KR102177611B1 - A cotton candy vending machine with a robot arm - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a cotton candy vending machine having a robot arm which comprises: a paper money recognizer (100) receiving and recognizing paper money; a touch screen (200) selecting a cotton candy menu; a material supply unit (300) supplying materials such as sugar; a rotation dissolving unit (400) radiating a sugar thread by heating and dissolving the supplied materials and then spraying the same in a device which rotates at high speed to make a thin thread; a rod supply unit (500) supplying a rod on which the sugar thread is wound; a robot arm (600) capable of six-axis rotation and manufacturing the rod to be taken out so as to allow a cotton candy to be wound on the rod; and a control unit (700) controlling each configuration. According to the present invention, in a process of manufacturing the cotton candy regardless of a skill level of a user, the entire process before providing the finished cotton candy is automatically unmanned to provide the cotton candy of uniform quality. The robot arm is operated while manufacturing the cotton candy as a performance to allow the user to wait without getting bored until the user receives the finished cotton candy, and casing including a show window can prevent an inflow of contaminants.

Description

A cotton candy vending machine with a robot arm}

The present invention relates to a cotton candy vending machine equipped with a robot arm, and more particularly, when a user inserts money into a bill recognizer to purchase cotton candy and selects a cotton candy color menu, the robot arm operates to produce cotton candy, and the manufacturing process It is about a cotton candy vending machine that can be seen with the naked eye in the show window casing so that it does not get bored while waiting, and is hygienic.

In general, cotton candy manufacturing equipment heats and dissolves supplied sugar, sprays it in a high-speed rotating machine to make it into a thin thread, then radiates it into a limited space, and the user winds up the floating thread-shaped candy using a stick. It is a device that makes it in the shape of a cotton ball.

In the conventional cotton candy manufacturing apparatus, foreign substances such as dust in the air are introduced into the candy room floating in the machine, resulting in a hygiene problem, as well as difficulty in lumping the cotton candy together, and unnecessary waste of materials.

In order to solve this problem, as in Korean Utility Model Publication No. 20-0276941, there is provided a cotton candy manufacturing apparatus that prevents the inflow of foreign substances, reduces the waste of unnecessary material, and makes it easy to lump cotton candy.

However, there is a difficulty for beginners in manufacturing cotton candy because a certain degree of skill is required to lump cotton candy using a cotton candy manufacturing apparatus.

In addition, cotton candy is a service that is manufactured and sold at various festival venues, amusement parks, water parks, museums, and other places where a lot of people gather. Because it provides a performance to a large number of people, it requires a lot of physical strength and takes time. There is a problem that the quality of cotton candy deteriorates over time.

Republic of Korea Utility Model Publication No. 20-0276941

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, and in the process of manufacturing cotton candy, the entire process is unattended until the complete cotton candy is provided to provide cotton candy of uniform quality, and the robot arm during the production of cotton candy The purpose of providing a hygienic cotton candy vending machine is to prevent users from getting bored until they receive the finished cotton candy as they can see the operation as a performance, and prevent pollutants from entering from outside due to the casing including the show window. To do.

In order to achieve the object of the invention as described above, the cotton candy vending machine equipped with the robot arm of the present invention is formed on the front of the vending machine to determine whether the bill is authentic or not, and the bill recognizer 100 and the cotton candy color A touch screen 200 for selecting a menu; and a material supply unit 300 formed on the upper portion of the vending machine and including a stirring device 310 to supply ingredients such as sugar; and a lower portion of the material supply unit. The formed and supplied material is heated and dissolved, and then sprayed in a device that rotates at high speed to form a thin thread to radiate a sugar thread; and a sugar thread formed on the side of the rotating melting unit. The loading box 510 in which the winding rod is loaded and the rolling plate 520 for preventing the loaded rods from being entangled by one side of the loading box, and the take-out plate located at the bottom of the loading box to allow the supplied rod to be seated and taken out A rod supply unit 500 that includes 530 and supplies a rod; and a rotating hand 610 and a hook formed on the side of the rotating melting unit and the rod supply unit to enable 6-axis rotation and taking out the rod supplied from the rod supply unit And a robot arm 600 including 620; and a control unit 700 formed under the vending machine to transmit and receive signals for each component.

The cotton candy vending machine equipped with the robot arm of the present invention provides cotton candy of uniform quality by unmanned automation in the process of manufacturing cotton candy, regardless of the user's skill level, until the provision of the finished cotton candy, and manufactures cotton candy. While the robot arm is being operated as a performance, users can wait without getting bored until they receive the finished cotton candy, and hygienic cotton candy by preventing contaminants from entering from outside due to the casing including the show window. It has the advantage of being able to provide vending machines.

1 is a front view of the present invention
Figure 2 is a side view of the present invention
3 is a block diagram showing the control operation of the present invention
Figure 4 is a side view of the material supply unit of the present invention
Figure 5 is a first operation example for the robot arm of the present invention to take out the rod from the rod supply unit
6 is a partially enlarged view of the first exemplary operation of the present invention
Figure 7 is a second operation example for the robot arm of the present invention to take out the rod from the rod supply unit
Figure 8 is a third operation example for taking out the rod from the rod supply unit of the robot arm of the present invention
9 is a front view of the robot arm holding the rod of the present invention

Hereinafter, the present invention is described in detail with reference to embodiments according to the present invention, in describing in detail a cotton candy vending machine equipped with a robot arm, and is intended to limit the technology of the present invention to the embodiments described in the embodiments described in this document. Rather, it should be understood to include various modifications, equivalents, and/or alternatives of the embodiments of the present invention.

In addition, while describing the embodiments of the present invention, even if the operational effects according to the configuration of the present invention are not explicitly described and described, it is natural that a predictable effect by the configuration should also be recognized.

1 is a front view of the present invention, Figure 2 is a side view of the present invention, Figure 3 is a block diagram showing the control operation of the present invention, Figure 4 is a side view of the material supply unit of the present invention, Figure 5 is the present invention Figure 6 is a partial enlarged view of the first operation example diagram of the present invention, and Figure 7 is a robot arm of the present invention for removing the rod from the rod supply unit. Fig. 8 is a third operation example for removing the rod from the rod supply unit of the robot arm of the present invention, and Fig. 9 is a front view of the robot arm holding the rod of the present invention.

This will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 9.

The cotton candy vending machine 10 according to the present invention includes a bill recognizer 100, a touch screen 200, a material supply unit 300, a rotating melting unit 400, a rod supply unit 500, a robot arm 600, and a control unit ( 700).

The cotton candy vending machine 10 is surrounded by a housing to protect the device from physical factors such as external shocks and environmental factors such as dust for hygiene reasons, and the robot arm 600 is operated in manufacturing cotton candy. It is appropriate that the whole or part of the housing is made of a transparent material such as acrylic.

A control unit 700 is formed in the lower portion of the cotton candy vending machine 10 to transmit and receive signals for each component and control the operation.

On the front of the cotton candy vending machine 10, bills can be inserted, and a bill recognizer 100 that judges the authenticity of the bill and informs that the bill has been inserted, and a menu such as the color, size, and shape of the cotton candy desired by the user can be selected. A touch screen 200 is formed.

When the user inserts the bill and selects the desired color of cotton candy from the menu, a signal related to the control unit 700 is transmitted, and the control unit 700 is a cotton candy menu selected as the material supply unit 300 formed on the upper portion of the cotton candy vending machine 10 A signal and an operation signal are transmitted, and the material supply unit 300 supplies the material (sugar) of the cotton candy color menu corresponding to the received signal.

In more detail, one or more material supply units 300 are formed to store materials having different colors, and in normal times, the toothed or screw-shaped stirring device 310 located inside every predetermined time prevents the materials from hardening and sticking to each other. It rotates to prevent it, and when the user inserts a bill and selects the desired color of cotton candy from the menu, materials are supplied according to the color magnification corresponding to the selected cotton candy menu or the color magnification customized by the user.

The supplied material is supplied to the rotating melting unit 400 formed under the material supply unit 300 through the chute 320, heated and dissolved, and sprayed in a high-speed rotating machine to form a fine thread. It is made of thread and radiated.

A rod supply unit 500 is formed on the side of the rotational melting unit 400 to supply a rod for manufacturing cotton candy. The rod is coupled to one side of the loading box 510 and the loading box 510 in which the rod is loaded and the loaded rod is taken out. In the process, it includes a push plate 520 for preventing a bottleneck due to being jammed at a narrow outlet, and a takeout plate 530 for placing and taking out the supplied rods one by one located under the loading box 510.

6-axis rotation including a rotating hand 610 and a hook 620 for taking out the rod supplied from the rod supply unit 500 by being formed to be easily operated on the side of the rotating melting unit 400 and the rod supply unit 500 It includes a robotic arm 600 capable of this.

The control unit 700 transmits an operation signal to the material supply unit 300 and the rotational melting unit 400 for the manufacture of cotton candy, and at the same time transmits the operation signal to the robot arm 600 to take out the rod required for the manufacture of cotton candy. do.

The robot arm 600 moves near the loading box 510 of the rod supply unit 500 and pushes the hanger 620 in contact with the push plate 520 coupled to one side of the loading box 510, which is inside the loading box 510. This is to prevent the rods stacked in the stack from being entangled with each other during the loading or feeding process and not supplying properly.

After pushing the push plate 520 with the hook 620 of the robot arm 600, the robot arm 600 moves to the vicinity of the takeout plate 530 located under the loading box 510 of the rod supply unit 500 and moves the hook ( At the end of the 620, a locking part formed in the shape of'A' is inserted into the hook groove 535 formed on one side of the take-out plate 530 and is pulled out so that the take-out plate 530 can be taken out. .

In more detail, the rod loaded in the loading box 510 is directed downward due to gravity, and the takeout plate 530 is to be taken out one by one, and the takeout plate 530 is a structure capable of sliding and moving like a drawer. A hook groove 535 is formed so that the hook 620 of the robot arm 600 can be caught in the front of the rod groove 533 and the rod groove 533 having a predetermined size so that the rods are taken out one by one. There is one rod is seated in the rod groove 533 of the drawer plate 530 due to gravity, and the drawer plate 530 is pulled out with the hook 620 of the robot arm 600 to prepare and load the rod at the same time. Prevent other rods of 510 from coming out.

After taking out the takeout plate 530, the robot arm 600 separates the hook 620 from the hook groove 535 and moves the rotating hand 610 to a position where the rod of the takeout plate 530 can be inserted. One robot arm 600 fits a rod with a rotating hand 610, and the robot arm 600 has a rod and moves to the vicinity of the rotating melting unit 400 to rotate a part of the rod at high speed. The robot arm 600 is moved to a suitable position for the user to take the cotton candy by putting it inside the sugar thread to make cotton candy. A ball plunger 612 is configured inside the end of the rotating hand 610 to maintain proper adhesion and to fix and separate the rod conveniently.

This configuration shows the user how the components including the robot arm 600 operate to manufacture cotton candy in the form of a single performance, so that the user does not get bored of waiting time while the cotton candy is being manufactured. Since the manufacturing process is unmanned, it is possible to provide cotton candy that is hygienically safe and of uniform quality.

In addition, as it is operated by unmanned automation, the restrictions on the place to be installed are significantly reduced and the efficiency of productivity is improved.

10: cotton candy vending machine 100: bill recognizer
200: touch screen
300: material supply unit 310: stirring device
400: rotational melting
500: rod supply unit 510: loading box
520: Milpan 530: Takeout publication
533: rod groove 535: hook groove
600: robot arm 610: rotating hand
620: hook
700: control unit

Claims (3)

In a cotton candy vending machine equipped with a robot arm,
The cotton candy vending machine 10 is surrounded by a housing to protect the device for damage or hygienic reasons, and the housing is transparent in whole or in part such as acrylic so that the robot arm 600 is operated to see the state of manufacturing cotton candy. It is composed of materials,
At least one of the cotton candy vending machines is formed on the upper part of the vending machine and includes a stirring device 310 therein to supply a material such as sugar; and
A rotary melting unit 400 formed under the material supply unit to heat and dissolve the supplied material and then spray it in a high-speed rotating device to make a thin thread and radiate the sugar thread; And
A rod supply unit 500 that is formed on the side of the rotational melting unit and includes a loading box 510 in which a rod on which a sugar thread is wound is loaded to supply the rod; And
A robot arm 600 including a rotating hand 610 and a hook 620 that is formed on the side of the rotating melting unit and the rod supply unit and capable of 6-axis rotation and taking out the rod supplied from the rod supply unit; and
A cotton candy vending machine having a robot arm, comprising: a control unit 700 formed under the cotton candy vending machine to transmit and receive signals for each component. The method of claim 1,
On one side of the loading box 510, the pushing plate 520 is coupled so that it can move only to the inside where the rod is loaded, and the loaded rods are entangled with each other by pushing the pushing plate at a certain angle with the hook 620 of the robot arm 600. Cotton candy vending machine with a robot arm, characterized in that to prevent coming. The method of claim 1,
At the bottom of the loading box 510, a draw plate 530 having a rod groove 533 and a hook groove 535 is positioned, and the rods loaded in the loading box are seated one by one into a rod groove 533, and the robot arm 600 Cotton candy vending machine with a robot arm, characterized in that the rod can be taken out by pushing and pulling on the hook groove 535 of the draw plate using the hook 620 of the drawer.

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