CN104494277A - Air-conditioner panel adhesion process and air conditioner - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention relates to the technical field of air conditioning equipment and in particular relates to an air-conditioner panel adhesion process. The air-conditioner panel adhesion process comprises the step of adhering an air-conditioner base plate subjected to plasma treatment and an air-conditioner panel by adopting a structure adhesive, wherein the structure adhesive refers to a polyurethane adhesive or silica gel. The invention also provides an air conditioner which comprises an air-conditioner panel adhered to the air-conditioner base plate by adopting the air-conditioner panel adhesion process. With the adoption of the structure adhesive and the plasma treatment technology, the adhesion between the air-conditioner panel and the air-conditioner base plate is environmentally friendly, the price is low, and the air conditioner has high safety, stability and reliability. Automatic flow-line production is adopted, and the working efficiency and the adhesion quality are greatly improved. The invention further provides an air conditioner. According to the air-conditioner panel adhesion process, the production cost is reduced, and the adhesion is firm.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to air conditioner technical field, particularly relate to a kind of air-conditioning panel barbola work and air-conditioning.
Background technology
Air-conditioning and air conditioning (air conditioning), refer to and use artificial means, the parameter such as temperature, humidity, cleanliness factor, speed of building/structures environment air carried out to the process of regulation and control.Generally comprise low-temperature receiver/heat resource equipment, cold and hot medium distributing system, a few major part such as end equipment and other auxiliary equipment.
Air-conditioning panel conventional at present, door-plate (material: ABS, PMMA, PBT, PA, HIPS, PC, PP, aluminium, safety glass etc. and derived material thereof) and conditioning substrate (ABS, PMMA, PBT, PA, HIPS, PC, PP, aluminium, safety glass etc. and derived material thereof) bonding way adopts the mode of silane coupling agent+pressure sensitive adhesive to paste, its most surfaces of material mainly as panel and door-plate can be lower, be difficult to bonding, therefore, usual needs are first brush silane coupling agent on the surface of erecting of panel frame, to improve panel viscosity, paste Performance of Pressure Sensitive Adhesive decorative glass plate again, finally carry out pressing, to complete production.
There is following shortcoming in this bonding way:
1, need brush silane coupling agent, paste pressure sensitive adhesive, tear release liners and paste decorative glass plate four procedure, operation is many and be difficult to realize automated production, need all to adopt manual operation, easy appearance operation deviation, the brushing of silane coupling agent and pressure sensitive adhesive is uneven, just do not paste the easy contraposition of decorative glass plate, and production efficiency is lower.
2, pressure sensitive adhesive price is high, improve the production cost of barbola work, and silane coupling agent contains hazardous substance, and to the health of operator, has certain influence.
Therefore how reducing the consumption of silane coupling agent and pressure sensitive adhesive or change the kind of viscose glue, the production efficiency simultaneously improving panel barbola work just becomes problem demanding prompt solution.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to propose a kind of air-conditioning panel barbola work, adopt sqtructural adhesive and plasma processing techniques, make the bonding more environmental protection of air-conditioning panel, price is more cheap, has higher security, stability and reliability.
The invention allows for a kind of air-conditioning, adopt above-mentioned air-conditioning panel barbola work, reduce production cost, it is more firm to paste.
For reaching this object, the present invention by the following technical solutions:
A kind of air-conditioning panel barbola work, adopts sqtructural adhesive the conditioning substrate after plasma treatment and air-conditioning panel to be pasted.
Wherein, described structure glue is polyurethane adhesive or silica gel.
Wherein, comprise the steps:
Step one, first by conditioning substrate place on the table;
Step 2, employing plasma apparatus carry out Surface Treatment with Plasma to the adhesive face of conditioning substrate, to improve the surface adhesion force of adhesive face;
Step 3, a use point glue rifle carry out a glue according to the some glue position set to the adhesive face of conditioning substrate;
Air-conditioning panel is placed on the adhesive face of conditioning substrate according to the position of setting by step 4, employing manipulator;
Conditioning substrate and air-conditioning panel compress by step 5, automatic impaction frock.
Wherein, described automatic assembly line comprises control unit, and described control unit connects plasma apparatus, some glue rifle, manipulator and automatic impaction frock respectively.
Wherein, in step 2, plasma apparatus is arranged on the top of workbench, and it is carrying out plasma spraying respectively by X-axis motor and y-axis motor on the conditioning substrate of setpoint distance.
Wherein, described plasma apparatus is apart from conditioning substrate 15-18mm.
Wherein, described workbench is evenly provided with multiple transfer roller, described transfer roller connects control unit.
Wherein, described workbench is also provided with the stopping means be connected with control unit, described stopping means can move up and down by Z axis motor the position limiting conditioning substrate.
A kind of air-conditioning, the air-conditioning panel barbola work comprised described in employing is pasted onto the air-conditioning panel on conditioning substrate.
Beneficial effect of the present invention: adopt sqtructural adhesive and plasma processing techniques, make the bonding more environmental protection of air-conditioning panel and conditioning substrate, price is more cheap, has higher security, stability and reliability.Adopt automation Production line, substantially increase operating efficiency, and sticking Quality.Also proposed a kind of air-conditioning, adopt above-mentioned air-conditioning panel barbola work, reduce production cost, it is more firm to paste.
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Fig. 1 is the flow chart of the air-conditioning panel barbola work gate Ore-controlling Role that the specific embodiment of the invention 1 provides;
Fig. 2 is the flow chart of the step one that the specific embodiment of the invention 1 provides;
Fig. 3 is the flow chart of the step 2 that the specific embodiment of the invention 1 provides;
Fig. 4 is the flow chart of the step 3 that the specific embodiment of the invention 1 provides;
Fig. 5 is the flow chart of the step 4 that the specific embodiment of the invention 1 provides;
Fig. 6 is the flow chart of the step 5 that the specific embodiment of the invention 1 provides.
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1, conditioning substrate; 2, workbench; 3, plasma apparatus; 4, glue rifle is put; 5, sqtructural adhesive; 6, automatic impaction frock; 7, air-conditioning panel.
Detailed description of the invention
Technical scheme of the present invention is further illustrated by detailed description of the invention below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.
The material of existing air-conditioning panel mostly is ABS, PMMA, PBT, PA, HIPS, PC, PP, aluminium, safety glass etc. and derived material thereof, smooth surface adhesion is lower, although the mode that have employed silane coupling agent+pressure sensitive adhesive is pasted, but still there will be the problem that air-conditioning panel comes off on conditioning substrate, affect aesthetic property and reliability and service life that air-conditioning uses.
And the glue amount that the bonding method of silane coupling agent+pressure sensitive adhesive adopts is comparatively large, and have certain influence to health, the stickup side of silane coupling agent+pressure sensitive adhesive causes the barbola work of air-conditioning panel to adopt craft simultaneously, and adhesion efficiency is low, and paste reliability, uniformity is poor.
As shown in Figure 1, the invention provides a kind of air-conditioning panel barbola work, it adopts sqtructural adhesive 5 conditioning substrate 1 after plasma treatment and air-conditioning panel 6 to be pasted.Described sqtructural adhesive is the adhesive of a class on stressed member.The stress that General Requirements solvent cement joint can bear is suitable with the intensity of adherend itself, and adhesive itself has excellent heat resistance, media-resistant, resistance to atmospheric aging, vibration resistance fatigue, low creep and high creep rupture strength.
Sqtructural adhesive is generally sizing with thermosetting resin, and with thermoplastic resin or elastomer for flexibilizer, be equipped with the components such as curing agent, what have is also added with filler, solvent, diluent, coupling agent, curing accelerator, suppression corrosion and thermal oxidation resistance agent etc.The performance of adhesive depends primarily on the structure of these components, proportioning and compatibility thereof.Engineering/sqtructural adhesive comprises epoxy glue, polyurethane adhesive, SGA, anaerobic adhesive, organic silica gel etc.
Concrete, described sqtructural adhesive 5 is preferably polyurethane adhesive or silica gel.Described sqtructural adhesive has better creep rupture strength relative to pressure sensitive adhesive and vibration resistance is tired, avoids simultaneously and be coated with silane coupling agent on air-conditioning panel, can meet the stickup requirement of air-conditioning panel 7;
Further, before air-conditioning panel 7 and conditioning substrate 1 are pasted, by carrying out plasma treatment on plasma apparatus 3 pairs of conditioning substrates 1 with on the face of pasting on air-conditioning panel 7, the surface adhesion force of conditioning substrate 1 can be strengthened well, make the stickup of air-conditioning panel 7 and conditioning substrate 1 more firm.
Above-mentioned barbola work, if the production of small lot, can adopt manual operation, if produce in enormous quantities, because do not need to tear the techniques such as mould release membrance, can directly adopt automatic assembly line to carry out described barbola work.
Concrete, described automatic assembly line comprises control unit, and described control unit connects plasma apparatus 3, some glue rifle 4, manipulator and automatic impaction frock 6 respectively.
When adopting automatic assembly line to produce, comprise the steps:
Step one, as shown in Figure 2, first conditioning substrate 1 is placed on workbench 2; Wherein, described workbench 2 is evenly provided with multiple transfer roller, and described transfer roller connects control unit.Described live-roller rotates under the control of the control unit or stops, to complete stickup and the transmission of air-conditioning panel 7 and conditioning substrate 1.
Step 2, as shown in Figure 3, adopts the adhesive face of plasma apparatus 3 pairs of conditioning substrates 1 to carry out Surface Treatment with Plasma, to improve the surface adhesion force of adhesive face; In step 2, plasma apparatus 3 is arranged on the top of workbench 2, when specifically implementing, described plasma apparatus 3 is connected with X-axis motor, slides to drive plasma apparatus 3 at X axis.
Y-direction slideway is connected with below described X-axis motor, also y-axis motor is provided with between described X-axis motor and Y phase slideway, y-axis motor drives plasma apparatus 3 to slide in slideway along Y-axis, therefore, described plasma apparatus 3 is carrying out carrying out plasma spraying along X-direction and Y direction by set path on the conditioning substrate 1 of setpoint distance respectively by X-axis motor and y-axis motor.
Preferably, wherein, described plasma apparatus 3 is apart from conditioning substrate 15-18mm.
Step 3, as shown in Figure 4, uses a some glue rifle 4 to carry out a glue according to the some glue position set to the adhesive face of conditioning substrate 1; Preferably, can be installed as one group side by side by multiple somes glue rifles 4, to add the speed of glue as soon as possible, can be also M type by the path setting of a glue.
Step 4, as shown in Figure 5, adopts manipulator to be placed on conditioning substrate 1 by air-conditioning panel 7 according to the position of setting; In reality is implemented, before the panel 7 that installs an air-conditioner, need will the part be pasted onto on air-conditioning panel 7 to be needed to be pasted onto on air-conditioning panel 7 according to setting, and then by manipulator, air-conditioning panel 7 is prevented on conditioning substrate 1.
Step 5, as shown in Figure 6, conditioning substrate 1 and air-conditioning panel 7 compress by automatic impaction frock 6.Described automatic impaction frock 6 is positioned at directly over workbench 2, and described automatic impaction frock 2 carries out motion that is up or that transfer by driven by motor under the control signal of control unit.
As one of the preferred version of the technical program, described workbench 2 is also provided with the stopping means be connected with control unit, and described stopping means can move up and down by Z axis motor the position limiting conditioning substrate.Described stopping means can be arranged on the top of workbench 2, also can be arranged on the below of workbench 2, and described stopping means comprises the sliding rail be fixed on workbench 2, is arranged on the slide block in sliding rail, can be connected to the Z axis motor on slide block.
Present invention also offers a kind of air-conditioning, the air-conditioning panel barbola work comprised described in employing is pasted onto the air-conditioning panel 6 on conditioning substrate 1.
In sum, adopt sqtructural adhesive and plasma processing techniques, make the bonding more environmental protection of air-conditioning panel and conditioning substrate, price is more cheap, has higher security, stability and reliability.Adopt automation Production line, substantially increase operating efficiency, and sticking Quality.Also proposed a kind of air-conditioning, adopt above-mentioned air-conditioning panel barbola work, reduce production cost, it is more firm to paste.
Below know-why of the present invention is described in conjunction with specific embodiments.These describe just in order to explain principle of the present invention, and can not be interpreted as limiting the scope of the invention by any way.Based on explanation herein, those skilled in the art does not need to pay performing creative labour can associate other detailed description of the invention of the present invention, and these modes all will fall within protection scope of the present invention.
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1. an air-conditioning panel barbola work, is characterized in that, adopts sqtructural adhesive (5) conditioning substrate (1) after plasma treatment and air-conditioning panel (6) to be pasted.
2. air-conditioning panel barbola work according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described sqtructural adhesive (5) is polyurethane adhesive or silica gel.
3. air-conditioning panel barbola work according to claim 1, is characterized in that, comprise the steps:
Step one, first conditioning substrate (1) is placed on workbench (2);
Step 2, employing plasma apparatus (3) adhesive face to conditioning substrate (1) carry out Surface Treatment with Plasma, to improve the surface adhesion force of adhesive face;
Step 3, use point glue rifle (4) carry out a glue according to the adhesive face of some glue position to conditioning substrate (1) set;
Air-conditioning panel (7) is placed on the adhesive face of conditioning substrate (1) according to the position of setting by step 4, employing manipulator;
Conditioning substrate (1) and air-conditioning panel (7) compress by step 5, automatic impaction frock (6).
4. air-conditioning panel barbola work according to claim 3, it is characterized in that, also comprise control unit, described control unit connects plasma apparatus (3), some glue rifle (4), manipulator and automatic impaction frock (6) respectively.
5. air-conditioning panel barbola work according to claim 4, it is characterized in that, in step 2, plasma apparatus (3) is arranged on the top of workbench (2), and it is carrying out plasma spraying respectively by X-axis motor and y-axis motor on the conditioning substrate (1) of setpoint distance.
6. according to the air-conditioning panel barbola work that claim 5 is stated, it is characterized in that, described plasma apparatus (3) is apart from conditioning substrate 15-18mm.
7. air-conditioning panel barbola work according to claim 4, is characterized in that, (2) are evenly provided with multiple transfer roller to described workbench, and described transfer roller is connected with control unit.
8. air-conditioning panel barbola work according to claim 4, is characterized in that, described workbench is also provided with the stopping means be connected with control unit, and described stopping means can move up and down by Z axis motor the position limiting conditioning substrate.
9. an air-conditioning, is characterized in that, comprises and adopts air-conditioning panel barbola work as described in any one of claim 1-8 to be pasted onto air-conditioning panel (6) on conditioning substrate (1).
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