Movable Storage Magazine Synchronous Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing machining devices face challenges in reliably transferring workpieces from a storage magazine to a transport device without interrupting the machining process, leading to potential damage and reduced throughput due to spatial decoupling and asynchronous movements.
Innovation Solution
The magazine of the storage device is made movable along a coordinated path with the workpiece movement path, allowing synchronous movement with the transport device, ensuring complete transfer without interruption and preventing damage by allowing the magazine to move with the workpiece, even if partially engaged, and providing stopping distance for abrupt stops.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If the magazine is made stationary and the transport device moves independently, then the structure is simpler, but the workpiece transfer reliability deteriorates due to potential misalignment and damage during transfer
Solution Approach 1:
The magazine is transformed from a stationary component to a movable one that can travel along a path coordinated with the workpiece movement path. This dynamic configuration allows the magazine to synchronize its movement with the transport device, ensuring reliable workpiece transfer without misalignment or damage while maintaining operational continuity.
2Manufacturing precision
If the transport device stops to transfer workpieces from the magazine, then the transfer precision is improved, but the productivity deteriorates due to interruptions in the machining process
Solution Approach 1:
The magazine is designed to move continuously along a path coordinated with the workpiece movement path, allowing workpiece transfer to occur during the continuous motion of both the magazine and transport device. This eliminates the need for stopping the transport device, thereby maintaining continuous machining operation and maximizing productivity while ensuring precise workpiece transfer through coordinated movement.
3Reliability
If the magazine moves synchronously with the transport device, then the workpiece transfer reliability is improved, but the device complexity increases due to the coordinated movement mechanism
Solution Approach 1:
The magazine movement mechanism is integrated with the transport device's movement system, allowing both components to travel along coordinated paths simultaneously. This merging of movement functions enables synchronous operation that ensures reliable workpiece transfer while avoiding the need for separate, independent control systems, thereby managing device complexity efficiently.
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AI summary
The device (10) has a transport device (14) for transporting of a workpiece (16), and a storage device (18) comprising a magazine (20) for supplying of the workpiece. A tool (12) e.g. grinding tool, processes the workpiece. The transport device is moved such that the workpiece held at the transport device is transported to the tool. The magazine is moved along a magazine-movement path, where a process of the magazine is determined on a part of a workpiece-movement path (30). The workpiece-movement path passes the workpiece during transport from the magazine of the storage device to the tool.