Multifunctional Wheel Burr Removal via Synchronous Brushing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Burr removal from machined aluminum alloy wheels is inefficient and affects subsequent coating processes, with existing methods failing to effectively remove burrs from risers, cap seam allowances, valve holes, bolt holes, and bolt counter bores.
Innovation Solution
A multifunctional wheel burr removing device with a complex system of servo motors, synchronous belts, gears, and brush heads that synchronously clamps, rotates, and adjusts to remove burrs from various wheel features, including a lower lifting system, burr brushing units, turnover system, and upper brush system, ensuring high automation and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If multiple separate burr removal devices are used for different wheel features, then each feature can be processed effectively, but the device complexity and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs a single integrated burr removal device that can process multiple wheel features including risers, cap seam allowances, valve holes, bolt holes, and bolt counter bores. The device achieves multi-functionality through adjustable brush heads that can be positioned and oriented to access different feature locations and geometries, eliminating the need for multiple separate devices while maintaining effective burr removal capability across all features
Solution Approach 2:
The device incorporates multiple independent brush head assemblies (first brush head, second brush head, third brush head, fourth brush head) that can operate simultaneously on different wheel features. Each brush head is independently controllable through servo motors, allowing parallel processing of multiple features without interfering with each other, thus maintaining high precision burr removal while managing system complexity through modular segmentation
2Productivity
If manual burr removal methods are used, then the device complexity is low, but the productivity and coating quality are severely affected
Solution Approach 1:
The device employs servo motors and synchronous belts that automatically coordinate the rotation and positioning of multiple brush heads based on the wheel's rotation, eliminating the need for manual intervention. The system self-regulates the brushing operation through automated control mechanisms, achieving high productivity while managing complexity through automated rather than fully robotic control
Solution Approach 2:
The device enables continuous burr removal operation where the wheel rotates and multiple brush heads continuously contact and remove burrs from different features simultaneously. The synchronous belt system ensures continuous coordinated motion of all brush heads throughout the wheel rotation cycle, maintaining uninterrupted productive action without manual stopping or repositioning
3Adaptability or versatility
If brush heads are fixed in position, then the device structure is simple, but the adaptability to different wheel features is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The device transforms fixed brush head positions into dynamic, adjustable positions through servo motors that control the rotation and positioning of each brush head assembly. The brush heads can be dynamically adjusted to contact different wheel features at various angular positions and orientations, providing high adaptability to risers, cap seam allowances, valve holes, bolt holes, and bolt counter bores while managing complexity through controlled dynamic adjustment rather than multiple fixed configurations
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AI summary
Disclosed in the application are a multifunctional wheel burr removing device, which includes a lower brush system, a turnover system, a synchronous clamping and rotating system, an upper brush system and the like. The multifunctional wheel burr removing device may be used for removing burrs from a riser, a cap seam allowance, a valve hole, bolt holes and bolt counter bores of a wheel, and has the characteristics of high automation degree, high removal efficiency, advanced process, strong universality, and safe and stable performance at the same time.