Automatic wire processing device

Abstract

The utility model discloses an automatic wire rod processing device. The automatic wire processing device comprises a rack, an end crimping mechanism, a shell insertion mechanism for shell insertion and visual detection, and a short wire stretching mechanism, a wire cutting and twisting mechanism and a tinning mechanism for tinning the head end of a to-be-processed wire and conveying the to-be-processed wire to the wire cutting and twisting mechanism which are sequentially arranged along the wire inlet direction, the first wire moving mechanism is used for pulling out the to-be-processed wire at the wire cutting and twisting mechanism by a preset length; the main control unit is electrically connected to the terminal crimping mechanism, the shell inserting mechanism, the visual detection mechanism, the short wire lengthening mechanism, the wire cutting and twisting mechanism, the tin pick-up mechanism, the first wire moving mechanism and the second wire moving mechanism; automatic short wire stretching, wire cutting and twisting, tin dipping, terminal crimping, shell inserting and visual detection of wires are achieved, the overall automation degree is high, and the machining efficiency can be improved easily.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The utility model relates to the field of automatic wire processing devices, in particular to an automatic wire processing device. Background Art

[0002] Flat cables and electronic cables are a type of connecting cable, which is made of multiple thin wires bonded together.

[0003] At present, flat cables have been widely used in signal transmission or power connection of computers, home appliances, communication equipment, and digital devices. A terminal is pressed at one end of the flat cable for connection between the flat cable and the flat cable connector. This not only facilitates the assembly of electronic equipment, but also ensures the reliability of signal transmission and connection between circuit boards inside electronic equipment or between electronic devices.

[0004] The other end of the cable needs to be twisted and then tinned, but the existing processing methods for such cables of uniform length are often to manually cut and twist the wires, resulting in low processing efficiency.

[0005] Therefore, in the utility model patent application, the applicant carefully studied an automatic wire processing device to solve the above problems. Utility Model Content

[0006] In view of this, the utility model aims to solve the deficiencies in the prior art, and its main purpose is to provide an automatic wire processing device, which can realize automatic lengthening, short wire stretching, wire cutting and twisting, tinning, terminal punching, shell insertion and visual inspection of wires. The overall automation level is high, which is conducive to improving processing efficiency. The processing method has a high yield rate for cables of different lengths.

[0007] In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model adopts the following technical solutions:

[0008] An automatic wire processing device comprises a frame, an end-breaking mechanism, a shell inserting mechanism for shell inserting and visual inspection, and a short-line lengthening mechanism, a wire tangent twisting mechanism, a tinning mechanism for tinning the head end of the wire to be processed and transporting it to the wire tangent twisting mechanism, and a first wire moving mechanism for pulling the wire to be processed at the wire tangent twisting mechanism to a preset length.

[0009] It also includes a main control unit and a second wire moving mechanism for moving the wire to be processed at the wire tangent and twisting mechanism to the end-beating mechanism, the shell insertion mechanism and the unloading position respectively. The main control unit is electrically connected to the end-beating mechanism, the shell insertion mechanism, the short wire lengthening mechanism, the wire tangent and twisting mechanism, the tinning mechanism, the first wire moving mechanism and the second wire moving mechanism respectively.

[0010] As a preferred solution, the end beating mechanism and the shell inserting mechanism are both located on the same side of the second line moving mechanism, and the end beating mechanism and the shell inserting mechanism are arranged in parallel.

[0011] As a preferred solution, the tangent and twisting mechanism, the end-breaking mechanism and the shell-inserting mechanism are all located on the same side of the second wire moving mechanism, and the shell-inserting mechanism is located between the end-breaking mechanism and the tangent and twisting mechanism.

[0012] As a preferred solution, the shell insertion mechanism includes a shell insertion unit and a visual detection unit arranged side by side, the shell insertion unit is located between the visual detection unit and the end-breaking mechanism, and the main control unit is electrically connected to the shell insertion unit and the visual detection unit respectively.

[0013] As a preferred solution, the short-line stretching mechanism includes a starting end wire clamping mechanism and a terminal wire clamping mechanism for respectively bundling the starting end and the terminal end of each of the plurality of wires to be processed, a short-line stretching mechanism for stretching a preset number of wires among the plurality of wires to be processed, and a driving mechanism for driving the short-line stretching mechanism to move back and forth along the wire feeding direction;

[0014] The starting-end harness clamping mechanism and the ending-end harness clamping mechanism are both arranged along the incoming line direction and are located at the starting end and the ending end of the incoming line respectively;

[0015] The short-line stretching mechanism is located between the starting wire clamping mechanism and the ending wire clamping mechanism, and the driving mechanism drives the short-line stretching mechanism to drive the short-line stretching mechanism to move back and forth between the starting wire clamping mechanism and the ending wire clamping mechanism.

[0016] As a preferred solution, the driving mechanism includes a slide rail extending along the line feed direction, a slider slidably mounted on the slide rail, and a driving unit for driving the slider to move back and forth on the slide rail;

[0017] The short-line stretching mechanism is arranged on the slide block to move back and forth along the slide rail along with the slide block.

[0018] As a preferred solution, the driving unit includes a driving motor, a driving wheel, a transmission shaft, a driving wheel, a first transmission wheel, a second transmission wheel, a first transmission belt respectively sleeved between the driving wheel and the driving wheel, and a second transmission belt respectively sleeved between the first transmission wheel and the second transmission wheel;

[0019] The output shaft of the driving motor is connected to the driving wheel, the driving wheel and the first transmission wheel are respectively arranged at two ends of the transmission shaft, and the slider is connected to the second transmission belt.

[0020] As a preferred solution, the driving unit further includes a photoelectric switch, and a light blocking plate is provided on the slider, and the light blocking plate blocks the light receiving port of the photoelectric switch as the slider slides.

[0021] As a preferred solution, the short-line stretching mechanism includes a wire bundle seat and a plurality of wire pressing units, and the wire feeding direction is the front-to-back direction:

[0022] The cable harness seat has a plurality of cable harness grooves and a plurality of through grooves arranged at intervals in the left-right direction, the cable harness grooves are all extended in the front-to-back direction and pass through from the front end surface of the cable harness seat to the rear end surface thereof, and the number of the cable harness grooves, through grooves and cable pressing units is the same;

[0023] Each through slot is connected to a corresponding wire harness slot, and the through slot is extended in the up-down direction and passes through from the upper end surface of the wire harness seat to the corresponding wire harness slot;

[0024] Each wire pressing unit corresponds to a through slot, and the wire pressing piece of the wire pressing unit extends into the wire bundle slot through the corresponding through slot to press the wire material to be processed in the corresponding wire bundle slot.

[0025] It mainly realizes automatic wire stretching, wire tangent twisting, tinning, terminal punching, shell insertion and visual inspection through the cooperation of the main control unit, the terminal punching mechanism, the shell insertion mechanism, the visual inspection mechanism, the short wire lengthening mechanism, the wire tangent twisting mechanism, the tinning mechanism, the first wire moving mechanism and the second wire moving mechanism. The overall automation level is high, which is conducive to improving the processing efficiency.

[0026] In order to more clearly illustrate the structural features and functions of the present invention, the present invention is described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0027] Figure 1 It is a schematic diagram of the three-dimensional assembly structure of an embodiment of the utility model.

[0028] Figure 2 It is a top view of an embodiment of the utility model;

[0029] Figure 3 It is a schematic diagram of the structure of the plug-in shell mechanism of an embodiment of the utility model;

[0030] Figure 4 It is a partial structural schematic diagram of an embodiment of the utility model (mainly showing the first wire moving mechanism and the second wire moving mechanism);

[0031] Figure 5 This is a schematic diagram of the structure of the end-attaching mechanism of an embodiment of the utility model;

[0032] Figure 6 This is a schematic diagram of the tinning mechanism structure of an embodiment of the utility model;

[0033] Figure 7 It is a schematic diagram of the structure of the plug-in shell mechanism of an embodiment of the utility model;

[0034] Figure 8 It is a three-dimensional structural schematic diagram of an embodiment of the utility model (showing the wire to be processed);

[0035] Fig. 9 It is a partial structural schematic diagram of an embodiment of the utility model (showing the wire to be processed);

[0036] Fig.10 yes Fig. 9 Schematic diagram of the decomposition structure;

[0037] Fig.11 It is a partial structure enlarged schematic diagram of an embodiment of the utility model (mainly showing the photoelectric switch);

[0038] Fig.12 This is a schematic diagram of the three-dimensional assembly structure of the elongated short-line mechanism of the embodiment of the utility model;

[0039] Fig.13 This is a schematic diagram of the three-dimensional assembly structure of the elongated short-line mechanism of the embodiment of the utility model;

[0040] Fig.14 This is a three-dimensional assembly structure diagram of the starting end wire harness pressing mechanism of the embodiment of the utility model;

[0041] Fig.15 It is a three-dimensional assembly structure diagram of the terminal harness clamping mechanism of an embodiment of the utility model. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0042] Please refer to Figures 1 to 15 As shown, it shows the specific structure of an embodiment of the utility model, an automatic wire processing device, including a frame 100, an end-breaking mechanism 70, a shell plugging mechanism 80 for shell plugging and visual inspection, and a short wire lengthening mechanism 101, a tangent and twisting mechanism 60, a tinning mechanism 50 for tinning the head end of the wire to be processed and transporting it to the tangent and twisting mechanism 60, and a first wire moving mechanism 91 for pulling the wire to be processed at the tangent and twisting mechanism 60 to a preset length.

[0043] The tangent and twisting mechanism 60, the end-breaking mechanism 70 and the shell-inserting mechanism 80 are all located on the same side of the second wire-moving mechanism 92, and the shell-inserting mechanism 80 is located between the end-breaking mechanism 70 and the tangent and twisting mechanism 60. The end-breaking mechanism 70 and the shell-inserting mechanism 80 are arranged in parallel.

[0044] It also includes a main control unit and a second wire moving mechanism 92 for moving the wire to be processed at the tangent and twisting mechanism 60 to the end-breaking mechanism 70, the shell insertion mechanism 80 and the unloading position respectively, and the main control unit is electrically connected to the end-breaking mechanism 70, the shell insertion mechanism 80, the short wire lengthening mechanism 101, the tangent and twisting mechanism 60, the tinning mechanism 50 for tinning the head end of the wire to be processed and transporting it to the tangent and twisting mechanism 60, the first wire moving mechanism 91 and the second wire moving mechanism 92.

[0045] In this embodiment, the wire cutting and twisting mechanism 60, the end-breaking mechanism 70 and the shell inserting mechanism 80 are all well-known technologies in the art and are not described in detail again.

[0046] like Figure 6 As shown, the tinning mechanism 50 includes a tin furnace 51, a flux furnace 52 and a wire moving mechanism 53 for moving the wire to be tinned to the flux furnace 52 and the tin furnace 51 respectively in sequence.

[0047] The shell inserting mechanism 80 includes a shell inserting unit 81 and a visual detection unit 82 arranged side by side, and the shell inserting unit 81 is located between the visual detection unit 82 and the end-breaking mechanism 70. The main control unit is electrically connected to the shell inserting unit 81 and the visual detection unit 82, respectively.

[0048] In this embodiment, the short-line stretching mechanism 101 includes a starting end wire clamping mechanism 10 and a terminal wire clamping mechanism 20 for respectively bundling the starting end and the terminal end of each wire in a plurality of wires to be processed, a short-line stretching module 30 for stretching a preset number of wires in a plurality of wires to be processed, and a driving mechanism 40 for driving the short-line stretching module 30 to move back and forth along the wire feeding direction;

[0049] The starting-end harness clamping mechanism 10 and the ending-end harness clamping mechanism 20 are both arranged along the incoming wire direction and are located at the starting end and the ending end of the incoming wire respectively.

[0050] In this embodiment, the starting end wire clamping mechanism 10 includes a starting end bearing seat 11, a starting end pressing block 12, and a starting end lifting unit 13 for driving the starting end pressing block 12 to move closer to or away from the starting end bearing seat 11;

[0051] The front and rear sides of the upper end surface of the starting end bearing seat 11 are respectively provided with a first wire passing block 111 and a second wire passing block 112, and a wire beam cavity 113 is formed between the upper end surface of the starting end bearing seat 11, the first wire passing block 111 and the second wire passing block 112, and the starting end pressing block 12 is used to press the wire to be processed in the wire beam cavity 113;

[0052] The first wire passing block 111 is provided with a plurality of first wire passing holes 114 at intervals along the left-right direction, each of which runs from the front end surface of the first wire passing block 111 through the rear end surface thereof, and each of which communicates with the wire bundle cavity 113;

[0053] The second wire passing block 112 is provided with a plurality of second wire passing holes 115 at intervals along the left-right direction, and each two wire passing holes penetrate from the front end surface of the second wire passing block 112 to the rear end surface thereof, and each two wire passing holes are connected to the wire bundle cavity 113;

[0054] The number of the first wire passing holes 114 and the number of the second wire passing holes 115 are the same, and each first wire passing hole 114 and a corresponding second wire passing hole 115 are located in the same axial direction.

[0055] The left and right sides of the lower end of the starting end pressing block 12 are respectively connected to a guide block 121, and the starting end supporting seat 11 is provided with a guide groove 116 corresponding to the guide block 121. The guide block 121 is adapted to the corresponding guide groove 116, and a wire bundle cavity 113 is formed between the two guide blocks 121, the upper end surface of the starting end supporting seat 11, the first wire passing block 111 and the second wire passing block 112.

[0056] In this embodiment, the terminal harness clamping mechanism 20 includes a terminal bearing seat 21, a terminal pressing block 22, and a terminal lifting unit 23 for driving the terminal pressing block 22 to move closer to or away from the terminal bearing seat 21;

[0057] The lower end surface of the terminal pressing block 22 is recessed upward with a plurality of arc grooves 221 arranged at intervals along the left-right direction. Each arc groove extends along the front-to-back direction and passes through the rear end surface from the front end surface of the terminal pressing block 22. A terminal wire-passing groove is formed between each arc groove and the upper end surface of the terminal bearing seat 21. The size of the terminal wire-passing groove can be adjusted by adjusting the distance between the terminal pressing block 22 and the terminal bearing seat 21.

[0058] The short wire extension module 30 is located between the starting wire harness clamping mechanism 10 and the ending wire harness clamping mechanism 20 .

[0059] In this embodiment, the short line extension module 30 includes a wire bundle seat 31 and a plurality of wire pressing units 32, and the wire feeding direction is the front-to-back direction:

[0060] The cable holder 31 has a plurality of cable slots 311 and a plurality of through slots 312 arranged at intervals in the left-right direction. The cable slots 311 are all extended in the front-to-back direction and pass through from the front end surface of the cable holder 31 to the rear end surface thereof. The number of the cable slots 311, the through slots 312 and the cable pressing units 32 is the same.

[0061] Each through slot 312 is connected to a corresponding wire harness slot 311 , and the through slot 312 is extended in the up-down direction and passes through from the upper end surface of the wire harness seat 31 to the corresponding wire harness slot 311 ;

[0062] Each crimping unit 32 corresponds to a through slot 312, and the crimping piece of the crimping unit 32 extends into the wire harness slot 311 through the corresponding through slot 312 to press the wires to be processed in the corresponding wire harness slot 311. Preferably, the crimping unit 32 is a crimping cylinder, and the piston rod of the crimping cylinder is the crimping piece.

[0063] The driving mechanism 40 drives the short wire extension module 30 to drive the short wire extension module 30 to move back and forth between the starting wire clamping mechanism 10 and the ending wire clamping mechanism 20 .

[0064] In this embodiment, the driving mechanism 40 includes a photoelectric switch 44, a slide rail 41 arranged on the bottom shell 45 and extending along the incoming line direction, a slider 42 slidably mounted on the slide rail 41, and a driving unit 43 for driving the slider 42 to move back and forth on the slide rail 41; the short line lengthening module 30 is arranged on the slider 42 to move back and forth along the slide rail 41 with the slider 42.

[0065] The slider 42 is provided with a light blocking plate 421 , and the light blocking plate 421 blocks the light receiving port of the photoelectric switch 44 as the slider 42 slides.

[0066] The driving unit 43 includes a driving motor 431, a driving wheel 432, a transmission shaft 433, a driving wheel 434, a first transmission wheel 435, a second transmission wheel 436, a first transmission belt respectively sleeved between the driving wheel 432 and the driving wheel 434, and a second transmission belt 437 respectively sleeved between the first transmission wheel 435 and the second transmission wheel 436;

[0067] The output shaft of the driving motor 431 is connected to the driving wheel 432 , the driving wheel 434 and the first transmission wheel 435 are respectively disposed at two ends of the transmission shaft 433 , and the slider 42 is connected to the second transmission belt 437 .

[0068] Next, the general working principle of this embodiment is described as follows: (the end of the wire to be processed that first reaches the tinning mechanism 50 is defined as the first end)

[0069] Take the first end tinning as an example to explain.

[0070] Through an external wire feeding device, a plurality of wires to be processed are first stretched to different lengths by a preset number of wires through a short wire stretching mechanism 101, and then fixed to a wire cutting and twisting mechanism 60 through a tinning mechanism 50. The wire cutting and twisting mechanism 60 cuts the wire as a whole and cuts the outer skin, and then the wire is divided into two parts, one of which is grabbed by a first wire moving mechanism 91 and directly discharged to a startup waste collection area;

[0071] The head end of the other part is tinned by the tinning mechanism 50, and then sent to the tangent and twisting mechanism 60 again. The first wire moving mechanism 91 displaces the tinned wire by a preset distance along the incoming direction. At this time, the tangent and twisting mechanism 60 cuts the wire as a whole, cuts the outer skin, and twists multiple filaments in each wire into a strand to obtain a certain length of tinned wire. Finally, the second wire moving mechanism 92 moves it to the end-punching mechanism 70, the shell plug unit, the visual inspection unit and the unloading station in turn, thereby completing the automatic processing of the wire.

[0072] The design focus of the utility model is that it mainly realizes automatic short wire stretching, wire tangent twisting, tinning, end punching, shell insertion and visual inspection of wires through the cooperation of a main control unit, an end punching mechanism, a shell insertion mechanism, a visual inspection mechanism, a short wire stretching mechanism, a wire tangent twisting mechanism, a tinning mechanism, a first wire moving mechanism and a second wire moving mechanism. The overall degree of automation is high, which is conducive to improving processing efficiency. The yield rate of cables of different lengths obtained by this processing method is high.

[0073] The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and does not limit the technical scope of the present invention. Therefore, any slight modifications, equivalent changes and modifications made to the above embodiments based on the technical essence of the present invention are still within the scope of the technical solution of the present invention.

Claims

1. A wire automatic processing device, characterized in that: It includes a frame, an end-breaking mechanism, a shell-inserting mechanism for shell insertion and visual inspection, and a short-line lengthening mechanism, a tangent-twisting mechanism, a tinning mechanism for tinning the head end of the wire to be processed and transporting it to the tangent-twisting mechanism, and a first wire moving mechanism for pulling the wire to be processed at the tangent-twisting mechanism to a preset length. It also includes a main control unit and a second wire moving mechanism for moving the wire to be processed at the wire tangent and twisting mechanism to the end-beating mechanism, the shell insertion mechanism and the unloading position respectively. The main control unit is electrically connected to the end-beating mechanism, the shell insertion mechanism, the short wire lengthening mechanism, the wire tangent and twisting mechanism, the tinning mechanism, the first wire moving mechanism and the second wire moving mechanism respectively.

2. The wire automatic processing device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The end beating mechanism and the shell inserting mechanism are both located on the same side of the second line moving mechanism, and the end beating mechanism and the shell inserting mechanism are arranged in parallel.

3. The wire rod automatic processing device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The tangent and twisting mechanism, the end-breaking mechanism and the shell-inserting mechanism are all located on the same side of the second wire-moving mechanism, and the shell-inserting mechanism is located between the end-breaking mechanism and the tangent and twisting mechanism.

4. The wire automatic processing device according to claim 2, characterized in that: The shell insertion mechanism comprises a shell insertion unit and a visual detection unit arranged side by side, the shell insertion unit is located between the visual detection unit and the end-breaking mechanism, and the main control unit is electrically connected to the shell insertion unit and the visual detection unit respectively.

5. The wire automatic processing device according to claim 1, characterized in that: The short-line stretching mechanism includes a starting end wire-binding pressing mechanism and a terminal wire-binding pressing mechanism for respectively bundling the starting end and the terminal end of each of the plurality of wires to be processed, a short-line stretching module for stretching a preset number of wires among the plurality of wires to be processed, and a driving mechanism for driving the short-line stretching mechanism to move back and forth along the wire feeding direction; The starting-end harness clamping mechanism and the ending-end harness clamping mechanism are both arranged along the incoming line direction and are located at the starting end and the ending end of the incoming line respectively; The short-line stretching mechanism is located between the starting wire clamping mechanism and the ending wire clamping mechanism, and the driving mechanism drives the short-line stretching mechanism to drive the short-line stretching mechanism to move back and forth between the starting wire clamping mechanism and the ending wire clamping mechanism.

6. The wire automatic processing device according to claim 5, characterized in that: The driving mechanism includes a slide rail extending along the line feed direction, a slider slidably mounted on the slide rail, and a driving unit for driving the slider to move back and forth on the slide rail; The short-line stretching mechanism is arranged on the slide block to move back and forth along the slide rail along with the slide block.

7. The wire rod automatic processing device according to claim 6, characterized in that: The driving unit includes a driving motor, a driving wheel, a transmission shaft, a driving wheel, a first transmission wheel, a second transmission wheel, a first transmission belt respectively sleeved between the driving wheel and the driving wheel, and a second transmission belt respectively sleeved between the first transmission wheel and the second transmission wheel; The output shaft of the driving motor is connected to the driving wheel, the driving wheel and the first transmission wheel are respectively arranged at two ends of the transmission shaft, and the slider is connected to the second transmission belt.

8. The automatic wire processing device according to claim 7, characterized in that: The driving unit also includes a photoelectric switch. The slider is provided with a light blocking plate. The light blocking plate blocks the light receiving port of the photoelectric switch as the slider slides.

9. The wire automatic processing device according to claim 5, characterized in that: The elongated short line module includes a wire bundle seat and a plurality of wire pressing units, and the wire entry direction is the front-to-back direction: The cable harness seat has a plurality of cable harness grooves and a plurality of through grooves arranged at intervals in the left-right direction, the cable harness grooves are all extended in the front-to-back direction and pass through from the front end surface of the cable harness seat to the rear end surface thereof, and the number of the cable harness grooves, through grooves and cable pressing units is the same; Each through slot is connected to a corresponding wire harness slot, and the through slot is extended in the up-down direction and passes through from the upper end surface of the wire harness seat to the corresponding wire harness slot; Each wire pressing unit corresponds to a through slot, and the wire pressing piece of the wire pressing unit extends into the wire bundle slot through the corresponding through slot to press the wire material to be processed in the corresponding wire bundle slot.

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