Half-axle housing grabbing and carrying device
By designing fixed and movable grippers with outward-expanding clamping, combined with clamping blocks and cylinder drive, the problems of unstable gripping and space occupation of the half-bridge housing were solved, achieving efficient and safe automated handling of the half-bridge housing.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202422985525.7
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Utility models(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-12-04
- Publication Date
- 2025-11-21
- Estimated Expiration
- 2034-12-04
AI Technical Summary
On existing bridge housing production lines, the half-bridge housing gripping device is unstable, occupies a large space, and poses safety hazards, failing to meet the needs of efficient and automated production.
Design a half-bridge housing gripping and handling device, which adopts a fixed gripper and a movable gripper for outward expansion clamping, penetrating deep into the interior of the half-bridge housing, and tightly clamping against the inner wall. Combined with a clamping block and cylinder drive, it can stably support the bottom, increase the clamping area and positioning accuracy, and is equipped with a photoelectric switch and image acquisition mechanism for intelligent recognition.
It improves clamping stability and positioning accuracy, reduces space occupation, enhances handling efficiency and safety, ensures the integrity of the half-bridge housing and the accuracy of handling, and realizes efficient and intelligent automated operation.
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Abstract
Description
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0001] The utility model relates to vehicle production field especially is half axle housing grabbing and carrying device. BACKGROUND
[0002] The axle housing is a basic component for assembling the main reducer, differential, half axle and wheel, and its main function is to support and protect these transmission system components. Generally, the ordinary non-disconnected drive axle housing is a rigid hollow beam supported on the left and right drive wheels, and the main reducer, differential and half axle and other transmission system elements are contained inside. The axle housing is connected with the frame or the carriage through the longitudinally arranged steel plate spring. As an important component of the drive axle, the axle housing is also one of the key structures of the whole vehicle driving system. In order to ensure its function, the drive axle housing must have sufficient strength and rigidity, and at the same time, it must have the characteristics of light weight and convenient disassembly and adjustment of the main reducer. On the axle housing processing production line, the axle housing is formed from the original expanded material through stamping or casting into a half axle housing, which needs to go through several processes in the subsequent air cooling, shot blasting and other processes. With the continuous acceleration of the production line rhythm, the material handling between processes needs to be more automated, so a suitable half axle housing grabbing device is needed.
[0003] The existing axle housing production and processing line adopts a lifting chain and other manual operation grabbing and carrying, which has high labor cost and is not suitable for fast-paced production requirements. Moreover, manual operation has safety hazards.
[0004] To solve the problem of manual hoisting, some production lines are equipped with grabbing and carrying half axle housing grabbing robots, including multi-joint mechanical arms or gantry type lifting arms and grabbing devices at the end of the mechanical arm. The grabbing device grabs the half axle housing and carries it to the target position. However, the current grabbing device clamps the outside of the half axle housing, the outside of the half axle housing is mostly arc surface, the clamping area is small, and it occupies the outside space of the half axle housing, which is easy to interfere and collide with the densely arranged axle housings. SUMMARY
[0005] The utility model provides a kind of half axle housing grabbing and carrying device to solve the problem that the current half axle housing grabbing device is unstable and occupies space.
[0006] To solve the above problems, the utility model adopts the technical scheme, a kind of half bridge shell grabbing and carrying device, including gripper body, the gripper body includes fixed gripper and movable gripper, the fixed gripper and the movable gripper are horizontally arranged, the opposite surface of fixed gripper and movable gripper is clamping contact surface, and the movable gripper is connected with horizontal drive piece;The gripper body further includes embrace and clamps block, and the embrace and clamps block is located below fixed gripper and movable gripper, and the embrace and clamps block is connected with vertical drive piece.This scheme sets up fixed gripper and movable gripper, fixed gripper and movable gripper use outer expansion type clamping, extend into half bridge shell interior and carry out contact clamping with the inner wall of outer bridge shell, cleverly utilize the structure characteristics that half bridge shell interior is plane, increase clamping contact area, improve clamping stability, and gripper is located in press bridge shell interior, reduce the space occupancy of outside, cooperate embrace and clamps block and support the bottom of half bridge shell, further improve positioning accuracy and stability.
[0007] As a preferred embodiment of the half bridge shell grabbing and carrying device, the fixed gripper includes a fixed clamping plate, and the lower ends of the fixed clamping plate protrude downward to form two fixed clamping portions; the movable gripper includes a movable clamping plate, and the lower ends of the movable clamping plate protrude downward to form two movable clamping portions; the fixed clamping plate and the movable clamping plate are parallel to each other; and the two fixed clamping portions and the two movable clamping portions are in one-to-one correspondence in the horizontal direction.
[0008] As a preferred embodiment of the half bridge shell grabbing and carrying device, the lower profiles of the fixed clamping portions and the movable clamping portions are in the shape of a circular arc.
[0009] As a preferred embodiment of the half bridge shell grabbing and carrying device, the gripper body further includes a gripper bracket, the gripper bracket includes a vertical plate, an upper flat plate and a lower flat plate are arranged on the front side of the vertical plate, the length of the upper flat plate relative to the front end face of the vertical plate is greater than the length of the lower flat plate relative to the front end face of the vertical plate, the fixed gripper is arranged below the front end edge of the vertical plate, the movable gripper and the horizontal drive piece are located between the fixed gripper and the vertical plate, a sliding plate is further arranged between the upper flat plate and the lower flat plate, the sliding plate is connected with the vertical drive piece, and the embrace and clamps block is installed on the front side edge of the sliding plate.
[0010] As a preferred embodiment of the half bridge shell grabbing and carrying device, a horizontal guide rod is arranged between the vertical plate and the fixed gripper, and the movable gripper is slidably connected with the horizontal guide rod.
[0011] As a preferred embodiment of the half bridge shell grabbing and carrying device, a vertical guide rod is arranged between the upper flat plate and the lower flat plate, and the sliding plate is slidably connected with the vertical guide rod.
[0012] As a preferred embodiment of the half-axle shell grabbing and carrying device, the front end of the upper plate is provided with a left limiting plate and a right limiting plate on both sides, the left limiting plate and the right limiting plate are parallel to the upper plate, and the left limiting plate and the right limiting plate extend to both sides relative to the upper plate. The left limiting plate and the right limiting plate are in contact with the top edge of the half-axle shell to realize positioning in the vertical direction, and cooperate with the clamping block to further clamp the half-axle shell.
[0013] As a preferred embodiment of the half-axle shell grabbing and carrying device, the fixed gripper and the movable gripper are provided with a photoelectric switch for detecting the distance between the fixed gripper and the movable gripper. By detecting the distance between the fixed gripper and the movable gripper, it can be judged whether the grabbing is in place.
[0014] As a preferred embodiment of the half-axle shell grabbing and carrying device, the gripper body is provided with an image acquisition mechanism, the image processing mechanism includes a camera and a communication module, and the communication module is used for connecting an industrial computer of a carrying robot. The grabbing position of the half-axle shell can be intelligently identified, and the carrying precision is improved.
[0015] As a preferred embodiment of the half-axle shell grabbing and carrying device, the horizontal driving member is a horizontal cylinder, the bottom surface of the upper plate is provided with a horizontal cylinder support, the cylinder body of the horizontal cylinder is installed on the horizontal cylinder support, and the cylinder rod of the horizontal cylinder is connected with the movable gripper; the vertical driving member is a vertical cylinder, and the top of the upper plate is provided with a vertical cylinder support. The cylinder is used for driving, the grabbing effect is good, and it has a certain buffering property and is not easy to damage the half-axle shell.
[0016] The utility model discloses a half bridge shell grabbing and carrying device, through its unique technical scheme and structure design, realized multiple remarkable beneficial effects, greatly promoted the efficiency and safety of half bridge shell carrying operation: first, the device is through the configuration fixed gripper and movable gripper, and adopts the outer expansion type clamping mode, makes the gripper can go into the half bridge shell inside, and the inner wall carries out close resistance clamping, this not only improves the stability and reliability of clamping greatly, simultaneously also because the gripper is located in the half bridge shell inside, thereby effectively reduced the occupation to external space, improved the utilization of operation site and the fluency of operation process, second, the design of the device's embrace clamping block, is located below fixed gripper and movable gripper, through the connection of vertical drive part, can stably hold the half bridge shell bottom, thereby provided additional support in the vertical direction, further enhanced the positioning accuracy and stability in the carrying process, effectively avoided the shaking or displacement phenomenon that the half bridge shell can appear in the carrying process, third, the arc profile design of the clamping portion lower portion of fixed gripper and movable gripper, fully considered the structural characteristics of half bridge shell, this humanization design not only can better adapt to the shape of half bridge shell, also can effectively protect half bridge shell in the grabbing process, avoid causing scratch or damage to it, thereby guarantee the integrity of half bridge shell, in addition, the design of left limit board and right limit board, through the contact with the half bridge shell top edge, realized the accurate positioning in the vertical direction, this design ingeniously solved the up-down position deviation problem that the half bridge shell can appear in the carrying process, ensured the precision of carrying operation, photoelectric switch and image acquisition mechanism's introduction, for the intelligent operation of device provides the possibility, image processing mechanism includes camera and communication module, and communication module is used for connecting the industrial computer of carrying robot, such configuration makes the device can intelligently identify the grabbing position of half bridge shell, improves the automation level and precision of carrying operation, finally, horizontal drive part and vertical drive part all adopt air cylinder, this choice not only ensures the smooth and powerful of grabbing action, and the buffer characteristics of air cylinder can absorb the impact in the carrying process to some extent, reduces the potential damage to half bridge shell, improves the overall safety and reliability of carrying operation.
[0017] To sum up, the utility model discloses half bridge shell grabbing and carrying device in improving clamping stability, positioning accuracy, carrying efficiency, reducing space occupation, protecting half bridge shell integrity and promoting intelligent operation level etc. all shows the excellent performance, provides the efficient, accurate, reliable solution for the automation of half bridge shell carrying. ACCURACY
[0018] In order to more clearly illustrate the technical scheme of the utility model, the following will be to the description needed to use the drawing briefly introduced, obviously, the following description in the drawing is only some embodiments of the utility model, for those skilled in the art, under the premise of not paying the creative labor, can also obtain other drawings according to these drawings.
[0019] Figure 1 Structure diagram of the embodiment of the present application Figure 1 .
[0020] Figure 2 Structure diagram of the embodiment of the present application Figure 2 .
[0021] Figure 3 Working process diagram of the embodiment of the present application
[0022] Explanation of main reference signs
[0023] 1. grab hand bracket, 2. holding and clamping block, 3. left limiting plate, 4. right limiting plate, 5. vertical air cylinder, 6. image processing and collecting mechanism, 7. camera support, 8. sliding plate, 9. protective cover, 10. upper mounting plate, 11. fixed grab hand, 12. movable grab hand, 13. horizontal air cylinder, 14. first linear bearing, 15. horizontal guide rod, 16. vertical guide rod, 17. second linear bearing, 18. valve body fixing plate, 19. vertical air cylinder support, 20 horizontal air cylinder support, 21. electromagnetic valve, 22. distribution box, 23. photoelectric switch, 24. camera. Embodiment
[0024] In order to make the purpose, characteristics and advantages of the present application more obvious and easy to understand, the technical solutions in the present application will be described clearly and completely in combination with the drawings in the specific embodiments. Obviously, the following described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present patent, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative labor are within the scope of protection of the present patent.
[0025] As Figures 1-3As shown, a half-bridge shell grabbing and carrying device comprises a gripper body, the gripper body comprises a gripper frame 1, a fixed gripper 11 and a movable gripper 12, the fixed gripper 11 and the movable gripper 12 are arranged horizontally side by side, the opposite surfaces of the fixed gripper 11 and the movable gripper 12 are clamping contact surfaces, the movable gripper 12 is connected with a horizontal driving element, the gripper frame 1 comprises a vertical plate, the front side of the vertical plate is provided with an upper flat plate and a lower flat plate, the length of the upper flat plate relative to the front end surface of the vertical plate is greater than the length of the lower flat plate relative to the front end surface of the vertical plate, the fixed gripper 11 is arranged below the front end edge of the vertical plate, the movable gripper and the horizontal driving element are located between the fixed gripper 11 and the vertical plate; the gripper body further comprises a clamping block 2, the clamping block 2 is located below the fixed gripper 11 and the movable gripper 12, the clamping block 2 is connected with a vertical driving element, a sliding plate 8 is further arranged between the upper flat plate and the lower flat plate, the sliding plate 8 is connected with the vertical driving element, and the clamping block 2 is installed on the front side edge of the sliding plate 8. The front end of the upper flat plate is provided with a left limiting plate 3 and a right limiting plate 4 respectively, the left limiting plate 3 and the right limiting plate 4 are parallel to the upper flat plate, and the left limiting plate and the right limiting plate extend to both sides relative to the upper flat plate.
[0026] The fixed gripper 11 comprises a fixed clamping plate, the lower ends of the two ends of the fixed clamping plate protrude downward to form two fixed clamping parts; the movable gripper comprises a movable clamping plate, the lower ends of the two ends of the movable clamping plate protrude downward to form two movable clamping parts, the fixed clamping plate and the movable clamping plate are parallel to each other, the positions of the two fixed clamping parts and the two movable clamping parts are one-to-one opposite in the horizontal direction, and the lower profiles of the fixed clamping parts and the movable clamping parts are circular arcs.
[0027] A horizontal guide rod 15 is arranged between the vertical plate and the fixed gripper 11, the movable gripper 12 is slidably connected with the horizontal guide rod 15 through a first linear bearing 14, a vertical guide rod 16 is arranged between the upper flat plate and the lower flat plate, and the sliding plate 8 is slidably connected with the vertical guide rod 16 through a second linear bearing 17.
[0028] An optical switch 23 is arranged between the fixed gripper 11 and the movable gripper 12, and the optical switch 23 is used for detecting the distance between the fixed gripper 11 and the movable gripper 12. An image acquisition mechanism 6 is further arranged on the gripper body, the image acquisition mechanism 6 comprises a camera 24 and a communication module, and the communication module is used for connecting an industrial computer of a carrying robot.
[0029] The horizontal driving part is a horizontal cylinder 13, the bottom surface of the upper flat plate is provided with a horizontal cylinder support 20, the cylinder body of the horizontal cylinder 13 is installed on the horizontal cylinder support 20, and the cylinder rod of the horizontal cylinder is connected with the movable grabber 12; the vertical driving part is a vertical cylinder 5, the top of the upper flat plate is provided with a vertical cylinder support 19, the cylinder body of the vertical cylinder 5 is installed on the vertical cylinder support, the cylinder rod of the vertical cylinder 5 passes through the upper flat plate and is fixedly connected with the sliding plate 8, and the back of the vertical plate is further provided with a valve body fixing plate 18, the valve body fixing plate 18 is provided with an electromagnetic valve 21 for controlling the cylinder.
[0030] It can be seen from the above embodiments that the device has the beneficial effects that: firstly, the device is configured with fixed grabbers and movable grabbers and adopts an outward expansion type clamping mode, so that the grabbers can penetrate into the inside of the half-bridge shell and tightly abut against and clamp the inner wall, which not only greatly improves the stability and reliability of clamping, but also effectively reduces the occupation of external space and improves the utilization rate of the operation site and the smoothness of the operation process because the grabbers are located in the inside of the half-bridge shell; secondly, the design of the holding and clamping block in the device is located below the fixed grabbers and the movable grabbers and can stably support the bottom of the half-bridge shell through the connection of the vertical driving part, thereby providing additional support in the vertical direction and further enhancing the positioning accuracy and stability in the carrying process and effectively avoiding the shaking or displacement of the half-bridge shell in the carrying process; thirdly, the arc-shaped contour design of the lower part of the clamping part of the fixed grabbers and the movable grabbers fully considers the structural characteristics of the half-bridge shell, and this humanized design not only can better adapt to the shape of the half-bridge shell, but also can effectively protect the half-bridge shell in the grabbing process and avoid scratching or damaging the half-bridge shell, thereby ensuring the integrity of the half-bridge shell; in addition, the design of the left limiting plate and the right limiting plate realizes accurate positioning in the vertical direction through the contact with the top edge of the half-bridge shell, which ingeniously solves the problem of possible up-down position deviation of the half-bridge shell in the carrying process and ensures the accuracy of the carrying operation; the introduction of the photoelectric switch and the image acquisition mechanism makes intelligent operation of the device possible. The image processing mechanism includes a camera and a communication module, and the communication module is used for connecting an industrial computer of the carrying robot, so that the device can intelligently identify the grabbing position of the half-bridge shell and improve the automation level and accuracy of the carrying operation; finally, the horizontal driving part and the vertical driving part both adopt a cylinder, which not only ensures the smoothness and strength of the grabbing action, but also can absorb the impact in the carrying process to a certain extent, reduce the potential damage to the half-bridge shell and improve the overall safety and reliability of the carrying operation.
[0031] The above description of disclosed embodiments enables one of ordinary skill in the art to make or use the application. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein can be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the application. Thus, the present application is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.
Claims
1. A half-bridge housing gripping and handling device comprising a gripper body, characterized in that The gripper body comprises a fixed gripper and a movable gripper, the fixed gripper and the movable gripper are arranged horizontally and side by side, opposite surfaces of the fixed gripper and the movable gripper are clamping contact surfaces, and the movable gripper is connected with a horizontal driving element; the gripper body further comprises a clamping block, the clamping block is located below the fixed gripper and the movable gripper, and the clamping block is connected with a vertical driving element.
2. The half bridge shell grab handling device of claim 1, wherein, The fixed gripper comprises a fixed clamping plate, two lower ends of the fixed clamping plate are protruded downward to form two fixed clamping portions; the movable gripper comprises a movable clamping plate, two lower ends of the movable clamping plate are protruded downward to form two movable clamping portions, the fixed clamping plate and the movable clamping plate are parallel to each other, and the two fixed clamping portions and the two movable clamping portions are in one-to-one correspondence in the horizontal direction.
3. The half bridge shell grab handling device of claim 2, wherein, The lower profiles of the fixed clamping portions and the movable clamping portions are circular arcs.
4. The half bridge shell grab and carry device of claim 1, wherein, The gripper body further comprises a gripper bracket, the gripper bracket comprises a vertical plate, a front side of the vertical plate is provided with an upper plate and a lower plate, a length of the upper plate relative to a front end surface of the vertical plate is greater than a length of the lower plate relative to the front end surface of the vertical plate, the fixed gripper is arranged below a front end edge of the vertical plate, the movable gripper and the horizontal driving element are located between the fixed gripper and the vertical plate, a sliding plate is further arranged between the upper plate and the lower plate, the sliding plate is connected with the vertical driving element, and the clamping block is installed on a front side edge of the sliding plate.
5. The half bridge shell grab and carry device of claim 4, wherein, A horizontal guide rod is arranged between the vertical plate and the fixed gripper, and the movable gripper is slidably connected with the horizontal guide rod.
6. The half bridge shell grab and carry device of claim 4, wherein, A vertical guide rod is arranged between the upper plate and the lower plate, and the sliding plate is slidably connected with the vertical guide rod.
7. The half bridge shell grab and carry device of claim 4, wherein, Left and right limiting plates are respectively arranged on both sides of a front end of the upper plate, the left and right limiting plates are parallel to the upper plate, and the left and right limiting plates extend to both sides relative to the upper plate.
8. The half bridge shell grab and carry device of claim 1, wherein, An optical switch is arranged between the fixed gripper and the movable gripper, and the optical switch is used for detecting a distance between the fixed gripper and the movable gripper.
9. The half bridge shell grab and carry device of claim 1, wherein, An image acquisition mechanism is arranged on the gripper body, the image processing mechanism comprises a camera and a communication module, and the communication module is used for connecting an industrial computer of a carrying robot.
10. The half bridge shell grab and carry device of claim 4, wherein, The horizontal driving element is a horizontal cylinder, a bottom surface of the upper plate is provided with a horizontal cylinder support, a cylinder body of the horizontal cylinder is installed on the horizontal cylinder support, a cylinder rod of the horizontal cylinder is connected with the movable gripper; the vertical driving element is a vertical cylinder, a top of the upper plate is provided with a vertical cylinder support, a cylinder body of the vertical cylinder is installed on the vertical cylinder support, and a cylinder rod of the vertical cylinder penetrates through the upper plate and is fixedly connected with the sliding plate.