CN1303578C - Shunt access device and method for glass substrate - Google Patents

Abstract

A flow distribution access device for glass substrates, comprising: a cassette, a separation structure, a shift mechanism and a transmission mechanism. The separation structure is arranged on the cassette and used for separating the substrate accommodating area in the cassette into a plurality of storage positions. The shifting mechanism drives the glass substrate to move among a plurality of carrying positions outside the cassette. The transmission mechanism transmits the glass substrate into and out of the cassette, thereby moving the glass substrate from the conveying position to the storage position or from the storage position to the conveying position.

Description

The shunting access device and the method for glass substrate

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of shunting access device and method, particularly relate to a kind of shunting access device and method of glass substrate.

Background technology

Glass substrate is the indispensable main element of flat-panel screens.The flat-panel screens that is provided has plurality of specifications on the market, therefore, must use the glass substrate of multiple size in the production run and the card casket of the glass substrate of putting various sizes is provided.Be to adopt lines card casket to put the glass substrate of various different sizes traditionally.

Please refer to Figure 1A, illustrate the front view of card casket access device traditionally.Card casket access device 100 comprises lines card casket and roller set 140.Lines card casket comprises a top board 102, a base plate 103, a spacer structure 120 and biside plate 105.Top board 102, base plate 103 and biside plate 105 surround a card casket space.Spacer structure 120 is disposed at the inner face of biside plate 105, will block the casket space interval and be several substrate disposal areas 150.What Figure 1B illustrated is the top surface perspective of the card casket access device of Figure 1A.Substrate disposal area 150 comprises several lines 122, and several lines 122 are for being parallel in the substrate disposal area 150.Shown in Figure 1B, be that the glass substrate 166 of large-size or the glass substrate 164 of reduced size all can be sent into lines card casket via roller set 140, and support and be placed in the substrate disposal area 150 by several lines 122.Yet, cooperate distances between two row's rollers of the roller set 140 that card casket access device adopted traditionally for fixing.Therefore, can't will send into lines card casket less than the glass substrate 162 of roller distance, so that reduced the amount of storage of card casket by roller set 140.In addition, roller set 140 traditionally only can be come the access glass substrate in the mode that monolithic transmits, and promptly each turnover card casket only can access a slice glass substrate.

Summary of the invention

In view of this, the object of the present invention is to provide a kind of shunting access device and method of glass substrate, increase the amount of storage of small size glass substrate at the card casket, and by shunting the mode access simultaneously multi-disc glass substrate that transmits, with the access efficiency of raising glass substrate, and then the manufacturing cost of reduction glass substrate.

According to purpose of the present invention, a kind of shunting access device of glass substrate is provided, comprising: card casket, separation structure, shift mechanism and gear train.The card casket comprises at least one substrate disposal area.Separation structure is arranged at the card casket, is a plurality of deposit positions in order to separate the substrate disposal area.The shift mechanism packaged type is arranged at outside the card casket, moves in order to drive between glass substrate several carrying positions outside the card casket.Gear train is in order to transmission glass substrate turnover card casket, glass substrate moved to deposit position from the carrying position or to carry the position from deposit position to moving to.

Can become apparent in order to allow the present invention not play above-mentioned purpose, feature and advantage, a preferred embodiment cited below particularly, and cooperate appended graphicly, elaborate.

Description of drawings

Figure 1A is the front view of traditional card casket access device;

Figure 1B is the top surface perspective of the card casket access device of Figure 1A;

Fig. 2 A is the partial schematic diagram of side-looking section of shunting access device of the glass substrate of a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 B is the top surface perspective of shunting access device of the glass substrate of Fig. 2 A;

Fig. 3 A to Fig. 3 E is the synoptic diagram of shunting access method of the glass substrate of a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Embodiment

Please be simultaneously with reference to Fig. 2 A and Fig. 2 B; Fig. 2 A is the partial schematic diagram of side-looking section of shunting access device of the glass substrate of a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 2 B is the top surface perspective of shunting access device of the glass substrate of Fig. 2 A.The shunting access device of glass substrate comprises: card casket 200, separation structure 260, shift mechanism 270 and gear train.Card casket 200 comprises at least one substrate disposal area 250.Card casket 200 comprises top board 202, base plate 203, spacer structure and biside plate.Top board 202, base plate 203 and biside plate surround a card casket space.Spacer structure is disposed at the inner face of biside plate, will block the casket space interval and be several substrate disposal areas 250.In Fig. 2 B, substrate disposal area 250 comprises several adjacent support components 222, is arranged in parallel within the substrate disposal area 250, in order to the support glass substrate.

Separation structure 260 is arranged at card casket 200, is several deposit positions in order to separate substrate disposal area 250.Shown in Fig. 2 A, separation structure 260 comprises: setting element, detent and adjustment element 266.Detent comprises upper groove 262a and low groove 264a, is opened in card casket 200.Setting element comprises that block 262 reaches block 264 down, and packaged type is disposed at upper groove 262a and low groove 264a respectively.Adjust element 266 in order to adjust the relative position that block 262 and following block 264 correspond respectively to upper groove 262a and low groove 264a.Adjusting element 266 is a spring preferably, and block 262 reaches block 264 down in the connection.Shown in Fig. 2 B, separation structure 260 is divided into substrate disposal area 250 two districts and can provides deposit position 252 and 256 and deposit position 254 and 258 respectively according to the front and back series arrangement, therefore, substrate disposal area 250 has four deposit positions 252,254,256 and 258 altogether; Yet be not limited thereto, separation structure 260 can be in response to the adjusted size substrate disposal area 250 of substrate, with what of decision deposit position.Especially, when putting the small size glass substrate, separation structure 260 can increase the deposit position of small size glass substrate on more than 200 times on card casket, improves the amount of storage of card casket 200.In addition, the design of separation structure 260 can be adjusted the size of substrate disposal area 250 apace in response to the conversion of substrate size, and the demand to use in response to reality allows card casket 200 can put the glass substrate of various sizes under the situation that does not need dismounting again.

Gear train is in order to transmission glass substrate turnover card casket 200, and glass substrate is moved to deposit position 252,254,256 and 258 from carrying position 282 and 284, or carries position 282 and 284 from deposit position 252,254,256 and 258 to moving to.Gear train is a roller set preferably, comprising: several internal trolleys 244 and several outer rollers 242.Several internal trolleys 244 are between adjacent support component 222 and a little more than support component 222.Therefore, internal trolley 244 and support component 222 alternate configurations are in substrate disposal area 250.It is outer and adjacent with shift mechanism 270 that several outer rollers 242 are arranged at card casket 200.Shift mechanism 270 packaged types are arranged at outside the card casket 200, comprise shift element 272 and lifting element 274.Shift element 272 is in order to move horizontally glass substrate in the top of the outer carrying position 282 of card casket 200 and carry between the top of position 284.Lifting element 274 in order to the glass substrate that moves up glass substrate pushed away outer roller 242 or to move down glass substrate glass substrate is placed on the outer roller 242.

Please refer to Fig. 3 A to Fig. 3 E, illustrate synoptic diagram according to the shunting access method of the glass substrate of a preferred embodiment of the present invention; And please be simultaneously with reference to Fig. 2 A and Fig. 2 B.The shunting access method of glass substrate is applied to the shunting access mechanism of above-mentioned glass substrate.In Fig. 3 A, at first glass substrate 302 is placed on the outer roller 242 outside the card casket 200.Then, in Fig. 3 B, shift mechanism 270 drives the carrying position 282 of glass substrate 302 to card casket 200.The lifting element 274 of shift mechanism 270 is the glass substrates 302 that move up earlier, glass substrate 302 is pushed away after the outer roller 242, moves glass substrate 302 by shift element 272 above carrying position 282 along the A direction.Then, move down glass substrate 302 to carrying position 282 by lifting element 274 again, on the last exclusive roller 242a that glass substrate 302 is placed in corresponding carrying position 282.Before glass substrate 302 enters card casket 200, the mode that this method adopts segmentation to drive, the last exclusive roller 242a that only drives corresponding carrying position 282 advances to an Accreditation Waiting Area 320 with transmission glass substrate 302 from carrying position 282, shown in Fig. 3 C, or directly glass substrate 302 is sent to deposit position 252 or 256.At this moment, shift mechanism 270 is return reference position, to wait for next sheet glass substrate.Similarly, next the sheet glass substrate 304 in Fig. 3 D is to be driven to carrying position 284 by shift mechanism 270.Then, only drive the corresponding following exclusive roller 242b that carries position 284 and advance to Accreditation Waiting Area 320 from carrying position 284 with transmission glass substrate 304.Shown in Fig. 3 D, two sheet glass substrates 302 and 304 have all driven to Accreditation Waiting Area 320.At last, the mode that transmits by shunting drives to deposit position 252 and 254 respectively by the glass substrate 302 and 304 that roller set will be positioned at (comprising row's inside and outside roller 242a, 242b, 244a, 244b up and down) Accreditation Waiting Area 320 simultaneously, shown in Fig. 3 E.Shunting load mode of the present invention access simultaneously multi-disc glass substrate, the access efficiency of raising glass substrate also can be saved the cost of access time and board running.

Because the substrate disposal area 250 of Fig. 2 B still provides two other deposit position 256 and 258, can repeat above-mentioned steps other two sheet glass substrates (not being illustrated among the figure) are moved to deposit position 256 and 258 from carrying position 282 and 284.In like manner as can be known, the step of taking out glass substrate is the step of depositing in contrast to above-mentioned glass substrate, does not repeat them here.

In addition, shown in Fig. 2 A, the card casket is the multilayer card casket, comprises a plurality of substrates disposal area, and each substrate disposal area has several deposit positions respectively.Therefore, necessary first locator card casket 200 before the shunting access method of above-mentioned glass substrate makes the first deposit position level of one of them substrate disposal area carry out access action corresponding to beginning after carrying the position at this substrate disposal area.After access finishes, move card casket 200 and locator card casket again again, make the second deposit position level of another substrate disposal area corresponding to the carrying position after beginning carry out access action at another substrate disposal area.

The shunting access device and the method for the disclosed glass substrate of the above embodiment of the present invention, design with separation structure can be adjusted the size of substrate disposal area apace in response to the size change over for the treatment of the access substrate, with the demand in the realistic use, put the glass substrate of various sizes.Especially, when putting the small size glass substrate, separation structure can be divided into the substrate disposal area a plurality of deposit positions, increases the deposit position of small size glass substrate on many times on card casket, improves the amount of storage of card casket.Separation structure not only can allow the card casket carry out the adjustment of deposit position under the situation that does not need dismounting again, what of the deposit position of more making decision in the abundant space of utilization substrate disposal area.In addition, the present invention can improve the access efficiency of glass substrate by the mode access simultaneously multi-disc glass substrate that shunting transmits.Simultaneously, can save the cost of access time and board running.

In sum; though disclosed the present invention in conjunction with an above preferred embodiment; yet it is not in order to limit the present invention; anyly be familiar with this operator; without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention; can be used for a variety of modifications and variations, so protection scope of the present invention should be with being as the criterion that claim was defined.

Claims (12)

1. A shunt access device for glass substrates, comprising: A cassette, including at least one substrate accommodating area; a partition structure, arranged in the cassette, for partitioning the substrate storage area into multiple storage positions; a plurality of adjacent supporting elements are arranged in the substrate accommodating area to support the glass substrate; a displacement mechanism, which is movably arranged outside the cassette, and is used to drive the glass substrate to move between a plurality of transfer positions outside the cassette; and A transmission mechanism is used to drive the glass substrate into and out of the cassette, thereby moving the glass substrate from the transport positions to the storage positions or from the storage positions to the transport positions. 2. The device of claim 1, wherein the transmission mechanism comprises: a plurality of inner rollers, located between the support elements and slightly higher than the support elements; and A plurality of outer rollers are arranged outside the cassette and adjacent to the shifting mechanism. 3. The device of claim 1, wherein the displacement mechanism comprises: a translation element to move the glass substrate horizontally between the transfer positions; and A lifting element moves the glass substrate up and down. 4. The device of claim 1, wherein the partition structure comprises: A positioning groove is opened in the cassette; a positioning element, movably disposed in the positioning groove; and An adjusting element is used for adjusting the relative position of the positioning element in the positioning groove. 5. The device of claim 4, wherein the adjustment element is a spring. 6. The device as claimed in claim 5, wherein the positioning element is an upper stopper and a lower stopper, and the spring connects the upper stopper and the lower stopper. 7. A split deposit method for glass substrates, comprising: (A) providing a cassette, wherein the cassette includes at least one substrate accommodating area; (B) dividing the substrate accommodating area into multiple storage locations; (C) using a moving mechanism arranged outside the cassette to drive the glass substrates to move between a plurality of transfer positions outside the cassette; and (D) driving the respective glass substrates, thereby moving the respective glass substrates from the respective transfer positions to the respective storage positions. 8. The method of claim 7, wherein the step (c) comprises: placing a specific glass substrate of each glass substrate on each outer roller; moving the specific glass substrate upwards to push the specific glass substrate away from the respective outer rollers; horizontally moving the specific glass substrate over a specific one of the transfer positions; and The specific glass substrate is moved down to the specific transfer position, so that the specific glass substrate is placed on the respective outer rollers corresponding to the specific transfer position. 9. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the step (D) comprises: (d1) driving the specific glass substrate at the specific transfer position to advance to a waiting area; and (d2) Driving the specific glass substrate located in the waiting area to a specific storage position of the storage positions. 10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the method is to repeat the step (c) and the step (d1), so that the glass substrates respectively placed on the outer rollers are transported to the waiting area Then, in the step (d2), the glass substrates located in the waiting area are simultaneously transferred from the waiting area to the storage positions. 11. The method according to claim 7, wherein the cassette is a multi-layer cassette, comprising a first substrate accommodating area and a second substrate accommodating area, and respectively having a plurality of first storage positions and a plurality of The second storage location, the method also includes: After the step (B) and before the step (C), positioning the cassette such that the first storage positions correspond horizontally to the transport positions; and After the step (D), the cassette is moved so that the second storage positions are horizontally corresponding to the transport positions, and the step (C) and the step (D) are repeated. 12. A method for splitting and taking out a glass substrate, comprising: (A) providing a cassette, wherein the cassette includes at least one substrate accommodating area; (B) dividing the substrate accommodating area into multiple storage locations; (C) driving each glass substrate at each storage location, thereby moving each glass substrate from each storage location to each transfer location; and (D) Utilizing a moving mechanism arranged outside the cassette to drive the glass substrates to move among a plurality of transfer positions outside the cassette.

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