Automatic assembly system and method

Abstract

An automatic assembling system for inserting an elongated first member (600) into a hole of a second member (500), comprising: a movement unit (101, 102) configured to move the second member (500) in a horizontal plane; a vision alignment unit (201, 202), under the visual guidance of the vision alignment unit (20, 202), the movement unit (101, 102) moving the second member (500) to a position where the first member (600) is aligned with the hole of the second member (500); and a step insertion unit (301, 302, 401, 402) configured to grip and move the first member (600) so as to insert the first member (600) into the hole of the second member (500) step by step. The first member (600) may be an optical fiber whicn be accurately aligned with the hole of an optical ferrule, improving the alignment accuracy and efficiency, effectively preventing the optical fiber from being bent or broken.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to an automatic assembly system and an automatic assembly method for inserting an elongated first part into an inner hole of a second part, in particular to an automatic assembly system for inserting an optical fiber into an inner hole of a ferrule Assembly systems and automated assembly methods. Background technique [0002] In the prior art, it is very difficult to insert an elongated filamentary part into the bore of another part, especially when the elongated filamentary part is a pliable, fragile part , the insertion operation becomes more difficult. For example, the attached image 3 An example of insertion of an elongated optical fiber 600 into the bore of a ferrule 500 is shown, in this example the optical fiber 600 has a diameter of approximately 0.1250mm with a diameter tolerance of ±0.0007mm. The diameter of the inner hole of the ferrule 500 is approximately 0.1253mm, and the diameter tolerance thereof is 0-0.0007mm. ...

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Therefore, it is very difficult to insert such a thin optical fiber 600 into such a small inner hole of the ferrule 500

In the prior art, the optical fiber 600 is usually manually inserted into the inner hole of the ferrule 500, but since the inner holes of the optical fiber 600 and the ferrule 500 are very small, it is difficult to align the optical fiber 600 with the inner hole of the ferrule 500. In addition, during the insertion process, it is difficult for human hands to keep the optical fiber 600 inserted vertically downward, because the human hand will vibrate slightly, which may easily cause the optical fiber 600 to bend or even break, seriously affecting the optical properties of the optical fiber 600. performance

[0004] Therefore, the existing manual insertion method has many shortcomings such as low efficiency, time-consuming and laborious, low precision and high rejection rate.

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