阅读说明：本技术 一种电芯自动涂胶装置及方法 (Automatic battery cell gluing device and method ) 是由 贺荣 彭再武 黄河 刘进程 张彪 牛满岗 雷代良 于 2019-10-29 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种电芯自动涂胶装置及方法,电芯自动涂胶装置包括控制器、机械手、胶枪组件和输送器；控制器分别与机械手、胶枪组件和输送器信号连接；机械手能够在控制器的控制下,抓取电芯上料工位的待涂胶电芯,将待涂胶电芯置于胶枪组件的出胶口下,将涂胶完成的涂胶电芯进行分拣并置于输送器上；胶枪组件能够在控制器的控制下喷胶到待涂胶电芯上；输送器用于输送涂胶电芯。使用时,控制机械手抓取待涂胶电芯,并置于胶枪组件的出胶口下；接着,控制器控制胶枪组件喷胶到待涂胶电芯上；然后,控制机械手将涂胶电芯进行分拣并置于输送器上；最后,控制器控制输送器将涂胶电芯输出。本发明避免了手动抓取电芯、涂胶及分拣,提高了生产效率。(The invention discloses an automatic battery cell gluing device and method, wherein the automatic battery cell gluing device comprises a controller, a manipulator, a glue gun assembly and a conveyor; the controller is respectively in signal connection with the manipulator, the glue gun assembly and the conveyor; the manipulator can grab the battery cell to be coated at the battery cell loading station under the control of the controller, place the battery cell to be coated under the glue outlet of the glue gun assembly, sort the coated battery cell after coating and place the coated battery cell on the conveyor; the glue gun assembly can spray glue onto the battery cell to be glued under the control of the controller; the conveyor is used for conveying the gluing battery cell. When the gluing gun assembly is used, the manipulator is controlled to grab the battery cell to be glued and is arranged below a glue outlet of the glue gun assembly; then, the controller controls the glue gun assembly to spray glue on the battery cell to be glued; then, controlling the mechanical arm to sort the glued battery cores and placing the glued battery cores on a conveyor; and finally, the controller controls the conveyor to output the gluing electric core. The invention avoids manual cell grabbing, gluing and sorting, and improves the production efficiency.)

1. An automatic battery core gluing device is characterized by comprising a controller (1), a manipulator (2), a glue gun assembly (3) and a conveyor (4);

the controller (1) is in signal connection with the manipulator (2), the glue gun assembly (3) and the conveyor (4) respectively;

the manipulator (2) can grab the battery cell (6) to be coated on the battery cell loading station (5) under the control of the controller (1), place the battery cell (6) to be coated under the glue outlet of the glue gun assembly (3), sort the coated battery cell after coating and place the coated battery cell on the conveyor (4);

the glue gun assembly (3) can spray glue onto the battery cell (6) to be glued under the control of the controller (1);

the conveyor (4) is used for conveying the gluing battery cell.

2. The automatic battery cell gluing device of claim 1, further comprising a detection device;

the detection equipment is arranged on the manipulator (2) and is in signal connection with the controller (1);

when the detection equipment detects that the surface to be coated of the battery cell (6) to be coated faces downwards, the controller (1) controls the manipulator (2) to overturn the battery cell (6) to be coated, so that the surface to be coated faces upwards.

3. The automatic battery cell gluing device of claim 1, further comprising a code information catcher;

the code information catcher is installed on the manipulator (2), is in signal connection with the controller (1) and is used for catching code information of the battery core (6) to be coated with glue.

4. The automatic battery cell gluing device according to claim 1, further comprising an end plate feeder (7);

end plate material loading machine (7) can carry end plate material loading station (9) with end plate (8), manipulator (2) can snatch under the control of controller (1) end plate (8) on end plate material loading station (9) will end plate (8) are arranged in glue the mouth of gluing of rifle subassembly (3) and carry out the rubber coating, and will the rubber coating after end plate (8) are arranged in on conveyer (4) or will the spreading surface of end plate (8) with the spreading surface of rubber coating electricity core bonds.

5. The automatic battery cell gluing device according to claim 4, wherein the manipulator (2) is capable of driving the battery cell (6) to be glued to glue according to a preset track; and/or

The manipulator (2) can drive the end plate (8) to glue according to a preset track.

6. The automatic gluing device for battery cells of claim 4, wherein the battery cell feeding station (5), the glue gun assembly (3), the conveyor (4) and the end plate feeding station (9) are respectively distributed around the circumference of the manipulator (2).

7. The automatic battery cell gluing device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the number of the battery cell loading stations (5) is at least 2; and/or

The number of the conveyors (4) is at least 2.

8. An automatic battery cell gluing method is characterized by comprising the following steps:

controlling the mechanical arm (2) to grab the electric core (6) to be coated with the glue;

controlling the manipulator (2) to place the electric core (6) to be coated in a glue dripping position for coating glue;

and controlling the mechanical arm (2) to sort the glued electric cores which are glued and place the glued electric cores on the conveyor (4).

9. The automatic battery cell gluing method according to claim 8, further comprising:

controlling the mechanical arm (2) to grab the end plate (8);

controlling the mechanical arm (2) to place the end plate (8) at the glue dripping position for gluing;

and controlling the manipulator (2) to place the end plate (8) subjected to gluing on the conveyor (4) or directly bonding the gluing surface of the end plate (8) with the gluing surface of the gluing electric core.

10. The method for automatically gluing the battery cell of claim 9, wherein the placing of the battery cell (6) to be glued at the glue dripping position by the manipulator (2) specifically comprises: judging whether the surface to be glued of the electric core (6) to be glued is downward through detection equipment, if so, overturning the electric core (6) to be glued by the manipulator (2) to enable the surface to be glued to be upward and to be arranged at the glue dripping position, and if not, directly arranging the electric core (6) to be glued at the glue dripping position by the manipulator (2); and/or

The manipulator (2) still includes before snatching the electric core (6) of waiting to glue: judging whether the row of the electric cores (6) to be coated on the electric core loading station, which are close to the manipulator (2), is empty, if so, prompting to alarm, and if not, controlling the manipulator (2) to grab the electric cores (6) to be coated; and/or

The step of arranging the battery cell (6) to be glued in the glue dripping position for gluing specifically comprises the following steps: the distance between the surface to be glued and the glue outlet is set according to the glue outlet speed of the glue outlet and the glue outlet amount of the glue outlet, and the manipulator (2) drives the battery cell (6) to be glued to glue according to a preset track along with the glue outlet speed of the glue outlet and the glue outlet amount of the glue outlet; and/or

And after the manipulator (2) grabs the to-be-coated battery cell (6), capturing the 24-bit coding information of the to-be-coated battery cell (6), and recording the coding information into a storage system for future reference.

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of new energy equipment, in particular to an automatic battery cell gluing device and method.

Background

The power battery is one of the three-electricity cores of the battery automobile, and the power battery PACK is used for standardized production and manufacturing of the power battery and is the key for ensuring the expanded application field and continuous operation of the power battery.

At present, snatch before the case is gone into to electric core, rubber coating and letter sorting all are manual going on, consume the manpower, and production efficiency is low.

Therefore, how to reduce the manpower consumed by grabbing, gluing and sorting the battery cells before the battery cells are put into a box and improve the production efficiency is a technical problem to be solved urgently by technical personnel in the field.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, a first object of the present invention is to provide an automatic battery cell gluing device, which can reduce manpower consumed by grabbing, gluing and sorting battery cells before the battery cells are placed in a box, and improve production efficiency.

The second purpose of the invention is to provide an automatic battery cell gluing method.

In order to achieve the first object, the present invention provides the following solutions:

an automatic battery cell gluing device comprises a controller, a manipulator, a glue gun assembly and a conveyor;

the controller is in signal connection with the manipulator, the glue gun assembly and the conveyor respectively;

the manipulator can grab the battery cell to be glued at a battery cell feeding station under the control of the controller, place the battery cell to be glued under the glue outlet of the glue gun assembly, sort the glued battery cell which is glued and place the glued battery cell on the conveyor;

the glue gun assembly can spray a preset amount of glue onto the battery cell to be glued under the control of the controller;

the conveyor is used for conveying the gluing battery cell.

In a specific embodiment, the automatic battery cell gluing device further comprises a detection device;

the detection equipment is arranged on the manipulator and is in signal connection with the controller;

when the detection equipment detects that the surface to be glued of the battery cell to be glued faces downwards, the controller controls the manipulator to overturn the battery cell to be glued, so that the surface to be glued faces upwards.

In another specific embodiment, the automatic battery cell gluing device further comprises a coding information catcher;

the code information catcher is installed on the manipulator, is in signal connection with the controller and is used for catching the code information of the battery cell to be coated with the glue.

In another specific embodiment, the automatic battery cell gluing device further comprises an end plate feeding machine;

the end plate material loading machine can carry the end plate material loading station with the end plate, the manipulator can snatch under the control of controller the end plate on the end plate material loading station, and will the end plate is arranged in glue rifle subassembly's play is glued the mouth and is carried out the rubber coating, and will after the rubber coating the end plate is arranged in on the conveyer or will the spreading surface of end plate with the spreading surface of rubber coating electricity core bonds.

In another specific embodiment, the manipulator can drive the battery cell to be coated with glue to coat the glue according to a preset track; and/or

The manipulator can drive the end plate to glue according to a preset track.

In another specific embodiment, the battery cell feeding station, the glue gun assembly, the conveyor, and the end plate feeding station are respectively distributed around the circumference of the manipulator.

In another specific embodiment, the number of the cell loading stations is at least 2; and/or

The number of the conveyors is at least 2.

The various embodiments according to the invention can be combined as desired, and the embodiments obtained after these combinations are also within the scope of the invention and are part of the specific embodiments of the invention.

Without being limited to any theory, it can be seen from the above disclosure that, when the automatic battery cell gluing device disclosed by the invention is used, firstly, the manipulator is controlled to grab the battery cell to be glued, and the battery cell to be glued is placed under the glue outlet of the glue gun assembly; then, the controller controls the glue gun assembly to spray a preset amount of glue onto the surface to be glued of the electric core to be glued; then, the controller controls the manipulator to sort the glued battery cores and place the glued battery cores on a conveyor; and finally, the controller controls the conveyor to convey the glued battery cell to the next station for packaging. The invention avoids manual cell grabbing, gluing and sorting, and improves the production efficiency.

In order to achieve the second object, the present invention provides the following solutions:

an automatic battery cell gluing method comprises the following steps:

controlling a manipulator to grab the battery cell to be coated with the glue;

controlling the manipulator to place the battery cell to be coated in a glue dripping position for coating glue;

and controlling the mechanical arm to sort the glued electric cores which are glued in the conveyor.

In a specific embodiment, the method for automatically gluing the battery cell further includes:

controlling the mechanical arm to grab the end plate;

controlling the manipulator to place the end plate at the glue dripping position for gluing;

and controlling the manipulator to arrange the glued end plate on the conveyor or directly bonding the gluing surface of the end plate with the gluing surface of the gluing electric core.

In another specific embodiment, the placing, by the manipulator, the electric core to be glued at the glue dripping position specifically includes: judging whether the surface to be glued of the electric core to be glued is downward through detection equipment, if so, overturning the electric core to be glued by the manipulator to enable the surface to be glued to be upward and to be arranged at the glue dripping position, and if not, arranging the electric core to be glued at the glue dripping position by the manipulator; and/or

The manipulator snatchs still include before waiting the rubber coating electricity core: judging whether the row of to-be-glued battery cells close to the manipulator on the battery cell feeding station is empty, if so, prompting to alarm, and if not, controlling the manipulator to grab the to-be-glued battery cells; and/or

The step of arranging the battery cell to be glued in the glue dripping position for gluing specifically comprises the following steps: the distance between the surface to be glued and the glue outlet is set according to the glue outlet speed of the glue outlet and the glue outlet amount of the glue outlet, and the manipulator drives the battery cell to be glued to glue according to a preset track along with the glue outlet speed of the glue outlet and the glue outlet amount of the glue outlet; and/or

And after the manipulator grabs the battery cell to be coated with the glue, capturing the 24-bit coding information of the battery cell to be coated with the glue, and inputting the 24-bit coding information into a storage system for future reference.

Without being limited to any theory, it can be seen from the above disclosure that the automatic battery cell gluing method disclosed by the invention controls the manipulator to grab the battery cell to be glued and places the battery cell to be glued under the glue outlet of the glue gun assembly for gluing; then, the controller controls the manipulator to place the glued battery cell on the conveyor; and finally, the controller controls the conveyor to convey the glued battery cell to the next station for packaging. The invention avoids manual cell grabbing, gluing and sorting, and improves the production efficiency.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an automatic battery cell gluing device provided by the invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a battery cell to be rubberized according to a rubberizing path;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an electrical core to be rubberized, which is rubberized according to another rubberizing path provided by the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic top view of the battery cell to be glued according to the present invention.

Wherein, in fig. 1-4:

the gluing machine comprises a controller 1, a manipulator 2, a glue gun assembly 3, a conveyor 4, a cell feeding station 5, a cell to be glued 6, an end plate 8, an end plate feeding machine 7 and an end plate feeding station 9.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical solutions of the present invention better understood by those skilled in the art, the present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the accompanying fig. 1-4 and the detailed description.

Example one

The invention discloses an automatic battery cell gluing device which comprises a controller 1, a manipulator 2, a glue gun assembly 3 and a conveyor 4.

The controller 1 is respectively in signal connection with the manipulator 2, the glue gun assembly 3 and the conveyor 4, and specifically, the controller 1 is arranged in a control console, and each action control button is arranged on the control console.

Manipulator 2 can snatch treating rubber coating electricity core 6 of electricity core material loading station 5 under the control of controller 1, will treat that rubber coating electricity core 6 arranges in under the play jiao kou of gluing rifle subassembly 3 for treating the rubber coating face of treating of rubber coating electricity core 6 just to going out jiao kou, glue rifle subassembly 3 can spout the glue of predetermineeing the volume under the control of controller 1 and to treating the rubber coating face on, in order to accomplish the rubber coating of treating rubber coating electricity core 6. The manipulator 2 is also used for sorting the glued electric cores which are glued and placing the glued electric cores on the conveyor 4, and the conveyor 4 is used for conveying the glued electric cores to the next station for packaging.

The glue gun assembly 3 and the conveyor 4 may be disposed around the robot 2 or may be in a linear arrangement. When the glue gun assembly 3 and the conveyor 4 are arranged around the manipulator 2, the manipulator 2 can rotate, and actions on each station are realized through the rotation of the manipulator 2; when the glue gun assembly 3 and the conveyor 4 are arranged in a straight line, the ground is laid with slide rails on which the manipulator 2 slides in order to reach the various stations. It should be noted that the arrangement of the glue gun assembly 3, the conveyor 4 and the robot 2 may be other arrangements.

When the automatic battery cell gluing device disclosed by the invention is used, firstly, the manipulator 2 is controlled to grab the battery cell 6 to be glued, and the battery cell 6 to be glued is placed below a glue outlet of the glue gun assembly 3; then, the controller 1 controls the glue gun component 3 to spray a preset amount of glue onto the surface to be glued; then, the controller 1 controls the manipulator 2 to sort the glued battery cores and place the sorted battery cores on the conveyor 4; and finally, the controller 1 controls the conveyor 4 to convey the glued battery cell to the next station for packaging. The invention avoids manual cell grabbing, gluing and sorting, and improves the production efficiency.

Example two

In a second embodiment of the present invention, the structure of the automatic battery cell gluing device in this embodiment is similar to that of the automatic battery cell gluing device in the first embodiment, and details of the same parts are omitted, and only differences are introduced.

In this embodiment, the invention discloses an automatic battery cell gluing device, which further comprises a detection device, wherein the detection device is mounted on the manipulator 2 and is in signal connection with the controller 1, and when the detection device detects that the surface to be glued of the battery cell 6 to be glued faces downwards, the controller 1 controls the manipulator 2 to overturn the battery cell 6 to be glued so that the surface to be glued faces upwards.

Specifically, the invention discloses that the detection device is a cell OCV detection device, and it should be noted that the detection device is not limited to the cell OCV detection device, but may also be other devices capable of detecting the positive and negative electrodes of a cell, and in this embodiment, the detection device is taken as the cell OCV detection device as an example. Install the jack catch on manipulator 2, snatch electric core, electric core OCV check out test set stretches out the probe, measure the voltage and the internal resistance of electric core, judge the position that the positive negative pole of electric core was located through the electric current, contrast with the electric core logical position of storage at the control cabinet simultaneously, need not rotatory turn-over when judging this electric core rubber coating, if need turn-over, the rotation mechanism that presss from both sides by the tongs front end carries out 180 upsets, with that face that guarantees to need the rubber coating up all the time, guarantee to treat the rubber coating face up all the time, the human error that probably appears when having reduced to produce the line assembly and using electric core, and the efficiency is improved.

In order to further improve the working efficiency, the invention discloses that a plurality of groups of clamping jaws are arranged on the manipulator 2, and can simultaneously grab a plurality of battery cells, and the embodiment takes the manipulator 2 to grab 3 battery cells at a time as an example.

Further, the invention discloses an automatic battery cell gluing device, which further comprises a coding information catcher, wherein the coding information catcher is installed on the manipulator 2, is in signal connection with the controller 1, and is used for catching coding information of a battery cell 6 to be glued. Specifically, the invention discloses that the coded information catcher is a CCD, and it should be noted that the coded information catcher is not limited to a CCD, and may be other devices capable of capturing cell coded information, such as a camera. In this embodiment, the coded information catcher is taken as an example of a CCD, and 24 bits of coded information of the battery cell are captured by photographing and recorded into the storage system for future reference.

Further, the invention discloses an automatic battery cell gluing device which further comprises an end plate feeding machine 7, wherein the end plate feeding machine 7 can convey an end plate 8 to an end plate feeding station 9, a mechanical arm 2 can grab the end plate 8 at the end plate feeding station 9, the end plate 8 is placed under a glue outlet of a glue gun assembly 3 for gluing, the end plate 8 after gluing is placed on a conveyor 4 for outputting, or the gluing surface of the end plate 8 after gluing is directly bonded with the gluing surface of a glued battery cell. According to the invention, the gluing of the end plate 8 and the bonding of the end plate 8 and the gluing battery cell are realized through the manipulator 2, so that the manual and manual feeding, gluing and bonding of the gluing battery cell of the end plate 8 are avoided, the automation degree is further improved, and the efficiency is improved.

Further, the invention discloses that the manipulator 2 can drive the battery cell 6 to be glued to glue according to a preset track. Glue rifle subassembly 3's gluey rifle nozzle vertical downward fixation motionless, the robot hand will snatch 3 wait that the rubber coating electricity core 6 level is arranged in and is glued under the rifle nozzle, guarantee that the required rubber coating of treating the rubber coating face is the perpendicular to all the time and glue the rifle nozzle, 1 st only waits that rubber coating electricity core 6 gets into the glue dripping position, glue the rifle nozzle and to waiting that the perpendicular distance of rubber coating electricity core 6 matches according to going out gluey volume and play gluey speed, controller 1 control is glued the play gluey equipment of rifle subassembly 3 and is begun to go out gluey, and simultaneously, the robot hand is followed the play gluey volume and the play gluey speed of gluing the rifle nozzle, move according to established rubber coating route, obtain the rubber coating effect of electric core, see fig. 2. The equipment and the method can be compatible according to different battery cell gluing routes corresponding to different specifications of battery PACK requirements. And gluing the 2 nd cell and the 3 rd cell in sequence according to the flow. It should be noted that, according to the difference of different battery cell PACKs in the power distribution amount and the difference of the glue dripping position and the glue coating amount of the battery cell, the servo motor drives the glue outlet of the rubber tube, so that various path logics of battery cell glue coating are realized, the compatibility of battery PACK battery cell glue coating is improved, the battery cell assembly efficiency is high, and the quality is stable.

Further, the invention discloses that the manipulator 2 can drive the end plate 8 to glue according to a preset track. Through the robot hand of snatching electric core, the compatible end plate 8 that snatchs is placed end plate 8 level in and is glued the rifle nozzle down, and linkage control glues the gluey orbit of rifle nozzle play glue and robot hand, according to the requirement output end plate 8 of prestore in controller 1 and beat the orbit of gluing, accomplishes 8 rubber coating processes of end plate.

Further, the invention discloses that a battery cell feeding station 5, a glue gun assembly 3, a conveyor 4 and an end plate feeding station 9 are respectively distributed on the periphery of the manipulator 2 in a surrounding manner, and the manipulator 2 can rotate. It should be noted that other arrangement forms such as linear arrangement of the cell feeding station 5, the glue gun assembly 3, the conveyor 4, and the end plate feeding station 9 are also possible.

Furthermore, the invention discloses that the number of the battery cell feeding stations 5 is at least 2, so that the working efficiency is improved. Use the number of electricity core material loading station 5 to be 2 in this embodiment as an example, specifically, transport electricity core material loading frock car to 2 electricity core material loading stations 5 respectively as required, treat that rubber coating electricity core 6 puts according to agreed requirement of putting, electricity core material loading frock car spacing lock is dead, manipulator 2 is according to the position automatic positioning of frock car to first row of electricity core, and first row of electricity core can not empty in principle, otherwise alarm suggestion warning: the cell is missing. In 2 electric core material loading station 5, an electric core material loading station 5 is main, another electric core material loading station 5 is for assisting, the rubber coating electricity core 6 of treating of a material loading station finishes using, then manipulator 2 snatchs the rubber coating electricity core 6 of treating on another electric core material loading station 5, empty frock car is pulled away from manipulator 2 working range by the trailer, fill up the frock car after treating rubber coating electricity core 6 and transport to electric core material loading station 5 once more, two stations, the round exchanges, satisfy the station beat.

Further, the invention discloses that the number of conveyors 4 is at least 2. In the present embodiment, the number of the conveyors 4 is 2, and the conveyors 4 are the scale lines. The mechanical arm 2 sorts the glued battery cells after glue coating according to the battery cell assembly requirements, and the glued battery cells are horizontally placed on the two apron lines respectively; through controller 1 according to the assembly order and the production beat requirement that the electric core was gone into the case, rationally sort rubber coating electric core to the apron line rubber coated, improve the packaging efficiency.

EXAMPLE III

The invention provides an automatic battery cell gluing method, which comprises the following steps:

step S1: and the manipulator 2 is controlled to grab the battery core 6 to be coated with glue.

The cell 6 to be glued is arranged in the cell loading station 5, and the number of the cell loading stations 5 is at least 2, so that the waiting time for material supplement on the cell loading station 5 is saved, and the working efficiency is improved. Transport electric core material loading frock car to each electric core material loading station 5 respectively as required, treat that rubber coating electric core 6 puts according to agreed requirement of putting, and electric core material loading frock car is spacing to be locked.

Further, the invention discloses that before the manipulator 2 picks the electric core 6 to be glued, the method further comprises the following steps: and judging whether the row of the to-be-glued battery cells 6 close to the manipulator 2 on the battery cell loading station is empty, if so, prompting to alarm, and if not, controlling the manipulator 2 to grab the to-be-glued battery cells 6.

Step S2: and controlling the mechanical arm 2 to place the electric core 6 to be coated in a glue dripping position for coating glue.

The manipulator 2 will wait that rubber coating electricity core 6 arranges in and drips the glue position and specifically include: judge through check out test set whether treating of rubber coating electricity core 6 treat the rubber coating face downwards, if, then manipulator 2 will treat the upset of rubber coating electricity core 6 for treat the rubber coating face upwards, arrange the glue dripping position in, if not, then manipulator 2 will treat that rubber coating electricity core 6 arranges the glue dripping position in.

Use check out test set as electric core OCV check out test set as an example, install the jack catch on manipulator 2, snatch electric core, electric core OCV check out test set stretches out the probe, measure the voltage and the internal resistance of electric core, judge the position that the positive negative pole of electric core was located through the electric current, compare with the electric core logical position of storage at the control cabinet simultaneously, need not rotatory turn-over when judging this electric core rubber coating, if need the turn-over, carry out 180 upsets by the grab clamp rotary mechanism of robot front end, with that the face that guarantees to need the rubber coating up all the time, guarantee to treat the rubber coating face up all the time, the human error that probably appears when producing the line assembly and using electric core has been reduced, and the.

Wait that rubber coating electricity core 6 arranges in and drips the position and carry out the rubber coating and specifically include: the distance between the glue spreading surface and the glue outlet is set according to the glue outlet speed of the glue outlet and the glue outlet amount of the glue outlet, and the manipulator 2 drives the cell 6 to be spread according to a preset track along with the glue outlet speed of the glue outlet and the glue outlet amount of the glue outlet.

In addition, after the manipulator 2 grabs the electric core 6 to be coated with glue, the 24-bit coding information of the electric core 6 to be coated with glue is captured and recorded into a storage system for future reference.

Step S3: and controlling the manipulator 2 to sort the glued battery cores which are glued on the conveyor 4.

Specifically, the number of the conveyors 4 is 2 or more. The mechanical arm 2 sorts the glued battery cells according to the battery cell assembly requirements, and the glued battery cells are horizontally placed on the conveyors 4 respectively; the glued battery cores are reasonably sorted to the conveyor 4 through the controller 1 according to the assembly sequence of the battery cores into the box and the production beat requirement, and the assembly efficiency is improved.

The invention discloses an automatic battery cell gluing method, which comprises the steps of controlling a manipulator 2 to grab a battery cell 6 to be glued, and placing the battery cell 6 to be glued under a glue outlet of a glue gun assembly 3 for gluing; then, the controller 1 controls the manipulator 2 to place the glued battery cell on the conveyor 4; and finally, the controller 1 controls the conveyor 4 to convey the glued battery cell to the next station for packaging. The invention avoids manual cell grabbing, gluing and sorting, and improves the production efficiency.

Example four

In a fourth embodiment of the present invention, the automatic battery cell gluing method in this embodiment is similar to the automatic battery cell gluing method in the first embodiment, and details of the same parts are omitted, and only differences are introduced.

In this embodiment, it is disclosed that after the step S3, the method further includes a step S4: the manipulator 2 is controlled to grab the end plate 8.

Specifically, end plate material loading machine 7 can carry the material loading station with end plate 8, and manipulator 2 can snatch the end plate 8 of material loading station department, arranges end plate 8 in glue gun subassembly 3 go out to glue under mouthful carry out the rubber coating to place the end plate 8 after the rubber coating on conveyer 4 and carry next station, perhaps directly bond the rubber coating face of the rubber coating of the end plate 8 after the rubber coating and the rubber coating face of rubber coating electricity core. According to the invention, the gluing of the end plate 8 and the bonding of the end plate 8 and the gluing battery cell are realized through the manipulator 2, so that the manual and manual feeding, gluing and bonding of the gluing battery cell of the end plate 8 are avoided, the automation degree is further improved, and the efficiency is improved.

Step S5 is also included after step S4: and controlling the manipulator 2 to place the end plate 8 at a glue dripping position for gluing.

The manipulator 2 can drive the end plate 8 to glue according to a preset track. Through the robot hand of snatching electric core, the compatible end plate 8 that snatchs is placed end plate 8 level in and is glued the rifle nozzle down, and linkage control glues the gluey orbit of rifle nozzle play glue and robot hand, according to the requirement output end plate 8 of prestore in controller 1 and beat the orbit of gluing, accomplishes 8 rubber coating processes of end plate.

Step S6: and the control manipulator 2 is used for attaching and bonding the rubberized surface of the rubberized end plate 8 and the rubberized surface of the rubberized cell.

It is noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions.

It is also noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that an article or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such article or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in an article or device that comprises the element.

The previous description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and inventive features disclosed herein.