The continuous vacuum chamber
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of continuous vacuum chamber for the processing vacuum glass.
Background technology
As a kind of glass component with good sound insulation, heat-proof quality, in recent years, vacuum glass has become the focus of people's researchs, the applicant has also developed a kind of with vacuum glass method for sealing and the vacuum glass product of solder bonding metal technology as the sealing-in means, and to Patent Office of the People's Republic of China corresponding patent application having been proposed, application number is 201010508421.7.Because the vacuum glass method for sealing method for sealing different from the past that the applicant proposes; the applicant can only carry out single piece work for implementing the designed sealing-in device of this method; can not satisfy the demand of large-scale production; therefore; to adopt solder bonding metal technology to come the vacuum glass member of sealing-in can access large-scale promotion application in order making, also need to design the sealing-in device that is suitable for industrial large-scale production.
Summary of the invention
Demand at prior art exists the object of the present invention is to provide a kind of continuous vacuum chamber, utilizes this continuous vacuum chamber can realize the streamlined production of vacuum glass, thereby improves the production efficiency of vacuum glass greatly.
For achieving the above object, continuous vacuum of the present invention chamber comprises last slice platform of joining successively, inlet chamber, surge chamber, chamber, surge chamber, downstream chamber, sheet platform down, be provided with isolating door between adjacent two Room, each indoor transporting mechanism that can carry out refile to glass that is provided with, vacuum glass from input, the degasification of sheet glass, close sheet and be assembled into each procedure of sealing-in and be dispensed on each chamber from the inlet chamber to the chamber and carry out; Wherein, chamber comprises housing, be separated into upper and lower two chambers by central dividing plate is airtight in the housing, chamber joins by its lower chambers and the surge chamber that is positioned at upstream and downstream, required vacuum tightness when lower chambers has encapsulated vacuum glass, the vacuum tightness of its each chamber of upstream and downstream along with its away from reducing gradually; Central dividing plate is moved up and down in housing by its upper and lower surface pressure reduction control, and by move down with lower chambers in the seal glass for the treatment of on the carrier of taking advantage of for the treatment of the sealing-in vacuum glass that is equipped with that supports on the chamber bracing or strutting arrangement contact and exert pressure to it, upper chamber has for bleeding point and the venting port of regulating central dividing plate upper and lower surface pressure reduction; Also be provided with in the upper chamber when utilizing solder bonding metal technology to treat the sealing-in vacuum glass to carry out sealing-in, be used for the welding plant that heat at the sealing-in position for the treatment of on glass.
Further, after finishing the sealing-in operation for the treatment of the sealing-in vacuum glass, by being vacuumized, described chamber upper chamber utilizes up and down the pressure reduction of chamber to make to move on the described central dividing plate with vacuum glass and carrier thereof to separate.
Precompression when further, the pressure reduction of chamber is used for the welding of control glass up and down by adjustment.
Further, the described pressure reduction of chamber up and down is approximately a standard atmospheric pressure.
Further, the described surge chamber chamber that includes that several join successively, vacuum tightness reduces gradually or raise gradually, isolated by isolating door.
Further, the described transporting mechanism in the described lower chambers is made of roller-way, and this roller-way is used for supporting and carrying the glass carrier, constitutes described chamber bracing or strutting arrangement simultaneously.
Further, described chamber bracing or strutting arrangement is made of rigid support, and it is provided with the bearing surface for support glass carrier; Glass transporting mechanism in the described lower chambers is the chain-type transporting mechanism, and this chain-type transporting mechanism comprises some and is parallel to each other and spaced conveyer chain; Each conveyer chain in the chain-type transporting mechanism is each self-corresponding storage tank top process from the rigid support bearing surface, and when carry on the conveyer chain treat sealing-in vacuum glass and carrier thereof be subjected to sealing-in before after the compressing of precompression, conveyer chain will move down in the storage tank and make treats that sealing-in vacuum glass and carrier thereof are seated on the bearing surface of rigid support.
Further, corresponding every described conveyer chain can also be provided with several intermediate strut sprocket wheels on the described rigid support, in the unsteady mounting groove that is installed on the rigid support of this intermediate strut sprocket wheel.
Further, the glass transporting mechanism in the described lower chambers is belt transport mechanism.
Further, described bracing or strutting arrangement is made of rigid support, and it is provided with to load for support and remains the bearing surface of carrier of sealing-in vacuum glass; Glass transporting mechanism in the described lower chambers is made of the roller that several are distributed on the rigid support bearing surface, each roller all floats and is installed in the mounting groove on the rigid support, and/or be installed on each roller in the mounting groove and all have the resiliency supported surface, remain after the glass carrier of sealing-in vacuum glass is subjected to the compressing of precompression before the sealing-in with its loading that go up to carry of box lunch, the stayed surface of each roller will be retracted in separately the mounting groove and make and treat that sealing-in vacuum glass and carrier thereof are seated on the bearing surface of rigid support.
Further, described rigid support is the rigid support platform, institute's sealing-in be area vacuum glass.
Further, described central dividing plate is by viton or by the PP(polypropylene) plate or PC(polycarbonate) plate or PU(urethane) plate makes.
Further, described central dividing plate periphery is fixed on the described housing sidewall by expansion joint is airtight, the elastomerics of described expansion joint for being made by the elastic thin-wall material, its section form is indentation, perhaps for including the curved shape of segmental arc, perhaps for comprising the complex of curved structure and segment of curve simultaneously, expansion joint is out of shape by stretching, extension or the compression of its section form, expansion joint one side and central dividing plate side are tightly connected, and opposite side is airtight to be fixed on the housing sidewall.
Further, described expansion joint can be same integral body with central dividing plate.
Further, described welding plant is induction heating device or microwave heating installation.
Further, described welding plant is laser heating device, and correspondingly, described central dividing plate is made by transparent material.
Further, described welding plant is installed on the existing three-dimensional running gear, carries it by this running gear and treats that the sealed portion displacement is moving along described treating on the sealing-in vacuum glass, finishes the sealing-in to vacuum glass.
The present invention has adopted the thought of streamline operration to carry out the production of vacuum glass, for this reason, upstream and downstream at chamber is provided with import and export chamber and surge chamber respectively, and by carrying out in each chamber that each procedure in the vacuum glass production process is assigned to the chamber upstream, make each procedure of vacuum glass coordinate to carry out streamline operration.
Operations such as the sheet glass input in the relative vacuum glass production process, degasification, assembling, the sealing-in link of vacuum glass is because joining with the upstream and downstream operation, guarantee glass input and output smoothly, also want can be when sealing-in to the vacuum glass required pressure of exerting pressure, also to make the time of whole sealing-in link short as far as possible simultaneously, and become design difficulty.The present invention is by being separated into chamber two chambers up and down, and under lower chambers vacuum tightness keeps stable situation, ordering about central dividing plate by the pressure that changes upper chamber moves up and down, finish the exerting pressure and lock out operation of vacuum glass, realized the organic linking of sealing-in operation and upstream and downstream operation; And by making chamber upper chamber can realize that under higher vacuum tightness central dividing plate and vacuum glass are separated, shortened the pumpdown time of upper chamber, and shortened the time of whole sealing-in link, guaranteed the production efficiency of vacuum glass.
In a word, the streamlined High-efficient Production of vacuum glass has been realized in continuous vacuum of the present invention chamber, for the large-scale production of solder bonding metal technology as the vacuum glass of sealing-in means, provides technical guarantee.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1 is continuous vacuum cell structure synoptic diagram of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the part sectioned view during 3 first kinds of states of chamber among Fig. 1;
Part sectioned view when Fig. 3 is 3 second kinds of states of chamber;
Fig. 4 is the part sectioned view of 3 second kinds of embodiments of chamber;
Fig. 5 is the view of overlooking of the bracing or strutting arrangement 7 in the chamber 3;
Fig. 6 is another embodiment part sectioned view of expansion joint in the chamber.
Embodiment
Embodiment 1
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing and example the present invention is described in further details.As shown in Figure 1, continuous vacuum of the present invention chamber comprises the inlet chamber 1 that joins successively, surge chamber 2, chamber 3, surge chamber 4, downstream chamber 5 and is used for last slice platform 01 of sheet down on glass, sheet platform 02 down, be provided with the vacuum insulation door lock between adjacent two Room, and each indoor be provided with can to glass carry out refile transporting mechanism 6, be used to the vacuum acquiring system of each chamber extracting vacuum and for detection of the vacuum checking device of the vacuum tightness of each chamber.Closing isolating door can keep apart each vacuum chamber is airtight, makes each chamber keep independent vacuum degree.Chamber 3 comprises housing 35, housing 35 is interior by central dividing plate 33 airtight upper chamber 31 and the lower chambers 32 of being separated into, lower chambers 32 is joined with the surge chamber 2,4 that is positioned at chamber 3 upstream and downstream, required vacuum tightness when the vacuum tightnesss in the lower chambers 32 are encapsulated vacuum glass.
Inlet chamber 1, surge chamber 2,4 and the main effect of downstream chamber 5 be in the upstream and downstream of chamber 3, for it provides the space of the vacuum buffer with certain vacuum degree.The quantity that is arranged on the surge chamber in the surge chamber of chamber 3 upstreams and its downstream can arrange several according to the concrete processing requirement of sheet glass encapsulation, and the chamber that several join successively, are isolated by isolating door also can be set in each surge chamber; Surge chamber can certainly be set, and only the upstream and downstream at chamber 3 arranges inlet chamber 1 and downstream chamber 5.If be arranged on the quantity of the inlet chamber 1 in chamber 3 upstreams or downstream and surge chamber 2, downstream chamber and surge chamber more than or equal to two, then the vacuum tightness of each chamber, chamber 3 upstream is along with improving gradually near chamber 3, and the vacuum tightness of its each chamber, downstream is then along with reducing gradually away from chamber 3.
Vacuum glass from input, the degasification of sheet glass, be assembled into each procedure of sealing-in and can be distributed in each chamber from the inlet chamber to the chamber and carry out.
As Figure 1-3, the central dividing plate 33 in the chamber 3 is by viton or by the PP(polypropylene) plate or PC(polycarbonate) plate or PU(urethane) plate or other non-metallic material with suitable hardness make.Central dividing plate 33 peripheries are fixed on by expansion joint 34 on the sidewall of housing 35, and expansion joint 34 1 sides and central dividing plate 33 sides are tightly connected, and opposite side is airtight to be fixed on the housing sidewall.Expansion joint 34 is out of shape by stretching, extension or the compression of its section form for to bend the elastomerics that forms by the elastic thin-wall material, and its section form can be the curved shape that includes segmental arc as shown in Figure 2.
Expansion joint also can be as a whole with central dividing plate 33, and its periphery edge is airtight to be fixed on the housing sidewall, utilizes the recoverable deformation of material to finish moving up and down of dividing plate during work.
Shown in Fig. 1,5, lower chambers 32 is positioned at the below of central dividing plate 33, be provided with bracing or strutting arrangement 7 in it, with the transporting mechanism 8 that is used for the transmission glass plate, bracing or strutting arrangement 7 is used for supporting sheet glass 9 to be packaged and glass carrier 10, and shown in Fig. 2,5, bracing or strutting arrangement 7 is made of rigid support, it is provided with the bearing surface 70 for the treatment of sealing-in vacuum glass 9 and carrier 10 thereof for support, also is arranged at intervals with some storage tanks 71 on bearing surface 70.Glass transporting mechanism 8 in the lower chambers 32 is the chain-type transporting mechanism, and transporting mechanism 8 comprises that some are parallel to each other and spaced conveyer chain 83, also are provided with several intermediate strut sprocket wheels 81 on the every conveyer chain 83.In the intermediate strut sprocket wheel 81 unsteady mounting grooves 72 that are installed on the rigid support.Each conveyer chain 83 is each self-corresponding storage tank 71 tops process from the bearing surface 70 of rigid support, and when carrying on the conveyer chain 83 treat sealing-in vacuum glass 9 and carrier 10 thereof be subjected to sealing-in before after the compressing of precompression, conveyer chain 83 and intermediate strut sprocket wheel 81 treat that sealing-in vacuum glass 9 and carrier 10 thereof are seated on the bearing surface 70 of rigid support with moving down into respectively in storage tank 71 and the mounting groove 72 and make.Transporting mechanism 8 also can be band-drive, as other forms such as synchronous band, triangular belts.Transporting mechanism 8 in the lower chambers 32 also can be several rollers that are distributed on the rigid support bearing surface and constitutes, each roller all floats to be arranged in the mounting groove corresponding with it or to be installed on each roller in the mounting groove and all has the resiliency supported surface, what will have perhaps that the roller on resiliency supported surface floats is arranged on mounting groove 72, with box lunch its go up carrying treat that sealing-in vacuum glass 9 and carrier 10 thereof are subjected to central dividing plate 33 applied pressures and oppress after, the stayed surface of each roller will be retracted in separately the mounting groove 72 and make and treat that sealing-in vacuum glass and carrier 10 thereof are seated on the bearing surface 70 of rigid support.In addition, transporting mechanism 8 in the lower chambers 32 also can be some roller-ways that be arranged in parallel or other forms, simultaneously as adopt the roller-way can be by being arranged in the storage tank 71 on the bearing surface 70 that each roller-way is floated, or directly constitute the bracing or strutting arrangement of sheet glass 9 to be packaged by roller-way.
Upper chamber 31 is positioned at the top of central dividing plate 33, be provided with for bleeding point and the venting port of regulating its internal vacuum in upper chamber 31, and in upper chamber 31, also arrange when utilizing solder bonding metal technology to treat the sealing-in vacuum glass to carry out sealing-in the welding plant 36 that heats at the sealing-in position treated on glass.Starting stage, gaseous tension in the upper chamber 31 is set(ting)value, this set(ting)value should satisfy central dividing plate 33 and be arranged on treating on the bracing or strutting arrangement 7 and has setpoint distance between the sealing-in hollow plate glass 9, guaranteeing treating that sealing-in vacuum glass 9 and bracing frame 10 thereof can free in and out in lower chambers 32, this setting pressure preferably 〉=100Pa.When upper chamber 31 is communicated with ambient atmosphere by opening the purging valve that is arranged on the venting port place, because the pressure difference between upper chamber 31 and the lower chambers 32 increases, central dividing plate 33 move down with lower chambers 32 in the sealing-in vacuum glass 9 for the treatment of on the bracing or strutting arrangement 7 contact and exert pressure to it, after finishing the sealing-in operation for the treatment of the sealing-in vacuum glass, upper chamber 31 to chamber 3 vacuumizes again, pressure reduction between upper chamber 31 and the lower chambers 32 is reduced, move on the central dividing plate 33 with vacuum glass 9 and separate, return to original state.Welding plant 36 can be induction heating device, microwave heating installation and laser heating device, welding plant 36 is installed on the known three-dimensional running gear, carry it by this running gear and treat that the sealed portion displacement is moving along described treating on the sealing-in vacuum glass, finish the sealing-in to vacuum glass.It should be noted that central dividing plate 33 should select for use transparent material to make when using laser soldering device to treat packaged glass plate 9 to heat.
Below the encapsulation of continous vacuum of the present invention chamber to vacuum glass described, at first sheet glass to be packaged is entered in inlet chamber 1 and the surge chamber 2 successively by transporting mechanism, and in two Room, finish degasification, assembling, entered into the lower chamber 32 of chamber 3 again by surge chamber 2.At this moment, because the differential pressure action of chamber makes between central dividing plate 33 and the sheet glass to be packaged to be separate stage up and down, making the gas pressure intensity 〉=100Pa in the upper chamber 31 usually, as shown in Figure 2, is separate stage between central dividing plate 33 and the sheet glass to be packaged.Then, purging valve is opened, upper chamber 31 is communicated with ambient atmosphere, its gas inside pressure is increased to a normal atmosphere, under the pressure difference effect between the upper and lower chamber 31,32, central dividing plate 32 moves down, and is pressed on sheet glass 9 entire upper surface to be packaged, and normal atmosphere is applied to treats on the seal glass plate thus.Transporting mechanism 8 between bearing surface 71 and sheet glass carrier 10 to be packaged is the while pressurized also, be down in its storage tank 71 and the mounting groove 72, the lower surface of sheet glass carrier 10 to be packaged is resisted against on the bearing surface 70 of bracing or strutting arrangement, and sheet glass 9 to be packaged and carrier 10 thereof just are fixed between the stayed surface 70 and central dividing plate 33 that is clamped in bracing or strutting arrangement.Then, heat at the sealing-in position for the treatment of that utilizes welding plant 36 to be treated on the seal glass plate 9 by central dividing plate 33 outsides, by solder bonding metal technology, finishes the hermetic seal for the treatment of seal glass plate 9 peripheries.At last, with upper chamber 31 and isolated from atmosphere, and to its inside extracting vacuum, make gas pressure intensity 〉=100Pa wherein, central dividing plate 33 with the encapsulation after sheet glass 9 separate, packaged sheet glass 9 is under the carrying of transporting mechanism 8, enter into surge chamber 4, finally by output in the downstream chamber 5.According to different situation requirements, treat that the precompression of seal glass can be regulated by the vacuum tightness of adjusting upper chamber 31.
Vacuum glass is sheet glass in above-described embodiment, so, bearing surface 70 and the central dividing plate 33 of the rigid support that matches with it are the plane, and as adopting bearing surface 70 and the central dividing plate 33 of curved-surface structure, then aforesaid device also can be used for processing curve vacuum glass product.
Embodiment 2
Fig. 4 shows another embodiment of the invention, basic identical among the structure of continous vacuum chamber and the embodiment 1 in the present embodiment, its difference is, as shown in FIG., adopted among this embodiment 2 a kind of expansion joint 34 of waviness section structure ', compare with the expansion joint 34 among the embodiment 1, the expansion joint 34 of waviness section structure ' can have bigger dilatation amount, make dividing plate 33 have bigger upper and lower displacement amount, thereby make total thickness range of the vacuum glass that sealing-in device can encapsulate bigger.
It is to be noted, embodiment 1 and embodiment 2 have just enumerated the expansion joint of two kinds of specific forms, in addition, can also adopt section form is zigzag expansion joint or for comprising the complex of curved structure and segment of curve simultaneously, and other have appropriate section expansion of structure joint.
Embodiment 3
Fig. 6 shows the third embodiment of the present invention, basic identical among the structure of continous vacuum chamber and the embodiment 1,2 in the present embodiment, and its difference is that as shown in Figure 6, the expansion joint in the present embodiment and central dividing plate 33 are as a whole.Adopt expansion joint and central dividing plate 33 as a whole structure formations, can avoid owing to expansion joint is connected defectives such as the improper crackle that occurs or slit with central dividing plate 33; Make the better tightness between the upper and lower chamber.
Above-mentioned example just is used for explanation the present invention, and embodiments of the present invention are not limited to these examples, and the various embodiments that meet inventive concept that those skilled in the art make are all within protection scope of the present invention.