US 11,751,578 B2
Intelligent methods and devices for cutting squid white slices
Yong Cai, Zhoushan (CN); Shuo Liu, Zhoushan (CN); Yu Zhang, Zhoushan (CN); Kaiyou Jiang, Zhoushan (CN); Shanmin Zhou, Zhoushan (CN); Jiajie Ma, Zhoushan (CN); Zhiyong Sun, Zhoushan (CN); Wanglin Lin, Zhoushan (CN); Kewei Gu, Zhoushan (CN); Lan Wang, Zhoushan (CN); Fan Ding, Zhoushan (CN); and Zhijian Yang, Zhoushan (CN)
Assigned to Ocean Research Center of Zhoushan, Zhejiang University, Daishan Zhoushan (CN)
Filed by Ocean Research Center of Zhoushan, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang (CN)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/932,289.
Claims priority of application No. 202111658818.9 (CN), filed on Dec. 31, 2021; and application No. 202210077959.X (CN), filed on Jan. 24, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0210119 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. A22C 17/00 (2006.01); A22C 29/00 (2006.01)
CPC A22C 17/0086 (2013.01) [A22C 29/00 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An intelligent device for cutting the squid white slices with a fixed weight and a fixed diagonal size, wherein
the intelligent device includes a feeding device, a fixed pushing device, a scanning device, a cutting rotating device, and a controlling system;
the feeding device includes a side pushing cylinder slide, a forward pushing cylinder slide, a material box, and a pushing board; the side pushing cylinder slide is located below the material box, the material box is arranged on the side of the forward pushing cylinder slide and above the side pushing cylinder slide, the pushing board is fixed with the forward pushing cylinder slide; the side pushing cylinder slide is configured to push the squid white slices out of the material box and onto a conveyor board, the forward pushing cylinder slide drives the pushing board to push the squid white slices to a flattening position;
the fixed pushing device includes two long slides, a pushing cylinder, a needle fixed structure, and a connection structure; the long slides are located on both sides of the conveyor board, the pushing cylinder is fixed above the slide of the long slides, the needle fixed structure is located above the conveyor board, which is connected with the pushing cylinder through the connection structure; when the pushing cylinder is downward, the needle fixed structure is driven down, and the needle fixed structure is pierced into the squid to fix the squid; at the same time, the long slides drive the pushing cylinder and the needle fixed structure to move forward together, so as to achieve movement of the squid on the conveyor board;
the scanning device consists of a 3D scanner, a scanner holder, and a processing system; the scanner holder spans both sides of the conveyor board, the 3D scanner is fixed at a central position of a top of the scanner holder, and scanning and imaging of the squid is completed during a pushing process of the fixed pushing device;
the cutting rotating device consists of a cutting rotating device holder, a rotating arm, a cross slide fixed holder, two straight line slides, four servo motors, a reducer, a blade, and a blade fixed holder; the cutting rotating device holder spans both sides of a cutting platform and is fixed on a base; the rotating arm is installed on two inner sides of the cutting rotating device holder, which rotates around an axis through a bearing; the cross slide fixed holder is installed between the two rotating arms, which connects and fixes the two rotating arms; other side of the bearing is installed with two reducers with the servo motors, which are fixed with the rotating arm using a connection shaft, rotation of the servo motors drives the rotating arm to rotate; the two straight line slides are installed in a cross, one of which is installed on the slide of the other straight line slide, and the two straight line slides are installed on the cross slide fixed holder as a whole to achieve horizontal and vertical motion of the slide; and the blade is fixed on the slide of the below straight line slide through the blade holder, which is used to achieve horizontal and vertical cutting motion with the slide; and
after the pushing device finishes pushing for a distance calculated by the control system, a clamping device presses the squid tightly, and a vertical motor drives a lead screw slide to move downward, the blade moves downward with the slide, at the same time, a horizontal motor drives the lead screw slide and the blade to move horizontally; and when the blade reaches a bottom end, the blade returns to an origin after a last horizontal movement; after the horizontal slide reaches the origin, the vertical slide drives the blade upward until the blade returns to an upper limit; and when the vertical slide moves upward, the horizontal slide keeps static.