This application is based on and claims the benefit of priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2017-0034712, filed on Mar. 20, 2017, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.
The present disclosure relates to a cutting apparatus.
In general, examples of an interior material for a vehicle include a door trim, a pillar trim, a trunk mat, a package trim, a head liner, and the like.
Such an interior material for a vehicle may include a hard base material and a soft skin material attached to the hard base material. Further, a process of manufacturing an interior material for a vehicle includes a process of injection-molding (insert-injection-molding) an interior material, a process of cooling the interior material to prevent deformation of the interior material, a process of trimming an edge of a skin material, a process of applying adhesive to the trimmed edge of the skin material, a process of drying the adhesive, and a process of bonding the edge of the skin material to a base material to surround an edge of the base material by the edge of the skin material.
However, in general, in the process of cooling the interior material, the injection-molded interior material is cooled inside an injection mold. However, when the interior material is cooled inside the injection mold, the interior material may not be injected molded while the interior material is cooled. Thus, the conventional process of manufacturing an interior material for a vehicle has a problem in that because it takes a long time to manufacture the interior material, productivity deteriorates.
The present disclosure provides a cutting apparatus having an improved structure such that a cooling process and a cutting process for a machining target are simultaneously performed so that a time consumed for manufacturing the machining target may be reduced.
The technical objects of the present disclosure are not limited to the above-mentioned one, and the other unmentioned technical objects will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following description.
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a cutting apparatus includes: a jig having a seating jig on which a machining target is seated and a fixing jig matched with the seating jig to fix the machining target; a cutter configured to cut the machining target along reference scheduled cutting lines; a first carrier reciprocating to allow the fixing jig to match with the seating jig or to be spaced apart from the seating jig; and a cooler configured to cool the machining target down to a reference temperature.
The fixing jig selectively may press a reference pressed area of the machining target such that first scheduled cutting lines of the machining target are exposed to the outside of the jig, and the cutter may have first cutters configured to cut the machining target along the first scheduled cutting lines.
The first carrier may include a mounting plate on which the fixing jig and the first cutters are mounted, and a transfer cylinder reciprocating to allow the mounting plate to approach the machining target or to be spaced apart from the machining target.
The first carrier may further include elastic members connecting the jig and the mounting plate and elastically extending and contracting in a reciprocation direction of the fixing jig.
The elastic members may have a reference length such that the first cutters reach the first scheduled cutting lines after the fixing jig reaches the pressed area earlier.
The elastic members may have compression coil springs elastically extending and contracting in the reciprocation direction of the fixing jig.
The seating jig may include a first seating jig on which a portion of the machining target is seated, and a second seating jig on which another portion of the machining target is seated, the first seating jig and the second seating jig may be spaced apart from each other by a reference interval such that reference second scheduled cutting lines of the machining target are exposed to the outside of the jig through a space between the first seating jig and the second seating jig, and the cutter may include second cutters configured to cut the machining target along the second scheduled cutting lines.
The cutting apparatus may further include a second carrier reciprocating to allow the second cutters to approach the machining target or to be spaced apart from the machining target, through the space between the first seating jig and the second seating jig.
Preferably, the cooler may include a blower fan configured to blow air to the machining target through the space between the first seating jig and the second seating
The cooler may cool at least one of the seating jig and the fixing jig to indirectly cool the machining target.
The cooler may include a blower fan configured to blow air to at least one of the seating jig and the fixing jig.
The cooler may have a cooling water passage formed in at least one of the seating jig and the fixing jig such that externally supplied cooling water flows through the cooling water passage.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure will be more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings:
Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that when components in the drawings are designated reference numerals, the same components have the same reference numerals as far as possible even though the components are illustrated in different drawings. Further, in description of embodiments of the present disclosure, when it is determined that detailed descriptions of well-known configurations or functions disturb understanding of the embodiments of the present disclosure, the detailed descriptions will be omitted.
In the description of the embodiments of the present disclosure, the terms such as first, second, A, B, (a) and (b) may be used. Each of the terms is merely used to distinguish the corresponding component from other components, and does not delimit an essence, an order or a sequence of the corresponding component. Further, all terms used herein, including technical terms and scientific terms, may have the same meanings as those generally understood by those skilled in the art to which the present disclosure pertains as long as the terms are differently defined. The terms defined in a generally used dictionary should be interpreted to have the same meanings as those in the context of the related art, and are not interpreted as ideal or excessively formal meanings as long as the terms are not clearly defined in the present application.
A cutting apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure may cut a machining target P and, at the same time, cool the machining target P. To achieve this, as illustrated in
The types of the machining target P that may be processed using the cutting apparatus 1 are not particularly limited. For example, as illustrated in
The number of the base materials R is not particularly limited. For example, as illustrated in
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Next, the jig unit 20 may include a seating jig 21 configured to seat the machining target P and a fixing jig 22 matched with the seating jig to fix the machining target P seated on the seating jig 21.
The seating jig 21 is provided such that at least a portion of the machining target P is seated thereon. For example, as illustrated in
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At least a portion of the fixing jig 22 is matched with the seating jig 21. For example, as illustrated in
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Next, the cutting unit 30 may cut the machining target P along specific scheduled cutting lines E1 and E2. A structure of the cutting units 30 is not particularly limited. For example, as illustrated in
The first scheduled cutting lines E1 refer to vertical lines set to cut the machining target P. Setting locations of the first scheduled cutting lines E1 are not particularly limited. For example, as illustrated in
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The second scheduled cutting lines E2 refer to vertical lines set to cut the machining target P. Setting locations of the second scheduled cutting lines E2 are not particularly limited. For example, as illustrated in
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Next, the first transfer unit 40 may allow the fixing jig 22 and the first cutting members 32 to reciprocate. For example, as illustrated in
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For example, the first transfer unit 40 may further include at least one elastic member 46 connecting the first mounting member 42 and the fixing jig 22 to each other and elastically extended and contracted in a reciprocation direction of the fixing jig 22.
Although each of the elastic members 46 may be a compression coil spring elastically extended and contracted in the reciprocation direction of the fixing jig 22, the present disclosure is not limited thereto. The elastic members 46 are provided such that after the fixing jig 22 arrives at a specific pressed portion of the machining target P earlier, the first cutting members 32 arrives at the first scheduled cutting lines E1. The pressed portion refers to the attachment parts A, the inner edge I, and the outer connectors O2 of the skin material S, which are pressed by the above-described fixing parts 25 and 26. As illustrated in
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A structure of the first transfer member 44 is not particularly limited. For example, as illustrated in
Next, the second transfer unit 50 may allow the second cutting members 34 reciprocate. For example, as illustrated in
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A structure of the second transfer member 54 is not particularly limited. For example, as illustrated in
Next, the cooling unit 60 is provided to cool the machining target P down to a specific temperature. The machining target P is separated from the injection mold while being not cooled and is seated on the seating jig 21, and thus has a high temperature. However, the machining target P having high temperature may be contracted and deformed while being cooled. Because of this, when the machining target P is cut in a high temperature state to have a specific shape, the machining target P is deformed while being cooled, and thus, defective products may be manufactured. To solve this problem, the cutting apparatus 1 may include the cooling unit 60 configured to cool the machining target P.
A structure of the cooling unit 60 is not particularly limited.
For example, the cooling unit 60 may include a blower fan 62 configured to blow air to cool the machining target P. As illustrated in
For example, the cooling unit 60 may cool the machining target P using cooling water. To achieve this, as illustrated in
Such a cooling unit 60 may cool the machining target P down to the specific temperature while the machining target P is fixed by the jig unit 20. Then, the machining target P may maintain an original shape thereof without deformation while being cooled.
An operation time of the cooling unit 60 is not particularly limited. For example, the cooling unit 60 may be operated to cool the machining target P when the fixing jig 22 arrives as the machining target P earlier than the first cutting members 32 to fix the machining target P. To achieve this, as illustrated in
Hereinafter, a method for cooling and cutting the machining target P using the cutting apparatus 1 will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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Thereafter, the cooling unit 60 is operated to cool the machining target P down to the specific temperature by the air blown by the blower fan 62 and the cooling water flowing through the cooling water passage 64.
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Thereafter, the cooled and cut machining target P is recovered from the seating jig 21.
According to such a cutting apparatus 1, the injection-molded machining target P may be cut and cooled using the cutting apparatus 1 without cooling the machining target P in the injection mold. In the related art, because the injection-molded machining target should be cooled in the injection mold, the injection molding cannot be performed while the machining target is cooled. In contrast, according to the cutting apparatus 1, after the machining target P may be transferred to the cutting apparatus 1 as soon as the injection molding is completed, the machining target P may be injection-molded. Thus, the cutting apparatus 1 may reduce a manufacturing time period of the machining target P, making it possible to productivity of the machining target P.
Although it has been described that the cutting apparatus 1 cools and cuts the injection-molded machining target P, the present disclosure is not limited thereto. That is, the cutting apparatus 1 may cool and cut the machining target P which is not cooled after being molded in a molding scheme other than the injection molding, and thus has high temperature.
A cutting apparatus according to the present disclosure may perform a cutting process together with cooling of a machining target, so that a manufacturing time of the machining target may be shortened and productivity of the machining target may be improved.
The above description is merely illustrative description of the technical spirit of the present disclosure, and various modifications and deformations may be made by those skilled in the art to which the present disclosure pertains without departing from the essential feature of the present disclosure.
Thus, the embodiments that are disclosed in the present disclosure are not for limiting but for describing the technical spirit of the present disclosure, and the scope of the technical spirit of the present disclosure is not limited by the embodiments. The protection scope of the present disclosure should be interpreted by the appended claims and all the technical spirit corresponding to the equivalents thereof should be interpreted to be included in the scope of a right of the present disclosure.
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10-2017-0034712 | Mar 2017 | KR | national |