US 12,103,785 B2
Automatic feeding device for automotive wheel hub
Changhe Li, Qingdao (CN); Minkai Chen, Qingdao (CN); Zongming Zhou, Qingdao (CN); Bo Liu, Qingdao (CN); Yun Chen, Qingdao (CN); Huajun Cao, Qingdao (CN); Shubham Sharma, Jalandhar (IN); Naiqing Zhang, Qingdao (CN); Qidong Wu, Qingdao (CN); Teng Gao, Qingdao (CN); Yanbin Zhang, Qingdao (CN); Mingzheng Liu, Qingdao (CN); Xiaoming Wang, Qingdao (CN); Min Yang, Qingdao (CN); Hao Ma, Qingdao (CN); and Xifeng Wu, Qingdao (CN)
Assigned to QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Qingdao (CN); and IK GUJRAL PUNJAB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Jalandhar (IN)
Filed by QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Shandong (CN); and IK GUJRAL PUNJAB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, Jalandhar (IN)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/729,492.
Claims priority of application No. 202110820717.0 (CN), filed on Jul. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0027199 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. B65G 47/90 (2006.01); B65G 47/42 (2006.01); B65G 57/03 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 47/42 (2013.01) [B65G 47/901 (2013.01); B65G 47/905 (2013.01); B65G 57/03 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0294 (2013.01); B65G 2811/0663 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automatic feeding device for automotive wheel hub, comprising:
a separable material rack, comprising at least two layers of material rack units that comprise one layer of bottom material rack and at least one layer of stacking material rack; wherein, when the material rack units comprise several layers of stacking material racks, the stacking material racks are configured to stack on a top of each other and stack above the bottom material rack; wherein, each of the material rack units of the separable material rack is configured to carry up to two wheel hubs;
a first roller table, being connected to a first end of a second roller table and being configured to transport the separable material rack carrying wheel hubs to the second roller table; wherein, a lifting platform is mounted under a second end of the second roller table;
a material rack separating apparatus, comprising a support frame and at least two material rack inserting and taking devices arranged at intervals along a height direction of the support frame; wherein, the at least two material rack inserting and taking devices are configured to disassemble mechanically, under an action of the lifting platform, the separable material rack transported to the second roller table into the material rack units, and transport and place the material rack units on a third roller table layer by layer; and
a manipulator, being provided on a first side of the third roller table, and being configured to grasp the wheel hubs out of the each of the material rack units transported to the third roller table and place the wheel hubs on a fourth roller table provided on one side of the manipulator that opposites to another side of the manipulator where the third roller table provided;
wherein, the second end of the second roller table is located below a first end of the material rack separating apparatus, the third roller table is arranged perpendicular to the direction of transmission of the second roller table, a first end of the third roller table is located below a second end of the material rack separating apparatus, and the first side of the third roller table is arranged close to an edge of the second end of the material rack separating apparatus;
wherein, the material rack separating apparatus further comprises:
at least two Y-axis power devices, being mounted along a length direction of the support frame; and a timing belt synchronizing device is used to connect each of the at least two Y-axis power devices to a corresponding material rack inserting and taking device thereof;
wherein, the each of the at least two Y-axis power devices is configured to drive, through the connection of the timing belt synchronizing device, the corresponding material rack inserting and taking device to move along the length direction of the support frame.