Battery Stacking Alignment with Movable Shapers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing battery production lines face challenges in quickly and neatly stacking batteries or battery units with different specifications while maintaining flexibility and efficiency, particularly in aligning multiple batteries during assembly to meet varying production requirements.
Innovation Solution
A stacking apparatus with paired shapers that align workpieces through approaching actions, combined with a push plate and reference plate, allows for adjustable alignment and stacking along multiple directions, facilitated by a rack system and manipulator, enabling automated and flexible production.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If multiple shapers are used to align workpieces with different specifications, then alignment precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The shapers are designed to be movable rather than fixed, allowing them to adjust their positions dynamically. The first shaper can move along the first direction, and the second shaper can move along the second direction, enabling the device to adapt to workpieces of different specifications without requiring a complex fixed structure for each possible size variation.
Solution Approach 2:
The stacking apparatus uses a universal shaper mechanism that can handle multiple types of workpieces with different specifications. Instead of having dedicated alignment mechanisms for each workpiece size, the movable shapers serve multiple functions by adjusting their positions, simplifying the overall device structure while maintaining alignment precision across various workpiece types.
2Productivity
If paired shapers approach each other for alignment operation, then stacking speed is improved, but control difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control system monitors the positions and movements of the paired shapers in real-time, providing feedback to adjust their approaching speeds and stopping positions. This ensures precise alignment while maintaining high stacking speed, as the control system can dynamically respond to position deviations and coordinate the movement of multiple shapers.
Solution Approach 2:
The control system acts as an intermediary between the paired shapers, coordinating their movements and resolving the control complexity. By centralizing the control logic, the system manages the coordination of multiple moving parts without requiring complex direct mechanical linkages, thereby maintaining stacking speed while reducing control difficulty.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the stacking apparatus is designed for high flexibility to handle different battery specifications, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The stacking apparatus employs movable shapers that can dynamically adjust their positions along the first and second directions, providing high flexibility to accommodate batteries of different sizes and specifications. This dynamic design avoids the need for multiple fixed configurations, thereby maintaining adaptability while keeping the device structure relatively simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The alignment and stacking functions are segmented into independent movable shapers rather than a monolithic complex structure. Each shaper can be independently controlled and positioned, allowing the system to adapt to different battery specifications through coordinated movement of simpler individual components rather than reconfiguring a complex integrated structure.
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AI summary
A stacking apparatus configured to stack workpieces into a neat workpiece queue, where the workpiece queue includes a plurality of workpieces. The stacking apparatus includes: a base bracket; a stacking table for carrying at least one workpiece, where the stacking table is arranged on the base bracket; and at least two shapers, where the shapers act in pairs to perform an alignment operation for aligning the workpieces on the stacking table, paired shapers are configured in such a way that at least one of the actions enables the paired shapers to approach or move away from each other along a first direction above the stacking table, and the alignment operation is performed through the approaching action of the shapers, to obtain the neat workpiece queue through stacking.