1. A push-down seal, comprising:

the mounting bracket (61) comprises at least three non-collinear lifting guide columns (616), a pressing mounting plate (613) movably sleeved on the lifting guide columns (616) and a fixed mounting plate (614) fixedly connected to the lifting guide columns (616), the pressing mounting plate (613) is positioned below the fixed mounting plate (614) and is arranged at an interval with the fixed mounting plate (614) to form a mounting space between the pressing mounting plate and the fixed mounting plate (614), and a workpiece positioning space (615) is formed right below the pressing mounting plate (613);

the laminating module (63) is arranged on the lower pressing installation plate (613) and is positioned in the installation space, and a lower pressing type sealing mechanism (64) is fixedly arranged in the laminating module; and

the lifting driver (65) is installed on the fixed installation plate (614), and the power output end of the lifting driver (65) is in transmission connection with the attaching module (63);

the lifting guide post (616) is sequentially provided with a reset station and a film pasting station from top to bottom along the height direction, and the downward pressing mounting plate (613) is lifted and lowered back and forth along the lifting guide post (616) by the lifting driver (65) so as to switch back and forth between the reset station and the film pasting station; the sealing film (634) is continuously supplied in a tension mode in the attaching module (63), the lower pressing type sealing mechanism (64) is located right above the stepping path of the sealing film (634) and enables a sealing pressure head (645) in the lower pressing type sealing mechanism (64) to be opposite to the sealing film (634) below the lower pressing type sealing mechanism; when the attaching module (63) on the lower press mounting plate (613) descends to the film attaching station, the lower press type sealing mechanism (64) drives the sealing press head (645) in the lower press mounting plate to reciprocate and lift along the vertical direction so as to push the sealing film (634) below the sealing press head (645) to the workpiece opening to be sealed in the workpiece positioning space (615).

2. The push-down seal according to claim 1, wherein the application module (63) comprises:

a mounting vertical plate (631) fixedly mounted on the lower mounting plate (613); and

a material discharging coil (632) and a material receiving coil (633) which are connected to the mounting vertical plate (631) in a rotating mode, a sealing film (634) is wound on the material discharging coil (632), and the used sealing film (634) is wound on the material receiving coil (633);

the downward pressing type sealing mechanism (64) is arranged between the material discharging roll (632) and the material collecting roll (633).

3. The push-down seal according to claim 2, wherein the push-down seal mechanism (64) is provided with sealing film guides (635) at both sides thereof, respectively upstream and downstream of the sealing film (634), the sealing film guides (635) being formed with sealing film guide grooves (6351) opened at the bottom thereof, the sealing film (634) passing directly below the push-down seal mechanism (64) under guidance of the sealing film guide grooves (6351).

4. The push-down sealing device according to claim 3, wherein the sealing film guide groove (6351) has a bottom opening diameter which is gradually reduced in size from bottom to top and forms a sealing film accommodating groove (6352) which is slightly wider than the sealing film (634) at its top.

5. The downforce seal device of claim 2, wherein said downforce seal mechanism (64) comprises:

a press-down driver (641) fixedly mounted on the mounting vertical plate (631);

a mounting substrate (642) which is in transmission connection with a power output end of the push-down actuator (641);

a ram mounting plate (643) fixedly mounted to the bottom of the mounting substrate (642); and

a sealing ram assembly slidingly coupled to a bottom of the ram mounting plate (643);

the pressure head mounting plate (643) and the sealing pressure head assembly are in sliding connection through at least two guide rods (6433); at least two linear bearings (6431) moving longitudinally are arranged between the pressure head mounting plate (643) and the sealing pressure head assembly; at least two buffer parts (6432) are elastically connected between the pressure head mounting plate (643) and the sealing pressure head assembly; the mounting substrate (642) is driven by the press-down driver (641) to reciprocate up and down along a vertical direction.

6. The push-down seal according to claim 5, wherein the guide rods (6433) are provided with an even number and are arranged to be made up of at least one guide subset, each guide subset comprising a pair of guide rods (6433) arranged diagonally on the ram mounting plate (643).

7. The push-down sealing device according to claim 6, wherein the sealing film push-fit device according to claim 5, wherein the buffer members (6432) are provided with an even number and arranged to be constituted by at least one buffer subset, each buffer subset including a pair of buffer members (6432) arranged diagonally on the ram mounting plate (643), wherein a line between any pair of buffer members (6432) intersects a line between at least one pair of guide rods.

8. The push down seal of claim 5, wherein the seal ram assembly comprises:

a mounting base (644) slidably connected to the bottom of the ram mounting plate (643), wherein the bottom of the mounting base is formed with a mounting part (6442) in a downward overhanging and extending mode, and a ram accommodating groove (6445) with an open bottom is formed in the mounting part (6442); and

a sealing ram (645) engaged in the ram receiving recess (6445);

the side of the pressure head accommodating groove (6445) is provided with a replacement opening (6446) communicated with the outside, and the sealing pressure head (645) enters and exits the pressure head accommodating groove (6445) through the replacement opening (6446) to complete the installation and replacement of the sealing pressure head (645).

Background

In the field of non-standard automation equipment, it is known to use sealing devices of different structural forms to seal an opening of a workpiece to be sealed so as to facilitate successful performance of subsequent tightness detection. During the research and implementation of the sealing of the workpiece opening, researchers found that the sealing device in the prior art had at least the following problems:

common seal membrane is attached all cuts into required length with the seal membrane in advance, shifts it to treating on the sealed work piece opening by manipulator or manual work afterwards, then pushes down sealed pressure head to the seal membrane on, detects to take off the recovery by manipulator or artifical seal membrane after will using again after accomplishing, above-mentioned traditional sealing mode has complex operation, takes time and wastes work, sealed effect unsatisfactory scheduling problem.

Accordingly, there is a need for a push-down seal device that solves the above problems.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to overcome the problems of the bonding device, the invention provides a press-down sealing device, which can continuously release a sealing film and perform press-down sealing operation on a sealing film transmission path, and the used sealing film can be continuously and automatically recovered, so that the automation degree and efficiency of sealing are greatly improved, and the efficient execution of sealing detection operation is facilitated.

In the case of the push-down type sealing device, the push-down type sealing device according to the present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems includes:

the mounting bracket comprises at least three non-collinear lifting guide pillars, a downward pressing mounting plate movably sleeved on the lifting guide pillars and a fixed mounting plate fixedly connected on the lifting guide pillars, the downward pressing mounting plate is positioned below the fixed mounting plate and is arranged at an interval with the fixed mounting plate to form a mounting space between the downward pressing mounting plate and the fixed mounting plate, and a workpiece positioning space is formed right below the downward pressing mounting plate;

the laminating module is arranged on the lower pressing mounting plate and positioned in the mounting space, and a lower pressing sealing mechanism is fixedly arranged in the laminating module; and

the power output end of the lifting driver is in transmission connection with the laminating module;

the lifting guide pillar is sequentially provided with a reset station and a film pasting station from top to bottom along the height direction, and the downward pressing mounting plate is lifted and lowered back and forth along the lifting guide pillar by the lifting driver so as to be switched back and forth between the reset station and the film pasting station; the sealing film is continuously supplied in a tension mode in the attaching module, the downward pressing type sealing mechanism is positioned right above the stepping path of the sealing film, and a sealing pressure head in the downward pressing type sealing mechanism is opposite to the sealing film below the downward pressing type sealing mechanism; and when the laminating module on the downward pressing mounting plate descends to the film laminating station, the downward pressing type sealing mechanism drives the sealing pressure head to reciprocate along the vertical direction so as to push the sealing film below the sealing pressure head to the workpiece opening to be sealed in the workpiece positioning space.

Optionally, the laminating module includes:

the mounting vertical plate is fixedly mounted on the lower pressure mounting plate; and

the sealing film winding device comprises a material discharging coil and a material collecting coil, wherein the material discharging coil and the material collecting coil are connected to a mounting vertical plate in a rotating mode, sealing films are wound on the material discharging coil, and the material collecting coil is used for winding the used sealing films;

the downward pressing type sealing mechanism is arranged between the material discharging roll and the material receiving roll.

Optionally, two sides of the push-down sealing mechanism are provided with sealing film guides respectively located at the upstream and downstream of the sealing film, a sealing film guide groove with an open bottom is formed in the sealing film guide, and the sealing film passes through the right lower side of the push-down sealing mechanism under the guidance of the sealing film guide groove.

Optionally, the bottom opening aperture of the sealing film guiding groove gradually reduces in the direction from bottom to top, and a sealing film accommodating groove slightly wider than the sealing film is formed at the top of the sealing film guiding groove.

Optionally, the push-down sealing mechanism includes:

the downward pressing driver is fixedly arranged on the mounting vertical plate;

the mounting substrate is in transmission connection with the power output end of the press driver;

the pressure head mounting plate is fixedly mounted at the bottom of the mounting substrate; and

a sealing ram assembly slidably connected to the bottom of the ram mounting plate;

the pressure head mounting plate and the sealing pressure head assembly are in sliding connection through at least two guide rods; at least two linear bearings which move longitudinally are arranged between the pressure head mounting plate and the sealing pressure head assembly; at least two buffer components are elastically connected between the pressure head mounting plate and the sealing pressure head assembly; the mounting substrate is driven by the pressing driver to reciprocate along the vertical direction.

Optionally, the guide bars are provided with an even number and are arranged to be constituted by at least one guide subset, each guide subset comprising a pair of guide bars arranged diagonally on the ram mounting plate.

Optionally, the seal film under-pressure attaching apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein said buffer members are provided with an even number and arranged to be constituted by at least one buffer subset, each buffer subset comprising a pair of buffer members arranged diagonally on said pressure head mounting plate, wherein a line between any pair of buffer members intersects a line between at least one pair of guide rods.

Optionally, the sealing ram assembly comprises:

the mounting base is connected to the bottom of the pressure head mounting plate in a sliding mode, the bottom of the mounting base is formed with a mounting portion in a downward hanging and extending mode, and a pressure head accommodating groove with an open bottom is formed in the mounting portion; and

the sealing pressure head is matched and connected in the pressure head accommodating groove;

the side of the pressure head accommodating groove is provided with a replacement port communicated with the outer side, and the sealing pressure head enters and exits from the pressure head accommodating groove through the replacement port to complete the installation and replacement of the sealing pressure head.

One of the above technical solutions has the following advantages or beneficial effects: because the sealing film can be continuously released and the downward pressing sealing operation can be executed on the sealing film transmission path, the used sealing film can be continuously and automatically recovered, the automation degree and efficiency of sealing are greatly improved, and the high-efficiency execution of the sealing detection operation is facilitated.

Another technical scheme in the above technical scheme has the following advantages or beneficial effects: because the lifting driver is adopted to quickly drive the sealing pressure head to the film pasting station close to the workpiece, then the sealing pressure head is slowly driven to be pressed down through the pressing driver until the sealing film is pasted on the workpiece opening, on one hand, the sealing pressure head is quickly driven to be close to the film pasting station to reduce the falling time, on the other hand, the sealing pressure head is slowly driven to execute the fine action of film pasting sealing after reaching the film pasting station, the workpiece damage caused by the uncontrollable film pasting pressure due to the overlarge driving pressure or the overlarge falling amplitude is prevented, namely, the workpiece damage can be prevented while the film pasting sealing efficiency is improved.

Another technical scheme in the above technical scheme has the following advantages or beneficial effects: because the both sides of pushing down formula sealing mechanism are equipped with and are located respectively seal membrane guide of seal membrane upper reaches and low reaches for the seal membrane can last, the high accuracy through treat sealed work piece open-ended top, and finally when making the seal membrane press fit the work piece opening part, the seal inefficacy because the dislocation leads to can not appear in the seal membrane.

Another technical scheme in the above technical scheme has the following advantages or beneficial effects: due to the arrangement of the buffer component, buffer protection can be provided in the pressing and sealing process, so that the problem of workpiece damage caused by sudden change of pressing force or unstable pressing force can be prevented.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings of the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is apparent that the drawings in the following description relate only to some embodiments of the present invention and are not limiting thereof, wherein:

fig. 1 is a perspective view of a push-down type sealing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a conformable assembly in a push-down sealing device in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a down pressure sealing mechanism in a down pressure sealing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is an exploded view of a down pressure seal mechanism in a down pressure seal apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a sealing head assembly in a push-down sealing device according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is an exploded view of a sealing ram assembly in a push down seal according to one embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a perspective view of a sealing ram assembly of a push-down sealing device with the sealing ram and ram retainer removed, showing details of the ram receiving channel from the bottom, according to one embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without any inventive step based on the embodiments of the present invention, are within the scope of the present invention.

In the drawings, the shape and size may be exaggerated for clarity, and the same reference numerals will be used throughout the drawings to designate the same or similar components.

Unless defined otherwise, technical or scientific terms used herein shall have the ordinary meaning as understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The use of "first," "second," and similar terms in the description and claims of the present application do not denote any order, quantity, or importance, but rather the terms are used to distinguish one element from another. Also, the use of the terms "a," "an," or "the" and similar referents do not denote a limitation of quantity, but rather denote the presence of at least one. The word "comprise" or "comprises", and the like, means that the element or item listed before "comprises" or "comprising" covers the element or item listed after "comprising" or "comprises" and its equivalents, and does not exclude other elements or items. "upper", "lower", "left", "right", and the like are used merely to indicate relative positional relationships, and when the absolute position of the object being described is changed, the relative positional relationships may also be changed accordingly.

In the following description, terms such as center, thickness, height, length, front, back, rear, left, right, top, bottom, upper, lower, etc., are defined with respect to the configurations shown in the respective drawings, and in particular, "height" corresponds to a dimension from top to bottom, "width" corresponds to a dimension from left to right, "depth" corresponds to a dimension from front to rear, which are relative concepts, and thus may be varied accordingly depending on the position in which it is used, and thus these or other orientations should not be construed as limiting terms.

Terms concerning attachments, coupling and the like (e.g., "connected" and "attached") refer to a relationship wherein structures are secured or attached, either directly or indirectly, to one another through intervening structures, as well as both movable or rigid attachments or relationships, unless expressly described otherwise.

Example 1

Fig. 1 to 4 show embodiment 1 of the present invention, and in conjunction with the illustration of fig. 1 to 4, it can be seen that the push-down sealing device 6 includes:

the mounting bracket 61 comprises at least three non-collinear lifting guide columns 616, a pressing mounting plate 613 movably sleeved on the lifting guide columns 616, and a fixed mounting plate 614 fixedly connected on the lifting guide columns 616, wherein the pressing mounting plate 613 is positioned below the fixed mounting plate 614 and is arranged at an interval with the fixed mounting plate 614 to form a mounting space therebetween, and a workpiece positioning space 615 is formed right below the pressing mounting plate 613;

a bonding module 63 mounted on the lower mounting plate 613 and located in the mounting space, wherein a lower sealing mechanism 64 is fixedly mounted; and

the lifting driver 65 is arranged on the fixed mounting plate 614, and the power output end of the lifting driver 65 is in transmission connection with the attaching module 63;

the lifting guide column 616 is provided with a reset station and a film pasting station in sequence from top to bottom along the height direction, and the downward pressing mounting plate 613 is lifted and lowered back and forth along the lifting guide column 616 by the lifting driver 65 so as to switch back and forth between the reset station and the film pasting station; the sealing film 634 is continuously supplied in a tension manner in the attaching module 63, the downward pressing type sealing mechanism 64 is positioned right above the stepping path of the sealing film 634, and the sealing pressure head 645 in the downward pressing type sealing mechanism 64 is opposite to the sealing film 634 below; when the attaching module 63 on the lower mounting plate 613 descends to the attaching station, the lower sealing mechanism 64 drives the sealing ram 645 therein to reciprocate up and down along the vertical direction so as to push the sealing film 634 below the sealing ram 645 to the workpiece opening to be sealed in the workpiece positioning space 615. Because the lifting driver is adopted to quickly drive the sealing pressure head to the film pasting station close to the workpiece, then the sealing pressure head is slowly driven to be pressed down through the pressing driver until the sealing film is pasted on the workpiece opening, on one hand, the sealing pressure head is quickly driven to be close to the film pasting station to reduce the falling time, on the other hand, the sealing pressure head is slowly driven to execute the fine action of film pasting sealing after reaching the film pasting station, the workpiece damage caused by the uncontrollable film pasting pressure due to the overlarge driving pressure or the overlarge falling amplitude is prevented, namely, the workpiece damage can be prevented while the film pasting sealing efficiency is improved.

Referring to fig. 2 to 5, the attaching module 63 includes:

a mounting upright 631 fixedly mounted on the lower mounting plate 613; and

a material discharging roll 632 and a material receiving roll 633 which are connected to the mounting vertical plate 631 in a rotating mode, wherein a sealing film 634 is wound on the material discharging roll 632, and the used sealing film 634 is wound on the material receiving roll 633;

the downward-pressing type sealing mechanism 64 is positioned right above the stepping path of the sealing film 634, the sealing ram 645 in the downward-pressing type sealing mechanism 64 is opposite to the sealing film 634 below the downward-pressing type sealing mechanism 64, and the downward-pressing type sealing mechanism 64 drives the sealing ram 645 in the downward-pressing type sealing mechanism to reciprocate and lift in the vertical direction so as to push the sealing film 634 below the sealing ram 645 to the workpiece opening to be sealed. Because the sealing film 634 can be continuously discharged and the downward pressing sealing operation can be executed on the transmission path of the sealing film 634, and the used sealing film can be continuously and automatically recovered, the automation degree and efficiency of sealing are greatly improved, and the high-efficiency execution of the sealing detection operation is facilitated. In the embodiment shown in fig. 2, the sealing film 634 is tensioned in an initial state to be in a horizontal posture (a solid line position in fig. 2), the sealing film 634 is bent downwards to be in a sealing state (a dotted line 634' position in fig. 2) after being subjected to downward pressure of the sealing ram 645, the sealing film 634 seals the workpiece opening at the lowest point in fig. 2, the sealing ram 645 is lifted and retracted after detection is completed, the sealing film 634 tends to return to the horizontal posture under the action of self tension and the winding tangential force of the material receiving roll 633, so that the sealing film 634 is automatically peeled off from the workpiece opening, the material receiving roll 633 is continuously wound, the used sealing film 634 is wound and recovered, the cleanliness of a workshop is ensured, a sealing station can be vacated, and the sealing detection work of the next workpiece is conveniently and rapidly prepared.

In the embodiment shown in fig. 2, the two sides of the push-down sealing mechanism 64 are provided with sealing film guides 635 respectively located at the upstream and downstream of the sealing film 634, a sealing film guide groove 6351 with an open bottom is opened in the sealing film guide 635, and the sealing film 634 passes through the push-down sealing mechanism 64 under the guidance of the sealing film guide groove 6351, so that the sealing film 634 can continuously and precisely pass through the workpiece opening to be sealed, and finally the sealing film 634 is pressed and attached to the workpiece opening without sealing failure due to misalignment.

As a further improvement, the bottom opening diameter of the sealing film guiding groove 6351 is gradually reduced from bottom to top and forms a sealing film accommodating groove 6352 slightly wider than the sealing film 634 at the top.

Referring to the illustrations of fig. 3 to 6, a specific structure of the press-down type seal mechanism 64 is disclosed, the press-down type seal mechanism 64 including:

a press-down driver 641 fixedly mounted on the mounting upright plate 631;

a mounting substrate 642 which is in transmission connection with the power output end of the push-down actuator 641;

a ram mounting plate 643 fixedly mounted to the bottom of the mounting substrate 642; and

a sealing ram assembly slidingly coupled to a bottom of the ram mounting plate 643;

the pressure head mounting plate 643 and the sealing pressure head assembly are in sliding connection through at least two guide rods 6433; at least two linear bearings 6431 for longitudinal movement are disposed between the ram mounting plate 643 and the sealing ram assembly; at least two buffer components 6432 are elastically connected between the pressure head mounting plate 643 and the sealing pressure head assembly; the mounting substrate 642 is reciprocally lifted in the vertical direction by the down-pressure driver 641, thereby pushing the sealing film 634 under the sealing ram 645 onto the opening of the workpiece to be sealed.

With reference to fig. 4, as a further improvement, the guide rods 6433 are provided with an even number and are arranged so as to be constituted by at least one guide subset, each guide subset comprising a pair of guide rods 6433 arranged diagonally on the ram mounting plate 643. In the embodiment shown in fig. 3 and 4, the press-down sealing mechanism 64 further includes a press-down driver 641, and a power output end of the press-down driver 641 is in transmission connection with the mounting substrate 642, so that the mounting substrate 642 can be lifted and lowered back and forth in a vertical plane under the driving of the press-down driver 641.

As a further modification, the buffer members 6432 are provided with an even number and arranged to be constituted by at least one buffer subset each including a pair of buffer members 6432 arranged diagonally on the ram mounting plate 643, wherein a line between any pair of buffer members 6432 intersects a line between at least one pair of guide rods.

Therefore, in the process of buffering compression, the shrinkage change degree of the space between the sealing head assembly and the pressure head mounting plate 643 can be kept consistent, and uneven pressing pressure finally transmitted to the sealing head assembly due to the fact that the sealing head assembly rolls over and/or inclines relative to the pressure head mounting plate 643 is prevented.

Example 2

Fig. 3 to 6 also show embodiment 2 of the present invention, and embodiment 2 differs from embodiment 1 in that:

the sealing ram assembly comprises:

a mounting base 644 slidably coupled to a bottom of the ram mounting plate 643, a mounting portion 6442 formed to extend downward in a downward hanging manner, and a ram accommodating groove 6445 having an open bottom formed in the mounting portion 6442; and

a sealing ram 645 engaged in the ram receiving groove 6445;

a replacement opening 6446 communicated with the outside is formed beside the pressure head accommodating groove 6445, and the sealing pressure head 645 enters and exits the pressure head accommodating groove 6445 through the replacement opening 6446 to complete the installation and replacement of the sealing pressure head 645.

Referring to fig. 3, the mounting base 644 has at least two relief recesses 6441 formed therein, each relief member 6432 being at least partially received in a respective one of the relief recesses 6441.

Referring to fig. 4, a ram retaining member 645 is detachably mounted to a side of the mounting portion 6442, and after the sealing ram 645 is mounted in the ram accommodating groove 6445, the ram retaining member 645 is mounted at a position opposite to the replacement port 6446 such that at least a portion of the ram retaining member 645 is retained against an exposed side surface of the sealing ram 645.

As a further modification, the ram abutting element 645 includes a fitting portion 6461 and an abutting portion 6462, and the size of the abutting portion 6462 is matched with the replacement port 6446 so that the abutting portion 6462 can intrude into the replacement port 6446.

As a further improvement, opposite side surfaces of the sealing ram 645 are respectively formed with protruding portions 6451, and the inside wall of the ram accommodating groove 6445 is formed with a catching groove 6447 extending from the replacement opening 6446 to the inside of the ram accommodating groove 6445, wherein the cross-sectional size of the catching groove 6447 is adapted to the cross-sectional size of the protruding portions 6451, so that each of the protruding portions 6451 can slide along a corresponding one of the catching grooves 6447 when the sealing ram 645 moves in and out of the ram accommodating groove 6445.

As a further improvement, a vacuum suction nozzle 6453 is formed at the bottom of the sealing ram 645, and a vacuum passage 6452 is extended into the mounting base 644 and communicated with the vacuum suction nozzle 6453.

As a further improvement, an exposed end of the vacuum air passage 6452 on the mounting base 644 is communicated with a vacuum generator 6443.

As a further improvement, a sealing layer made of elastic and/or flexible material is formed at the bottom of the sealing ram 645, so that when the sealing ram 645 performs a pressing operation, the product can be protected by buffering, and an excessive impact force can be prevented.

The number of apparatuses and the scale of the process described herein are intended to simplify the description of the present invention. Applications, modifications and variations of the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

The features of the different implementations described herein may be combined to form other embodiments not specifically set forth above. The components may be omitted from the structures described herein without adversely affecting their operation. Further, various individual components may be combined into one or more individual components to perform the functions described herein.

Furthermore, while embodiments of the invention have been described above, it is not limited to the applications set forth in the description and the embodiments, which are fully applicable in a variety of fields of endeavor to which the invention pertains, and further modifications may readily be made by those skilled in the art, it being understood that the invention is not limited to the details shown and described herein without departing from the general concept defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.