Swinging Feeding Tray for Component Posture Sorting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mechanisms for sorting small components with complex structures, such as electronic components, face difficulties in ensuring correct postures due to limited vibration direction, leading to jamming issues and reduced production efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A component sorting mechanism featuring a vibrating plate with a feeding tray that swings within a predetermined angle range, allowing components to change postures and be sorted correctly, combined with a vision robot for efficient picking and mounting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a vibrating plate with horizontal vibration only is used, then the structure is simple, but components cannot change postures and may be jammed in incorrect postures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a swinging motion dimension to the traditional horizontal vibration mechanism. The feeding tray can both vibrate horizontally and swing within a predetermined angle range, transforming a single-degree-of-freedom system into a two-degree-of-freedom system, thereby enabling components to change postures effectively without excessive complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs dynamic motion control by combining horizontal vibration with swinging motion. The first driving device dynamically adjusts the swinging angle and vibration frequency to optimize component sorting, allowing the system to adapt to different component types and sizes while maintaining operational simplicity
2Productivity
If components are sorted without posture control, then the sorting process is fast, but components are jammed in grooves in incorrect postures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by using the swinging motion and horizontal vibration to pre-adjust component postures before they are picked by the vision robot. Components are oriented correctly in the grooves during the sorting phase, ensuring that subsequent picking and mounting operations proceed without jamming or repositioning, thus maintaining both high speed and high reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback through the vision robot that detects component postures and provides information to adjust the swinging and vibration parameters. This closed-loop control ensures components are sorted in correct postures while maintaining efficient sorting speed, resolving the contradiction between productivity and reliability
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The mechanism effectively prevents jamming by ensuring components are sorted in correct postures, enhancing production efficiency and allowing for easy adaptation to different component types without requiring changes to the entire system, thus reducing costs and computational complexity.
Implementation Method 1
the vibrating plate vibrates back and forth
Implementation Method 2
The first driving device drives the feeding tray to swing within a predetermined angle range
Data Source
AI summary
A component sorting mechanism is disclosed. The component sorting mechanism includes a vibrating plate, a feeding tray having a plurality of grooves in an inner bottom surface thereof, the feeding tray mounted on the vibrating plate, and a first driving device connected to the feeding tray. The first driving device drives the feeding tray to swing within a predetermined angle range.