Patent Application
20190060947
This application claims the priority of a Chinese patent application No. 201710770753.4 filed on Aug. 31, 2017, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of coating, and more particularly, to a coating device.
In the manufacturing process of color films (color filters), the use of coating machines is very common. Glue coating devices are also very important. At the initial stage of glue coating in a coating machine, a coating component usually goes through a process from acceleration to uniform speed, and the initial coating region of this acceleration is about 5 cm. If the glue coating in the initial coating region is not good, it will have adverse effects on the subsequent process and affect the product quality. The coating machine often has the problem of poor initial coating, which affects the final product quality.
In view of this, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a coating device comprising a coating component for coating a workpiece to be coated, wherein the coating component has an accelerated motion stage and a uniform motion stage in the running process, and wherein an initial coating region of the coating device corresponds to the accelerated motion stage, and wherein a uniform coating region of the coating device corresponds to the uniform motion stage; a primary machine, used for bearing the workpiece to be coated, wherein the bearing surface of the primary machine is located in the uniform coating region of the coating device; and a secondary machine for assisting coating, wherein the bearing surface of the secondary machine is located in the initial coating region of the coating device.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the secondary machine is configured as a turntable which can rotate around a rotation axis extending in a horizontal direction, and at least a part of the outer peripheral surface of the turntable forms the bearing surface of the secondary machine.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the secondary machine is movable relative to the primary machine.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the secondary machine comprises a cleaning mechanism for cleaning the bearing surface of the secondary machine.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the cleaning mechanism comprises: a liquid spraying unit for spraying diluent to the bearing surface of the secondary machine; a scraping unit for cleaning the bearing surface of the secondary machine by scraping, wherein the scraping unit is arranged on the downstream side of the liquid spraying unit along the rotating direction of the turntable or is integrated with the liquid spraying unit.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the cleaning mechanism further comprises: a wiping unit arranged on the downstream side of the scraping unit along the rotation direction of the turntable and in contact with the bearing surface of the secondary machine to further clean the bearing surface of the secondary machine by wiping.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the cleaning mechanism further comprises: a hot air unit for cleaning the bearing surface of the secondary machine, wherein the hot air unit is arranged on the downstream side of the wiping unit along the rotating direction of the turntable, and further cleans the bearing surface by blowing air.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, one end of the bearing surface of the secondary machine adjacent to the primary machine is provided with a recess.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the vertical cross section of the recess is formed into a rectangle.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the secondary machine further comprises: a secondary machine driving portion for driving the secondary machine to rotate and/or move relative to the primary machine.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a longitudinal cross section of the turntable perpendicular to its rotation axis is shaped as an elliptical, and the liquid spraying unit, the wiping unit and the hot air unit are sequentially arranged below the turntable along the rotation direction of the turntable.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the secondary machine further comprises: a heating unit for heating the bearing surface of the secondary machine.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the heating temperature of the heating unit is 40° C. to 60° C.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the movement direction of the secondary machine relative to the primary machine is parallel to the axial direction of the rotation axis of the secondary machine.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, when the secondary machine rotates, the conveying direction of the bearing surface of the secondary machine is perpendicular to the coating direction of the coating component.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the coating direction of the coating component is parallel to the axial direction of the rotation axis of the secondary machine.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, one end of the workpiece to be coated near the secondary machine is borne on the upper surface of the recess.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the width of the bearing surface of the secondary machine extending in a direction parallel to the axial direction of its rotation axis is about 5 cm.
Additional embodiments and advantages of this disclosure will be given in part in the following description, and in part will be obvious from the following description or will be learned by the practice of this disclosure.
The above and/or additional embodiments and advantages of the present disclosure will become apparent and easy to understand from the description of embodiments in conjunction with the following drawings, in which:
Embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail below, examples of which are shown in the accompanying drawings. The embodiments described below with reference to the drawings are exemplary and are intended to be used to explain this disclosure but should not be construed as limitations to this disclosure. Those skilled in the art can make various changes, modifications, substitutions and variations to these embodiments without departing from the principles and purposes of this disclosure, and the scope of this disclosure is defined by the claims and their equivalents.
In the description of the present disclosure, it is to be understood that the orientational or positional relationship indicated by the terms “length”, “width”, “thickness”, “upper”, “lower”, “front”, “rear”, “left”, “right”, “top”, “bottom”, “inner”, “outer”, “axial”, “radial”, “circumferential” and the like is based on the orientational or positional relationship shown in the accompanying drawings, only for convenience in describing the present disclosure and simplifying the description, and not to indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, so it is not to be understood as a limitation to the present disclosure. In addition, the features defined as “first ” and “second” may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the features. In the description of this disclosure, unless otherwise indicated, the meaning of “plurality” is two or more.
The general inventive concept of this application is as follows: because the initial coating region of the traditional coating machine overlaps with the panel area where the workpiece to be coated is placed, and the coating component is still in an accelerating state rather than a uniform speed state when just entering the area above the panel area, it is easy to lead to poor coating of a part of the panel area that overlaps with the initial coating region. At present, the main solution to poor coating on the initial part of the panel is generally to shorten the initial coating region of the coating machine by adjusting the coating procedure, but this solution can't completely make the coating component at a uniform speed state when entering the panel area and can't fundamentally solve the problem of poor initial part. In view of this, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides a coating device, which can make the coating component reach a uniform speed before coating the workpiece to be coated, fundamentally eliminating the problem of poor initial part of the coating machine, greatly reducing the times of line stopping maintenance, not only saving the labor cost, but also saving the cost of consumables such as clean cloth, rubber gloves and the like used for maintenance, improving the productivity and product quality, reducing the breakage of the workpiece to be coated and avoiding quality accidents.
The coating device 110 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.
Referring to
Specifically, the position of a bearing surface of the primary machine 10 corresponds to the uniform coating region of the coating device 110 and is used to bear a workpiece 60 to be coated. The secondary machine 20 is used to assist in coating, and the position of a bearing surface of the secondary machine 20 corresponds to the initial coating region 70 of the coating device 110. The workpiece 60 to be coated may be, for example, a glass substrate or other workpieces that need to be coated with glue.
Because the coating component (e.g., nozzle) 62 of the coating device 110 has a process of accelerating to a uniform speed when coating is started, correspondingly, the coating region of the coating device 110 includes an initial coating region 70 and a uniform coating region, and the initial coating region 70 can correspond to the accelerated motion stage of the coating component 62 in the coating process, and the uniform coating region can correspond to the uniform motion stage of the coating component 62. In the traditional coating device, a part of the initial coating region will be located in a panel area where the workpiece to be coated is placed (that is, a part of the initial coating region overlaps with the area where the workpiece 60 to be coated is located), thus causing the coating component to be still in an accelerating state when just entering the panel area, resulting in ununiform coating of the initial part of the workpiece located in the panel area, affecting the product quality and reducing the productivity.
In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the coating device 110 comprises a primary machine 10 and a secondary machine 20, wherein the bearing surface of the secondary machine 20 is arranged in the initial coating region 70 to bear and receive the coating glue of this ununiform coated part, the bearing surface of the primary machine 10 is located in the uniform coating region and adjacent to the secondary machine 20, and the workpiece 60 to be coated is arranged on the primary machine 10. During the coating process of the coating device 110, the coating component 62 firstly completes the acceleration process in the initial coating region 70 where the secondary machine 20 is located, reaches a uniform speed, and then reaches above the workpiece 60 on the primary machine 10, thus realizing uniform coating of the workpiece 60.
The coating device 110 according to the embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the secondary machine 20 for assisting in coating, and the bearing surface thereof is arranged in the initial coating region 70, so that the coating component 62 can reach a uniform speed when reaching the workpiece 60 on the primary machine 10, thereby fundamentally eliminating the problem of poor initial part of the coating device 110, greatly reducing the times of line stopping maintenance, not only saving the labor cost, but also saving the cost of consumables such as clean cloth, rubber gloves and the like used for maintenance, improving the productivity and product quality, reducing the breakage of the workpiece 60 and avoiding quality accidents.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the secondary machine 20 may be formed as a turntable or a conveyor belt which can rotate around a rotation axis extending in the horizontal direction. Here, the horizontal direction can be understood as a direction perpendicular to the vertical direction. For example, as shown in
In certain exemplary embodiments, the secondary machine 20 can be movable relative to the primary machine 10, thereby making it easier to adjust the relative position between the primary machine 10 and the secondary machine 20. Adjusting the relative position between the primary machine 10 and the secondary machine 20 according to the size of the workpiece 60 to be coated can adapt to more production requirements. For example, as shown in
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the bearing surface 201 of the secondary machine can be used to bear the coating glue fell thereon. As shown in
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
The present disclosure does not particularly limit the specific structures and materials of the liquid spraying unit 401 and the scraping unit 402. For example, according to some examples of the present disclosure, the liquid spraying unit 401 may be a nozzle in which diluent is contained. The scraping unit 402 can be a scraper or a scraper blade. The scraping unit 402 can be a rubber part, a plastic part or the like. These structures will not cause damage to the bearing surface 201 of the secondary machine and can ensure the cleaning effect.
It can be understood that the liquid spraying unit 401 and the scraping unit 402 are not limited to integrated setting, and the liquid spraying unit 401 and the scraping unit 402 can also be independently set according to actual needs. The scraping unit 402 is arranged on the downstream side of the liquid spraying unit 401 along the rotation direction of the turntable, and after the diluent dilutes the coating glue on the surface of the bearing surface 201 of the secondary machine, the scraping unit 402 cleans the diluted coating glue more easily by scraping.
Taking the embodiment shown in
Further, the cleaning mechanism 40 may also include a wiping unit 403, as shown in
In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the wiping unit 403 may be, but not limited to, soft materials such as dust-free cloth and dust-free paper which are not easy to damage the bearing surface 201 of the secondary machine and are beneficial to cleaning.
Further, as shown in
According to some examples of the present disclosure, the hot air unit 404 may be a component capable of blowing hot air such as a blower, which is easy to regulate and control air temperature and air force and is simple and convenient to operate. Of course, the hot air unit 404 may be other devices that can eject hot air, and it is only necessary to meet the requirements of heating and dissolving the residual diluent film and cleaning it.
In some embodiments of the present disclosure, as shown in
Further, as shown in
It is to be understood that the recess 202 described above is formed into a rectangle which is described by way of example only, and the recess 202 can also be formed into other shapes, which is understandable to those skilled in the art and will not be described in detail here.
According to a further embodiment of the present disclosure, the secondary machine 20 may also include a secondary machine driving portion 30. In some examples of the present disclosure, the secondary machine driving portion 30 may be, but not limited to, a device that can provide driving force for cylinders, motors and the like. The secondary machine driving portion 30 can drive the secondary machine 20 to rotate, can be mechanically controlled and has better driving performance. Of course, the secondary machine driving portion 30 can also drive the secondary machine 20 to move or retract relative to the primary machine 10, which facilitates the taking and placing of the workpiece 60. In addition, according to the actual situation of the accumulated amount of coating glue on the bearing surface 201 of the secondary machine 20, the rotation speed of the secondary machine 20 can be set to avoid continuous idling caused by too fast rotation speed, thus avoiding unnecessary energy consumption or incomplete cleaning caused by too fast rotation speed. At the same time, it is ensured that the coating glue will not flow to the primary machine 10, and the cleaning is timely.
It should be noted that according to actual needs, the secondary machine driving portion 30 can control the rotation of the secondary machine 20 or the movement or retraction of the secondary machine 20 relative to the primary machine 10 in a variety of settings. For example, the secondary machine driving portion 30 can control the rotation of the secondary machine 20 and the movement or retraction of the secondary machine 20 relative to the primary machine 10 at the same time, so as to realize the renewal (cleaning) of the bearing surface 201 of the secondary machine and the replacement of the workpiece 60 at the same time. For example, the secondary machine driving portion 30 can also control the secondary machine 20 to rotate at first to renew the bearing surface 201 of the secondary machine, and then the secondary machine driving portion 30 can control the secondary machine 20 to move or retract relative to the primary machine 10 to realize the replacement of the workpiece 60.
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the shape of the turntable in the longitudinal cross section perpendicular to its rotation axis is elliptical, as shown in
The secondary machine 20 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure may also include a heating unit 50, which may heat the bearing surface 201 of the secondary machine as shown in
It should be noted that the present disclosure does not particularly limit the position of the heating unit 50, for example, the heating unit 50 can be arranged on the upstream side of the cleaning mechanism 40 along the rotation direction of the turntable and can prevent the coating glue on the bearing surface 201 of the secondary machine from solidifying. The heating unit 50 may also be provided on the downstream side of the cleaning mechanism 40 along the rotation direction of the turntable, and residual trace diluent can be further removed by volatilization. Alternatively, the heating unit 50 can be provided in the initial coating region 70, which can simultaneously prevent the coating glue from solidifying and remove residual diluent. For example, in the example shown in
Further, the heating temperature of the heating unit 50 can be 40° C.-60° C. On the one hand, it can ensure that the residual trace diluent is completely volatilized, on the other hand, it can prevent the coating glue on the bearing surface 201 of the secondary machine from solidifying due to high temperature, which is not easy to be removed. For example, in some specific embodiments of the present disclosure, the heating temperatures of the heating unit 50 may be 45° C. , 50° C. , 55° C. and the like, respectively.
Other components of the coating device 110 according to a specific embodiment of the present disclosure will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
As shown in
The coating device 110 according to the embodiment of the present disclosure can achieve a uniform speed before the coating component 62 coats the workpiece 60 to be coated, fundamentally eliminating the problem of poor initial part of the coating device 110, reducing maintenance times, improving productivity and product quality, reducing the breakage of the workpiece 60 and avoiding quality accidents.
Other configurations and operations of the coating device 110 according to the embodiments of the present disclosure are known to those of ordinary skill in the art and will not be described in detail here.
In the description of this disclosure, it should be noted that unless otherwise specified and limited, the terms “installation”, “connecting” and “connection” should be broadly understood, for example, they can be fixed connection, detachable connection or integrated connection, or can be a mechanical connection or an electrical connection; it can also be directly connected or indirectly connected through intermediate media, and it can be communication between the insides of two elements. For those of ordinary skill in the art, the specific meanings of the above terms in this disclosure can be understood in specific situations.
In the description of this specification, reference to the descriptions of the terms “embodiment”, “specific embodiment”, “example” and the like means that a specific feature, structure, material or characteristic described in connection with this embodiment or example is included in at least an embodiment or example of this disclosure. In this specification, the schematic expression of the above terms does not necessarily refer to the same embodiment or example. Moreover, the specific features, structures, materials or characteristics described can be combined with each other in a suitable way without interference or contradiction in any one or more embodiments or examples.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 201710770753.4 | Aug 2017 | CN | national |
