CN-122008702-A - Printing equipment for multi-station parallel operation and control method

CN122008702ACN 122008702 ACN122008702 ACN 122008702ACN-122008702-A

Abstract

The invention discloses printing equipment for multi-station parallel operation and a control method thereof, which comprise a moving mechanism, a plurality of printing stations, a sliding rail mechanism, a plurality of printing mechanisms and a loading and unloading mechanism, wherein the head end and the tail end of the sliding rail mechanism are connected to form a closed processing channel, the moving mechanism is movably arranged on the sliding rail mechanism and is used for clamping a plurality of products and driving the products to move on the processing channel, the printing stations are sequentially arranged on one side of the processing channel along the y-axis direction, each printing station is provided with the printing mechanism, the loading and unloading mechanism is arranged on the other side of the processing channel and is used for clamping the products to be printed on the moving mechanism and taking down the printed products from the moving mechanism. The multi-color printing device has the advantages of greatly improving the overall efficiency of multi-color printing, realizing multi-product parallel operation, realizing complete separation of feeding and discharging and printing processes and eliminating job waiting.

Inventors

LI ZHIMING
NIE ZHIGANG

Assignees

深圳金谷田科技有限公司

Dates

Publication Date: 20260512
Application Date: 20260325

Claims (10)

1. The printing equipment for multi-station parallel operation is characterized by comprising a moving mechanism, a plurality of printing stations, a sliding rail mechanism, a plurality of printing mechanisms and a loading and unloading mechanism; the head end and the tail end of the sliding rail mechanism are connected to form a closed processing channel; the moving mechanism is movably arranged on the sliding rail mechanism and is used for clamping a plurality of products and driving the products to move on the processing channel; the plurality of printing stations are sequentially arranged on one side of the processing channel along the y-axis direction, and each printing station is provided with a printing mechanism; And the feeding and discharging mechanism is arranged on the other side of the processing channel and is used for clamping a product to be printed onto the moving mechanism and taking down the printed product from the moving mechanism.
2. The printing apparatus for multi-station parallel jobs as claimed in claim 1, wherein the moving mechanism includes a plurality of moving assemblies, and the plurality of moving assemblies are movably disposed on the rail mechanism in sequence.
3. The printing apparatus for multiple station parallel operation according to claim 2, wherein the moving assembly comprises a moving table, a support and a workpiece, the moving table is movably arranged on the slide rail mechanism, the support is arranged on the moving table, the workpiece is rotatably connected with the support, the workpiece is used for clamping a product, and the moving table drives the product to move on the processing channel.
4. A multi-station parallel job printing device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the printing mechanism comprises an x-axis support frame, an x-axis driving member and a printing assembly, the x-axis support frame is arranged above the sliding rail mechanism along the x-axis direction, and the printing assembly is movably arranged on the x-axis support frame through the x-axis driving member so as to drive the printing assembly to move along the x-axis direction through the x-axis driving member.
5. The printing device for multi-station parallel operation according to claim 4, wherein a working station and a standby station are sequentially arranged on the x-axis support frame, the working station is arranged above the slide rail mechanism, and the x-axis driving piece is used for driving the printing assembly to move between the working station and the standby station; When the movable workbench moves to the position below the x-axis supporting frame, the x-axis driving piece drives the printing component to move from the standby station to the working station.
6. The printing apparatus for multiple station parallel jobs of claim 4, wherein the printing mechanism further comprises a rotating assembly disposed on one side of the slide rail mechanism, the moving assembly further comprising a rotating drive shaft coupled to the workpiece through the bracket; When the movable workbench moves to the position below the x-axis supporting frame, the rotating assembly is connected with the rotating driving shaft, and the rotating assembly drives the workpiece to rotate through the rotating driving shaft.
7. The printing apparatus for multiple station parallel operation according to claim 1, wherein the loading and unloading mechanism comprises a loading assembly and an unloading assembly, the loading assembly comprises a loading robot and a loading conveyor belt arranged at one side of the loading robot, and the unloading assembly comprises an unloading robot, an unloading conveyor belt arranged at one side of the unloading robot and a defective product conveyor belt arranged at the other side of the unloading robot.
8. The printing apparatus for multiple station parallel operation according to claim 7, wherein the printing apparatus further comprises a correction and scanning station, a plasma processing station, a pre-coating station, a detection station, and a synergy station, the correction and scanning station, the plasma processing station, the pre-coating station, the detection station, and the synergy station being disposed on the other side of the processing path, respectively.
9. The printing device for multi-station parallel operation according to claim 8, wherein the correcting and scanning station, the plasma processing station and the pre-coating station are sequentially arranged on one side of the feeding component far away from the discharging component, and the detecting station and the enhancing station are sequentially arranged on one side of the discharging component far away from the feeding component.
10. A control method of a printing apparatus of a multi-station parallel job, applied to the printing apparatus of a multi-station parallel job according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the plurality of printing stations includes M printing stations, M being an integer of 2 or more, the control method comprising: The feeding and discharging mechanism sequentially clamps N products to be printed on the moving mechanism, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2 and is greater than M; before the moving mechanism moves to M printing stations along the processing channel, the moving mechanism stops moving; the moving mechanism drives the 1 st product to enter the 1 st printing station for printing; The moving mechanism drives the 1 st product to enter the 2 nd printing station for printing, and the moving mechanism drives the 2 nd product to enter the 1 st printing station for printing; The moving mechanism drives the 1 st product to enter the M printing station for printing, the moving mechanism drives the 2 nd product to enter the M-1 st printing station for printing, and the moving mechanism drives the M product to enter the 1 st printing station for printing; the moving mechanism drives the Nth product to enter an Mth printing station for printing; the moving mechanism conveys the printed N products to one side of the feeding and discharging mechanism, and the feeding and discharging mechanism takes down the printed N products from the moving mechanism.

Description

Printing equipment for multi-station parallel operation and control method Technical Field The invention belongs to the technical field of cylinder ink-jet printers, and particularly relates to printing equipment for multi-station parallel operation and a control method. Background In ink jet printing on the surface of cylindrical products (e.g., bottles, cans, tubing, etc.), it is often desirable to achieve multi-color overprinting. The common printing mode is single-station multiple printing, namely one printing station sequentially finishes printing of multiple colors, so that the whole printing time is extremely long, and the production efficiency is low. Disclosure of Invention In order to solve the above problems, a primary object of the present invention is to provide a printing apparatus for multi-station parallel operation, which is used for solving the above technical problems. In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme of the invention is as follows: the invention provides printing equipment for multi-station parallel operation, which comprises a moving mechanism, a plurality of printing stations, a sliding rail mechanism, a plurality of printing mechanisms and a loading and unloading mechanism, wherein the moving mechanism is used for moving the printing stations; the head end and the tail end of the sliding rail mechanism are connected to form a closed processing channel; the moving mechanism is movably arranged on the sliding rail mechanism and is used for clamping a plurality of products and driving the products to move on the processing channel; the plurality of printing stations are sequentially arranged on one side of the processing channel along the y-axis direction, and each printing station is provided with a printing mechanism; And the feeding and discharging mechanism is arranged on the other side of the processing channel and is used for clamping a product to be printed onto the moving mechanism and taking down the printed product from the moving mechanism. The user can customize the printing colors and the starting states of the printing stations according to the product requirements. And the user can flexibly configure the color combination of a plurality of printing stations like building blocks according to the order requirement so as to quickly respond to market change. A control method of a printing apparatus for multi-station parallel jobs is described below, in which a plurality of printing stations includes M printing stations, M being an integer of 2 or more. The feeding and discharging mechanism sequentially clamps N products to be printed on the moving mechanism, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2 and is greater than M; before the moving mechanism moves to M printing stations along the processing channel, the moving mechanism stops moving; the moving mechanism drives the 1 st product to enter the 1 st printing station for printing; The moving mechanism drives the 1 st product to enter the 2 nd printing station for printing, and the moving mechanism drives the 2 nd product to enter the 1 st printing station for printing; The moving mechanism drives the 1 st product to enter the M printing station for printing, the moving mechanism drives the 2 nd product to enter the M-1 st printing station for printing, and the moving mechanism drives the M product to enter the 1 st printing station for printing; the moving mechanism drives the Nth product to enter an Mth printing station for printing; the moving mechanism conveys the printed N products to one side of the feeding and discharging mechanism, and the feeding and discharging mechanism takes down the printed N products from the moving mechanism. Compared with the prior art, the application has the beneficial effects that: The application sequentially sets a plurality of printing stations on one side of a closed processing channel, simultaneously clamps a plurality of products by utilizing a moving mechanism, and enables the products to sequentially enter different printing stations for running water type parallel printing by combining a multi-station cooperative control method. At any moment, different products are printed on different printing stations, so that the traditional serial printing mode is converted into the parallel printing mode, the total printing period of a single product is obviously shortened, and the output efficiency in unit time is greatly improved. In this way, multiple products can be printed in different colors at the same time on different printing stations, so that a parallel job of multicolor printing is realized, and the overall beat of the device depends on the printing time of a single color instead of the sum of the printing time of all colors. Secondly, the complete separation of feeding and discharging and printing processes is realized, and job waiting is eliminated. After all printing processes are completed, the moving mechanism conveys printed products to t