Deployable Slides for Battery Housing Equipping
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Solution Overview
Problem
The final equipping step in motor vehicle battery production, where electrode plate sets are inserted into battery housings, is time-critical and requires high precision to prevent damage, but existing conveyor belt systems are inefficient and hinder high throughput.
Innovation Solution
The use of deployable slides to horizontally displace battery housings without friction, allowing for precise and rapid movement, and the implementation of multiple slides to enable parallel equipping processes, eliminating bottlenecks and optimizing production time.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a conveyer belt is used to transport battery housings, then continuous transportation is possible, but precise positioning and slip-free movement cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs dynamically deployable slides that can extend and retract based on operational needs. During equipping operations, slides extend to provide slip-free contact with battery housings for precise positioning. During transportation phases, slides retract to minimize interference, allowing efficient movement. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction between needing stable contact for precision and needing minimal interference for efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The deployable slides act as intermediary elements between the fixed equipping station and the moving battery housings. These slides provide a controlled interface that enables precise positioning during equipping while allowing efficient transportation when retracted, thus mediating between the conflicting requirements of precision and efficiency.
2Force
If heavy-duty rollers are used on the base part, then friction during electrode plate insertion is reduced, but device complexity and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of permanently installing heavy-duty rollers throughout the base part, the patent employs deployable slides that only engage when needed during equipping operations. This dynamic approach provides friction reduction only when required, eliminating the need for complex permanent roller installations and reducing overall device complexity while maintaining necessary force characteristics.
3Manufacturing precision
If the equipping station processes one battery housing at a time, then precision is maintained, but production throughput is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the equipping process by providing multiple equipping sections (first, second, and third sections) that can operate simultaneously on different battery housings. Each section maintains independent precision control while the overall system achieves higher throughput through parallel processing. This segmentation allows multiple precise operations to occur concurrently without interfering with each other.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extends the equipping station in the longitudinal direction by adding multiple equipping sections arranged sequentially. This dimensional expansion allows simultaneous processing of multiple battery housings at different stages, transforming a single-point precision operation into a multi-point parallel system that maintains precision while increasing throughput.
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to an equipping station for equipping motor vehicle battery housings with sets of electrode plates for manufacturing a motor vehicle battery wherein the equipping station has at least one feed section for unequipped battery housings, at least one discharge station for equipped battery housings, at least one apparatus for feedings sets of electrode plates and at least one first equipping section, which is arranged between the feed section and the discharge section and in which sets of electrode plates which have been fed by means of the apparatus for feeding sets of electrode plates are inserted into the battery housing, wherein the first equipping section has a base part, wherein the base part is formed without a conveying apparatus for the battery housing, and the equipping station has at least one first extendable slide, via which a battery housing is horizontally displaceable.