Battery Transfer Line Sorting With Batch Pallet Conveyance
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Solution Overview
Problem
The manual intervention required in lithium battery transmission and shipment processes leads to high labor costs and low efficiency, as well as challenges in managing the diverse specifications and quality of battery cells.
Innovation Solution
A battery transmission system with automated mechanisms, including multiple transmission lines and identification systems, that sorts and transfers batteries based on type and quantity, reducing manual intervention and optimizing the transmission process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual intervention is used for battery transmission and shipment, then flexibility and adaptability are maintained, but labor costs increase and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables batteries to be automatically identified, sorted, and transferred without human intervention. The identification apparatus automatically detects battery types, the transfer apparatus automatically moves batteries between pallets and transmission lines, and the control system automatically coordinates the entire process, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring manual operation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical operations with automated mechanical systems. The transfer apparatus uses mechanical arms or grippers to handle batteries, the transmission lines use automated conveyor mechanisms, and the identification apparatus uses optical or electronic sensors to detect battery characteristics, substituting human mechanical actions with automated mechanical and electronic systems
2Productivity
If frequent round trips are made by the second transmission line, then battery transfer flexibility is improved, but transmission time increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system accumulates N batteries at the first starting position before initiating transmission on the second transmission line. This preliminary accumulation ensures that each transmission cycle carries a batch of batteries rather than making frequent single-battery round trips, reducing the total number of trips required and minimizing transmission time loss
Solution Approach 2:
The first transmission line continuously feeds batteries to the first starting position, maintaining a steady supply of N batteries ready for transfer. The second transmission line then continuously transports these batches to the first termination position, ensuring uninterrupted flow and eliminating idle time between transmission cycles
3Manufacturing precision
If batteries are transferred without type identification, then transfer speed is maintained, but sorting accuracy decreases and production needs are not met
Solution Approach 1:
The identification apparatus serves as an intermediary between the transfer apparatus and the sorting decision-making process. It detects battery types using sensors or vision systems and provides this information to the control system, which then directs the transfer apparatus to place batteries on the appropriate transmission line, acting as a mediator that enables accurate sorting without requiring complex direct control mechanisms
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AI summary
A battery transmission system may comprise: a material incoming structure to receive batteries; a first transfer structure to transfer the batteries to a first pallet so as to convey the batteries on a first transmission line, wherein the first transmission line has an unloading position for which at least one second transmission line is provided correspondingly; and a second transfer structure to transfer batteries at the unloading position to a first starting position of the second transmission line so as to transmits, when the number of batteries at the first starting position reaches N, the N batteries to a first termination position of the second transmission line, wherein N≥1.