Dual-Side Box Packing Device with Vertical Placement Table
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Solution Overview
Problem
The installation space required for box packing systems increases when two packaging devices need to be positioned close together to avoid contact and ensure maintenance access, leading to longer conveyance paths and increased system size.
Innovation Solution
A box packing device with a placement table and dual conveyance units that move bags from both sides to a central placement surface, reducing the need for extensive conveyance paths and minimizing system installation space by using guide members to align and pack bags efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If two packaging devices are installed side by side with a predetermined distance to avoid contact and ensure maintenance space, then the packaging devices can operate reliably with proper maintenance access, but the installation space of the system increases and conveyance paths become longer
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a vertical dimension by placing the placement table above the conveyance units. Bags are conveyed horizontally on the conveyance units, then vertically transferred to the placement table via moving units. This multi-dimensional arrangement allows compact horizontal spacing while maintaining reliable operation and maintenance access.
Solution Approach 2:
The placement table is positioned above the conveyance units, creating a nested vertical arrangement. The moving units operate in the vertical space between the conveyance units and placement table, effectively utilizing three-dimensional space to reduce the system's horizontal footprint while ensuring operational reliability.
2Ease of operation
If conveyance paths are extended to accommodate two packaging devices positioned far apart, then the packaging devices can be maintained separately without contact, but the conveyance paths become longer and system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The vertical placement table positioned above the conveyance units creates a compact three-dimensional layout. This allows short horizontal conveyance paths from each packaging device while maintaining separate maintenance access, eliminating the need for long conveyance paths that would result from horizontal separation.
Solution Approach 2:
The box packing mechanism consolidates the reception and packing functions for bags from both packaging devices at a single location (the placement table). This merging of functions reduces the need for separate conveyance paths to different locations, shortening overall conveyance path length while maintaining ease of maintenance.
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AI summary
To provide a box packing device, which receives supplies of bags from two places and packs the bags in boxes, which can inhibit an increase in the installation space of a system. A box packing device 100 includes a placement table 160, a first conveyance unit, a second conveyance unit, a first moving unit, a second moving unit, and a box packing mechanism 170. The placement table has a collective retention surface 165a on which continuous packaging bags CB are placed. The placement table has a left-side edge portion 162a and a right-side edge portion 162b. The first conveyance unit conveys the continuous packaging bag to a left-side third position P3a adjacent to the left-side edge portion of the placement table in plan view. The second conveyance unit conveys the continuous packaging bag to a right-side third position P3b adjacent to the right-side edge portion of the placement table in plan view. The first moving unit moves, to the collective retention surface, the continuous packaging bag that the first conveyance unit conveys to the left-side third position. The second moving unit moves, to the collective retention surface, the continuous packaging bag that the second conveyance unit conveys to the right-side third position. The box packing mechanism packs in boxes C the continuous packaging bags that are placed on the collective retention surface.