What is the Automatic Alignment Technology for Water Bottles?

I. What is the automatic alignment technology?

With industrial production entering the era of automation, various processes in the production of insulated water bottles are gradually realizing automated production. For example, an automatic assembly device for a water bottle body and bottom can automatically assemble the water bottle body and bottom. Still, it cannot be applied to products that require graphic alignment. and such products have graphics or logos on both the bottle body and bottom, so there are strict requirements for the alignment, the existing assembly device can not meet the requirements of the alignment of such products, and can only rely on manual recognition and assembly, which greatly increases the labor cost and reduces efficiency, and manual alignment is also prone to deviation, affecting the alignment quality.

In this case, Haers has a patent that can satisfy the automatic alignment and assembly of bottle body and bottom with alignment requirements, and a high precision, high efficiency automatic alignment bottom pressing production line for water bottles and its processing method, including a bottle body conveying mechanism, a steel bottom conveying mechanism, a clamp component, a pressing mechanism, a spider manipulator, a bottle body visual camera, a steel bottom visual camera, and a transfer mechanism that are connected to the circuit of an industrial control machine. The clamp component, the downward pressing mechanism, and the transfer mechanism are spaced on the cup body conveyor mechanism. The bottle body visual camera collects the image information of the bottle body clamped by the clamp component and transmits it to the industrial control machine, which controls the clamping claw to rotate and adjust the bottle body and then put it back. The steel bottom visual camera is located under the spider manipulator, which collects the image information of the steel bottom clamped by the spider manipulator and transmits it to the industrial control machine, which controls the spider manipulator to rotate and adjust the steel bottom and then assembles it to the bottle body. The spider robot is rotated and adjusted by the industrial control machine and assembled to the bottle, and the bottom is pressed under the action of the downward pressure mechanism. Finally, the transfer mechanism’s PPU robot arm transfers the assembled bottle to the next production line for further processing.

II. What are the advantages of Haers’ automatic alignment technology for water bottles?

So, compared with the previous technology, what are the advantages of Haers’ patented automatic alignment?

First, the bottle body visual camera and steel bottom visual camera can accurately collect the bottle body, and steel bottom image information (such as LOGO), send to the industrial control machine, and analyze the angle of rotation required for alignment. The industrial control computer controls the spider manipulator and clamp component to rotate the corresponding angle for alignment and assembly. This can automatically identify the alignment of the bottle body and bottom, ensure the alignment requirements of the graphics or logos on the bottle body and bottom, and realize automated alignment assembly with high precision and speed, effectively improving production efficiency and product quality.

Second, the spider manipulator is flexible and can move in multiple directions, which improves the accuracy of steel bottom grabbing, acquisition, and assembly and speeds up the grabbing and assembly process.

Third, the bottle body visual camera captures the bottle body grabbed by the clamp component, and the steel bottom visual camera captures the steel bottom grabbed by the spider manipulator. The alignment uses the method of grabbing first, then taking pictures, and finally rotating to align, which avoids the error caused by taking pictures before grabbing and ensures the accuracy of the rotation angle before and after grabbing, improving the alignment assembly accuracy.

Fourth, the bottle body conveyor mechanism uses a plate chain-type assembly line with fixed stations, which ensures smooth transportation and greatly reduces assembly errors, improving assembly precision.

Next, the PPU manipulator arm of the transfer mechanism is set at the end of the bottle body conveyor mechanism. After the bottle is assembled with bottom pressing, it is lifted by the vacuum suction bottle of the PPU manipulator arm, rotated to a specified angle, and transferred to another production line for further processing, realizing automated production. Sixth, the diameter of the press head of the downward pressure mechanism is larger than the diameter of the steel bottom, so that the force of the press head on the steel bottom is dispersed over the whole surface of the steel bottom, which avoids the deformation and damage of the products in the process of pressing the base and improves the quality of product assembling.

In addition, Haers also made a lot of improvements and enhancements in the details, which makes the assembly process smoother and more accurate, ensures the assembly precision and stability of the product, and also effectively protects the service life of the device, improves the production efficiency and quality of the product, and at the same time, saves labor costs and reduces errors in the production process. The application of automatic alignment will play an increasingly important role in the insulated water bottle industry.