Full-automatic contact type battery cell preheating furnace equipment

The fully automatic contact cell preheating furnace equipment uses a double-belt feeding system and a gantry-type robotic arm to alternately grab the cells, combined with double-sided contact heating on the baking tray. This solves the problems of low feeding efficiency and poor temperature uniformity in existing technologies, achieving efficient and uniform cell preheating and simplifying equipment structure and operation and maintenance.

CN224094940UActive Publication Date: 2026-04-07SHENZHEN DAXING SHOUZHENG INTELLIGENT EQUIP CO LTD
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CN · China
Patent Type
Utility models(China)
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Filing Date
2025-07-03
Publication Date
2026-04-07

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Technical Problem

Existing cell preheating devices have low feeding efficiency, cannot process different types of cells simultaneously, have poor temperature uniformity, complex structure, large footprint, and are difficult to maintain.

Method used

The system employs a double-belt feeding system and a gantry-type robotic arm to alternately grip the battery cells. It also features a double-sided heating baking tray, a variable-pitch mechanism on the transfer platform, and mechanical grippers that precisely place the battery cells. The system utilizes a hollow sandwich tray made of aluminum alloy and a servo motor drive module.

Benefits of technology

It enables simultaneous feeding of multiple types of battery cells, improves feeding efficiency, ensures uniform preheating of battery cells, reduces floor space, simplifies equipment layout, and enhances equipment versatility and ease of operation and maintenance.

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Abstract

The utility model relates to the technical field of lithium battery production equipment, and discloses full-automatic contact type battery cell preheating furnace equipment which comprises an incoming material double-drawstring used for transporting materials, a code scanning gun used for scanning codes is arranged at the end of the incoming material double-drawstring, a row code scanning NG battery cell mechanical arm is arranged on the right side of the code scanning gun, and a row code scanning NG battery cell mechanical arm is arranged on the right side of the row code scanning NG battery cell mechanical arm. A code scanning NG drawstring is arranged on the side face of the incoming material double drawstring. According to the full-automatic contact type battery cell preheating furnace equipment, multiple types of battery cells are fed at the same time through alternate grabbing of the incoming material double drawstrings and the gantry material taking mechanical arm, the feeding efficiency is improved, the preheating uniformity of the battery cells is ensured in cooperation with the upper and lower double-face contact type heating mode of the baking tray, all functional modules are compact in layout and smooth in connection, the occupied area is reduced, and the production cost is reduced. And meanwhile, the appearance design conforms to ergonomics, operation and maintenance are more convenient and faster, by adjusting a transfer platform pitch changing mechanism and a mechanical arm clamping jaw, the device can adapt to battery cells of different specifications and sizes, and the universality of the device is improved.
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Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to lithium battery production equipment technical field, concretely is a kind of full-automatic contact type electric core preheating furnace equipment. BACKGROUND

[0002] In the lithium battery production process, electric core preheating is the key link before formation process, and preheating effect directly influences the performance and consistency of battery, and electric core is more commonly used hot air type preheating furnace when preheating, conveying mechanism is used to convey the tray with electric core and is conveyed from one side to the other side stably, hot air mechanism is arranged at the side of conveying mechanism and sprays hot air to the electric core passing on conveying mechanism, and protection mechanism is used to cover hot air mechanism and part of conveying mechanism, so that hot air is limited in smaller space and electric core is preheated sufficiently.

[0003] The existing patent (announcement number: CN217086642U) discloses a kind of electric core preheating device, including conveying mechanism, hot air mechanism and protection mechanism, conveying mechanism upper portion is provided with hot air mechanism, the protection mechanism covers hot air mechanism and part of conveying mechanism with hot air mechanism alignment, be provided with discharging mechanism in the discharging end of conveying mechanism, be provided with discharge mechanism in the discharge end of conveying mechanism.

[0004] The above-mentioned patent in the process of using low feeding efficiency, it uses single-channel feeding, cannot simultaneously handle different types of electric core, and manual intervention is more, lead to feeding speed slow, affect overall production efficiency, while temperature uniformity is poor, its heating mode is single, one side heating makes that electric core each part is not heated evenly, lead to preheating effect is inconsistent, influence battery performance, in addition, its structure is complex, equipment layout is unreasonable, each functional module is not smooth, lead to large floor area, maintenance difficulty. UTILITY MODEL CONTENTS

[0005] In view of the deficiencies of the prior art, the utility model provides a kind of full-automatic contact type electric core preheating furnace equipment, with the advantages of structure optimization, high efficiency, temperature uniformity, solve the problems raised in the above background art.

[0006] To achieve the above object, the utility model provides the following technical scheme: a full -automatic contact type electric core preheating furnace equipment, including the incoming material double pull belt for transporting material, the end of the incoming material double pull belt is provided with the code scanning gun for scanning code, the right side of code scanning gun is provided with the row scanning code NG electric core manipulator, the side of incoming material double pull belt is provided with the scanning code NG pull belt, the end of incoming material double pull belt is provided with the loading position, the good electric core is conveyed to the loading position by the pull belt after scanning code, the electric core of scanning code is not good is grabbed to the scanning code NG pull belt and is discharged by the row scanning code NG electric core manipulator, the top of loading position is provided with gantry material taking manipulator, the rear of gantry material taking manipulator is provided with transfer platform, the rear of transfer platform is provided with the loading counterweight double drive module corresponding with transfer platform, the side of loading counterweight double drive module is provided with baking tray, the both sides of baking tray are provided with loading push tray module, the rear of baking tray is provided with unloading push tray module and unloading counterweight double drive module.

[0007] Further, the gantry material taking manipulator adopts a double-Z-axis design.

[0008] Through the above scheme, the gantry material taking manipulator can alternately grab several different electric cores and rotate the electric cores to the transfer platform through a rotating mechanism.

[0009] Further, the transfer platform is equipped with a variable-distance mechanism.

[0010] Through the above scheme, the transfer platform can be adjusted according to the spacing requirements of the electric cores on the baking tray, and then different electric cores are conveyed to the position directly below the loading counterweight double drive module.

[0011] Further, the baking tray is made of aluminum alloy material and has a hollow sandwich design, and heating pipes are uniformly embedded in the inner walls of the upper and lower layers of the tray.

[0012] Through the above scheme, the heating pipes can be in direct contact with the electric cores, and heat is quickly and uniformly transferred through heat conduction, achieving efficient preheating.

[0013] Further, the loading counterweight double drive module is driven by double servo motors and is equipped with a mechanical gripper.

[0014] Through the above scheme, the loading counterweight double drive module is used to grab the electric cores and accurately place them on the baking tray.

[0015] Further, the unloading push tray module has the same structure as the loading push tray module.

[0016] Through the above scheme, the unloading push tray module is used to push the tray that has completed baking to the unloading position.

[0017] Further, the unloading counterweight double drive module has the same structure as the loading counterweight double drive module.

[0018] Through the above scheme, the blanking counterweight double-drive module is used for grabbing the baked battery cell and blanking to the material receiving platform or the rear equipment at the bottom.

[0019] Compared with the prior art, the technical scheme of the utility model has the following beneficial effects:

[0020] The full-automatic contact type battery cell preheating furnace equipment alternately grabs through incoming material double-pull belts and gantry material taking mechanical hands, realizes simultaneous feeding of multiple types of battery cells, improves feeding efficiency, cooperates with the up-and-down double-sided contact type heating mode of the baking tray to ensure the uniformity of battery cell preheating, the functional modules are compactly arranged and smoothly connected, the floor area is reduced, the appearance design conforms to ergonomics, operation and maintenance are more convenient, different specifications and sizes of battery cells can be adapted through adjustment of the transfer platform pitch changing mechanism and the mechanical hand clamping jaw, and the equipment versatility is improved. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0021] Figure 1 It is a whole top view of the present application;

[0022] Figure 2 It is a whole three-dimensional structure diagram of the present application;

[0023] Figure 3 It is a front view of the gantry material taking mechanical hand of the present application.

[0024] In the figure:

[0025] 1, incoming material double-pull belt; 2, code scanning gun; 3, NG battery cell mechanical hand for code scanning and sorting; 4, NG pull belt for code scanning; 5, gantry material taking mechanical hand; 6, transfer platform; 7, blanking counterweight double-drive module; 8, baking tray; 9, feeding push tray module; 10, blanking push tray module; 11, blanking counterweight double-drive module. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0026] The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described clearly and completely below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present application, not all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative labor fall within the scope of protection of the present application.

[0027] Please refer to Figure 1 , Figure 2 and Figure 3The full-automatic contact type battery cell preheating furnace equipment in the embodiment comprises a double-pull belt 1 for transporting materials, the end of the double-pull belt 1 is provided with a code scanning gun 2 for scanning codes, the right side of the code scanning gun 2 is provided with a code scanning NG battery cell mechanical hand 3, the side of the double-pull belt 1 is provided with a code scanning NG pull belt 4, and the end of the double-pull belt 1 is provided with a feeding position. Good battery cells are conveyed to the feeding position by the pull belt after being scanned by the code scanning gun 2, and code scanning NG battery cells are grabbed by the code scanning NG battery cell mechanical hand 3 and discharged to the code scanning NG pull belt 4. A gantry material taking mechanical hand 5 is arranged above the feeding position, a transfer platform 6 is arranged behind the gantry material taking mechanical hand 5, an upper feeding counterweight double-drive module 7 corresponding to the transfer platform 6 is arranged behind the transfer platform 6, an oven tray 8 is arranged on the side of the upper feeding counterweight double-drive module 7, upper feeding tray pushing modules 9 are arranged on the two sides of the oven tray 8, and lower feeding tray pushing modules 10 and lower feeding counterweight double-drive modules 11 are arranged behind the oven tray 8.

[0028] The gantry material taking mechanical hand 5 adopts a double-Z-axis design, can alternately grab several different battery cells, and rotates the battery cells to the transfer platform 6 through a rotating mechanism, the transfer platform 6 is provided with a variable-distance mechanism, can be adjusted according to the spacing requirements of the battery cells on the oven tray 8, and then conveys different battery cells to the position directly below the upper feeding counterweight double-drive module 7.

[0029] The oven tray 8 adopts an aluminum alloy material and a hollow sandwich design, heating pipes are uniformly embedded in the inner walls of the upper and lower layers of the tray, the heating pipes are convenient for directly contacting the battery cells, heat is quickly and uniformly transferred through heat conduction, high-efficiency preheating is realized, the upper feeding counterweight double-drive module 7 adopts double-servo motor driving, is provided with a mechanical gripper, and is used for grabbing battery cells and accurately placing the battery cells on the oven tray 8.

[0030] The lower feeding tray pushing modules 10 have the same structure as the upper feeding tray pushing modules 9, are used for pushing the trays after completion of baking to a lower feeding position, the lower feeding counterweight double-drive modules 11 have the same structure as the upper feeding counterweight double-drive modules 7, and are used for grabbing battery cells after completion of baking and feeding the battery cells to a lower receiving platform or a rear equipment.

[0031] It should be noted that the surface of the oven tray 8 is subjected to anodic oxidation treatment, the heating pipes and temperature sensors are embedded in the oven tray 8, the temperature of each area of the heating plate is monitored in real time, and uniform control of the temperature is ensured.

[0032] The working principle of the above embodiment is that the incoming double pull belt 1 adopts synchronous belt transmission, various types of battery cells are transferred through the incoming double pull belt 1, the code is scanned by the code scanning gun 2, the good battery cells are conveyed to the feeding position by the pull belt, the battery cells with bad code are grabbed by the code NG pull belt 4 and discharged by the code NG battery cell mechanical hand 3, the gantry material taking mechanical hand 5 adopts double Z axis design, the mechanical hand end is equipped with a rotating mechanism, which can rotate the battery cell by 0-180°, meeting the different feeding angle requirements, the transfer platform 6 adopts ball screw transmission, the variable distance mechanism is driven by a servo motor, and different specifications of the baking tray 8 are adapted, the feeding counterweight double drive module 7 grabs the battery cell and puts it on the baking tray 8, at the same time, the feeding push tray module 9 on both sides of the baking tray 8 pushes the baking tray 8 out of the battery cell of the feeding counterweight double drive module 7, after the baking tray 8 completes the baking of the battery cell, the baking tray 8 is pushed out to the discharging position by the discharging push tray module 10, the incoming double pull belt 1 and the gantry material taking mechanical hand 5 are alternately grabbed, the multiple types of battery cells are simultaneously fed, the feeding efficiency is improved, and the baking tray 8 is contacted with the heating mode to ensure the uniformity of the battery cell preheating.

[0033] It should be noted that, in the present document, relational terms such as first and second and the like can be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Moreover, the terms "comprises", "comprising", or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but can include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. An element proceeded by "comprises... a" does not, without more constraints, exclude the presence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

[0034] While embodiments of the present application have been shown and described with reference to particular embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the application. The scope of the application is defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A fully automatic contact-type battery cell preheating furnace equipment, comprising a double conveyor belt (1) for transporting materials, characterized in that: The end of the incoming material double pull belt (1) is provided with a barcode scanner (2) for scanning. A barcode scanning NG battery cell robot (3) is provided on the right side of the barcode scanner (2). A barcode scanning NG pull belt (4) is provided on the side of the incoming material double pull belt (1). A loading position is provided at the end of the incoming material double pull belt (1). A gantry picking robot (5) is provided above the loading position. A transfer platform (6) is provided behind the gantry picking robot (5). A loading counterweight dual drive module (7) corresponding to the transfer platform (6) is provided behind the transfer platform (6). A baking tray (8) is provided on the side of the loading counterweight dual drive module (7). Loading push tray modules (9) are provided on both sides of the baking tray (8). A unloading push tray module (10) and an unloading counterweight dual drive module (11) are provided behind the baking tray (8).

2. The fully automatic contact-type battery cell preheating furnace equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that: The gantry-type material handling robot (5) adopts a dual Z-axis design.

3. The fully automatic contact-type battery cell preheating furnace equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that: The transfer platform (6) is equipped with a pitch-changing mechanism.

4. The fully automatic contact-type battery cell preheating furnace equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that: The baking tray (8) is made of aluminum alloy with a hollow sandwich design, and the heating tubes are evenly embedded in the upper and lower inner walls of the tray.

5. The fully automatic contact-type battery cell preheating furnace equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that: The feeding counterweight dual-drive module (7) is driven by dual servo motors and equipped with mechanical grippers.

6. The fully automatic contact-type battery cell preheating furnace equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that: The structure of the unloading pusher module (10) is the same as that of the loading pusher module (9).

7. The fully automatic contact-type battery cell preheating furnace equipment according to claim 1, characterized in that: The structure of the unloading counterweight dual-drive module (11) is the same as that of the loading counterweight dual-drive module (7).

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  • Battery cell preheating device

    CN217086642U