Automatic wheel detecting device

• US 10,641,621 B1
• Filed: 10/30/2019
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2019
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Citic Dicastal Co. Ltd (CITIC Corp. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Citic Dicastal Co. Ltd (CITIC Corp. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Liu, Huiying, Guo, Dong
• Primary Examiner(s): Iacoletti, Michelle M
• Application Number:
  US16/669,451
• Time in Patent Office: 188 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B21D 43/003 Positioning devices B21D28/04 and B21D28/265 take precedence; stops B21D43/26; centering moving strips B21D43/023
• CPC Class Codes: B21D 53/26 wheels or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 17/2471 of workpieces
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 1/00 Spoked wheels; Spokes thereof non-metallic B60B5/00 ; spoked wheels comprising rail-engaging elements B60B17/001; making wheel spokes B21F39/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 3/00 Disc wheels, i.e. wheels with load-supporting disc body non- metallic B60B5/00; wheel cover discs B60B7/00 ; disc wheels comprising rail-engaging elements B60B17/0006
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 11/002 for measuring two or more coordinates
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 5/26 characterised by optical transfer means, i.e. using infrared, visible, or ultraviolet light
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/013 Wheels
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/021 Tyre supporting devices, e.g. chucks for balancing G01M1/04

Abstract

The disclosure discloses an automatic wheel detecting device. The device can automatically detect marks of spoke back cavities and the inner side coaxiality and the outer side coaxiality of wheels, the wheels with marks being missed are identified in time, the values of the inner side coaxiality and the outer side coaxiality of the wheels on a production line are monitored in time, if the values are out of tolerance, an alarm is given out in time, and the device can be used for automatic production.

Claims

1. An automatic wheel detecting device, comprising a machine base, a workbench, upper guide columns and an upper air cylinder, wherein the upper air cylinder and the upper guide columns are mounted in the center of the top of the machine base;

the output end of the upper air cylinder is connected with a first moving platform;

the upper air cylinder controls the first moving platform to move up and down under the guiding action of the upper guiding columns;

a first servo motor is mounted in the center of the bottom of the first moving platform;

the output end of the first servo motor is connected with a rotating table;

an adjusting air cylinder is arranged on the outer edge of the rotating table;

an adjusting guide rail is further arranged at the position, corresponding to the adjusting air cylinder, of the rotating table;

a sliding block is connected with the output end of the adjusting air cylinder;

the sliding block is mounted on the adjusting guide rail;

a first visual sensor is arranged at the bottom of the sliding block; and

a second visual sensor is arranged in the center of the bottom of the rotating table.

2. The automatic wheel detecting device according to claim 1, wherein the two sides of the first moving platform are provided with a left side arm and a right arm which extend downwards;

the right side arm is provided with a second servo motor;

the output end of the second servo motor is connected with a rotating frame;

the second servo motor can drive the rotating frame to rotate;

the rotating frame is provided with an electric cylinder and lower guide columns;

the output end of the electric cylinder is connected with a second moving platform;

the electric cylinder controls the second moving platform to move up and down under the guiding action of the lower guide columns;

an inner air cylinder is arranged in the center of the second moving platform; and

the output end of the inner air cylinder is connected with a tensioning structure.

3. The automatic wheel detecting device according to claim 2, wherein first air cylinders and support plates are symmetrically mounted at the left end and the right end of the inner side of the rotating frame;

the output ends of the first air cylinders are connected with sliding tables;

the support plates are provided with guide rails;

the sliding tables are mounted on the guide rails;

the output ends of second air cylinders are connected with guide columns; and

the tail ends of the guide columns are provided with a left clamping jaw and a right clamping jaw.

4. The automatic wheel detecting device according to claim 2, wherein the two sides, corresponding to the output end of the second servo motor, of the rotating frame are provided with a left shaft and a right shaft;

the output end of the second servo motor is connected with the rotating frame through the right shaft; and

the rotating frame is connected with the first moving platform through the left shaft.

5. The automatic wheel detecting device according to claim 4, wherein the left shaft and the right shaft have the same axis.

6. The automatic wheel detecting device according to claim 4, wherein the tensioning structure comprises a tensioning core and a tensioning sleeve;

the output end of the inner air cylinder is connected with a pull rod;

the pull rod is connected with the tensioning core; and

the tensioning core is externally sleeved with the tensioning sleeve.

7. The automatic wheel detecting device according to claim 6, wherein the second visual sensor is coaxial with the center of the tensioning sleeve.

8. The automatic wheel detecting device according to claim 6, wherein the electric cylinder is mounted in the center of the rotating frame.