CN-121986007-A - Automatic assembly line for column-mounted optical modules

CN121986007ACN 121986007 ACN121986007 ACN 121986007ACN-121986007-A

Abstract

The invention provides an automatic assembly line for an array type optical module, which can form a tool conveying return line based on the array of equipment matched with corresponding procedures, correspondingly realize the assembly procedures of optical module products in the conveying process of a tool carrier in the state of loading an optical module shell with the corresponding tool carrier, and realize the automatic batch assembly of the optical module products after the back flow of the tool carrier, so as to adapt the assembly procedures of different optical module products based on the array of equipment matched with the corresponding procedures, thereby enabling the automatic assembly line for the array type optical module to be compatible with the assembly procedures of different optical module products, being beneficial to reducing the production cost of the optical module products and improving the production efficiency and the yield of the optical module products.

Inventors

ZHANG WEICHUAN
WANG CHUNJIA
XIA JIANYI

Assignees

深圳市海讯光通智能装备有限公司

Dates

Publication Date: 20260505
Application Date: 20251218

Claims (18)

1. An automated assembly line for an optical module comprises a tool loading tool, a loading device, a unloading device and a plurality of intermediate process devices arranged between the loading device and the unloading device, wherein the loading device, the unloading device and each of the intermediate process devices are provided with a tool positioning lifting table and an upper conveying belt and a lower reflow belt which are arranged in parallel, the loading device is also provided with a reflow carrier lifting table, the unloading device is also provided with a carrier reflow lifting table, the intermediate process devices are arranged between the loading device and the unloading device along the upper conveying belt and the lower reflow belt which are arranged in parallel and can form a tool conveying reflow line with the loading device and the unloading device, wherein the reflow carrier lifting table is arranged at one end of the upper conveying belt and the lower reflow belt and is arranged between the upper conveying belt and the lower reflow belt so as to lift the tool in a lowering state from the lower conveying belt to the corresponding position to the upper conveying belt and the lower conveying belt, the tool is arranged at least to the upper conveying belt and the lower conveying belt, the tool is arranged to be convenient to lift the tool positioning lifting table to the tool positioning table when the tool is carried out in a lowering state, the tool positioning lifting table is carried out to the tool positioning lifting table and the tool lifting table is carried out to the corresponding position to the tool positioning lifting table when the tool lifting table is carried out in a position to the corresponding position to the tool positioning table, the tooling carrier is positioned and lifted by the tooling positioning lifting table when being conveyed to the tooling positioning lifting table by the upper conveying belt, so that at least an unloading procedure of optical module products is carried out on the tooling carrier, the tooling carrier is placed on the upper conveying belt for continuous conveying based on the descending of the tooling positioning lifting table after the corresponding procedure is carried out, the carrier reflow lifting table is arranged at one end of the upper conveying belt and one end of the lower reflow belt, and is arranged between the upper conveying belt and the lower reflow belt for lifting and falling in a lifting state to access the tooling carrier from the upper conveying belt to the lower reflow belt, and the tooling carrier is conveyed to the lower reflow belt in a descending state, so that automatic quantity assembly of the optical module products based on the circulation of the tooling carrier on the tooling conveying reflow line is realized, and the automatic assembly line can be correspondingly matched with the optical module products which are not assembled by the same equipment between the corresponding procedure and the equipment on the basis of the same optical module.
2. The line-mounted optical module automation assembly line of claim 1, wherein the tooling carrier has a first carrier position and a second carrier position arranged side by side left and right with a transmission direction of the tooling carrier as a forward direction, and at least one left stopper is provided on a left side of the first carrier position and a left side of the second carrier position, respectively, and at least one right stopper is provided on a right side of the first carrier position and a right side of the second carrier position, respectively, wherein one stopper of the left stopper and the right stopper of the first carrier position is movably provided, and one stopper of the left stopper and the right stopper of the second carrier position is movably provided.
3. The column-mounted optical module automated assembly line according to claim 2, wherein the loading apparatus further comprises a loading robot arm for performing an optical module housing loading process at the tool loading tool, the loading robot arm being loaded with a CCD guide module for visual positioning and an optical module pickup module for picking up an optical module housing, wherein in the loading apparatus, the optical module pickup module picks up an optical module housing based on positioning at a corresponding tray under movement control of the loading robot arm, and loads the picked-up optical module housing on one of the first carrier position and the second carrier position of the tool carrier based on positioning under movement control of the loading robot arm in a state in which the tool loading tool is positioned and lifted by the tool positioning lifting table.
4. The line-mounted optical module automated assembly line according to claim 3, wherein the loading device is further equipped with a CCD guide module reverse to the CCD guide module loaded on the loading robot, wherein after the optical module pickup module picks up the optical module housing at the loading device, the picked-up optical module housing is loaded on the tooling carrier based on the positioning of the reversely-assembled CCD guide module to the optical module housing and the positioning of the CCD guide module loaded on the loading robot to the tooling carrier.
5. The column-mounted optical module automated assembly line of claim 4, wherein the loading device further comprises a full tray loading module for stacking trays with optical module housings placed therein and an empty tray unloading module for stacking empty trays, the loading robot is further loaded with a tray pickup module for picking up the trays, wherein the tray pickup module moves the top tray to the empty tray unloading module based on positioning under the movement control of the loading robot, wherein the full tray loading module is liftably arranged to stack trays with optical module housings placed therein in a lowered state, and is lifted in a state where the top tray is picked up to maintain a height section where a new top tray is located.
6. The column-mounted optical module automated assembly line of claim 4, wherein the loading apparatus further comprises a loading turn-over module for turning over the optical module housing, corresponding to the loading apparatus, after the optical module pick-up module picks up the optical module housing and before loading the picked-up optical module housing on the tooling carrier, the optical module pick-up module moves the picked-up optical module housing to the loading turn-over module based on a turn-over requirement of the optical module housing, and picks up the optical module housing after the loading turn-over module turns over the optical module housing.
7. The in-line optical module automated assembly line of claim 4, wherein the loading apparatus is provided with two tooling positioning lifters, one of which is for performing an optical module housing loading process and the other of which is for performing an optical module housing labeling process.
8. The line-up type optical module automated assembly line according to claim 7, wherein the loading device further comprises a labeling robot for performing an optical module case labeling process at the tool loading tool, wherein the labeling robot is loaded with a CCD guide module for visual positioning and a tag suction module for sucking a tag, and the tag suction module sucks a tag based on positioning under the movement control of the labeling robot corresponding to the loading device, and presses the sucked tag to an optical module case on the tool loading tool based on positioning under the movement control of the labeling robot in a state in which the tool loading tool is lifted by the tool positioning lifting table for performing the optical module case labeling process.
9. The line-up type optical module automated assembly line according to any one of claims 2 to 8, wherein the discharging apparatus further comprises a discharging robot arm for performing an optical module product discharging process at the tool loading tool, the discharging robot arm being loaded with a CCD guide module for visual positioning and an optical module pickup module for picking up an optical module product, wherein in a state in which the tool carrier is positioned and lifted by the tool positioning lifting table at the discharging apparatus, the optical module pickup module picks up an optical module product based on positioning at the tool carrier under a movement control of the discharging robot arm, and moves the picked-up optical module product to a corresponding tray based on positioning under a movement control of the discharging robot arm.
10. The column-mounted optical module automated assembly line according to claim 9, wherein the blanking apparatus is further equipped with a thickness detection module for detecting a thickness of an optical module product, corresponding to the blanking apparatus, after the optical module pickup module picks up the optical module product on the tooling carrier, the optical module pickup module performs thickness detection on the picked-up optical module product with the thickness detection module based on positioning under movement control of the blanking mechanical arm, and moves the picked-up optical module product to a corresponding tray based on a detection result.
11. The column-mounted optical module automated assembly line of claim 10, wherein the blanking apparatus further comprises an empty tray loading module for stacking empty trays and a full tray blanking module for stacking full trays, the blanking robot arm is further loaded with a tray pickup module for picking up material trays, corresponding to a state in which the blanking apparatus is full of optical module products in a top tray of the empty tray loading module, the tray pickup module moves the top tray to the full tray blanking module based on positioning under the movement control of the blanking robot arm, wherein the empty tray loading module is liftably arranged to stack empty trays in a lowered state, and is lifted in a state in which the top tray is removed to maintain a height section in which a new top tray is located.
12. The line-mounted optical module automated assembly line according to claim 9, wherein at least one intermediate process device among the intermediate process devices of the line-mounted optical module automated assembly line is provided for performing a process of attaching a heat sink film, wherein the heat sink film is attached with an independent separator film on one side and attached to a common release paper on the other side, the separator film has an extension section that extends independently at a side of the heat sink film, wherein the intermediate process device for performing the process of attaching a heat sink film has a film scraping position, a negative pressure recovery port, a robot arm, and a CCD vision guide module mounted to the robot arm, a heat sink film suction nozzle positioned based on image acquisition, the heat sink film suction nozzle suctions the heat sink film from the release paper based on a position corresponding to the heat sink film positioned at the separator film, and presses the extension section to hold the extension section down the inclined film on a state of the separator film based on a state of being positioned at the extension section corresponding to the film scraping position, the inclined film suction nozzle is held down on the inclined film suction nozzle is held by the robot arm, the inclined film suction nozzle is held down the heat sink film is held down on the separator film suction nozzle based on a position corresponding to the heat sink film held at the inclined film pulling position of the separator film, and the inclined film suction nozzle is held down on the respective heat sink film is held down on the separator film by the inclined film holding section, and releasing the isolating film at the negative pressure recovery port based on positioning under the movement control of the mechanical arm so as to recover the uncovered isolating film at the negative pressure recovery port.
13. The line-up type optical module automated assembly line according to claim 12, wherein the line-up type optical module automated assembly line includes a first intermediate process device that is arranged between the feeding device and the intermediate process device for performing a process of attaching a heat sink film, a process performing step of the first intermediate process device including: S11, removing screws of the optical module shell on the tool loading tool, and S12, disassembling the optical module shell on the tool loading tool to be split into the first loading position and the second loading position of the tool loading tool.
14. The line-up type optical module automated assembly line according to claim 13, wherein the line-up type optical module automated assembly line includes a second intermediate process apparatus that is arranged between the first intermediate process apparatus and the intermediate process apparatus for performing a process of attaching a heat sink film, the process performing step of the second intermediate process apparatus including: S21, attaching a wave-absorbing material to the optical module shell on the tool loading tool, and S22, dispensing sealant on the optical module shell on the tool loading tool.
15. The inline optical module automated assembly line of claim 13, wherein the inline optical module automated assembly line includes a third intermediate process equipment interposed between the intermediate process equipment and the blanking equipment for performing a process of attaching a heat sink film, the third intermediate process equipment being for performing an installation process of an optical module housing of a PCB board on the tool loading tool.
16. The in-line optical module automated assembly line according to claim 13, wherein the process execution step of the intermediate process equipment and the process execution step of the third intermediate process equipment for executing the process of attaching the heat dissipation film each include the steps of: s31, dispensing heat-dissipating glue on the optical module shell on the tool loading tool, and S32, radiating glue is dispensed on the PCB and/or the optical module shell.
17. The inline optical module automated assembly line of claim 15, wherein the inline optical module automated assembly line includes a fourth intermediate process equipment that is inline between the third intermediate process equipment and the blanking equipment, the process execution step of the fourth intermediate process equipment comprising: s41, aligning and sealing the optical module shell bodies of the first loading position and the second loading position which are respectively assembled on the tool loading tool, and S42, locking screws of the alignment sealed optical module shell are fixed to complete assembly of the optical module product.
18. The in-line optical module automated assembly line of claim 17, wherein different ones of the process execution steps of the first intermediate process equipment, the second intermediate process equipment, and the fourth intermediate process equipment are performed at different ones of the tooling positioning lifts.

Description

Automatic assembly line for column-mounted optical modules Technical Field The invention relates to the field of optical module assembly, in particular to an automatic assembly line for an array-type optical module. Background With the rapid development of communication technology, especially under the catalysis of AI computing power requirements, optical communication technology has met explosive application requirements, and optical modules serving as core devices for realizing photoelectric signal conversion in an optical communication system have also met explosive output requirements. Currently, optical module products in the industry are generally divided into an upper shell, a lower shell and a circuit board carrying corresponding photoelectric conversion devices according to the structure of the optical module products, and in terms of the assembly of the optical module, after the shell production of the optical module is completed by a shell provider responsible for the production of structural members, the optical module products which can be oriented to the market are obtained by transmitting the optical module products to optical module manufacturers for the assembly of the circuit board and corresponding testing procedures. The structure of the optical module product is seemingly simple, but for the assembly of the optical module product, based on the corresponding application scene requirements, the optical module product has corresponding requirements on the appearance design, the heat dissipation structure design, the waterproof structure design and the adopted optical fiber interface type, and the assembly procedures corresponding to different optical module products are difficult to unify and cannot share the same assembly line. That is, for the assembly of the existing optical module products, an automatic assembly line for developing a single product has higher production cost because the assembly of different products cannot be compatible, but the manual assembly mode cannot ensure the production efficiency, and is difficult to consider the product quality. Therefore, developing an assembly line that can be compatible with the assembly process of different optical module products has great technical significance and commercial value for reducing the production cost of the optical module products and improving the production efficiency and yield of the optical module products. Disclosure of Invention An object of the present invention is to provide an automatic assembly line for an optical module in a column-mounted manner, wherein the automatic assembly line for an optical module in a column-mounted manner can adapt to assembly processes of different optical module products based on column-mounting of equipment matched with corresponding processes, so that the automatic assembly line for an optical module in a column-mounted manner can be compatible with the assembly processes of different optical module products, which is correspondingly beneficial to reducing production cost of the optical module products and improving production efficiency and yield of the optical module products. Another object of the present invention is to provide an in-line optical module automation assembly line, wherein the in-line optical module automation assembly line is capable of forming a tooling transportation return line based on the in-line installation of equipment matched with a corresponding process, realizing an assembly process of optical module products during transportation of tooling carriers corresponding to a state of loading optical module housings with the corresponding tooling carriers, and reusing the tooling carriers after the return of the tooling carriers to realize automated batch assembly of the optical module products. Another object of the present invention is to provide an in-line optical module automated assembly line, wherein the in-line optical module automated assembly line includes a tool loading tool, a loading device, a unloading device, and a plurality of intermediate process devices adapted to be in-line mounted between the loading device and the unloading device, wherein the loading device is provided with a reflow carrier lift table, the unloading device is provided with a carrier reflow lift table, the loading device, the unloading device and each of the intermediate process devices are provided with an upper transfer belt, a reflow belt, and a tooling positioning lift table, wherein at one end of the upper transfer belt and the lower reflow belt that are arranged side by side and are arranged between the upper transfer belt and the lower reflow belt to be lifted from the lower transfer belt to the tooling carrier in a lowered state, and to transfer the tooling carrier to the upper transfer belt in a lowered state, wherein at the lower transfer device lift table is arranged between the reflow carrier lift table and the respective carrier lift table to the intermediate