Automatic battery cell feeding and grabbing tool

Abstract

An automatic battery cell feeding and grabbing tool comprises an installation flat plate and a plurality of grabbing assemblies, a rodless air cylinder is arranged on the installation flat plate, and a sliding block is installed on the rodless air cylinder in a matched mode; the adjacent grabbing assemblies are connected through connecting sliding rods, and limiting check blocks are installed at the ends, penetrating through the two adjacent grabbing assemblies, of the connecting sliding rods. The fixed grabbing assembly located at one end of the multiple grabbing assemblies is fixed to the bottom face of the mounting flat plate, the sliding grabbing assembly located at the other end of the multiple grabbing assemblies is connected with the sliding sliding block, and the sliding sliding block can drive the sliding grabbing assembly to move under driving of the rodless air cylinder and drive the other grabbing assemblies to be distributed at equal intervals in a linkage mode through the connecting sliding rod. Each grabbing assembly comprises a rotating air cylinder, a grabbing and releasing air cylinder and two battery cell taking and discharging grippers which are connected in sequence, and the grabbing and releasing air cylinders are used for driving the battery cell taking and discharging grippers to relatively move to grab the battery cells or oppositely move to put down the battery cells. According to the utility model, the angle of the battery cell can be efficiently grabbed and rotated in a labor-saving manner, so that the labor cost is saved.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to the equipment technical field of electric core grabbing material loading, and specifically relates to an automatic material loading and grabbing tool for electric core. BACKGROUND

[0002] The battery module is assembled by a plurality of electric cores in the prior art, and the plurality of electric cores are fixed together by gluing on the surface to assemble the battery module. Before gluing and assembling, personnel need to take out the electric cores arranged in the foam box and place them on the gluing workbench, and the personnel need to pour the vertically placed electric cores to be flat to facilitate the personnel to glue on the surface of the electric core. However, the foam box for transferring the electric core is generally placed on the ground, and the single electric core has a certain weight. In order to ensure the safety of the electric core, the personnel can only grab a maximum of two electric cores at a time, the material loading efficiency of the manual electric core grabbing is low, and the production efficiency of the subsequent battery module is affected. In order to ensure the timely supply of electric cores during the production of the battery module, two personnel are arranged to grab the electric cores, and a maximum of four electric cores are grabbed by two personnel at a time. Although the supply of electric cores is ensured, the labor cost is increased. The personnel need to repeatedly grab the electric cores from the foam box and place them on the gluing workbench, and adjust the angle of the electric core to facilitate the side gluing operation, which greatly increases the labor intensity of the personnel. SUMMARY

[0003] The utility model aims at providing an automatic material loading and grabbing tool for electric core, which can replace manual operation to quickly and efficiently grab the electric core and rotate the angle of the electric core, thereby reducing the labor cost and labor intensity.

[0004] In order to solve the above technical problems, the utility model adopts the specific scheme of an automatic material loading and grabbing tool for electric core: including installation flat plate and a plurality of grabbing assemblies for grabbing electric core, installation flat plate is provided with a rodless cylinder which is distributed along the setting direction of a plurality of grabbing assemblies, and a sliding block is installed on the rodless cylinder in cooperation;

[0005] The adjacent grabbing assemblies are connected by connecting slide rods, and the connecting slide rods are respectively installed with limit blocks through the end portions of the adjacent two grabbing assemblies; the fixed grabbing assembly at one end of the plurality of grabbing assemblies is fixed to the bottom surface of the installation flat plate, and the remaining grabbing assemblies are sequentially and slidably arranged on the bottom surface of the installation flat plate through the sliding member, wherein the sliding grabbing assembly at the other end of the plurality of grabbing assemblies is connected with the sliding block, and the sliding block can drive the sliding grabbing assembly to move under the drive of the rodless cylinder. The moving sliding grabbing assembly drives the remaining grabbing assemblies to be linked and pulled apart to be distributed at equal intervals between the plurality of grabbing assemblies through the connecting slide rods.

[0006] Any one of the grabbing components comprises a rotating cylinder, a grabbing and releasing cylinder and two electric core grabbing hands connected in sequence, the two electric core grabbing hands are arranged in opposite sliding mode, and the grabbing and releasing cylinder is used for driving the electric core grabbing hands to move relative to each other to grab or release the electric core.

[0007] As another optimization scheme of the above-mentioned automatic feeding and grabbing tool for the electric core, the installation plate is rectangular, and two foam grabbing components for grabbing the foam box of the packaged electric core are arranged on the long side of the installation plate.

[0008] As another optimization scheme of the above-mentioned automatic feeding and grabbing tool for the electric core, any one of the foam grabbing components comprises a foam grabbing cylinder, and two foam grabbing hands capable of grabbing and releasing the foam box are arranged on the foam grabbing cylinder.

[0009] As another optimization scheme of the above-mentioned automatic feeding and grabbing tool for the electric core, a foam pressing cylinder is arranged on the wide side of the installation plate, and a pressing plate for pressing and fixing the foam box so as to lift the foam box when the electric core is grabbed is connected to the end of the extension rod of the foam pressing cylinder.

[0010] As another optimization scheme of the above-mentioned automatic feeding and grabbing tool for the electric core, the sliding part comprises two slide rails arranged on the bottom surface of the installation plate, the two slide rails are parallel to each other and arranged along the sliding direction of the sliding grabbing component, and any one of the grabbing components is provided with a sliding block for sliding cooperation with the slide rail on the corresponding side.

[0011] As another optimization scheme of the above-mentioned automatic feeding and grabbing tool for the electric core, the number of the grabbing components is four, and the number of the corresponding connecting slide rods is three.

[0012] As another optimization scheme of the above-mentioned automatic feeding and grabbing tool for the electric core, the rotating cylinder of the grabbing component is provided with a limiting column on the side facing the adjacent grabbing component, and the limiting column is used for preventing the contact between the two adjacent grabbing components.

[0013] As another optimization scheme of the above-mentioned automatic feeding and grabbing tool for the electric core, the two ends of the rodless cylinder are fixed on the installation plate through the support respectively.

[0014] Compared with the prior art, the automatic feeding and grabbing tool for the electric core has the following beneficial effects:

[0015] The taking and placing battery cell gripper on the plurality of grabbing assemblies arranged on the bottom surface of the mounting plate can be relatively slid and synchronously clamped under the driving of the corresponding grabbing cylinder to grab a plurality of battery cells placed in the foam box, and the plurality of grabbing assemblies in the tooling can synchronously grab a plurality of battery cells at a time, and the fixed grabbing assembly at one end of the plurality of grabbing assemblies is fixed on the mounting plate, and the remaining grabbing assemblies are slidably arranged on the mounting plate through the sliding member, the sliding grabbing assembly at the other end of the plurality of sliding assemblies can be connected with the sliding block arranged on the mounting plate, the remaining intermediate grabbing assemblies and the adjacent fixed grabbing assemblies and sliding grabbing assemblies are connected through the connecting slide rods, in addition, the connecting slide rods pass through the two ends of the corresponding adjacent two grabbing assemblies and are provided with the limiting stoppers capable of limiting the two ends, when the sliding grabbing assembly moves along the mounting plate, the remaining intermediate grabbing assemblies can be driven by the connecting slide rods to move to the positions with equal intervals of the corresponding limiting stoppers, the grabbing assemblies of the plurality of grabbed battery cells are arranged at equal intervals, and after the subsequent battery cells rotate by a certain angle and are vertically placed on the gluing workbench, a rotating space is reserved, the battery cells after rotation and placement can be directly subjected to the subsequent work of pouring and placing and gluing, the time spent in manual adjustment of the battery cells is reduced, the tooling is higher in efficiency than the prior art in which personnel can only take at most two battery cells at a time, and personnel cost expenditure and labor intensity are greatly reduced. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0016] Figure 1 It is a schematic view of the main structure of the utility model;

[0017] Figure 2 It is a schematic view of the top structure of the utility model;

[0018] Figure 3 It is a schematic view of the side structure of the utility model;

[0019] Figure 4 It is a physical map of the utility model.

[0020] Fig. 1 is a mounting plate, 101 is a sliding rail, 102 is a sliding block, 2 is a rodless cylinder, 201 is a sliding block, 3 is a foam grabbing assembly, 301 is a foam grabbing cylinder, 302 is a foam gripper, 4 is a foam cylinder, 401 is a pressing plate, 5 is a grabbing assembly, 501 is a rotating cylinder, 502 is a grabbing cylinder, 503 is a taking and placing battery cell gripper, 504 is a fixed grabbing assembly, 505 is a sliding grabbing assembly, 506 is an intermediate grabbing assembly, 6 is a connecting slide rod, 601 is a first slide rod, 602 is a second slide rod, 603 is a third slide rod, 604 is a limiting stopper, 605 is a limiting column, 7 is a battery cell, 8 is a robot connecting flange, and 9 is a protective cover plate. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0021] The technical scheme of the utility model will be further described in detail in combination with specific embodiments. The parts not described in detail in the following embodiments of the utility model, such as the fact that the taking and placing cylinder in the grabbing assembly can drive two taking and placing battery cell grippers to slide and clamp the battery cell synchronously, the fact that the rotary cylinder in the grabbing assembly can drive the taking and placing cylinder and the taking and placing battery cell gripper to rotate synchronously, and the fact that the sliding block drives the sliding driving assembly to move synchronously under the drive of the rodless cylinder, are all prior art known or should be known by the person skilled in the art.

[0022] An automatic battery cell loading and grabbing tool, as shown in Figures 1-4 The mounting plate 1 is a rectangular long plate, and the plurality of grabbing assemblies 5 are arranged along the length direction of the mounting plate 1.

[0023] The number of the grabbing assemblies 5 is four, and any one grabbing assembly 5 comprises a rotary cylinder 501 and a taking and placing cylinder 502 connected in sequence from top to bottom, the taking and placing cylinder 502 is provided with two taking and placing battery cell grippers 503, the two taking and placing battery cell grippers 503 slide relative to each other to clamp and take the battery cell 7 or move in the opposite direction to open and place the battery cell 7 under the drive of the taking and placing cylinder 502, and the rotary cylinder 501 can drive the two taking and placing battery cell grippers 503 to rotate and adjust the placement angle of the grabbed battery cell 7.

[0024] The grabbing assembly 5 located at the rightmost end of the mounting plate 1 among the four grabbing assemblies 5 is a fixed grabbing assembly 504, the fixed grabbing assembly 504 is fixed on the bottom surface of the mounting plate 1, and the other three grabbing assemblies 5 are slidably arranged on the bottom surface of the mounting plate 1 through sliding members, wherein the grabbing assembly 5 located at the leftmost end of the mounting plate 1 is a sliding grabbing assembly 505, and the two grabbing assemblies 5 located between the fixed grabbing assembly 504 and the sliding grabbing assembly 505 are intermediate grabbing assemblies 506.

[0025] The two adjacent grabbing assemblies 5 are connected through three connecting slide rods 6, and the rotary cylinder 501 at the top of each of the four grabbing assemblies 5 is provided with a connecting plate through which the corresponding connecting slide rod 6 passes. Among them, the fixed grabbing assembly 504 and the adjacent intermediate grabbing assembly 506 are connected through a first slide rod 601, the two intermediate grabbing assemblies 506 are connected through a second slide rod 602, and the sliding grabbing assembly 505 and the adjacent intermediate grabbing assembly 506 are connected through a third slide rod 603.

[0026] The first slide rod 601, the second slide rod 602 and the third slide rod 603 pass through the two end portions of the connecting plate on the corresponding side grabbing assembly 5 and are respectively provided with a limiting block 604, when the four grabbing assemblies 5 are all located at the position of the limiting block 604 at the end of the corresponding connecting slide rod 6, the spacing between the four grabbing assemblies 5 is equal.

[0027] In addition, the two intermediate grabbing assemblies 506 and the fixed grabbing assembly 504 are each provided with a limiting column 605 on one side of the connecting plate of the adjacent grabbing assembly 5, which prevents the mutual contact between the adjacent two grabbing assemblies 5 and keeps a certain distance between the adjacent two grabbing assemblies 5, thereby facilitating the grabbing of the battery cell 7.

[0028] A rodless cylinder 2 is arranged on the middle of the upper side of the mounting plate 1, and is arranged along the length direction of the mounting plate 1. The mounting plate 1 is provided with a support for supporting and fixing the rodless cylinder 2 at both ends of the rodless cylinder 2. A sliding block 201 is arranged on the rodless cylinder 2, and can slide back and forth along the length direction of the mounting plate 1 under the driving of the rodless cylinder 2. A slot is arranged on the mounting plate 1 below the rodless cylinder 2, and the top connecting plate of the sliding grabbing assembly 505 can pass through the slot and be connected to the sliding block 201.

[0029] The sliding grabbing assembly 505 is connected to the sliding block 201, and the sliding block 201 can drive the sliding grabbing assembly 505 to move under the driving of the rodless cylinder 2. The moving sliding grabbing assembly 505 drives the two intermediate grabbing assemblies 506 to open and place the battery cells 7 at equal intervals through the connecting slide rods 6, or drives the two intermediate grabbing assemblies 506 to move towards the fixed grabbing assembly 504 to gather the battery cells 7.

[0030] When the grabbing assembly places the battery cells 7, the sliding grabbing assembly 505 moves away from the fixed grabbing assembly 504, and drives the two intermediate grabbing assemblies 506 to move away from the fixed grabbing assembly 504 through the corresponding third slide rod 603 and second slide rod 602, until the sliding grabbing assembly 505 moves to the position of the right end limiting block 604 of the third slide rod 603. At this time, the distance between the four grabbing assemblies 5 is equal, and the equal interval of the four grabbing assemblies 5 can provide sufficient space for the rotation adjustment of the angle of the battery cells 7 placed on the gluing workbench.

[0031] When the grabbing assembly 5 gathers the battery cells 7, the sliding grabbing assembly 505 moves towards the fixed grabbing assembly 504, and sequentially pushes the two intermediate grabbing assemblies 506 to slide against the limiting column 605 on the fixed grabbing assembly 504. At this time, the four grabbing assemblies 5 are gathered and kept at a certain distance to facilitate the grabbing of the battery cells 7 placed in the foam box.

[0032] The bottom surface of the installation flat plate 1 is provided with a sliding piece for assisting the linkage of the sliding grabbing assembly 505 and the two intermediate grabbing assemblies 506, the sliding piece includes two sliding rails 101 arranged along the sliding direction of the sliding grabbing assembly 505, and the two sliding rails 101 are parallel to each other and are arranged on the two sides of the strip hole respectively. The top of the sliding grabbing assembly 505 and the two intermediate grabbing assemblies 506 are respectively provided with two sliding blocks 102 for sliding cooperation with the corresponding side sliding rail 101, so that the sliding grabbing assembly 505 and the two intermediate grabbing assemblies 506 respectively slide along the sliding rail 101 through the sliding block 102, thereby keeping the stability of the sliding grabbing assembly 505 and the two intermediate grabbing assemblies 506 when sliding on the corresponding connecting slide rod 6.

[0033] Further, in order to prevent the foam box after taking out the battery cell 7 from affecting the grabbing of the battery cell 7 by the grabbing assembly 5, two foam grabbing assemblies 3 are arranged on the long side of the installation flat plate 1 in the tool, and the two foam grabbing assemblies 3 are used to grab the foam box after the battery cell 7 has been taken out. Any one of the foam grabbing assemblies 3 includes a foam grabbing cylinder 301, the cylinder body of the foam grabbing cylinder 301 is fixed to the installation flat plate 1 through a mounting plate, and the foam grabbing cylinder 301 is provided with two foam grippers 302, which can slide relative to the foam grabbing cylinder 301 under the drive of the foam grabbing cylinder 301 to grab the foam box, or slide in the opposite direction to open and put down the foam box.

[0034] Further, in order to avoid the foam box being taken up when the battery cell 7 is grabbed by the grabbing assembly 5, a foam pressing cylinder 4 is arranged on the right side of the installation flat plate 1 where the fixed grabbing assembly 504 is arranged in the tool, the foam pressing cylinder 4 is parallel to the fixed grabbing assembly 504, the cylinder body of the foam pressing cylinder 4 is fixed to the installation flat plate 1 through a mounting plate, and the end of the telescopic rod of the foam pressing cylinder 4 is provided with a pressing plate 401. When the grabbing assembly grabs the battery cell 7, the telescopic rod is elongated and can push the pressing plate 401 to press the fixed foam box, and through the fixation of the pressing plate 401, the situation that the foam box is taken up when the battery cell 7 is grabbed can be avoided.

[0035] Further, in order to improve the safety and beauty of the whole tool, a protective cover plate 9 is arranged on the installation flat plate 1, and a robot connecting flange 8 is arranged on the installation flat plate 1 to facilitate the connection of the tool and the robot mechanical arm, the lower end of the robot connecting flange 8 is fixed to the installation flat plate 1 through a mounting bracket, and the upper end of the robot connecting flange 8 penetrates out of the protective cover plate 9.

[0036] The process of grabbing the battery cell 7 is as follows: first, start the rodless cylinder 2, the sliding block 201 drives the sliding grabbing assembly 505 to move towards the direction of the fixed grabbing assembly 504, the moving sliding grabbing assembly 505 drives the two intermediate grabbing assemblies 506 to move towards the fixed grabbing assembly 504 in turn to abut against the limiting column 605, at this time, the four grabbing assemblies 5 are synchronously started, then the taking and placing battery cell gripper 503 on the corresponding grabbing assembly 5 is synchronously relatively slid to grab the battery cell 7, at the same time, the pressing foam cylinder 4 is synchronously started and drives the pressing plate 401 to press the fixed foam box.

[0037] Then, the sliding block 201 drives the sliding grabbing assembly 505 to move away from the direction of the fixed grabbing assembly 504, then the moving sliding grabbing assembly 505 drives the two intermediate grabbing assemblies 506 to move in turn through the third slide rod 603 and the second slide rod 602, until the sliding grabbing assembly 505 moves to the limiting block 604 at the left end of the third slide rod 603, at this time, the four grabbing assemblies 5 are arranged at equal intervals, the rotating cylinder 501 is started, the four taking and placing battery cell grippers 503 that clamp the battery cell 7 are synchronously rotated to adjust the angle of the battery cell 7, then the grabbing and placing cylinder 502 is started, the corresponding taking and placing battery cell gripper 503 is synchronously oppositely slid to open to place the battery cell 7 on the gluing workbench.

Claims

1. An automatic cell loading and grabbing tool, characterized in that: The installation flat plate (1) is provided with a rodless air cylinder (2) distributed along the setting direction of the plurality of grabbing assemblies (5), and a sliding sliding block (201) is matched and installed on the rodless air cylinder (2); The adjacent grabbing assemblies (5) are connected through connecting slide rods (6), the connecting slide rods (6) pass through the end portions of the adjacent two grabbing assemblies (5) and are each provided with a limiting block (604); the fixed grabbing assembly (504) at one end of the plurality of grabbing assemblies (5) is fixed to the bottom surface of the installation flat plate (1), and the remaining grabbing assemblies (5) are sequentially and slidably arranged on the bottom surface of the installation flat plate (1) through the sliding member, wherein the sliding grabbing assembly (505) at the other end of the plurality of grabbing assemblies (5) is connected with the sliding sliding block (201), the sliding sliding block (201) can drive the sliding grabbing assembly (505) to move under the driving of the rodless air cylinder (2), and the moving sliding grabbing assembly (505) drives the remaining grabbing assemblies (5) to be linked and pulled apart to be distributed at equal intervals between the plurality of grabbing assemblies (5) through the connecting slide rods (6). Any one of the grabbing assemblies (5) comprises a rotating air cylinder (501), a grabbing and placing air cylinder (502) and two electric cell taking and placing grippers (503) which are sequentially connected, and the two electric cell taking and placing grippers (503) are slidably arranged.

2. The automatic cell loading and grabbing tooling according to claim 1, characterized in that: The installation flat plate (1) is rectangular, and two foam grabbing assemblies (3) for grabbing foam boxes for packaging electric cells are arranged on the long side of the installation flat plate (1) at intervals.

3. The automatic cell loading and grabbing tooling according to claim 2, characterized in that: Any one of the foam grabbing assemblies (3) comprises a foam grabbing air cylinder (301), and two foam grippers (302) capable of sliding relative to each other to grab and place the foam box are arranged on the foam grabbing air cylinder (301).

4. The automatic cell loading and grabbing tool of claim 2, wherein: A pressing foam air cylinder (4) is arranged on the wide side of the installation flat plate (1), and a pressing plate (401) for pressing the foam box to facilitate lifting the foam box when the electric cell (7) is grabbed is connected to the end of the telescopic rod of the pressing foam air cylinder (4).

5. The automatic cell loading and grabbing tool of claim 1, wherein: The sliding member comprises two slide rails (101) arranged on the bottom surface of the installation flat plate (1), the two slide rails (101) are parallel to each other and arranged along the sliding direction of the sliding grabbing assembly (505), and a sliding block (102) for sliding cooperation with the corresponding slide rail (101) is arranged on any one of the grabbing assemblies (5).

6. The automatic cell loading and grabbing tool of claim 1, wherein: The number of the grabbing assemblies (5) is four, and the number of the corresponding connecting slide rods (6) is three.

7. The automatic cell loading and grabbing tool of claim 1, wherein: The rotating air cylinder (501) of the grabbing assembly (5) is provided with a limiting column (605) on the side facing the adjacent grabbing assembly (5), and the limiting column (605) is used for preventing the contact between the adjacent two grabbing assemblies (5). 8.The automatic cell loading and grabbing tool according to claim 1, characterized in that: The two ends of the rodless air cylinder (2) are fixed to the installation flat plate (1) through supports.

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