Drying Agent Bag Shaping and Pushing Device for Wafer Packaging

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Solution Overview

Problem

In existing wafer packaging systems, the drying agent bag often falls apart before entering the aluminum foil bag and rebounds into the sealing part, causing air to enter the bag and compromising the storage of wafers.

Innovation Solution

A drying agent bag shaping and pushing device with a traverse moving rail, lifting frame, clamping cylinder, and material pushing mechanism that shapes and secures the bag to prevent it from falling apart and ensures complete sealing, utilizing a combination of clamping plates, bevel surfaces, and elastic materials to maintain stability and prevent air leakage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If the drying agent bag is pushed into the aluminum foil bag without proper shaping and clamping, then the packaging process is faster, but the drying agent bag falls apart and rebounds into the sealing part causing air leakage

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepackaging speedVSAvoidsealing integrity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The drying agent bag undergoes preliminary shaping and positioning actions before being pushed into the aluminum foil bag. The positioning plate pre-forms the bag shape, and clamping plates pre-clamp the sides, ensuring the bag is properly prepared to prevent falling apart during the subsequent pushing operation and maintain sealing integrity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The clamping mechanism is divided into multiple clamping plates that independently clamp different portions of the drying agent bag. This segmentation allows for more effective and distributed clamping force, preventing the bag from deforming or rebounding during the pushing process while maintaining overall structural integrity for proper sealing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Device complexity

If calipers only clamp the sides of the up-turned part without clamping the middle portion, then the clamping device structure is simpler, but the middle portion bulges outward causing the drying agent bag to fall apart

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveclamping structure complexityVSAvoiddrying agent bag shape stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The clamping function is segmented into multiple clamping plates that can independently clamp different regions of the drying agent bag, including the middle portion. This allows comprehensive clamping of all critical areas without requiring a single complex clamping mechanism, thereby maintaining shape stability while avoiding excessive structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The positioning plate acts as an intermediary element that not only shapes the drying agent bag but also serves as a clamping surface. By forming the bag shape against the positioning plate and using clamping plates to secure it, the system achieves stable clamping of the middle portion through a coordinated mechanism rather than a single complex component.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of manufacture

If the drying agent bag is not properly shaped before pushing, then the pushing process is simpler, but the bag gets squeezed on one side causing the middle portion to bulge and fall apart

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepushing process simplicityVSAvoiddrying agent bag shape precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The drying agent bag is preliminarily shaped by the positioning plate before the pushing operation. This pre-shaping action ensures the bag has the correct form and structure, preventing deformation during pushing while keeping the pushing mechanism itself simple. The preliminary shaping prepares the bag to withstand the pushing force without bulging or falling apart.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12187473B2Drying agent bag shaping and pushing device and fully automatic wafer packaging system
Publication Date: 2025.01.07 ZHEJIANG DARCET TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
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AI summary

A drying agent bag shaping and pushing device are provided, wherein a transverse moving block is slidably connected to a transverse moving rail, a short connecting block is connected to a long connecting block, a shaping platform is connected to a short connecting block, a lifting frame is provided on the shaping platform, lifting cylinders are connected to two sides of the lifting frame, a clamping cylinder is fixedly connected to a bottom surface of the lifting frame, a clamping plate connecting plate is connected to a cylinder connecting plate, a clamping plate is connected to the clamping plate connecting plate, a positioning plate is provided between the clamping plates, a front end and a rear end of the positioning plate are connected to two sides of the lifting frame, and a material pushing mechanism is provided on a side of the shaping platform away from the traverse moving rail.