JPH0133326B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION <Industrial Field of Application> The disclosed technology belongs to the technical field of printed circuit board manufacturing devices used for wiring electronic components.

<Summary of the gist> The present invention relates to an electronic circuit board pressing device in which a workpiece transfer device is provided between a multi-stage press device main body and a conveyor for carrying in and out of the press device, and particularly, A stacker having a multi-stage workpiece storage section is linked to the loading/unloading conveyor so as to be able to move up and down, and a plurality of the above-mentioned press apparatus bodies are installed together, and a rod-like object such as a pole that engages with the workpiece is installed between the loading/unloading side and the stacker. A multi-stage type in which an endless band such as a pair of chains fixed in an upright position has a length equivalent to one stroke of loading and unloading the work into the press body, and is supported in a wound state around a rotating body such as a sprocket. This invention relates to an electronic circuit board pressing device in which a transport body is movably provided.

<Prior Art> As is well known, in recent years, with the spread of computers and the like, the demand for printed circuit boards used for assembling small circuits of electronic devices has increased.
It is desired to improve the productivity of a press machine that manufactures printed circuit boards by polymerizing a plurality of predetermined substrate materials, as seen in the inventions of JP-A-50-30180 and JP-B-37-12528. It's coming.

By the way, since these types of printed circuit boards support precision electronic components, it is necessary to avoid contamination with impurities during the manufacturing process and to shorten the manufacturing time and transportation lines as much as possible to prevent damage. Ru.

<Problems to be Solved by the Invention> However, in the case of the electronic circuit board pressing apparatus based on the prior art, the board material as a workpiece is carried into and out of the press apparatus main body using separate conveyance devices. However, there is a disadvantage that there is a higher possibility that impurities will be mixed into the workpiece from the outside, which may reduce the accuracy of the workpiece.

In addition, even if the press equipment itself was made into a multi-stage type in order to shorten manufacturing time, the transport device did not have the ability to transport multiple workpieces, so in the end, each workpiece had to be transported separately, and the transport process The disadvantage was that the loss time caused by the process extended manufacturing time, resulting in a decrease in production efficiency.

In addition, there was also a problem in that it was difficult to carry out smooth loading and unloading of workpieces without interference with the connection parts with each device connected by the loading device.

<Objective of the Invention> The object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the electronic circuit substrate pressing apparatus based on the above-mentioned conventional technology, and to improve production efficiency by transporting multiple workpieces in one stroke to reduce loss time. An object of the present invention is to provide an excellent electronic circuit substrate pressing device that improves the performance of the electronic circuit board and shortens the conveyance line to reduce the possibility of workpiece damage and impurity contamination, thereby benefiting the field of pressing technology application in the electronic component manufacturing industry. It is.

<Means/effects for solving the problem> In accordance with the above-mentioned object, the structure of the present invention, which is summarized in the above-mentioned claims, is to solve the above-mentioned problem.
The work is supplied to a multi-stage work storage section of a stacker that moves up and down linked to the loading/unloading conveyor, and then a rod-shaped body such as a pole is connected to the stacker and engages with a locking part such as a neck of the work. A conveying body that supports a pair of endless bands wound around a rotating body such as a sprocket with a length corresponding to one stroke of loading and unloading the workpiece in an upright position carries the workpiece into the multi-stage storage section via the rod-shaped body. After that, the workpiece is fed to the main body of a multi-stage press machine that has multiple machines, and the workpiece, whose substrate has been polymerized in the main body of the press machine, passes through the reverse route to the conveyor body. A technical measure has been taken in which the materials are moved by a stacker, which descends, and are sequentially discharged from an in/out conveyor.

<Example> Next, an example of the present invention will be described below based on the drawings.

The embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 schematically shows an electronic circuit board pressing apparatus 1 constituting the gist of the present invention, in which a number of press shelves 3, 3 are provided on one side of a base 2.
A well-known multi-stage press apparatus main body 4 having...
4', 4'' are arranged, and the press device main body 4, 4',
4'' is connected to a transport conveyor 8 and an output conveyor 9, each serving as an input/output conveyor, via a stacker 6 constituting a workpiece transfer device 5 and a loader 7 serving as a conveyor.

The stacker 6 is a carrier plate 1 as a workpiece shown in FIG. 3 on which a plurality of substrate materials are placed.
0 storage sections 11, 11, 11 are supported by a frame 12 and are movable up and down via a hydraulic cylinder 13, and the stacker 6 on the carry-in conveyor 8 side carries in and carries out the carrier plate 10 while rising. The stacker 6 on the conveyor 9 side carries out the carrier plate 10 while descending, and
is raised and lowered in stages so that they are at the same level with respect to the carry-in conveyor 8 and the carry-out conveyor 9.

Incidentally, since the carrying-in conveyor 8 and the carrying-out conveyor 9 are each extended to a position where they penetrate the center of the stacker 6, each storage section 11 of the stacker 6 has a carrier plate 10 in order to avoid mutual interference.
It is formed by a pair of supports 14, 14 that support only both sides of.

As shown in FIG.
6, the main frame 17
A sub-frame 19 that moves toward the stacker 6 and the press apparatus main body 4, 4', 4'' side via rollers 18, 18 is supported on the upper part of the sub-frame 19.
is provided with multiple workpiece receiving sections 20, 20, . . . on which the carrier plate 10 is placed.

As shown in FIG. 3, the sub-frame 19 is provided with four chain sprockets as rotating bodies via brackets 21 at both upper and lower positions corresponding to the respective supports 14 of the stacker 6. 2
2, 22..., a chain 23 as an endless band is attached to the press device main body 4, 4' of the carrier plate 10,
It has a length corresponding to one stroke of loading and unloading to and from 4'' and is rotatable in opposite directions.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, each chain 23 has poles 26, 26 as rod-shaped bodies that engage with a locking portion 25 as a neck of the carrier plate 10. A plurality of carrier plates 10, 10, 10 are supported in pairs.
... can be carried in and out with one stroke.

In the above configuration, the carrier plates 10 sequentially conveyed on the carry-in conveyor 8 are stored in the storage parts 11, 11 from the uppermost storage part 11 of the stacker 6, which is lowered intermittently via the hydraulic cylinder 3. .

Then, the loader 7 moving on the rails 15, 15 stops at a position where its workpiece receiving parts 20, 20... face the storage part 11 of the stacker 6, and the loader 7 moves on the rails 15, 15, and stops at a position where the workpiece receiving parts 20, 20... face the storage part 11 of the stacker 6. slide it to the stacker 6 side.

Next, the chains 23, 23 are connected via the motor 24.
When rotated in the direction shown by the one-dot chain line in Figure 3,
Since the locking parts 25, 25 of the carrier plate 10 placed on the supports 14, 14 of the stacker 6 are located on the rotation locus of the chains 23, 23, the poles rotate in opposite directions synchronously. 26, 26 engage with the locking parts 25, 25, and pull the plurality of carrier plates 10 into the work receiving parts 20, 20, 20... in the order shown in FIGS. 3, 4, and 5 in one stroke, and as shown in FIG. The chain 23 is stopped rotating in the state shown.

During this time, the pawls 26, 26 are locked to the locking portions 25, 25 of the carrier plate 10 from both sides while approaching each other, and are released while moving away from each other, thereby realizing a smooth engagement operation. .

The loader 7, which has housed the carrier plates 10, 10... in the position shown in FIG. The material is supplied to the press apparatus body 4 by pawls 26, 26 which stop in front of the material and rotate via the chain 23 in the same manner as described above, and are pressed.

In the meantime, the substrate material on the carrier plate 10 that has been pressed in the other press main body 4' is discharged from the other stacker 6 via the carry-out conveyor 9 by the loader 7 in a reverse operation to that described above.

Then, the carrier plates 10 supplied from the carry-in conveyor 8 are again supplied to the press body 4 via the stacker 6 and the loader 7, and press working is performed in sequence.

In this way, since a plurality of carrier plates 10 are carried in and out at the same time and subjected to processing, efficient production can be performed with less loss time, and the transport time is substantially reduced to prevent damage to the substrate material on the carrier plates 10. etc., is reduced.

Further, by arranging the press apparatus main bodies 4, 4', 4'', each press time can be adjusted so that workpieces can be processed without loss at all times.

The carry-in conveyor 8, the carry-out conveyor 9, the stacker 6, the loader 7, and the press apparatus main bodies 4, 4', 4'' are set by a control device (not shown) so that their operations are without loss.

It goes without saying that the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the above-described embodiments; for example, various embodiments can be adopted, such as increasing the number of stackers arranged as required.

<Effects of the Invention> As described above, the present invention basically has the excellent effect of increasing the productivity of press processing for polymerizing electronic circuit board materials and effectively meeting the rapidly increasing demand for boards. It is played.

In addition, a stacker having multiple workpiece storage sections is linked to the conveyor so that it can be raised and lowered, allowing multiple workpieces to be stored in stages, resulting in an excellent effect of not taking up much space. .

In addition, a multi-stage conveying body that supports a rod-shaped body that engages with a workpiece in a freely winding manner via a pair of endless bands is moved between the loading/unloading side of the main body of the press machine, which is installed in multiple units, and the stacker. By being freely installed, multiple workpieces can be smoothly loaded and unloaded in one stroke using the rotation of the endless belt, and since multiple press units are installed, If a phase difference is provided in the pressing process of each press device, there will be no loss time during the pressing process, which takes a relatively long time, and an excellent effect of increasing production efficiency will be achieved.

In addition, since the workpieces are transferred into and out of the press equipment only by the conveyor, the possibility of contamination of the workpieces with impurities during the conveyance process is reduced, which has the excellent effect of increasing the accuracy of the workpieces. .

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the invention,
FIG. 1 is an overall schematic plan view, FIG. 2 is a side view of the same, and FIGS. 3, 4, and 5 are workpiece conveyance process diagrams. 4, 4', 4''...Press device main body, 8, 9...
Loading/unloading conveyor, 5'...Work transfer device, 1...
...Electronic circuit board pressing device, 11... Work storage section, 6... Stacker, 10... Work, 26...
... Rod-shaped body, 23... Endless body, 7... Transport body.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In an electronic circuit substrate press device in which a workpiece transfer device is provided between a plurality of press device bodies and a conveyor for carrying in and out of the press device body, the carrying-in/out conveyor has a multi-stage work storage section. The stackers, which can be raised and lowered, are linked together, each having a rod-like body in an upright position that engages with the neck of the work between the loading/unloading side of the press apparatus main body and the stacker, each having a circumference corresponding to one stroke of loading/unloading the workpiece. 1. A substrate pressing device for electronic circuits, characterized in that a carrier is movably provided to support a pair of endless bands wound around a rotating body in multiple stages.