TWI848439B - Unmanned steam plating system for optical components - Google Patents

Abstract

An unmanned steam plating system for optical components, which includes an umbrella rack platform for setting a steam plating umbrella rack, a steam plating machine for steam plating optical components on the steam plating umbrella rack, an automatic mobile device having a charging seat and an automatic guide transport vehicle electrically connected or disconnected from the charging seat, and a detection control device for detecting the umbrella rack platform, the steam plating machine and the automatic mobile device and controlling the movement of the automatic guide transport vehicle, since the detection control device can control the automatic guide transport vehicle to automatically transport the steam plating umbrella rack to the steam plating machine for the steam plating operation of the optical components, and to automatically transport the steam plating umbrella rack to the umbrella rack platform for the unloading operation of the optical components, the steam plating efficiency of the optical components can be improved.

Description

Unmanned Evaporation System for Optical Components

The present invention relates to optical components, and more particularly to an unmanned evaporation system for optical components.

The surface design of optical components is an important parameter of quality and the main factor that determines the quality of the beam. In order to improve the performance of optical components, it is usually necessary to deposit a thin film on the surface of the optical component. The most widely used deposition method is evaporation, which physically heats the target material to excite the particles in the target material. The excited particles adhere to the surface of the optical component to form the required film layer.

During the evaporation process of optical components, the optical components to be coated must first be fixed on the coating umbrella on the umbrella platform, and then the coated umbrella with the optical components fixed is moved to the evaporator for evaporation. After the evaporation operation is completed, the coated umbrella is moved to the umbrella platform for post-coating treatment, testing and other steps. However, in terms of evaporation efficiency, in addition to relying on manpower to place optical components on or remove optical components from the coating umbrella rack, it is also necessary to rely on personnel to move the coating umbrella rack with optical components fixed to the evaporator, and to move the coated umbrella rack to the umbrella rack platform after the evaporation operation is completed. Such excessive manpower participation not only consumes manpower and increases labor costs, but also highlights the defect of poor evaporation efficiency of optical components.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an unmanned evaporation system for optical components that can solve one of the above problems, thereby reducing labor costs or improving the efficiency of optical component evaporation.

To achieve the above-mentioned purpose, the present invention is an unmanned evaporation system for optical components, which is suitable for automatically driving a evaporation umbrella rack to move. The evaporation umbrella rack has a plurality of setting parts, each of which is used to set an optical component or remove it after setting. The unmanned evaporation system for optical components includes: an umbrella rack platform for setting the evaporation umbrella rack; a evaporation machine having a evaporation space for evaporating the evaporation umbrella rack; The invention relates to an automatic moving device, comprising a charging base and an automatic guided transport vehicle electrically connected to or disconnected from the charging base, the automatic guided transport vehicle being used to transport the vaporized umbrella to the vaporizer or umbrella platform; and a detection control device being used to detect the umbrella platform, the vaporizer and the automatic moving device, and to control the movement of the automatic guided transport vehicle;

Thus, when the detection control device detects that the steam-coated umbrella rack is on the umbrella rack platform and the optical element is disposed on the steam-coated umbrella rack, the detection control device controls the automatic guided transport vehicle to detach from the charging base and move to the umbrella rack platform, then moves the steam-coated umbrella rack on the umbrella rack platform into the steaming space of the steam-coating machine, and then controls the automatic guided transport vehicle to electrically connect to the charging base and control the steam-coated umbrella rack to move to the charging base. The coating machine coats each optical component of the coating umbrella; when the detection control device detects that the coating of each optical component is completed, the detection control device controls the automatic guided transport vehicle to detach from the charging base and move to the coating machine, then moves the coating umbrella in the coating space to the umbrella platform, and places the coating umbrella on the umbrella platform, and then controls the automatic guided transport vehicle to electrically connect to the charging base.

The utility model discloses a method for detecting the umbrella platform, the evaporator and the automatic moving device by using the detection control device to detect the umbrella platform, the evaporator and the automatic moving device, and to control the movement limit of the automatic guided transport vehicle, so that the detection control device can control the automatic guided transport vehicle to automatically transport the evaporation umbrella on the umbrella platform to the evaporator for evaporation of optical components, and to automatically transport the evaporation umbrella after evaporation to the umbrella platform for unloading of optical components. Therefore, the labor cost can be reduced or the efficiency of evaporation of optical components can be improved.

Preferably, the steam-coated umbrella stand further has a coupling portion, and the steam-coating space of the steam-coating machine has a fixing portion, and the fixing portion is used to couple with or detach from the coupling portion of the steam-coated umbrella stand.

Preferably, the automatic guided transport vehicle has a vehicle body and a material transfer rack which is movably mounted on the vehicle body and is used to transport the steaming umbrella rack.

Preferably, the umbrella platform, the steam coating machine, and the automatic moving device are plural; when the detection control device detects that the steam coating umbrella is on the umbrella platform and the optical element is provided on the steam coating umbrella, the detection control device controls the charging stand to be electrically connected to the automatic guided transport vehicle to move to the umbrella platform, and then the umbrella platform is placed on the umbrella platform. The steaming umbrella rack is moved to the steaming space of the steaming machine without the steaming umbrella rack. When the detection control device detects that the steaming of each optical component is completed, the detection control device controls the charging base to be electrically connected to the automatic guided transport vehicle to move to the steaming machine, and moves the steaming umbrella rack in the steaming space to the umbrella rack platform without the steaming umbrella rack.

Referring to FIG. 1 , the first embodiment of the present invention provides an unmanned evaporation system for optical components, which is suitable for automatically driving a evaporation umbrella 10 to move. The evaporation umbrella 10 has a plurality of installation parts 11 and a coupling part 12. Each of the installation parts 11 is used to install an optical component 91 or remove it after installation. The unmanned evaporation system for optical components is mainly composed of an umbrella platform 20, a evaporation machine 30, an automatic moving device 40, and a detection control device 50, wherein:

The umbrella stand platform 20 is used to place the steam-bonded umbrella stand 10 . In this embodiment, a hollow portion 21 is formed on the surface of the umbrella stand platform 20 .

The evaporator 30 has a evaporation space 31 for evaporating the optical elements 91 on the evaporation umbrella 10. In this embodiment, the evaporation space 31 has a fixing portion 311, and the fixing portion 311 is used to combine or detach from the combining portion 12 of the evaporation umbrella 10. In addition, the evaporator 30 uses a laser evaporation method to evaporate the optical elements 91 on the evaporation umbrella 10, and has an electron beam radiator 32 and a target material rack 34 provided with a target material 33, but is not limited to this. The evaporator 30 can also use a thermal resistance heating method, an electron gun evaporation method or arc discharge to perform the evaporation operation.

The automatic moving device 40 includes a charging base 41 and an automated guided vehicle (AGV) 42 electrically connected to or detached from the charging base 41; when the charging base 41 is electrically connected to the AGV 42, the AGV 42 can be charged; the AGV 42 is used to transport the steaming umbrella rack 10 to the steaming machine 30 or the umbrella rack platform 20; in this embodiment, the AGV 42 has a body 421 and a material transfer rack 422 that can be lifted and lowered on the body 421 and is used to transport the steaming umbrella rack 10, and a pair of clamping blocks 423 that are horizontally displaced and can move closer to or farther away from each other are also provided on the material transfer rack 422.

The detection control device 50 is used to detect the umbrella platform 20, the steam-coating machine 30 and the automatic moving device 40, and to control the movement of the automatic guided vehicle 42; wherein the detection control device 50 can detect whether the steam-coating umbrella platform 20 is provided with a steam-coating umbrella 10 and/or whether the steam-coating umbrella is fixed with an optical element 91 by means of image sensing, weight sensing, infrared sensing, etc., and then generate a corresponding control instruction; The detection control device 50 can sense whether there is a steaming umbrella 10 in the steaming machine 30, whether the steaming operation is completed, etc. by signal transmission, and then generate a corresponding control instruction; the detection control device 50 can detect the automatic moving device 40 by image sensing, signal transmission, etc. to determine whether the charging stand 41 is electrically connected or disconnected from the automatic guided transport vehicle 42, and then generate a corresponding control instruction.

Thus, referring to FIG. 1 , the steam-coated umbrella stand 10 is first placed on the umbrella stand platform 20 and then the optical element 91 is placed, or the optical element 91 is pre-placed on the steam-coated umbrella stand 10 and then placed on the umbrella stand platform 20. When the detection control device 50 detects that the umbrella stand platform 20 has the steam-coated umbrella stand 10 and the optical element 91 is placed on the steam-coated umbrella stand 10, referring to FIG. 2 The detection control device 50 generates a corresponding control command, thereby controlling the automatic guided transport vehicle 42 to detach from the charging base 41 and move to the umbrella stand platform 20, and at the same time controls the material transfer rack 422 of the automatic guided transport vehicle 42 to be placed into the hollow portion 21 of the umbrella stand platform 20, and controls the two clamping blocks 423 to approach each other, thereby clamping the steamed umbrella stand 10 on the material transfer rack 422.

Referring to FIG. 3 , the automatic guided transport vehicle 42 is then controlled to move the vaporization umbrella stand 10 into the vaporization space 31 of the vaporization machine 30 . By utilizing the lifting design of the material transfer rack 422 , as shown in FIG. 4 , the coupling portion 12 of the vaporization umbrella stand 10 is coupled to the fixed portion 311 of the vaporization space 31 . The two clamping blocks 423 are then controlled to move away from each other so that the vaporization umbrella stand 10 is detached from being fixed to the material transfer rack 422 . The vaporization machine 30 is then controlled to perform vaporization operations on the optical elements 91 of the vaporization umbrella stand 10 , and the automatic guided transport vehicle 42 is controlled to electrically connect to the charging stand 41 for charging.

When the detection control device 50 detects that the vaporization of each optical element 91 is completed, the detection control device 50 generates a corresponding control command, thereby controlling the automatic guided transport vehicle 42 to separate from the charging base 41 and move to the vaporization machine 30, and use the material transfer rack 422 to combine and fix the vaporization umbrella rack 10, and make the combination portion 12 of the vaporization umbrella rack 10 The fixed portion 311 of the evaporation space 31 is separated, and then the automatic guided transport vehicle 42 is controlled to move to the umbrella platform 20, and the evaporation umbrella 10 is placed on the umbrella platform 20 to remove the optical element 91 after evaporation, and then the automatic guided transport vehicle 42 is controlled to be electrically connected to the charging base to charge and wait for the next displacement action.

It can be known from the above description that the detection control device 50 is used to detect the umbrella platform 20, the evaporator 30 and the automatic moving device 40, and to control the movement limit of the automatic guided transport vehicle 42, so that the detection control device 50 can control the automatic guided transport vehicle 42 to automatically transport the evaporation umbrella 10 on the umbrella platform 20 to the evaporator 30 for the evaporation operation of the optical element 91, and automatically transport the evaporation umbrella 10 after the evaporation is completed to the umbrella platform 20 for the unloading operation of the optical element 91. Accordingly, the present invention can effectively reduce the participation of manpower, so as to achieve the purpose of reducing labor costs and improving the efficiency of optical element evaporation.

Please refer to FIG. 5 , the second embodiment of the present invention provides an unmanned evaporation system for optical components, which is different from the first embodiment in that:

The umbrella platform 20, the evaporator 30, and the automatic moving device 40 are plural in number, and this embodiment takes two of each as an example.

5 and 6 , when the detection control device 50 detects that the steam-bonded umbrella rack 10 is on the umbrella rack platform 20 and the optical element 91 is disposed on the steam-bonded umbrella rack 10, the detection control device 50 will control the automatic guided transport vehicle 42 to move to the umbrella rack platform 20. At the same time, the detection control device 50 controls the charging stand 41 to be electrically connected to the automatic guided transport vehicle 42 to move to the umbrella rack platform 20, and will not control the moving automatic guided transport vehicle 42 to the umbrella rack platform 20.

7 , the steaming umbrella 10 on the umbrella platform 20 is then moved to the steaming space 31 of the steaming machine 30 where the steaming operation is not being performed, and the automatic guided vehicle 42 is not controlled to move the steaming umbrella 10 to the steaming machine 30 where the steaming operation is being performed.

When the detection control device 50 detects that the vaporization of each optical element 91 is completed, the detection control device 50 controls the charging stand 41 to be electrically connected to the automatic guided transport vehicle 42 to move to the vaporizer 30, but does not control the moving automatic guided transport vehicle 42 to the umbrella rack platform 20, and moves the vaporized umbrella rack 10 in the vaporization space 31 to the umbrella rack platform 20 where the vaporized umbrella rack 10 is not provided, but does not move the vaporized umbrella rack 10 to the umbrella rack platform 20 where the vaporized umbrella rack 10 is provided.

Accordingly, when there are plural umbrella platforms 20, evaporators 30, and automatic moving devices 40, the detection control device 50 can be used to detect each of the umbrella platforms 20, evaporators 30, and automatic moving devices 40, to determine whether each umbrella platform 20 is equipped with a evaporation umbrella 10, to determine whether each evaporator 30 is performing a evaporation operation, and to determine whether the automatic guided vehicle 42 of each automatic moving device 40 is in a displacement state, thereby performing the most efficient control on the evaporator 30 and the automatic guided vehicle 42, so as to further improve the efficiency of the evaporation operation.

10…Evaporation umbrella rack 11…Setting unit 12…Joining unit 20…Umbrella rack platform 21…Opening unit 30…Evaporation machine 31…Evaporation space 311…Fixed unit 32…Electron beam emitter 33…Target 34…Target rack 40…Automatic moving device 41…Charging station 42…Automatic guided transport vehicle 421…Car body 422…Transfer rack 423…Clamping block 50…Detection control device 91…Optical element

Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention, showing that a steaming umbrella is provided on the umbrella platform and the automatic guided transport vehicle is electrically connected to the charging seat; Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention, showing the state of the automatic guided transport vehicle moving to the umbrella platform; Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention, showing the state of the automatic guided transport vehicle transporting the steaming umbrella to the steaming machine; Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention, showing the state of the steaming machine steaming optical elements and the automatic guided transport vehicle electrically connected to the charging seat; Figure 5 is a schematic diagram of the second embodiment of the present invention, showing that a plurality of umbrella platforms are each provided with a steaming umbrella and a plurality of automatic guided transport vehicles are each electrically connected to a charging seat; FIG6 is a schematic diagram of the second embodiment of the present invention, showing a state where one of the automatic guided transport vehicles moves to one of the umbrella platforms; and FIG7 is a schematic diagram of the second embodiment of the present invention, showing a state where one of the automatic guided transport vehicles transports one of the steaming umbrellas to one of the steaming machines.

10…Evaporation umbrella rack 11…Setting unit 12…Joining unit 20…Umbrella rack platform 21…Opening unit 30…Evaporation machine 31…Evaporation space 311…Fixed unit 32…Electron beam emitter 33…Target 34…Target rack 40…Automatic moving device 41…Charging station 42…Automatic guided transport vehicle 421…Car body 422…Transfer rack 423…Clamping block 50…Detection control device 91…Optical element

Claims (3)

An unmanned evaporation system for optical components is suitable for automatically driving a evaporation umbrella rack to move. The evaporation umbrella rack has a plurality of installation parts, each of which is used to install an optical component or remove it after installation. The unmanned evaporation system for optical components includes: an umbrella rack platform for installing the evaporation umbrella rack, and the table surface of the umbrella rack platform has a hollow part; a evaporation machine, having a evaporation space, for evaporating each optical component on the evaporation umbrella rack; an automatic moving device, including a charging seat and a charging station connected to the charging station. The invention relates to an automatic guided transport vehicle which is electrically connected or disconnected from the seat, and is used to transport the steam-coated umbrella rack to the steam-coating machine or the umbrella rack platform. The automatic guided transport vehicle has a vehicle body and a material transfer frame which can be lifted and lowered on the vehicle body and is used to transport the steam-coated umbrella rack, and the material transfer frame is provided with a pair of clamping blocks which are horizontally displaced and can be moved closer to or farther away from each other; and a detection control device, which is used to detect the umbrella rack platform, the steam-coating machine and the automatic moving device, and is used to control the movement of the automatic guided transport vehicle. Thus, when the detection control device detects that there is the steam-coated umbrella rack on the umbrella rack platform and the optical element is disposed on the steam-coated umbrella rack, the detection control device controls the automatic guided transport vehicle to detach from the charging seat and move to the umbrella rack platform, and at the same time controls the material transfer rack of the automatic guided transport vehicle to be placed in the hollow portion of the umbrella rack platform, and controls the two clamping blocks to approach each other, thereby clamping the steam-coated umbrella rack on the material transfer rack, and then moving the steam-coated umbrella rack on the umbrella rack platform to the steam-coating machine. The detection control device controls the automatic guided transport vehicle to electrically connect to the charging seat and controls the evaporation machine to evaporation each optical component of the evaporation umbrella in the evaporation space; when the detection control device detects that the evaporation of each optical component is completed, the detection control device controls the automatic guided transport vehicle to detach from the charging seat and move to the evaporation machine, and then moves the evaporation umbrella in the evaporation space to the umbrella platform, and places the evaporation umbrella on the umbrella platform, and then controls the automatic guided transport vehicle to electrically connect to the charging seat. The unmanned evaporation system for optical components as described in claim 1, wherein the evaporation umbrella also has a coupling portion, and the evaporation space of the evaporator has a fixing portion, and the fixing portion is used to couple or detach from the coupling portion of the evaporation umbrella. The unmanned vaporization system of optical components as described in claim 1, wherein the umbrella platform, the vaporization machine, and the automatic moving device are plural; when the detection control device detects that the vaporization umbrella is on the umbrella platform and the optical component is arranged on the vaporization umbrella, the detection control device controls the charging stand to be electrically connected to the automatic guided transport vehicle to move to the umbrella platform, and then The steaming umbrella rack on the umbrella rack platform is moved to the steaming space of the steaming machine without the steaming umbrella rack. When the detection control device detects that the steaming of each optical element is completed, the detection control device controls the charging stand to be electrically connected to the automatic guided transport vehicle to move to the steaming machine, and moves the steaming umbrella rack in the steaming space to the umbrella rack platform without the steaming umbrella rack.

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