The present invention relates to a roll type raw material supply device. This application claims the benefit of priority to Korean Patent Application No. 10-2021-0048933 filed on Apr. 15, 2021 and Korean Patent Application No. 10-2022-0005009 filed on Jan. 13, 2022, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
A secondary battery is a chemical battery that can be used semi-permanently by continuously repeating charging and discharge using an electrochemical reaction, which is classified into a lead-acid battery, a nickel-cadmium battery, a nickel-hydrogen battery, and a lithium secondary battery. Among them, a lithium secondary battery has superior voltage and energy density characteristics compared to other batteries, thereby leading the market for secondary batteries, which is divided into a lithium-ion secondary battery using a liquid electrolyte and a lithium-ion polymer secondary battery using a solid electrolyte, according to the type of electrolyte. This lithium secondary battery is composed of a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte, and also the separator is generally positioned between the positive electrode and the negative electrode to prevent a short circuit between the positive electrode and the negative electrode due to their direct contact.
In this separator, various resins comprising a polyolefin-based polymer resins such as polyethylene and polypropylene are used as raw materials, and the raw material is mainly supplied in the form of a roll. When supplying a new raw material due to the exhaustion of the raw material in use, in general, the raw material is continuously supplied by bonding the end portion of the raw material in use and the end portion of the new raw material. An automated bonding device that bonds the raw material in use and the new raw material is already known as a related art as in Patent Document 1 below. However, supplied raw material in the form of a roll is initially supplied by attaching a tape to an end portion so as to prevent the roll from unwinding, and there is inconvenience that the tape is manually removed and a part of the roll should be released and inserted into a raw material supply location of the automated bonding device in order to apply the supplied raw material in the form of a roll to the automated bonding device. Further, when the roll is released by the manual work, it is difficult to maintain a tension in the supplied raw material in the form of a roll as it is, and thus a quality of the raw material of the corresponding portion deteriorates.
Therefore, the present inventor studies the roll type raw material supply device capable of automating even a process of removing the tape in the supplied raw material in the form of a roll and supplying the supplied raw material in the form of a roll, corresponding to the automated bonding device, and has completed the present invention in order to solve the above-described problem.
In order to solve the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a roll type raw material supply device capable of automatically removing a tape attached to a raw material in the form of a roll and moving so as to supply the end portion of the raw material to a subsequent device.
The present invention provides a roll type raw material supply device including: a raw material mounting unit 10 for introducing a roll type raw material R to which a tape T for fixation to an end portion of a raw material is attached; a tape removal unit 20 clamping a non-bonding portion B of the tape and separating the tape from the raw material; and a raw material conveying unit 30 attaching and moving the raw material.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the raw material mounting unit 10 includes a support 11 and a first roller 12, wherein the support supports the first roller, and the first roller fixes and rotates the roll type raw material R.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the tape removal unit 20 includes a clamp member 21 and a first conveying cylinder 22, wherein the clamp member includes a first clamp member 21A and a second clamp member 21B, and the first clamp member is positioned at an outer side than the second clamp member to be in contact with the raw material R and the tape T when driving the device, and when the first clamp member and the second clamp member are spaced apart from each other and then the nonbonding portion B of the tape is positioned between the first clamp member and the second clamp member, the first clamp member and the second clamp member are close to each other to clamp the non-bonding portion of the tape, and the first conveying cylinder moves the clamp member.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the raw material conveying unit 30 includes an attachment pad 31 and a second conveying cylinder 32, wherein the attachment pad attaches and fixes the end portion of the raw material, and the second conveying cylinder moves the attachment pad.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the non-bonding portion B of the tape T attached to the roll type raw material R has a different color from the raw material and is coated with a film F having larger rigidity than the tape, and the first clamp member 21A includes a color sensor 21S for identifying the film.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the first clamp member 21A includes an air eruption hole H2 for erupting air to separate the non-bonding portion B of the tape T from the roll type raw material R.
In one embodiment of the present invention, a portion in the tape that is coated with the film has one or more holes H1 through which air can pass.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the attachment pad 31 has a shape in which an attachment surface is in contact with a corner of the end portion of the raw material and is not in contact with the tape when attaching and fixing the end portion of the raw material.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the raw material conveying unit 30 further includes a supplementary member 33 for supplementing the attachment pad 31 so that the attachment surface is in contact with the entire area of the end portion of the raw material after the tape is removed.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the raw material conveying unit 30 further includes a support member 34 for supporting the other surface of the attachment surface when unwinding the roll type raw material after attaching the raw material.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the roll type raw material supply device further includes one or more second rollers 41 for adjusting a tension of the raw material and determining a movement path of the raw material.
The roll type raw material supply device according to the present invention can automatically and effectively remove the tape attached to a roll type raw material, and can cause the end portion of the raw material to move to a desired location without damage such as warping.
The terms and words used in the present specification and claims should not be construed as limited to ordinary or dictionary terms, and should be construed in a sense and concept consistent with the technical idea of the present invention, based on the principle that the inventor can properly define the concept of a term to describe his invention in the best way possible. Therefore, since the configuration shown in the embodiments and drawings described in the present specification is only one of the most preferred embodiments of the present invention, and does not represent all of the technical spirit of the present invention, it should be understood that various equivalents and modifications may be substituted for them at the time of filing the present application.
In the drawings, the size of each component or a specific part constituting the component is exaggerated, omitted, or schematically illustrated for convenience and clarity of description. Therefore, the size of each component does not fully reflect the actual size. If it is determined that a detailed description of a related known function or configuration may unnecessarily obscure the gist of the present invention, such description will be omitted.
The present invention relates to a roll type raw material supply device, and in order to describe such a device,
The roll type raw material supply device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a raw material mounting unit 10, a tape removal unit 20, and a raw material conveying unit 30, and may include additional components as necessary.
The raw material mounting unit 10 is a device for introducing a roll type raw material R, and a tape (not shown in
The raw material R may be supplied while one or more layers of fabrics are rolled in a roll type. When the raw material R is formed of two or more layers of fabrics, the fabric may be a state in which respective layers are attached by an electrostatic attraction. When conveying the raw material R formed of two or more layers of fabrics, it is advantageous to apply in subsequent processes only when the raw material R is conveyed in a state in which each layer is not separated from each other.
The tape removal unit 20 is a device for clamping the non-bonding portion of the tape and separating the tape from the raw material. The tape removal unit 20 may include a clamp member 21 and a first conveying cylinder 22, and may include additional components as necessary. The clamp member 21 is a device for clamping the non-bonding portion of the tape. The clamp member 21 includes a first clamp member 21A and a second clamp member 21B, wherein the first clamp member 21A is positioned at the outer side than the first clamp member 21B, and is in contact with the raw material R and the tape when driving the device. When the first clamp member 21A and the second clamp member 21B are spaced apart from each other and then the non-bonding portion of the tape is positioned between the first clamp member 21A and the second clamp member 21B, the first clamp member 21A and the second clamp member 21B are in contact with each other to clamp the non-bonding portion of the tape. The first conveying cylinder 22 is a device for moving the clamp member 21. The first conveying cylinder 22 may achieve the purpose of removing the tape only by causing the clamp member 21 to contact the roll type raw material R and move in a direction away from the roll type raw material (a left-right direction in
The raw material conveying unit 30 is a device for attaching and moving the raw material. The raw material conveying unit 30 includes an attachment pad 31 and a second conveying cylinder 32. The attachment pad 31 is a device for attaching and fixing the end portion of the raw material. The attachment pad 31 attaches and fixes the end portion of the raw material, thereby effectively removing only the tape in a state in which the clamp member 21 fixes the end portion of the raw material, and supplying the raw material to a desired location by causing the attachment pad 31 to move to unwind the roll. The attachment pad 31 may attach the raw material through adsorption or electrostatic force. When the raw material R is formed of two or more layers of fabrics, the attachment pad 31 may fix the raw material R in a state in which each layer of the fabrics is attached using electrostatic force, thereby conveying the raw material R in a state in which each layer is not separated from each other. An electrostatic chuck may be used in order to apply the electrostatic force, and if the raw material R may be fixed in a state in which each layer of the fabrics is attached, the type of electrostatic chuck is not particularly limited. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the electrostatic chuck includes a polyimide substrate and a bi-polar type electrode, and is driven by applying a voltage of 1.0 kV to 5.0 kV, specifically 1.5 kV to 4.0 kV, and more specifically 2.0 kV to 3.0 kV. Two or more layers of fabrics may be efficiently fixed within the above range.
The second conveying cylinder 32 is a device for moving the attachment pad 31. The second conveying cylinder 32 causes the attachment pad 31 to be in contact with the roll type raw material R and move in a direction away from the roll type raw material R (the left-right direction in
In order to specifically describe a process of separating a tape from a roll type raw material and causing the end portion of the raw material to move to a location required for a subsequent step,
As shown in
In order to increase the efficiency of removing the tape, the tape coated with the film may be used.
Since a generally used tape is transparent, even though the tape is attached to the roll type raw material, the roll type raw material shows the same color as the raw material in appearance even at a location to which the tape is attached, equally at a location to which the tape is not attached. Therefore, the location of the tape may not be easily distinguished visually. If the tape is coated with a film F having a different color from the raw material, the location of the tape may be easily distinguished visually. In an automated device, the film F having the different color is identified by a sensor such as color sensor. As shown in
In order to describe the location for the color sensor,
When the film F having the different color is attached to the non-bonding portion B of the tape T, the clamp member 21 may include a color sensor 21S in order to recognize the location of the film F and adjust the location of the clamp member 21, and the color sensor 21S may be positioned on a surface facing the roll type raw material R of the first clamp member 21A or the tape T in order for the color sensor 21S to be effectively operated. If the film F may be identified with a high sensitivity, the type of color sensor 21S is not particularly limited.
In order to describe the location for the air eruption hole,
In the case of the roll type raw material R and the non-bonding portion B of the tape T, even though the non-bonding portion B has no bonding force, the phenomenon in which the raw material R and the non-bonding portion B are in close contact with each other by the electrostatic attraction may occur, and when artificially blowing the wind to the space between the roll type raw material R and the non-bonding portion B, the non-bonding portion B may be easily spaced apart from the roll type raw material R. The wind may be generated by erupting the air from an air eruption hole H2 positioned in the clamp member. The air eruption hole H2 is connected to a device (not shown) that injects the air. In order to effectively separate the non-bonding portion B, it may be preferable that the air eruption hole H2 is formed to be close to the non-bonding portion B of the tape T in the first clamp member 21A as possible as shown in
In order to describe a state in which the clamp member and the attachment pad are in contact with the roll type raw material just before removing the tape,
In general, one tape T is attached to the vicinity of a width center of the roll type raw material R, and the tape is bonded so that the bonding portion A goes through a start line L of the roll type raw material. In order to remove the tape, first, as shown in
In order to describe the supplementary member,
Since the attachment pad 31 serves to clamp the raw material so as to prevent the roll type raw material from unwinding when removing the tape, the attachment pad 31 has a shape in which the attachment pad 31 is not in contact with the tape. The attachment pad 31 does not cover the entire area of the end portion of the raw material due to such a shape, and this causes a problem in that when the attachment pad 31 moves the end portion of the raw material, the end portion of the raw material is not sufficiently fixed. The raw material conveying unit 30 may further include a supplementary member 33, and the supplementary member 33 supplements the attachment pad 31 so that the attachment surface is in contact with the entire area of the end portion of the raw material after the tape is removed. Since the area to be supplemented is determined, the shape of the supplementary member 33 is not diversified, but the supplementary member 33 may be applied in various directions.
In order to describe the support member,
The support member 34 may be introduced to solve a problem in that the support member 34, similarly to the supplementary member 33, does not sufficiently fix the end portion of the raw material when the attachment pad 31 moves the end portion of the raw material, and the supplementary member 33 and the support member 34 may also be simultaneously applied. The raw material conveying unit 30 may further include the support member 34, and the support member 34 supports the other surface of the attachment surface when unwinding the roll type raw material R after attaching the raw material. When the supplementary member 33 and the support member 34 are simultaneously applied, since the supplementary member 33 may be applied before unwinding the roll type raw material R, the supplementary member 33 may be applied earlier than the support member 34.
In the above, although the present invention has been described with reference to limited embodiments and drawings, the present invention is not limited thereto, and also it is apparent that various modifications and variations can be made by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains within the scope of equivalents of the technical spirit of the present invention and the claims to be described below.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
---|---|---|---|
10-2021-0048933 | Apr 2021 | KR | national |
10-2022-0005009 | Jan 2022 | KR | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
---|---|---|---|
PCT/KR2022/005455 | 4/15/2022 | WO |