Automatic butt joint and locking mechanism
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of large equipment assembly, in particular to an automatic butt joint and locking mechanism.
Background
With the continuous application of advanced aerospace technologies in production, the requirements for aerospace equipment are higher and higher. In order to adapt to the aerospace technology, aerospace equipment devices are also developed towards large-scale high-temperature high-pressure directions with harsh production environments; because of the large size of equipment such as radars, airplanes, satellites, etc., the equipment is usually divided into several sections during the design and manufacture process, and finally, the equipment is finally assembled and molded.
The butt joint is taken as a key link in the final assembly stage, and the overall manufacturing technical level of large-scale equipment is directly influenced. At present, the butt joint assembly of large equipment mainly adopts manual assembly, has low efficiency and long period, has poor assembly quality consistency and can not meet the requirements of high-precision, high-efficiency and high-reliability production of the large equipment.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to overcome the defects of the prior art, the invention aims to provide an automatic butt joint and locking mechanism so as to meet the requirements of high-precision, high-efficiency and high-reliability production of large equipment.
Therefore, the invention provides an automatic butt joint and locking mechanism, which comprises a fixing device, a moving device and a fastening pull rod, wherein the fixing device is arranged on the fixing device; the fixing device comprises a fixing sleeve and a plurality of edge grooves, the top end of the fixing sleeve is provided with a limiting groove, and the section of the limiting groove is in a straight shape; the moving device comprises a moving sleeve and a plurality of edge thimbles, and a limit boss is arranged on the side edge of the inner ring of the moving sleeve; the fastening pull rod comprises a top convex handle and a rod body groove; the shape of the top convex handle is matched with that of the limiting groove, and the rod body groove is arranged on the outer cylindrical surface of the fastening pull rod and is an inner groove.
The movable sleeve axially moves and is matched with the fixed sleeve to jointly complete axial positioning, and the edge groove is matched with the edge thimble to jointly complete circumferential positioning; the rod body groove is matched with the limiting boss, the fastening pull rod drives the movable sleeve to move axially until the top convex handle is clamped in the limiting groove, and butt joint and locking between the fixing device and the moving device are completed.
Furthermore, the edge grooves are arranged, the rectangular arrays are distributed on the outer side of the fixed sleeve, and the edge grooves are concave spherical and used for limiting circumferential movement in the butt joint process.
Furthermore, the edge thimbles are distributed around the movable sleeve in a rectangular row, each edge thimble comprises a thimble and an adjusting mechanism connected with the thimble, and the shape of the thimble is matched with that of the edge groove.
Furthermore, the adjusting mechanism adopts a screw rod and nut washer structure and is used for adjusting the height of the thimble.
Furthermore, the edge grooves and the ejector pins are both provided with two grooves, the shape of each edge groove is concave-square, and the shape of each ejector pin is matched with that of each edge groove.
Furthermore, the rod body groove is composed of three sections, the two sections are parallel along the direction of a bus, and the third section of arc groove is connected with the two parallel grooves.
Furthermore, the two limit bosses and the two rod body grooves are arranged, the rod body grooves are symmetrically distributed about the central axis of the fastening pull rod, and the limit bosses are symmetrically distributed about the central axis of the movable sleeve.
Furthermore, the cross section of the limiting groove is shaped like a plus sign, and the shape of the top convex handle is matched with that of the limiting groove and used for limiting the circumferential rotation of the fastening pull rod.
Furthermore, the limiting boss is cubic or cylindrical.
Compared with manual butt joint, the automatic butt joint and locking mechanism provided by the invention has obvious advantages, and is based on mechanical automation, and a set of butt joint tool is used for completing butt joint and locking between two sections of equipment, so that the assembly task of a product is completed better and faster, the product assembly quality is improved, the product design and manufacturing period is shortened, and the labor intensity of field technical workers is greatly reduced.
In addition to the objects, features and advantages described above, other objects, features and advantages of the present invention are also provided. The present invention will be described in further detail below with reference to the drawings.
Drawings
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the invention and not to limit the invention. In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is an assembled schematic view of the automatic docking and latching mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of a fixing device in the automatic docking and locking mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic side view of a fixing device of the automatic docking and locking mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view A-A of the fixture in the automatic docking and latching mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of the moving device of the automatic docking and locking mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the moving device in the automatic docking and latching mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a schematic view of the tightening rod of the automatic docking and locking mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a front view of a tightening rod in the automatic docking and locking mechanism of the present invention
FIG. 9 is a side view of the automatic docking and latching mechanism of the present invention in an initial state;
FIG. 10 is an initial state cross-sectional view of the automatic docking and latching mechanism of the present invention;
FIG. 11 is a side view of the final locked state of the automatic docking and locking mechanism of the present invention;
fig. 12 is a sectional view showing a final locking state of the automatic docking and locking mechanism of the present invention.
Description of the reference numerals
1. A fixing device; 2. a mobile device; 3. fastening the pull rod; 11. fixing the sleeve; 12. an edge groove; 111. a limiting groove; 21. moving the sleeve; 22. an edge thimble; 211. a limiting boss; 221. a thimble; 222. an adjustment mechanism; 31. a top convex handle; 32. the shaft is provided with a groove.
Detailed Description
It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.
As shown in fig. 1, the automatic docking and locking mechanism of the present invention comprises: a fixing device 1, a moving device 2 and a fastening pull rod 3; the fixing device 1 is fixed on an object to be butted (a radar, an airplane and a satellite framework static part) to form a static system, the moving device 2 is fixed on a moving object (a radar, an airplane and a satellite framework moving part) to form a moving system, and the fixing device 1 is butted with the moving device 2 and locked through the fastening pull rod 3.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 2 to 4, the fixing device 1 includes a fixing sleeve 11 and a plurality of edge grooves 12, the number of the edge grooves 12 is 4, the edge grooves 12 are distributed on the outer side of the fixing sleeve 11 in a rectangular array, and the shape of the edge grooves 12 is a concave sphere for limiting circumferential movement during the docking process. The inside of the fixing sleeve 11 is roughly cylindrical, the top end is provided with a limiting groove 111, and the section of the limiting groove 111 is in a shape of a Chinese character 'yi'.
As shown in fig. 5 and 6, the moving device 2 includes a moving sleeve 21 and a plurality of edge pins 22, and a pair of limiting bosses 211 are disposed on inner circumferential sides of the moving sleeve 21. Wherein, the limiting boss 211 is cubic or cylindrical or other protruding shape.
The edge thimble 22 is distributed around the movable sleeve 21 in a rectangular row, the edge thimble 22 includes a thimble 221 and an adjusting mechanism 222 connected with the thimble 221, the shape of the thimble 221 is matched with the edge groove 12 in the fixing device 1, and the adjusting mechanism 222 adopts a screw rod and nut washer structure for adjusting the height of the thimble 221.
As shown in fig. 7, 8, the fastening stay 3 includes a top lug 31 and a pair of shaft grooves 32; the shape of the top lug 31 is matched with the limiting groove 111 at the top end of the fixed sleeve 11.
The pole body recess 32 sets up on fastening pull rod 3 outer cylindrical surface, and be the inner groovy, comprises 3 sections, and 2 sections are parallel along the generating line direction, and two parallel recesses are connected to third section pitch arc recess, and a pair of pole body recess 32 about fastening pull rod 3's the central axis symmetric distribution.
The moving device 2 is rapidly close to the fixing device 1, the axial positioning is completed by the fixing sleeve 11 and the moving sleeve 21 together, and the circumferential positioning is completed by the edge groove 12 and the edge thimble 22 together.
The fastening pull rod 3 moves along the axial direction and the circumferential direction under the action of the axial external force and the limiting boss 211. Wherein, the shaft groove 32 cooperates with the limit boss 211, the fastening pull rod 3 drives the movable sleeve 21 to move axially and circumferentially until the top convex handle 31 is clamped in the limit groove 111, and the connection and locking between the fixing device 1 and the moving device 2 are completed.
In one embodiment, the number of the edge grooves 12 is 2 or 3, and the edge grooves 12 are shaped as concave squares or the like for limiting circumferential movement during docking.
In another embodiment, the cross section of the limiting groove 111 may also be "+" shaped, or other features that can limit the circumferential movement of the shaft-like part, and the shape of the top lug 31 in the fastening pull rod 3 matches with the limiting groove 111 to limit the circumferential rotation of the fastening pull rod 3.
The working principle and the working process of the invention are briefly described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
In the working state, the fixing device 1 is firstly arranged on the radar framework and is kept still together with the part of the framework. The moving means 2 is then mounted on another part of the radar skeleton and moves along with this part.
In the docking process, as shown in fig. 9 and 10, the moving device 2 drives the radar skeleton to move fast to the vicinity of the radar skeleton of the fixing device 1. Secondly, the axial positioning of the radar framework is realized by means of the positioning function of the fixed sleeve 11 on the fixing device 1 and the movable sleeve 21 on the moving device 2. And finally, realizing the circumferential positioning of the butting radar framework by means of the matching of the groove 12 at the upper edge of the fixing device 1 and the thimble 221 on the moving device 2.
As shown in fig. 11 and 12, the fastening draw bar 3 moves axially under the action of external force, and at the same time, the shaft groove 32 on the shaft and the limit boss 211 inside the movable sleeve 21 move circumferentially due to the cooperation of the two. Finally, the top convex handle 31 of the fastening pull rod 3 is clamped in the limiting groove 111 of the fixing device 1, so that locking is realized.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention.