System And Method For Feeding Diaphragm

A method for feeding a diaphragm, comprising:

• providing a system including a diaphragm separating device adapted to separate a single diaphragm from a stack of diaphragms and a visual device adapted to identify the single diaphragm and a position of the single diaphragm separated from the stack, the diaphragm separating device includes a diaphragm bin adapted to load the stack of diaphragms and a diaphragm sweeping mechanism;
• turning on the diaphragm sweeping mechanism to perform a sweeping action to sweep a top of the stack of diaphragms to separate the single diaphragm from the top of the stack;
• turning off the diaphragm sweeping mechanism after the diaphragm sweeping mechanism has performed the sweeping action for a predetermined time;
• turning on the visual device to identify whether the diaphragm sweeping mechanism successfully separated the single diaphragm from the stack;
• identifying the position of the single diaphragm if the visual device identifies the single diaphragm separated from the stack to direct a robot to pick up the single diaphragm;
• and
• repeating the turning steps if the visual device does not identify the single diaphragm separated from the stack.