Adaptive Brush Mechanism for Wheel Cavity Burr Removal
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional brushes are not adaptable to the varying shapes of wheel cavities, leading to incomplete burr removal and increased manufacturing costs due to the need for custom brushes for each wheel shape.
Innovation Solution
A wheel shape follow-up burr brushing device with adjustable brush structures that match the shape of the wheel's front and back cavities, including servo motors and adjustment cylinders, allows for universal application across multiple wheel shapes, ensuring thorough burr removal from spoke root grooves.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional single-shape brushes are used, then the device structure is simple, but the brushes cannot adapt to various wheel shapes, resulting in incomplete burr removal
Solution Approach 1:
The brush structure is made adjustable through linkage mechanisms and position adjustment devices, allowing the brush shape and position to dynamically adapt to different wheel cavity shapes. The linkage mechanism connects multiple brush elements that can be positioned independently to match the contours of various wheel shapes.
Solution Approach 2:
A single brush assembly is designed to handle multiple wheel shapes through adjustable components. The universal brush structure can be reconfigured via the linkage mechanism and position adjustment devices to accommodate different wheel cavity geometries, eliminating the need for multiple dedicated brushes.
2Manufacturing precision
If custom brushes are designed for each wheel shape, then burr removal is thorough, but the manufacturing cost increases and resources are wasted
Solution Approach 1:
One universal brush assembly replaces multiple custom brushes, reducing manufacturing costs and resource consumption. The adjustable linkage mechanism and position adjustment devices enable a single brush structure to achieve the burr removal quality previously requiring multiple dedicated brushes.
Solution Approach 2:
The brush configuration parameters (position, shape, orientation) are made variable through adjustment mechanisms. This allows the same physical brush assembly to change its effective geometry to match different wheel shapes, achieving custom-fit precision without custom manufacturing.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the brush structure is made adjustable to match wheel shapes, then universality is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The adjustment mechanisms are designed as dynamic systems with linkage connections that allow coordinated movement of multiple brush elements. The linkage mechanism transforms simple input movements into complex coordinated adjustments, achieving high adaptability with relatively simple control.
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AI summary
A wheel shape follow-up burr brushing device can brush burrs from a front, a back cavity and a spoke root groove of the wheel. The heights of brushes are adjusted, so that the brushes follow up the shape of the front, the back cavity and the spoke root groove of the wheel. The wheel is put onto a positioning roller bed by a manipulator, a positioning clamping cylinder drives four clamping wheels to clamp the wheel, four clamping wheel drive motors drive the wheel to be in a low-speed rotating state; two second cylinders drive a second rotating table to be fed downwards, two first cylinders drive a first rotating table to be fed upwards, and the rotating wheel is matched with the rotating brushes to brush burrs from the front, the back cavity and the spoke root groove of the wheel.