spur gear 9417 and the toothed belt 9412 thereon to rotate, and then synchronously drives the driven spur gear 9411 and the transmission rod 944 thereon to rotate, synchronously drives the two spiral rubber rollers 942 to rotate, the two spiral rubber rollers 942 are in contact with the outside of the battery at the same time, so that in the process of conveying the battery from right to left, the spiral rubber roller 942 drives the battery to rotate, realizes the conveying of the battery while rotating, in the process of rotating and conveying, the servo motor 927 is started, the servo motor 927 drives the cleaning roller 921 and the cleaning brush 922 to rotate, and the outside of the battery is cleaned by the cleaning roller 921 and the cleaning brush 922, the stains adhered to the cleaning roller 921 and the cleaning brush 922 are cleaned by the scraping plate 924, and the stains are scraped off by the scraping plate 924 and fall into the discharge chute 926, the discharge chute 926 is used for automatic discharge, and the automatic cleaning of the battery and the cleaning of the cleaning roller 921 and the cleaning brush 922 are realized.

[0029] Please refer to Figure 2 and Figure 11 The collecting mechanism 8 comprises a stand 81 arranged at the rear side of the electric control cabinet 1, two mounting rods 82 are arranged on the stand 81 and can be lifted, and an infrared temperature measurement module 83 and a CCD image collecting module 84 are arranged on the two mounting rods 82 respectively.

[0030] When the cleaning of the surface of the battery is completed, the height of the mounting rod 82 is adjusted to a proper position, at this time, the outside of the battery which is conveyed while rotating is uniformly photographed by the CCD image collecting module 84, the outside of the battery is fully photographed and detected, compared with the single surface photographing and detecting mode, the mode is more comprehensive and accurate, the detection error is reduced, and the accuracy is improved, the temperature of the battery is detected by the infrared temperature measurement module 83, and the collected data and images are transmitted to the central control module.

[0031] Please refer to Figure 3 and Figure 6The electrical performance detection mechanism 6 comprises a No. 2 air cylinder 61 fixedly installed at the rear side of the left end of the guide slide 93, a push plate is installed at the output end of the No. 2 air cylinder 61 and used for pushing the battery, a U-shaped groove 66 is fixedly installed at the front side of the left end of the guide slide 93, the stop block 11 is located between the No. 2 air cylinder 61 and the U-shaped groove 66, through holes are formed in the two side walls of the U-shaped groove 66, a limiting slide rail 63 is fixedly installed at the middle of the bottom of the U-shaped groove 66, two sliding blocks are symmetrically and slidably installed on the limiting slide rail 63, an electrical detection module 62 is arranged at the top of the sliding blocks, fixed arms 64 are fixedly installed at the front sides of the two sliding blocks, a double-way air cylinder 65 is fixedly installed at the bottom of the U-shaped groove 66, the two output ends of the double-way air cylinder 65 are fixedly connected with the fixed arms 64, and a positioning groove 67 is formed at one side of the bottom of the U-shaped groove 66 and used for positioning the battery, so that the electrical detection module 62 can accurately contact the positive and negative poles of the battery.

[0032] When the battery rotation shooting and temperature detection are completed, the battery is conveyed to the position of the stop block 11 for blocking through the No. 2 belt body 96, then the No. 2 air cylinder 61 is started, the push plate at the output end of the No. 2 air cylinder 61 is extended, the battery is sequentially pushed into the U-shaped groove 66, then the double-way air cylinder 65 is started, the output end of the double-way air cylinder 65 is retracted, the fixed arms 64 and the sliding blocks thereon are retracted, the electrical detection module 62 is synchronously retracted, until the electrical detection module 62 is inserted into the through hole and contacts the positive and negative poles of the battery, the voltage, capacity and resistance data of the battery are detected by the electrical detection module 62, the data after detection is transmitted to the main control module, then transmitted to the touch screen 4 for display, at this time, the main control module judges according to the received picture, temperature data, voltage, capacity and resistance data, if there is an external knock, leakage, depression, missed marking, it is unqualified, if the temperature data, voltage, capacity and resistance are abnormal, it is unqualified, a control signal is generated according to the unqualified data, sequentially transmitted to the sorting mechanism 2.

[0033] Please refer to Figure 1 , Figure 3 and Figure 4 , the sorting mechanism 2 comprises an intermittent conveying assembly 21, a conveying cloth bag 22, a baffle 23 and a sorting slide 24, the intermittent conveying assembly 21 comprises two side plates 213 fixedly and symmetrically installed at the top of the electric control cabinet 1, two fixed shafts 217 are jointly and rotatably installed between the two side plates 213, a conveying belt pulley is fixedly sleeved on the middle of each fixed shaft 217, a No. 1 belt body 214 is jointly arranged between the two conveying belt pulleys, the No. 1 belt body 214 is uniformly and externally fixedly installed with push blocks 216 used for pushing the battery, a fixed groove 215 is formed at the top of the side plate 213 at the rear side, and the position of the fixed groove 215 corresponds to the U-shaped groove 66.

[0034] Please refer to Figure 1 , Figure 3 and Figure 4The electric control cabinet 1 is fixedly installed on the top of the fixed frame 212, and the fixed frame 212 is fixedly installed with a first servo motor 211. The output end of the first servo motor 211 is rotatably penetrated through the rear of the front side plate 213 and is fixedly connected with the front end of the right fixed shaft 217. The top of the rear side plate 213 is fixedly installed with a supporting plate 25. The top of the supporting plate 25 is uniformly installed with a plurality of first air cylinders 26. The front side plate 213 is uniformly installed with a plurality of sorting slides 24 corresponding to the first air cylinders 26. The front side of the sorting slide 24 is movably inserted with a conveying cloth bag 22 and a baffle 23. The conveying cloth bag 22 and the baffle 23 are movably inserted in the sorting slide 24. The conveying cloth bag 22 and the baffle 23 are designed to be detachable, so as to be replaced according to the requirements.

[0035] In use, when the electrical detection of the battery is completed, the battery is pushed through the fixed groove 215 and enters the first belt body 214 under the continuous pushing of the second air cylinder 61. At this time, the output end of the first servo motor 211 rotates to drive the fixed shaft 217 and the conveying belt pulley thereon to rotate, and at the same time drives the first belt body 214 and the pushing block 216 thereon to rotate. The pushing block 216 intermittently pushes the battery from right to left. When it is judged that the battery is qualified, and the battery is conveyed to the position of the first air cylinder 26 at the right end, the output end of the first air cylinder 26 is extended to push the battery into the sorting slide 24. Then, after being guided through the sorting slide 24 and the conveying cloth bag 22, the battery enters the collection box. The buffer and deceleration of the conveying cloth bag 22 avoid the battery from being directly dropped and causing the battery to be knocked. When the battery is unqualified, the pushing block 216 drives the battery to pass the sorting slide 24 at the right end and is conveyed to the left. At this time, when it moves to the position of the corresponding sorting slide 24, the corresponding first air cylinder 26 pushes the battery into the sorting slide 24. Different sorting slides 24 are used to store different types of unqualified products, so that the device not only realizes the screening of qualified and unqualified batteries, but also classifies according to the types of unqualified products, so as to facilitate subsequent manual maintenance and improve the work efficiency.

[0036] It should be noted that the battery sorting equipment, in use, first places the cylindrical battery to be screened in the hopper 711 in the automatic unloading mechanism 7 according to the consistent positive and negative electrode orientation, and realizes the single continuous and uniform unloading of the battery through the rotation of the rotating head 712 below the hopper 711 to stir the material. The battery after unloading is pushed by the pushing cylinder 713, and under the limiting of the limiting plate 714, is sequentially unloaded into the guide chute 93. The guide chute 93 is used to slide the battery downward onto the second belt body 96. At this time, the second servo motor 91 is started, the output end of the second servo motor 91 drives the rotating shaft 9414 to rotate, synchronously drives the second belt body 96 to rotate, realizes the conveying of the battery along the second belt body 96 from right to left, the rotation of the rotating shaft 9414 synchronously drives the two driving bevel gears 9413 to rotate, synchronously drives the driven bevel gear 9415 and the connecting shaft 9416 thereon to rotate, simultaneously drives the driving spur gear 9417 and the toothed belt 9412 thereon to rotate, and then synchronously drives the driven spur gear 9411 and the transmission rod 944 thereon to rotate, synchronously drives the two spiral rubber rollers 942 to rotate. The two spiral rubber rollers 942 are simultaneously attached to the outside of the battery, so that in the process of conveying the battery from right to left, the spiral rubber roller 942 is used to drive the battery to rotate, and the battery is conveyed while rotating. In the process of rotating and conveying, the servo motor 927 is started, the servo motor 927 drives the cleaning roller 921 and the cleaning brush 922 to rotate, and the outside of the battery is rotated and cleaned by the cleaning roller 921 and the cleaning brush 922. The stains adhered to the cleaning roller 921 and the cleaning brush 922 are cleaned by the scraping plate 924. In the process of rotating and conveying, the CCD image acquisition module 84 is used to comprehensively shoot the outside of the battery rotating and conveying, which is more comprehensive and accurate than the way of shooting and detecting the battery from one side, reduces the detection error, and improves the accuracy. The infrared temperature measurement module 83 detects and collects the temperature of the battery. The collected data and images are transmitted to the central control module, and then the electrical performance detection mechanism 6 is used to detect the voltage, capacity and resistance of the battery. The data after detection is transmitted to the main control module, and then to the touch screen 4 for display. The main control module judges and analyzes the collected data to determine whether the battery is qualified, and classifies according to the unqualified types. Then the sorting mechanism 2 is used to sort and collect the qualified batteries, and the unqualified batteries are sorted and collected according to the unqualified categories, realizing the automatic sorting of the batteries.

[0037] The above-described embodiments only express several embodiments of the present application, and the description is more specific and detailed, but it cannot be understood as limiting the scope of the patent of the present application. It should be noted that for ordinary skilled persons in the art, without departing from the concept of the present application, a number of modifications and improvements can be made, which belong to the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A battery sorting apparatus comprising an electric control cabinet, characterized in that: The automatic unloading mechanism is arranged on the right side of the top of the electric control cabinet, and the sorting mechanism is arranged on the left side of the top of the electric control cabinet. Also includes: The acquisition mechanism is arranged on the rear side of the electric control cabinet, and the acquisition mechanism is used for acquiring the temperature and appearance image of the battery. The conveying and cleaning mechanism is arranged on the rear side of the top of the electric control cabinet, and the conveying and cleaning mechanism and the acquisition mechanism are used in cooperation to enable the acquisition mechanism to take pictures of the circumferential direction of the battery rotating and conveying, and the electric performance detection mechanism for detecting the electric performance of the battery is arranged between the conveying and cleaning mechanism and the sorting mechanism.

2. A battery sorting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: The electric control cabinet is fixedly installed on the left side of the top of the electric control cabinet, and the rack is fixedly installed on the left side of the top of the electric control cabinet. Two touch screens are symmetrically installed on the front side of the top of the rack. A three-color warning light is fixedly installed on the rear side of the top of the rack. A main control module is arranged in the touch screen. A switch is arranged on a corner of the top of the electric control cabinet.

3. A battery sorting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: The automatic unloading mechanism includes a bottom plate fixedly installed on the right side of the top of the electric control cabinet, and an automatic unloading assembly for guiding and unloading the battery is arranged on the bottom plate.

4. The battery sorting device of claim 1, wherein: The conveying and cleaning mechanism includes a guide slide fixedly installed on the unloading end of the automatic unloading assembly, a No. 2 servo motor is arranged on the rear side of the guide slide, a rotating conveying assembly is arranged on the guide slide, a cleaning assembly for cleaning the battery is arranged on the top of the guide slide, a through slot is formed on the left side of the bottom of the guide slide, and a support plate is fixedly installed on the left side of the bottom of the guide slide.

5. A battery sorting apparatus according to claim 4, wherein: The guide slide is internally provided with a receiving groove symmetrically arranged on the front and rear sides of the middle part of the guide slide. The rotating conveying assembly includes a driving part and a transmission rod. The driving part includes a rotating shaft penetrating through the guide slide and the receiving groove. The rear end of the rotating shaft is fixedly connected with the output end of the No. 2 servo motor. Two driving bevel gears are fixedly arranged on the front and rear sides of the rotating shaft. A connecting shaft is rotatably installed on the inner wall of the bottom of the receiving groove. A driven bevel gear is fixedly arranged on the right end of the connecting shaft and engaged with the driving bevel gear. A driving spur gear is fixedly arranged on the middle part of the connecting shaft. The transmission rod penetrates through the left side of the top of the receiving groove. A driven spur gear is fixedly arranged on the right end of the transmission rod. The driven spur gear and the driving spur gear are jointly engaged with a toothed belt. A spiral rubber roller is fixedly sleeved on the middle part of the transmission rod. An ear block is rotatably connected with the left end of the transmission rod. The ear block is fixedly installed on the top of the guide slide. A stop block is fixedly installed on the left side of the top of the guide slide. A driving belt pulley is fixedly arranged on the middle part of the rotating shaft. A driven transmission belt pulley is rotatably installed on the left side of the through slot. The driving belt pulley and the driven transmission belt pulley are jointly installed with a No. 2 belt body.

6. A battery sorting apparatus according to claim 5, wherein: The cleaning assembly includes a No. 1 gantry frame and a No. 2 gantry frame fixedly installed on the top of the guide slide. A transmission shaft is rotatably installed between the No. 1 gantry frame and the No. 2 gantry frame. A cleaning roller and a cleaning brush are fixedly sleeved on the transmission shaft, respectively. A servo motor is fixedly installed on the right end of the No. 2 gantry frame. The output end of the servo motor penetrates through the rear side of the No. 2 gantry frame and is fixedly connected with the transmission shaft. A scraping plate for scraping off stains on the cleaning roller and the cleaning brush is fixedly installed on the right end of the front side of the guide slide. A discharging groove is fixedly installed on the front side of the scraping plate.

7. A battery sorting apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein: The electric performance detection mechanism comprises a No. 2 air cylinder fixedly installed at the rear side of the left end of the guide chute, a push plate is installed at the output end of the No. 2 air cylinder, a U-shaped groove is fixedly installed at the front side of the left end of the guide chute, a stop block is located between the No. 2 air cylinder and the U-shaped groove, through holes are formed in the two side walls of the U-shaped groove, a limiting slide rail is fixedly installed at the middle of the bottom of the U-shaped groove, two sliding blocks are symmetrically and slidably installed on the limiting slide rail, an electric performance detection module is arranged at the top of the sliding blocks, fixed arms are fixedly installed at the front sides of the two sliding blocks, a two-way air cylinder is fixedly installed at the front side of the bottom of the U-shaped groove, and the two output ends of the two-way air cylinder are fixedly connected with the fixed arms.

8. The battery sorting device of claim 1, wherein: The collecting mechanism comprises a stand column arranged at the rear side of the electric control cabinet, two mounting rods are installed on the stand column in a liftable manner, and an infrared temperature measurement module and a CCD image collecting module are respectively installed on the two mounting rods.

9. A battery sorting apparatus according to claim 7, wherein: The sorting mechanism comprises an intermittent conveying assembly, conveying cloth bags, a baffle and a sorting chute, the intermittent conveying assembly comprises two side plates fixedly installed at the top of the electric control cabinet, two fixed shafts are rotatably installed between the two side plates, conveying pulleys are fixedly sleeved to the middle portions of the two fixed shafts, a No. 1 belt body is arranged between the two conveying pulleys, pushing blocks are uniformly fixedly installed outside the No. 1 belt body, a fixing groove is formed in the top of the side plate at the rear side, and the position of the fixing groove corresponds to the position of the U-shaped groove.

10. A battery sorting apparatus according to claim 9, wherein: A fixed frame is fixedly installed at the top of the electric control cabinet, a No. 1 servo motor is fixedly installed on the fixed frame, the output end of the No. 1 servo motor is rotatably penetrated through the front side plate and fixedly connected with the front end of the fixed shaft, a supporting plate is fixedly installed at the top of the side plate at the rear side, a plurality of No. 1 air cylinders are uniformly installed at the top of the supporting plate, a plurality of sorting chutes corresponding to the No. 1 air cylinders are uniformly installed on the side plate at the front side, and the conveying cloth bags and the baffle are movably inserted into the front side of the sorting chute.

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