one Suitable for machinery and equipment requiring very fine operation:
First of all, carbon fiber composite materials can meet the performance requirements of mechanical arm for high strength, especially in some operations requiring grasping and placing. If the rigidity of the mechanical arm is insufficient, the front segment of the mechanical arm is easy to sag because of heavy load, thus affecting the accuracy of operation. The creep of carbon fiber material becomes smaller, and the thermal expansion coefficient is very low even in a large temperature difference environment, which can effectively reduce the operation error caused by the material.
In addition to aviation, medical and other specific working environment, many high-end intelligent industrial manipulator must also meet the requirements of high precision operation. Wisdom on new materials science and technology in the process of carbon fiber parts manufacturing for more than a decade, found moulding way is not only suitable for mass production, more conducive to guarantee the performance of the finished product advantages and dimensional accuracy, adopts the method of preparation carbon fiber mechanical arm operation precision can reach millimeter level, has been in the LCD panel production line and other successful application in the scene.
two Suitable for mechanical equipment that needs fast operation:
Some mechanical arms need to move quickly and quickly change various working modes according to the requirements of the equipment. In this case, the lighter the weight of the mechanical arm itself, the faster the operation speed, the lower the energy consumption, so as to accelerate the improvement of the production efficiency of the whole equipment. Taking the robot arm customized by Zhishon New Material for an intelligent brand robot as an example, its operating load is 8kg-12kg, the whole arm load is more than 120KG, and the operating accuracy is 0.2±mm. Compared to a metal arm with a similar load capacity, the weight is reduced by 30% to 45% and the speed per cycle is increased by 28%. This portability also improves operational safety to a certain extent. In the flexible and adaptable composite robot, the advantage of carbon fiber manipulator is more obvious.
3. Suitable for mechanical equipment that needs high load operation:
One of the major advantages of mechanical arms instead of manual labor is that they can withstand long-term and highly repetitive working pressure. In addition to regular maintenance, some mechanical arms even need to bear 24-hour uninterrupted operation pressure. Take the mechanical arm of the inspection robot customized by Zhishon New Materials for The State Grid as an example. The robot arm has no rest all year round and needs to complete the inspection tasks prescribed by the equipment on a regular and quantitative basis every day. In this case, the fatigue resistance of the material will determine the service life of the manipulator. The carbon fiber arm has been in the field for more than 1,500 days since it was introduced, bringing maintenance rates to a minimum over its planned service life of 10-15 years.
So, can carbon fiber robotic arms completely replace metal robotic arms and be applicable in all scenarios? Zhison New Materials Technology believes that the application value of carbon fiber mechanical arm depends on the proportion of the mechanical arm in the overall technical cost. Simply speaking, the higher the performance requirements of the mechanical arm, the easier the performance advantages of carbon fiber mechanical arm will be reflected, and the higher the application value will be; otherwise, the higher the application cost will be. For example, in the transport of large logistics work, mechanical arm to complete the work is mainly pallet, handling, sorting, such as tasks, compared with other high technology threshold of industrial robots, carbon fiber mechanical arm in the application of this kind of environment, rather then sink to high-end technology, want to implement the ground on a larger scale still needs a period of time.