阅读说明：本技术 点料机及其控制方法 (Material counting machine and control method thereof ) 是由 周邦兵 王超 齐玉山 于 2021-09-17 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明涉及点料机及其控制方法,该方案包括壳体以及设于该壳体上的驱动电机、计数器及驱动板；所述壳体上开设有点料槽；所述驱动电机上连接有驱动轮,该驱动轮的周向均匀设有多个点料凸部,且所述驱动轮至少有部分点料凸部穿出所述点料槽,通过该点料凸部与SMT料带的孔配合,以使得所述驱动电机驱动该驱动轮旋转带动SMT料带移动；所述驱动电机和计数器均与所述驱动板电连接,该计数器电连接有计数传感器,该计数传感器用于检测所述点料凸部的通过数量,以使得所述计数器能够统计SMT料带的孔的数量并显示,本申请具有便捷性好、操作方便、成本低的优点。(The invention relates to a material counting machine and a control method thereof, wherein the scheme comprises a shell, a driving motor, a counter and a driving plate, wherein the driving motor, the counter and the driving plate are arranged on the shell; a point trough is formed in the shell; the driving motor is connected with a driving wheel, a plurality of material counting convex parts are uniformly arranged on the circumferential direction of the driving wheel, at least part of the material counting convex parts of the driving wheel penetrate through the material counting groove, and the material counting convex parts are matched with holes of the SMT material belt, so that the driving motor drives the driving wheel to rotate to drive the SMT material belt to move; driving motor and counter all with the drive plate electricity is connected, and this counter electricity is connected with the count sensor, and this count sensor is used for detecting the quantity that passes through of some material convex parts, so that the number in the hole that the counter can statistics SMT material area shows, and this application has that the convenience is good, convenient operation, advantage with low costs.)

1. The material counting machine is characterized by comprising a shell, a driving motor, a counter and a driving plate, wherein the driving motor, the counter and the driving plate are arranged on the shell; a point trough is formed in the shell; the driving motor is connected with a driving wheel, a plurality of material counting convex parts are uniformly arranged on the circumferential direction of the driving wheel, at least part of the material counting convex parts of the driving wheel penetrate through the material counting groove, and the material counting convex parts are matched with holes of the SMT material belt, so that the driving motor drives the driving wheel to rotate to drive the SMT material belt to move; the driving motor and the counter are electrically connected with the driving board, the counter is electrically connected with a counting sensor, and the counting sensor is used for detecting the passing number of the material counting convex parts, so that the counter can count the number of holes in the SMT material belt and display the number.

2. The dotting machine according to claim 1, characterized in that a battery electrically connected with the driving plate is arranged in the casing.

3. The dotting machine according to claim 1, characterized in that a first switch is arranged on the housing, and the first switch is electrically connected with a driving plate, so that the first switch can control the on-off of the driving motor.

4. The dotting machine according to claim 2, characterized in that a second switch is arranged on the casing, and the second switch is electrically connected with the driving plate, so that the second switch can control the on-off of the battery.

5. The dotting machine according to claim 1, characterized in that a positioning connector is arranged outside the dotting trough, is L-shaped and is detachably connected with the shell, so that the SMT material belt can be limited in a gap between the dotting trough and the positioning connector when passing through the dotting trough.

6. The material dotting machine according to claim 2, wherein an electric quantity display electrically connected with the driving plate is arranged on the shell, and the electric quantity of the battery is displayed through the electric quantity display.

7. The dotting machine according to claim 2, characterized in that the battery is a 12V lithium battery.

8. The dotting machine according to any one of claims 1-7, characterized in that the housing comprises a main body, a front panel and two upper and lower closing plates, the dotting trough and the counter are located on the front panel, and the main body, the front panel and the two upper and lower closing plates enclose a cavity.

9. The control method of the dotting machine is characterized in that the control method of the dotting machine according to any one of claims 1 to 8 is applied, and further comprises the following steps:

starting a material ordering machine;

matching the holes of the SMT material belt with the material dispensing convex parts of the driving wheels;

setting the amount of the material by a counter;

starting a driving motor to work for material counting;

and the counting sensor acquires the passing number of the material dotting convex parts, and when the passing number is equal to the set material dotting number, the driving motor is turned off to finish material dotting.

10. The control method of the material dotting machine according to claim 9, characterized in that the counter is provided with a setting button for setting the counting number, an adjusting button for adjusting the counting number, and a reset button for resetting the counting number.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of counting equipment, in particular to a material counting machine and a control method thereof.

Background

Present point material machine is arranged in checking SMT material area in PCB components and parts warehouse, but this kind of equipment is usually bulky, and is not portable, can only point the material in fixed place, and to a small amount of SMT material area, prior art is usually through the manual hole of checking SMT material area of going of personnel, and not only troublesome but also time-consuming, need go on in special place again with current point material machine, and use cost is higher.

Therefore, an automatic material counting machine which can be conveniently carried and a control method thereof are needed to be needed.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the problems in the prior art and provides a material counting machine and a control method thereof.

In order to realize the purpose of the invention, the invention adopts the following technical scheme: the material counting machine comprises a shell, and a driving motor, a counter and a driving plate which are arranged on the shell; a point trough is formed in the shell; the driving motor is connected with a driving wheel, a plurality of material counting convex parts are uniformly arranged on the circumferential direction of the driving wheel, at least part of the material counting convex parts of the driving wheel penetrate through the material counting groove, and the material counting convex parts are matched with holes of the SMT material belt, so that the driving motor drives the driving wheel to rotate to drive the SMT material belt to move; the driving motor and the counter are electrically connected with the driving board, the counter is electrically connected with a counting sensor, and the counting sensor is used for detecting the passing number of the material counting convex parts, so that the counter can count the number of holes in the SMT material belt and display the number.

The working principle and the beneficial effects are as follows: 1. compared with the prior art, the portable SMT material counting machine has the advantages that the original large-scale table type structure is improved into a light structure which can be held by hands, the portable SMT material counting machine is convenient to carry and move, the number of required counts is set through a counter, the SMT material belt is installed at the material counting groove position, the material counting convex portion is matched with holes of the SMT hopper, the driving motor can be started to continuously drive the driving wheel to rotate, the SMT belt is driven, the counting sensor detects the number of times that the material counting convex portion passes through the counting sensor when the driving wheel rotates, the driving motor is controlled to stop completing material counting through the driving plate after the set number is reached, the operation is simple, manual operation is completely omitted, the number of the material counting machine is quite suitable for the condition that the number of the materials is not large or small, such as material counting operation of dozens or hundreds of holes, or the condition that manual material counting is met, and the portable SMT material counting machine is suitable for being used in various scenes;

2. compared with the prior art, the purpose of this application is to improve portable degree, can handheld operation, consequently, the structure of prior art has been showing and simplified, only rely on the casing, driving motor, parts such as technique and drive plate just can realize automatic point material function, and convenient operation, do not need complicated logic calculation, only relate to simple functions such as the function of opening and close of simple count function and motor, consequently, need not to dispose higher hardware structure, the holistic hardware cost has been showing and has been reduced, can further reduce holistic weight and simplify overall structure, the portable degree has been improved.

Furthermore, a battery electrically connected with the driving plate is arranged in the shell.

This setting provides the electric energy through the battery, because main consumer is driving motor in the structure of this application, and miniature driving motor energy consumption is extremely low, consequently even light-duty ordinary battery also can provide the electric quantity supply of tens of hours, when having guaranteed the lightweight, has also guaranteed the electric quantity, can show the portable degree and the convenient to use degree that improve this application structure.

Further, a first switch is arranged on the shell and electrically connected with the driving plate, so that the first switch can control the driving motor to be switched on and off.

With the arrangement, the first switch is actually controlled by the logic of the driving board to realize the on-off of the driving motor, so that the operation of a user can be facilitated.

Furthermore, a second switch is arranged on the shell and electrically connected with the driving plate, so that the second switch can control the on-off of the battery.

According to the arrangement, the second switch is actually used for realizing the on-off of the electric energy supply of the battery through the logic control or the circuit control of the driving plate, the electric energy supply can be directly closed when the second switch is not used, the effect of saving the electric energy is achieved, the situation that the misoperation is caused by mistakenly pressing the first switch is prevented, and the on-off of the driving motor can be controlled through the first switch only when the second switch is pressed to open the electric energy supply of the battery.

Furthermore, a positioning connecting piece is arranged outside the point material groove, is L-shaped and is detachably connected with the shell, so that the SMT material belt can be limited in a gap between the point material groove and the positioning connecting piece when passing through the point material groove.

This setting can guarantee constantly that the SMT material area can cooperate all the time with some material convex parts to the condition that prevents that the SMT material area from deviating from takes place.

Furthermore, an electric quantity display electrically connected with the driving board is arranged on the shell, and the electric quantity of the battery is displayed through the electric quantity display.

This setting can conveniently look over the residual capacity of battery through the electric quantity display to conveniently change the battery or charge for the battery.

Further, the battery is a 12V lithium battery.

This setting can guarantee sufficient electric quantity in the lightweight, and the technology is mature moreover, can follow the market and directly acquire, low cost realizes the degree of difficulty lowly.

Further, the shell comprises a main body, a front panel, an upper sealing plate and a lower sealing plate, the material counting groove and the counter are located on the front panel, and a cavity is defined by the main body, the front panel and the upper sealing plate and the lower sealing plate.

This setting further discloses the structure of casing, and the simple structure of casing, convenient assembling can show complexity and the cost that reduces this application structure.

The control method of the material dotting machine, which applies the material dotting machine of the claim, further comprises the following steps:

starting a material ordering machine;

matching the holes of the SMT material belt with the material dispensing convex parts of the driving wheels;

setting the amount of the material by a counter;

starting a driving motor to work for material counting;

and the counting sensor acquires the passing number of the material dotting convex parts, and when the passing number is equal to the set material dotting number, the driving motor is turned off to finish material dotting.

The steps disclose the basic control method of the material ordering machine, the logic is simple, the operation is convenient, the operation difficulty is obviously reduced, and the use threshold is low.

Furthermore, the counter is provided with a setting button, an adjusting button and a reset button, the setting button is used for setting the counting number, the adjusting button is used for adjusting the counting number, and the reset button is used for resetting the counting number.

This arrangement further discloses the structure of the counter, which can be operated conveniently by the above-mentioned several buttons to perform various operations.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is an internal structural view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the housing of FIG. 2 with the housing removed;

fig. 4 is a flowchart of the control method of the present invention.

In the figure, 1, a housing; 2. a drive motor; 3. a counter; 4. a drive plate; 5. a battery; 6. positioning the connecting piece; 7. a drive wheel; 8. a counting sensor; 9. an electric quantity display; 11. a main body; 12. a front panel; 13. closing the plate; 121. a material dispensing groove; 122. a first switch; 123. a second switch; 71. and (4) material dotting convex parts.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments that can be derived by one of ordinary skill in the art from the embodiments given herein are intended to be within the scope of the present invention.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that in the present disclosure, the terms "longitudinal," "lateral," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like are used in an orientation or positional relationship indicated in the drawings for ease of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, the above terms should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

Example 1

As shown in fig. 1-3, the material dotting machine includes a housing 1, and a driving motor 2, a counter 3 and a driving board 4 disposed on the housing 1, wherein the housing 1 includes a main body 11, a front panel 12, an upper sealing plate and a lower sealing plate 13, the material dotting trough 121 and the counter 3 are both disposed on the front panel 12, the main body 11, the front panel 12, the upper sealing plate and the lower sealing plate 13 enclose a cavity by screw fixation, the counter 3 is mounted on the front panel 12, the driving board 4 is mounted in the cavity, and the driving board 4 is a common logic control main board capable of controlling the forward and reverse rotation of the motor. In fig. 2 and 3, components such as wires and screws are omitted, but the content of the drawings is not influenced by those skilled in the art through the text of the present application.

Preferably, the battery 5 electrically connected with the driving board 4 is arranged in the housing 1, the battery 5 is a 12V lithium battery 5, and the battery 5 provides electric energy, because the main power consumption device in the structure of the present application is the driving motor 2, and the small driving motor 2 has extremely low energy consumption, even the light common battery 5 can provide electric power supply for tens of hours, thereby ensuring light weight, ensuring electric power, and significantly improving portability and convenience of the structure of the present application. Wherein the battery 5 can also be replaced by other batteries 5, such as dry batteries 5.

Specifically, set up some silo 121 on the front panel 12, some silo 121 is equipped with positioning connecting piece 6 outward, this positioning connecting piece 6 is L shape and passes through the screw fixation with front panel 12 to make the SMT material area can be spacing in the space between some silo 121 and positioning connecting piece 6 when some silo 121, can guarantee constantly that the SMT material area can cooperate all the time with some material convex part 71, thereby prevent that the condition that the SMT material area deviate from taking place. The SMT material belt is long and is provided with holes arranged at equal intervals, and the SMT material belt is the prior art and is not described in detail herein.

Specifically, be connected with drive wheel 7 on driving motor 2, this drive wheel 7's circumference evenly is equipped with a plurality of material convex parts 71, and drive wheel 7 has at least some material convex parts 71 that expect to wear out some silo 121, expect through the hole cooperation of convex part 71 and SMT material area to this point, so that driving motor 2 drives this drive wheel 7 rotation and drives SMT material area and remove, wherein drive wheel 7 is the gear in this implementation actually, and some material convex parts 71 are the tooth, therefore some exposure point silo 121 of gear and the hole cooperation of SMT hopper, can drive the SMT hopper, driving motor 2 is common gear motor, install on main part 11 inner wall through common motor fixed plate.

Specifically, the driving motor 2 and the counter 3 are both electrically connected to the driving board 4 through a wire, the counter 3 is electrically connected to a counting sensor 8, the counting sensor 8 is used for detecting the passing number of the spot material protrusions 71, so that the counter 3 can count and display the number of the holes of the SMT material tape, a setting button, an adjusting button and a reset button are arranged on the counter 3, the setting button is used for setting the counting number, the adjusting button is used for adjusting the counting number, and the reset button is used for resetting the counting number. For example, one hundred counts are required to be set, the setting button is pressed to enter the setting mode, the number is adjusted by adjusting the number of counts, for example, one count is increased by one, ten counts is increased by ten, after the number is adjusted to one hundred, the set number is determined by pressing the setting button again, and the reset button is pressed to reset the count to 0 or other preset numbers, which may be the numbers that need to be counted frequently, such as 200, 300, and the like.

In other embodiments, the counter 3 may also be a touch screen, and directly click or handwriting the input value, so as to significantly increase the input speed and improve the convenience of use. But the counting sensor 8 can also be another sensor, such as a photo sensor, a sensor of similar function.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model improves the original large-scale desk-top structure into a light structure which can be held by hand, is convenient to carry and move, and the required number of counting is set by the counter 3, the SMT splice tape is arranged at the position of the splice tray 121, so that the material counting convex part 71 is matched with the hole of the SMT hopper, the driving motor 2 is started to continuously drive the driving wheel 7 to rotate, thereby driving the SMT belt, when the counting sensor 8 detects the rotation of the driving wheel 7, the number of times that the material counting convex part 71 passes through the counting sensor 8, when the quantity reaches the set quantity, the driving plate 4 controls the driving motor 2 to stop finishing material counting, the operation is simple, manual operation is completely not needed, the number of the material counting is very suitable for the condition that the quantity of the material counting is not large or small, such as material dropping operation of dozens or hundreds of holes or the condition of meeting manual material dropping, and is suitable for various scenes.

For convenience of operation, the housing 1 is provided with the first switch 122, the first switch 122 is electrically connected with the driving board 4, so that the first switch 122 can control the on/off of the driving motor 2, the housing 1 is provided with the second switch 123, the second switch 123 is electrically connected with the driving board 4, so that the second switch 123 can control the on/off of the battery 5, the second switch 123 actually realizes the on/off of the power supply of the battery 5 through the logic control or the circuit control of the driving board 4, the power supply can be directly turned off when not in use, the effect of saving power is achieved, the situation of misoperation caused by mistakenly pressing the first switch 122 is prevented, and the on/off of the driving motor 2 can be controlled through the first switch 122 only when the second switch 123 is pressed to turn on the power supply of the battery 5.

In order to conveniently check the electric quantity, the shell 1 is provided with an electric quantity display 9 electrically connected with the driving plate 4, the electric quantity of the battery 5 is displayed through the electric quantity display 9, and the residual electric quantity of the battery 5 can be conveniently checked through the electric quantity display 9, so that the battery 5 is conveniently replaced or the battery 5 is charged.

Embodiment 2, drive plate 4 can also be built-in bluetooth, consequently can with cell-phone communication connection through the bluetooth, consequently directly sets for numerical value at the cell-phone end, just can save counter 3 and electric quantity display 9, can further simplify the structure of this application, reduce weight, through the mode that the bluetooth pairs, can operate a plurality of this point material machines through a cell-phone moreover, can realize the operation of alone operating a plurality of point material machines.

Example 3

Referring to fig. 4, the control method of the material dotting machine according to the claim further includes the following steps:

s001, starting a material ordering machine;

s002, matching the holes of the SMT carrier tape with the material dropping convex parts 71 of the driving wheel 7;

s003, setting the quantity of the materials through a counter 3;

s004, starting the driving motor 2 to work for material counting;

s005, the counting sensor 8 acquires the passing number of the material dropping convex parts 71, and when the passing number of the material dropping convex parts 71 is equal to the set material dropping number, the driving motor 2 is turned off to complete material dropping.

In the above embodiment, the counting sensor 8 is a photoelectric sensor in the automation field, and is configured to detect the presence or absence of teeth of the gear (the material dropping convex portion 71), and the photoelectric sensor is used to indicate the detected tooth parameter as the counted number, and one of the counted number indicates 1. Note that one tooth indicates presence, and the gap between the teeth indicates absence (0).

It should be noted that fig. 4 only shows a flow chart of one implementation of the present embodiment.

The present invention is not described in detail in the prior art, and therefore, the present invention is not described in detail.

It is understood that the terms "a" and "an" should be interpreted as meaning that a number of one element or element is one in one embodiment, while a number of other elements is one in another embodiment, and the terms "a" and "an" should not be interpreted as limiting the number.

Although the terms of the housing 1, the driving motor 2, the counter 3, the driving plate 4, the battery 5, the positioning connection member 6, the driving wheel 7, the counting sensor 8, the power display 9, the main body 11, the front panel 12, the closing plate 13, the material dispensing groove 121, the first switch 122, the second switch 123, the material dispensing protrusion 71, etc., are used more frequently, the possibility of using other terms is not excluded. These terms are used merely to more conveniently describe and explain the nature of the present invention; they are to be construed as being without limitation to any additional limitations that may be imposed by the spirit of the present invention.

The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned preferred embodiments, and any other products in various forms can be obtained by anyone in the light of the present invention, but any changes in the shape or structure thereof, which have the same or similar technical solutions as those of the present application, fall within the protection scope of the present invention.