Image-Guided Gluing and Laminating Line for Quality Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing automatic production lines for gluing and laminating face challenges in controlling each production process to ensure high-quality laminated products while reducing costs.

Innovation Solution

An automatic production line system comprising a central control processor and units such as gluing, baking, laminating, and pressing, with image acquisition units to monitor and adjust processes based on image data to improve quality and efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If traditional manual control methods are used for gluing and laminating processes, then operational flexibility is maintained, but production quality consistency deteriorates and labor costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction quality consistencyVSAvoidsystem automation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements real-time feedback through image acquisition devices that capture substrate images during the gluing and laminating process. The central control processor analyzes these images to determine gluing quality data, then automatically adjusts control parameters (such as glue application amount, baking temperature, laminating pressure) based on the analyzed quality data, creating a closed-loop control system that maintains consistent production quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service automation where the production line automatically monitors its own process quality through image acquisition, analyzes the quality data, and adjusts its own control parameters without external intervention. The central control processor autonomously generates control instructions based on real-time quality assessment, reducing the need for manual quality control operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Manufacturing precision

If increased automation is implemented with image acquisition and central control, then production quality and consistency improve, but initial production cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelaminating quality consistencyVSAvoidinitial production cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces manual mechanical quality control operations with automated image acquisition and digital image processing. Instead of manual inspection and adjustment, the system uses image sensors to capture substrate images, processes these images digitally to assess gluing quality, and automatically adjusts process parameters, substituting mechanical/manual operations with automated sensing and control systems

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes control parameters (such as glue application rate, baking temperature, laminating pressure, pressing force) based on real-time image analysis results. The central control processor adjusts these parameters automatically to optimize lamination quality, allowing flexible parameter modification without manual intervention and reducing waste from suboptimal settings

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If real-time image monitoring is implemented, then quality control precision improves, but system complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality monitoring accuracyVSAvoidimage processing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements real-time feedback through image acquisition devices that capture substrate images during the gluing and laminating process. The central control processor analyzes these images to determine gluing quality data, then automatically adjusts control parameters (such as glue application amount, baking temperature, laminating pressure) based on the analyzed quality data, creating a closed-loop control system that maintains consistent production quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The image acquisition unit serves multiple functions: it monitors substrate positioning, assesses gluing quality, detects defects, and provides feedback for process optimization. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate monitoring systems into a single integrated image-based control system, reducing overall system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20260021654A1Systems and methods for gluing and laminating
Publication Date: 2026.01.22 ZHEJIANG JIAOWANG TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an automatic production line for gluing and laminating, a method, a system and medium for gluing and laminating. The automatic production line includes at least one production line unit and a central control processor. The at least one production line unit includes a gluing unit, a laminating unit, a baking unit, a pressing unit, or an image acquisition unit. The central control processor is configured to: determine, based on an image data set, gluing quality data, wherein the image data set includes an original image data set and a gluing image data set; determine, based on the gluing quality data, at least one control parameter; generate, based on the at least one control parameter, a control instruction, and send the control instruction to the at least one production line unit to perform a production control.