The whole process intelligent practice of automatic ball arranging equipment in the production of rubber balls. For example, in the production of precision rubber products such as golf balls and medical rubber balls, the accuracy of the alignment the pellet primary embryo directly affects the quality of key processes such as subsequent vulcanization molding and surface treatment. The introduced automatic ball material alignment equipment has built a full closed-loop automation system from discharging, conveying to precise positioning for hemispherical and ellipsoidal rubber material primary embryos with a diameter of 5-40mm. ​

The core discharging device of the equipment adopts a biomimetic design of the spiral discharge head, and the logarithmic spiral structure of its inner wall can separate the stacked pellet primordial embryos in an orderly manner, and cooperate with the flexible guide parts on both sides (polymer polyurethane material guide rails) to make the pellet slide along  the 30°inclined discharge path in a single row of queues, avoiding the collision damage problem of traditional vibrating disc discharge. In the conveying process, the synchronous belt conveyor driven by the high-precision servo motor conveys the single-row ball material to the transfer station with a positioning accuracy of ±0.1mm. ​

The pusher mechanism of the transfer device adopts a gas-liquid mixing drive system, and the pusher force is adjusted in real time through the pressure sensor to ensure that the ball primordial embryo with a diameter difference of ±2mm can be smoothly pushed to the turning platform. When the ball primer reaches the second position, the high-speed camera scans the surface marker points, and the system  controls the turning mechanism to complete the precise rotation of 0-180°  according to the preset angle of the carrier disc positioning groove (such as the 30° inclination required  by the golf ball), and finally implants the ball embryo into the carrier tray with a vertical drop of ≤5mm. The efficiency of the equipment can reach 1200 pieces/hour,  which is more than 5  times higher than that of manual operation, and the positioning deviation is controlled within ±0.5°, which completely solves the common problems of skew and overlap during manual arrangement, and increases the yield rate of subsequent vulcanization molding from 82% to 96%。 ​

The application of automatic alignment equipment not only solves the inefficient problem of the rubber industry’s long-term reliance on manual alignment but also builds an intelligent production paradigm of “detection-positioning-calibration”. By controlling the visual recognition accuracy at the 0.1mm level and compressing the angular positioning error to less than 1.5°, the device has achieved from “usable” to “accurate”. It is especially suitable for flexible production scenarios with multiple varieties and small batches. The data shows that the enterprises that use this type of equipment have reduced the labor cost of the whole column by 70% on average, the defective rate of the post-process caused by the error of the whole column has been reduced  by 85%, and the equipment payback period is generally controlled at 12-18 months, which has become the core standard equipment for the intelligent transformation of rubber products enterprises. With the deep integration of 5G vision technology and force-controlled sensors, the future of automated equipment will further evolve in the direction of unmanned and self-learning, providing stronger technical support for the high-end transformation of the rubber industry.