Board Separation Assembly With Lateral Recesses
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing panel dividing systems face challenges in precision and economy due to chip accumulation on the support table, requiring time-consuming cleaning and affecting sawing accuracy.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating lateral recesses in the grooves to deflect chips away from the support table, with configurations such as open bottoms, tilted walls, and suction connections to actively extract chips, preventing accumulation and improving chip collection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the support table surface is kept clean, then sawing precision is improved, but frequent cleaning operations reduce productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The groove structure with lateral recess enables self-cleaning functionality. The open lateral recess allows chips to be automatically ejected from the groove during or after the sawing process, reducing the need for manual cleaning interventions and maintaining surface cleanliness without productivity loss.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If lateral recesses are added to the grooves, then chip deflection is improved and support table cleanliness is enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The lateral recess is merged with the existing groove structure rather than being a separate component. The recess forms an integrated part of the groove, combining the containment function of the groove with the ejection function of the recess into a single unified structure, minimizing additional complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The groove structure serves multiple functions: it contains chips during sawing, provides a pathway for chip ejection through the lateral recess, and maintains support table cleanliness. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components and simplifies the overall system design.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances precision and reduces cleaning time by effectively directing chips away from the support table, maintaining a clean surface and improving overall process reliability and efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
The lateral recess provided in the groove at its end pointing towards the saw gap, which is closed at the top and open at the bottom, deflects the jet of chips generated by the saw in such a way that chips do not accumulate in the groove and on the top of the support table
Implementation Method 2
the lateral recess is at least temporarily connected through a suction gap to a suction device present on a saw carriage of the saw. This means that the chips are actively extracted via the side recesses whenever the saw carriage is in their area during a cutting movement
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AI summary
The system (10) has a horizontal support table (12) for fitting a workpiece (18). A saw (16) i.e. panel dividing saw, is movable along a sawing line in the table. A sawing gap (50) is provided along the line. A channel (54) is provided in an upper side of the table and receives a lower clamping finger (30) of a chuck (24) of a feed device (43). The channel includes a lateral opening (56) at an end, which point towards the sawing gap. The lateral opening is upwardly closed and downwardly opened in area by area. A front side of the lateral opening is rounded and turned away from the sawing gap.