Patent Application
20160090106
This application is based on and claims the benefit of priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2014-0131614, filed on Sep. 30, 2014 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.
The present disclosure relates to a hanger trolley system, and more particularly, to a hanger trolley system capable of confirming a coupled state between a chain dog provided in a driving chain and a hanger dog provided in a hanger trolley through a sensor.
As shown in
However, in a technology of judging the succession through the manipulation timing of the switches according to the related art, the judgment on the succession will be disturbed due to a malfunction, so a timing delay of the switches and non-conducting of the succession may occur, which may separate the hanger from the driving chain.
The present disclosure has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems occurring in the prior art while advantages achieved by the prior art are maintained intact.
An aspect of the present disclosure provides a hanger trolley system capable of preventing succession from being not generated when a hanger is succeeded from a pre-process driving chain to a post-process driving chain by confirming a coupled state between a chain dog provided in a driving chain and a hanger dog provided in a hanger trolley through a sensor.
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a hanger trolley system includes: a driving chain provided in a power rail; a hanger trolley including a hanger dog attached to and detached from a chain dog provided in the driving chain and moving along a free rail formed below the power rail; and a sensor confirming coupling between the chain dog and the hanger dog.
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.
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
As shown in
A hanger feeder 230 pushing the hanger trolley 200 from a pre-process power rail to a post-process power rail includes the sensor 300 and a linear module 220. The liner module 220 is in parallel with the free rail and is positioned at one side of the hanger trolley 200. More specifically, the linear module 220 extends from the hanger feeder 230. The hanger feeder 230 is positioned at an intersection point between the pre-process power rail and the post-process power rail.
The sensor 300 may include a laser vision camera (not shown) photographing the chain dog 110 and the hanger dog 210 and an acceleration sensor 300 measuring a moving speed of the hanger trolley 200. The laser vision camera may be replaced with any camera, image capture device or the like. The hanger trolley system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure further includes a controller (not shown) receiving measured signals from the laser vision camera and the acceleration sensor and transmitting a signal to a power source moving the driving chain 100.
The laser vision camera senses whether abnormality is present in a coupling motion of the chain dog 110 as shown in
In addition, a moving direction of the hanger trolley 200 is sensed and tracked through the acceleration sensor mounted on the linear module 220, thereby judging whether the succession has been normally conducted.
The power rail includes the pre-process power rail handing over the hanger trolley 200 and the post-process power rail taking over the hanger trolley 200. The hanger trolley 200 includes the hanger feeder 230 pushing the hanger trolley 200 from the pre-process power rail to the post-process power rail. The hanger feeder 230 pushes the hanger trolley 200 so that the hanger dog 210 is separated from the chain dog 110.
In the case in which a plurality of hanger trolleys 200 are arranged at the same interval and are connected to each other as shown in
In addition, as shown in
In the hanger trolley system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, it is confirmed through the sensor 300 mounted on the linear module 220 whether the hanger trolley 200 is normally succeeded from the pre-process power rail to the post-process power rail.
The sensor 300 inspects a position, a posture, and a moving speed of the hanger dog 210 from a time in which the hanger feeder 230 starts to be operated up to a time in which the hanger dog 210 is separated from the chain dog 110 of the pre-process power rail and is completely coupled to a chain dog of the post-process power rail, in order to allow the hanger trolley 200, more specifically, the hanger dog 210 to be succeeded from the pre-process power rail to the post-process power rail.
Here, the acceleration sensor and the laser vision camera of the sensor 300 provided on the linear module 220 confirm whether the hanger feeder 230 provided in the hanger trolley 200 is normally operated, and inspect the position, the posture, and the moving speed of the hanger dog 210. This thereby confirms whether the hanger dog 210 is separated from the chain dog provided in the pre-process power rail and is in a state in which the hanger dog 210 may be coupled to the chain dog 110 provided in the post-process power rail.
In addition, the coupling between the hanger dog 210 and the chain dog 110 provided in the post-process power rail is confirmed through the laser vision camera mounted on the linear module 220. Therefore, the hanger trolley system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure may clearly perform the judgment on the succession when the hanger trolley 200 is succeeded from the pre-process power rail to the post-process power rail.
As described above, with the hanger trolley system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure as described above, the coupled state between the chain dog provided in the driving chain and the hanger dog provided in the hanger trolley is confirmed through the sensor, such that the judgment on the succession when the hanger trolley is succeeded from the pre-process driving chain to the post-process driving chain becomes clearer as compared with the related art.
In addition, since the judgment on the succession becomes clearer as compared with the related art, an accident such as separation of the hanger may be prevented.
Hereinabove, although the present disclosure has been described with reference to exemplary embodiments and the accompanying drawings, the present disclosure is not limited thereto, but may be variously modified and altered by those skilled in the art to which the present disclosure pertains without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure claimed in the following claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2014-0131614 | Sep 2014 | KR | national |
