阅读说明：本技术 一种肋网式可展开天线的网面安装方法 (Net surface installation method of rib net type deployable antenna ) 是由 吴明儿 吴迪 闫中曦 张晗 项平 于 2021-08-04 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及一种肋网式可展开天线的网面安装方法,包括以下步骤：(1-1)：将除网面以外的其余天线结构放置在水平的工作平面上；(1-2)：在工作平面上设置侧向限位支撑,约束每根肋的侧向运动；(2-1)将裁剪完成的网面平整铺设在肋的上方；(2-2)临时固定每根肋沿其长度方向的内外两端、以及网面对应位置；(2-3)将网面均匀下压直至光滑贴合肋的上边缘,临时固定肋上边缘与网面的重合线部位；(3-1)采用缝制线沿肋的上边缘将肋与网面缝合,逐步去除临时固定；(3-2)对网面进行锁边,并剪去网面外围的裁减余量；(3-3)撤去所有侧向限位支撑,即完成。本发明提供了高效简洁的肋网式可展开天线的网面安装方法,适用性强,可形成标准工艺。(The invention relates to a net surface installation method of a rib net type deployable antenna, which comprises the following steps: (1-1): placing the other antenna structures except the mesh surface on a horizontal working plane; (1-2): a lateral limiting support is arranged on the working plane to restrict the lateral movement of each rib; (2-1) flatly paving the cut net surface above the ribs; (2-2) temporarily fixing the inner end and the outer end of each rib along the length direction of the rib and the corresponding position of the net surface; (2-3) uniformly pressing the net surface until the net surface is smoothly attached to the upper edge of the rib, and temporarily fixing the position of a coincident line between the upper edge of the rib and the net surface; (3-1) sewing the ribs and the net surface along the upper edges of the ribs by using sewing threads, and gradually removing the temporary fixation; (3-2) carrying out edge locking on the mesh surface, and cutting off the cutting allowance of the periphery of the mesh surface; and (3-3) removing all the lateral limit supports to finish the process. The net surface mounting method of the rib net type deployable antenna is efficient and simple, high in applicability and capable of forming a standard process.)

1. A net surface installation method of a rib net type deployable antenna is characterized by comprising the following steps:

(1) basic support structure of fixed rib-grid deployable antennas:

(1-1): placing the other antenna structures except the mesh surface on a horizontal working plane;

(1-2): arranging a lateral limiting support on the working plane to restrict the lateral movement of each rib;

(2) pre-fixing a mesh surface:

(2-1) flatly paving the cut net surface above the ribs;

(2-2) temporarily fixing the inner end and the outer end of each rib along the length direction of the rib and the positions of the mesh surface corresponding to the inner end and the outer end of the rib;

(2-3) uniformly pressing the unfixed area on the net surface down until the unfixed area is smoothly attached to the upper edge of the rib, and temporarily fixing the position of a coincident line between the upper edge of the rib and the net surface;

(3) installing a net surface:

(3-1) sewing the rib and the net surface along the upper edge of the rib by using a sewing thread, and gradually removing the temporary fixation of the sewed area;

(3-2) carrying out edge locking on the mesh surface, and cutting off the cutting allowance of the periphery of the mesh surface;

and (3-3) removing all lateral limiting supports to finish the net surface installation of the rib net type deployable antenna.

2. The net surface mounting method of a rib net type deployable antenna, according to claim 1, wherein in the step (1-2), the lateral position-limiting support restricts only the freedom of movement of the rib in the horizontal lateral direction, and does not restrict the position of the rib in the vertical direction.

3. The method for installing the screen surface of the rib net type deployable antenna according to claim 1, wherein in the step (2-1), the cut screen surface is of a one-piece structure, a planar structure without a splicing seam, or a spliced planar or conical structure.

4. A method for installing a mesh surface of a rib-type deployable antenna according to claim 3, wherein in the step (2-1), the shape and size of the cut mesh surface satisfy: the molded surface precision and the net surface stress of the net surface after the installation meet the design requirements.

5. The method for installing a web of a rib-net type deployable antenna according to claim 1, wherein in the step (2-1), the cut web is preset with outer boundary marks of the installed reflecting surface and uniformly arranged rib position marks.

6. The method for installing the mesh surface of the rib mesh type deployable antenna according to claim 5, wherein in the step (2-3), the uniform pressing operation specifically comprises: and (4) carrying out vertical downward forced displacement on the rib position marks of the net surface until the ribs directly below the net surface are contacted, so that the net surface is pulled and tensioned.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the length direction of the rib is: the upper edge of the rib runs in a free state without external force and gravity.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rib has closed pores at its upper edge for passing sewing thread to connect the rib and the mesh.

9. The method for installing the mesh surface of the rib-mesh type deployable antenna according to claim 1, wherein in the step (3-1), the process of sewing the rib and the mesh surface is specifically as follows: and (4) adopting sewing threads to sequentially and alternately penetrate through the ribs and the net surface, and tensioning and fixing the sewing threads.

10. The method for installing the web of the rib-net type deployable antenna according to claim 1, wherein in the step (3-2), the overlocking operation is specifically as follows: and after being led out from one rib and penetrating through the net surface, the edge cable is stretched and fixed on the other adjacent rib.

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of aerospace structures, and relates to a mesh surface installation method of a rib mesh type deployable antenna.

Background

In recent years, the aerospace field is rapidly developed, and the number of the satellite-borne antennas for launching and tracking is increased year by year and even shows an explosive trend. Among them, a rib mesh type deployable antenna having requirements for reliability, storage ratio, accuracy, and light weight has been widely developed and used.

In the rib net type deployable antenna, there are divided into an umbrella-shaped folded rib form and a spiral wound rib form according to the movement form of the rib during the deployment. The caliber of the transmitted and tracked rib net type antenna covers 1 m-10 m level, and the practical value and the application prospect are very high.

However, most of the satellite-borne antennas currently realizing industrial mass production are solid-surface antennas, such as internet constellation chain (Starlink) engineering of space exploration technology corporation (SpaceX), which has been imported 1737 satellites from 2 months in 2018 to 5 months in 2021, and the total number of satellites is planned to reach more than 1 ten thousand when the engineering is completed. The satellite-borne antennas that have been launched and publicly available in the satellite link engineering are generally small solid-surface antennas.

The comprehensive applicability of the rib-net type deployable antenna is superior to that of a small-sized fixed-surface antenna, but the industrialized mass production is difficult to realize, and one of the bottlenecks is that the production process is relatively complex. The problems or inconveniences that may be caused by the existing process methods are as follows:

(1) the reflecting net surface is formed by cutting and sewing a plurality of sectors and comprises a plurality of splicing seams, the net surface manufacturing process is complex, and the loss amount of the net surface material is large;

(2) when the reflecting net surface is installed, each sector needs to be stretched and sewn one by one, and the net surface tension and the shape of different sectors are difficult to ensure to be consistent;

(3) additional auxiliary positioning and tensioning tools are needed for net surface installation;

(4) the method needs experienced workers for operation, has low installation efficiency and poor consistency, and is difficult to produce on a large scale.

Therefore, the installation method of the net surface of the rib net type deployable antenna, which has the advantages of less material loss in design and development, simple and reliable process and capability of meeting the working performance requirement, has important engineering application value and is beneficial to promoting the standardized mass production of the rib net type deployable antenna. The invention is also based on this.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to provide a mesh surface installation method of a rib mesh type deployable antenna, which aims to solve at least one of the problems of simpler and quicker installation of a mesh surface, reduction of the loss of mesh surface materials, simplification of a tensioning process, higher reflecting surface profile precision, higher stress uniformity and the like.

The purpose of the invention can be realized by the following technical scheme:

a net surface installation method of a rib net type deployable antenna comprises the following steps:

(1) basic support structure of fixed rib-grid deployable antennas:

(1-1): placing the other antenna structures except the mesh surface on a horizontal working plane;

(1-2): arranging a lateral limiting support on the working plane to restrict the lateral movement of each rib;

(2) pre-fixing a mesh surface:

(2-1) flatly paving the cut net surface above the ribs;

(2-2) temporarily fixing the inner end and the outer end of each rib along the length direction of the rib and the positions of the mesh surface corresponding to the inner end and the outer end of the rib;

(2-3) uniformly pressing the unfixed area on the net surface down until the unfixed area is smoothly attached to the upper edge of the rib, and temporarily fixing the position of a coincident line between the upper edge of the rib and the net surface;

(3) installing a net surface:

(3-1) sewing the rib and the net surface along the upper edge of the rib by using a sewing thread, and gradually removing the temporary fixation of the sewed area;

(3-2) carrying out edge locking on the mesh surface, and cutting off the cutting allowance of the periphery of the mesh surface;

and (3-3) removing all lateral limiting supports to finish the net surface installation of the rib net type deployable antenna.

Further, in the step (1-2), the lateral limit supports are arranged on the working plane and can be discretely arranged or continuously arranged along the length direction of the ribs, the positions of the lateral limit supports for the ribs are limited to horizontal positions where the ribs are in a free state without external force or gravity, and the vertical positions of the ribs are not limited.

Further, the length direction of the rib is as follows: the upper edge of the rib runs in a free state without external force and gravity.

Further, in the step (2-1), the cut mesh surface is of a whole-piece structure, a plane structure without splicing seams, or a plane or conical surface structure formed by splicing. If the net surface with the conical surface structure is adopted, the net surface needs to be cut and then connected end to form the conical surface.

Further, in the step (2-1), the shape and size of the cut net surface satisfy: the molded surface precision and the net surface stress of the net surface after the installation meet the design requirements.

Further, in the step (2-1), outer boundary marks of the installed reflecting surfaces and rib position marks which are uniformly arranged are preset on the cut net surface. Furthermore, in the step (2-3), the operation process of uniformly pressing down specifically comprises: and (4) carrying out vertical downward forced displacement on the rib position marks of the net surface until the ribs directly below the net surface are contacted, so that the net surface is pulled and tensioned.

Furthermore, the upper edge of the rib is provided with a closed pore for the sewing thread to pass through so as to connect the rib and the net surface.

Further, in the step (3-1), the process of sewing the rib and the net surface specifically comprises the following steps: and (4) adopting sewing threads to sequentially and alternately penetrate through the ribs and the net surface, and tensioning and fixing the sewing threads.

Further, in the step (3-2), the overlocking operation specifically comprises: and after being led out from one rib and penetrating through the net surface, the edge cable is stretched and fixed on the other adjacent rib.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages:

(1) the net surface of the invention is cut without splicing seams or only one or few splicing seams, thus reducing the material loss of the net surface and improving the material utilization rate;

(2) the net surface installation of the invention only needs one cutting and tensioning, thus reducing the deviation caused by manual operation and the net surface state difference between different sectors;

(3) the installation of the invention only needs one horizontal working plane and a plurality of lateral limit supports for the ribs, and the required equipment and instruments are few;

(4) the invention simplifies the antenna mesh surface installation method, shortens the installation time, can ensure higher mesh surface profile precision and stress uniformity, and is beneficial to the standardized mass production of the rib mesh type deployable antenna.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a method of installing a mesh surface of a ribbed mesh deployable antenna of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of a rib mesh type deployable antenna to which the present invention is applied;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the lateral spacing support of the work plane and ribs of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of the planar cutting of the mesh surface of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of cutting a mesh surface cone according to the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a mesh surface cone formed by cutting and splicing the mesh surface cone of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is an isometric view of a web tension fixing process of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a perspective isometric view of the web tension fixing process of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a top view of the web tension fixture of the present invention (without the work plane and lateral spacing supports);

figure 10 is a cross-sectional view of the web tension fixation (without the working plane and lateral restraint supports) of the present invention.

The notation in the figure is:

the device comprises ribs 1, a feed source system 2, a mesh surface 3, a central body 4, a working plane 5, a lateral limiting support 6, an outer boundary mark 7, a rib position mark 8 and a conical surface cutting shape boundary 9.

Detailed Description

The invention is described in detail below with reference to the figures and specific embodiments. The present embodiment is implemented on the premise of the technical solution of the present invention, and a detailed implementation manner and a specific operation process are given, but the scope of the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments.

In the following embodiments, unless otherwise specified, all the functional components or functional structures are conventional components or conventional structures adopted in the art to realize the corresponding functions.

The invention provides a method for installing a net surface 3 of a rib 1 net type deployable antenna, the flow of which is shown in figure 1, and the method comprises the following steps:

(1) fixed rib 1 basic support structure of a mesh deployable antenna:

(1-1): placing the remaining antenna structures except the mesh surface 3 on a horizontal work plane 5;

(1-2): a lateral limit support 6 is arranged on the working plane 5 to restrict the lateral movement of each rib 1;

(2) pre-fixing the mesh surface 3:

(2-1) flatly paving the cut net surface 3 above the ribs 1;

(2-2) temporarily fixing the inner end and the outer end of each rib 1 along the length direction of the rib and the positions of the net surface 3 corresponding to the inner end and the outer end of the rib 1;

(2-3) uniformly pressing the unfixed area on the net surface 3 down until the unfixed area is smoothly attached to the upper edge of the rib 1, and temporarily fixing the position of a coincident line between the upper edge of the rib 1 and the net surface 3;

(3) installing the net surface 3:

(3-1) sewing the rib 1 and the mesh surface 3 along the upper edge of the rib 1 by using a sewing thread, and gradually removing the temporary fixation of the sewn region;

(3-2) carrying out edge locking on the mesh surface 3, and cutting off the cutting allowance at the periphery of the mesh surface 3;

(3-3) removing all the lateral limit supports 6, and finishing the installation of the net surface 3 of the rib 1 net type deployable antenna.

In some specific embodiments, in step (1-2), the lateral position-limiting supports 6 are arranged on the working plane 5, and may be arranged discretely or continuously along the length direction of the rib 1, and the position of the lateral position-limiting supports limits the position of the rib 1 to a horizontal position where the rib 1 is in a free state without external force and gravity, and does not limit the vertical position of the rib 1.

In some embodiments, the length direction of the rib 1 is: the upper edge of the rib 1 runs in a free state without external force and gravity.

In some embodiments, in step (2-1), the cut web 3 is a one-piece structure, a planar structure without seams, or a spliced planar or conical structure. If the net surface 3 with the conical surface structure is adopted, the net surface needs to be cut and then is connected end to form the conical surface.

Further, in the step (2-1), the shape and size of the cut web 3 satisfy: the profile precision of the net surface 3 after installation and the stress of the net surface 3 meet the design requirements.

In some specific embodiments, in step (2-1), the cut-out mesh surface 3 is also preset with outer boundary marks 7 of the installed reflecting surface and uniformly arranged rib position marks 8. Furthermore, in the step (2-3), the operation process of uniformly pressing down specifically comprises: and (3) forcibly displacing the rib position mark 8 of the net surface 3 vertically downwards until the rib position mark contacts with the rib 1 right below, so that the net surface 3 is pulled and tensioned.

In some embodiments, the upper edge of the rib 1 is provided with closed pores for the passage of sewing thread to connect the rib 1 and the mesh surface 3.

In some specific embodiments, in step (3-1), the process of sewing the rib 1 to the mesh surface 3 is specifically as follows: and (3) adopting sewing threads to sequentially and alternately penetrate through the ribs 1 and the net surface 3, and tensioning and fixing the sewing threads.

In some specific embodiments, in step (3-2), the overlocking operation is specifically: after being led out from one rib 1 and inserted through the net surface 3, the edge rope is stretched and fixed on the other adjacent rib 1.

The above embodiments may be implemented individually, or in any combination of two or more.

The above embodiments will be described in more detail with reference to specific examples.

Example 1:

fig. 1 is a flow chart showing the installation of a net surface of a rib net type deployable antenna according to the present invention, and as shown in the drawing, a method for installing a net surface of a rib net type deployable antenna includes the steps of:

and (1) fixing a basic supporting structure of the rib net type antenna. Fig. 2 shows the configuration of the rib mesh antenna, in which the rib 1 and the central body 4 (on which the central body 4 is also provided with the feed system 2) are the basic supporting structures of the antenna. First, the rib 1 is completely fixed to the central body 4 and the antenna structure except for the mesh surface 3 is placed on a horizontal work plane 5.

Then, lateral limit supports 6 for the ribs 1 are provided on the work plane 5, as shown in fig. 3, which lateral limit supports 6 do not constrain the vertical movement of each rib 1, but only the lateral movement thereof. The lateral limit supports 6 of the ribs 1 are arranged on the working plane 5 and can be arranged discretely or continuously along the length direction of the ribs 1, namely the trend of the upper edge lines of the ribs 1 in a free state without external force and gravity. The lateral limit supports 6 shown in fig. 3 are arranged in two places on each rib 1, which is merely schematic and may be arranged in other forms. The position of the lateral limit support 6 for the rib 1 is limited to be a horizontal position where the rib 1 is in a free state without external force and gravity, and the vertical position is not limited.

And 2, pre-fixing the mesh surface 3. Firstly, designing and cutting a net surface, wherein the net surface 3 after cutting is a whole piece, can be a complete plane net, and can also be a spliced plane or conical net, namely the shape shown in fig. 4-6: fig. 4 is a circular plan shape according to the top view of the antenna paraboloid, fig. 5 is a frustum plane development shape according to the envelope of the antenna paraboloid, which is provided with a conical surface cutting shape boundary 9, and fig. 6 is a conical table surface formed by splicing the conical surface cutting shape boundary 9 end to end. When in cutting, an outer boundary mark 7 and a rib position mark 8 are made on the net surface as the reference for subsequent temporary fixing and formal sewing. And carrying out numerical simulation or experimental verification of net surface installation on the condition that the initial net surface is a plane net surface or a conical net surface, and selecting a cutting shape which simultaneously meets the requirements of profile precision and net surface stress design.

The cut entire mesh surface 3 is then laid flat over the ribs 1. Then, the corresponding positions of the inner and outer ends of each rib 1 and the net surface 3 are temporarily fixed, that is, the parts of the net surface 3 at the inner and outer end points of the rib 1 are temporarily fixed, and the fixing points are located at the inner and outer two points of the rib position mark 8 on the net surface 3.

Finally, the rib position mark 8 of the net surface 3 is forced to move vertically downwards until contacting the rib 1 below, the net surface 3 is pulled and tensioned, and the net surface 3 is tensioned in the process of being fixed to the rib 1. After the rib position mark 8 of the net surface 3 is completely attached to the upper edge of the rib 1, the rib 1 and the net surface 3 at the position are temporarily fixed along a coincident line. As shown in fig. 7 to 10, the two web surfaces 3 in each figure are in different states before and after pressing with the same web surface. In the process, the inner and outer boundaries of the web are temporarily fixed, the middle zone of the web is tensioned and forms an approximately parabolic shape due to the forced displacement of the upper edge of the abutment rib. The attachment line on the web surface, rib position indicia 8, temporarily secures the rib 1 and web surface 3 along the rib position indicia 8.

Step 2 can form the required mesh surface through once cutting, has avoided being difficult to guarantee the unanimous repetitive operation. The tensioning process is realized by forced displacement, tension force control is not needed, the existing antenna structure is used as a tensioning boundary, and additional equipment is not needed; and the tensioning process only needs one time, thereby avoiding the problem of network surface state difference between different sectors tensioned for many times. This step is time and labor saving.

And 3, installing the mesh surface. First, the rib 1 and the mesh surface 8 are sewn with a sewing thread along the upper edge of the rib 1 and the rib position mark 8, and the temporary fixation provided in step 2 is gradually removed. The rib 1 has fine holes densely distributed along the edge (the "fine holes" herein are not particularly limited in diameter, and may be formed to allow a sewing thread to pass therethrough), and the sewing thread is passed alternately through the rib holes (i.e., fine holes) and the mesh of the net surface in order by the sewing thread at the time of sewing, and the sewing thread is tightened and fixed in stages.

Then, the outer boundary mark 7 of the net surface 3 is subjected to overlocking, and cutting allowance except for the outer boundary mark 7 is cut off. The seaming operation is typically performed by sewing the cords, i.e. each section of cord is drawn from one rib 1 through the web 3 where the outer boundary markings 7 are located and then is secured to the adjacent other rib 1 by tensioning. Other operations with a lock seaming function are also possible.

Finally, the lateral restraining supports 6 of all the ribs are removed and the mounted antenna is removed from the work plane 5.

The embodiments described above are described to facilitate an understanding and use of the invention by those skilled in the art. It will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications to these embodiments may be made, and the generic principles described herein may be applied to other embodiments without the use of the inventive faculty. Therefore, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and those skilled in the art should make improvements and modifications within the scope of the present invention based on the disclosure of the present invention.