CN103485642B - A kind of novel universal roller - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a kind of novel universal roller, comprise the roller body be equipped with roller chute, described roller body inside is provided with roller rivet hole, the described body side of comprising, sieve position body slide block and guide cylinder, described square body slide block comprises guide cylinder joint face, work bottom surface, leading flank, trailing flank, left work plane and right work plane, described leading flank and trailing flank offer decontamination pit respectively, and described work bottom surface wherein two diagonal angles place is provided with noise-reducing structure.This novel universal roller, structure design is unique rationally, the working strength of the roller both ensured, also achieves simultaneously and removes roller chute internal dust, reduces the astringent and abnormal sound problem of roller motion, ensure that roller moves in roller chute smooth and easy, reliably working.And this Novel roller cost of manufacture is low, economical and practical.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to automobile glass lifter technical field, especially relate to a kind of novel universal roller.
Background technology
A kind of component on automobile toothed plate type lifter, after rivet and universal roller combine, are loaded within chute, promote lower slider at principal arm.
Roller generally all adopts circular configuration, inside has a spherical pore, and in rivet bulb press-in roller circular hole, after rivet presses with principal arm again, being assemblied in chute by roller, during principal arm rise and fall, roller moves in chute, drives chute to move up and down.During circular roller motion, as run into dust accretions, exceeding the fit clearance of roller and chute, motion can be caused astringent, the problems such as abnormal sound.
Chinese patent literature (publication date: on February 6th, 2013, publication number: CN202718516U) discloses a kind of automobile door glass elevator slide block, comprises a slide block be connected with guide rail and a swivel rivets matched with this slide block; Described slide block is side's body; Described slide block comprises a plurality of joint face sliding with guide rail; The upper and lower both sides of every described joint face are connected with round-corner transition with the upper and lower surface of described slide block respectively; Often connect with chamfered transition between adjacent two joint faces.
Although technique scheme slide block have employed cube structure, this cube structure is connected by corners and fillets transition, although can remove the impurity in guide rail, if still easily cause slip not smooth when impurity is more.
Chinese patent literature (day for announcing: on December 12nd, 2012, notification number: CN202596407U) discloses the square slider in a kind of wishbone glass lifter, and comprise slider body, at least one side of described slider body is provided with a bascule.
The solution of technique scheme be the gap of slide block and chute contact surface when changing, gap can not get balance, can produce the problem of abnormal sound.
Chinese patent literature (publication date: on December 12nd, 2012, publication number: CN202596415U) discloses a kind of slide block, especially relates to a kind of square slider.A kind of square slider, comprise the slider body that can slide in chute, described slider body end face is at least provided with four boss, and described boss height is all equal.
Technique scheme complex structure, makes trouble, and too much groove structure can reduce the working strength of slide block.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to run into dust accretions to solve prior art middle roller, exceed the fit clearance of roller and chute, cause motion astringent, the problems such as abnormal sound, and provide one effectively can root out dust, prevent the novel universal roller of the astringent and abnormal sound of slide block movement.
The present invention realizes the technical scheme that its technical purpose adopts: a kind of novel universal roller, comprise the roller body be equipped with roller chute, described roller body inside is provided with roller rivet hole, the described body side of comprising, sieve position body slide block and guide cylinder, described square body slide block comprises guide cylinder joint face, work bottom surface, leading flank, trailing flank, left work plane and right work plane, described leading flank and trailing flank offer decontamination pit respectively, and described work bottom surface wherein two diagonal angles place is provided with noise-reducing structure.This novel universal roller side of employing body slide block; the party's body slide block is provided with six different faces; left and right work plane and front and back sides and work bottom surface and guide cylinder joint face; front and back sides is provided with decontamination pit; due to this Xiang Fangti slide block in roller chute along track length side forward or backward; like this when square body slide block movement; the dust of roller chute inside can in the motion process of square body slide block; rooted out by decontamination pit and collect; protect the clean and tidy health of roller chute inside, protect roller body motion smooth and easy.Simultaneously, square body slide block work bottom surface is also provided with noise-reducing structure, this noise-reducing structure can be removed the dust of roller chute bottom land in roller body seesaws process, and reduces the friction between work bottom surface and roller chute bottom land, effectively prevent astringent and generation that is abnormal sound.This one-tenth is little to roller volume, by having carried out rational design at square body slide block four angles, existing decontamination pit, there is noise-reducing structure again, different grooves, in motion process, square body shoe edge first dust shovel is fallen to collect decontamination pit or noise-reducing structure is inner, would not have astringent and abnormal sound problem when such roller body is moved in roller chute.
As preferably, described decontamination pit is groove, decontamination pit respectively with work bottom surface and guide cylinder joint face open-minded, described decontamination pit is near the edge of left work plane or right work plane, and the walls parallel of decontamination pit near left work plane or right work plane side is arranged in this work plane, a relative cell wall is inclined-plane and this inclined-plane ecto-entad tilts to bottom land, the A/F of decontamination pit is greater than slot bottom width, described bottom land is arcuate structure, and the decontamination pit inclined-plane cell wall on leading flank is parallel to decontamination pit inclined-plane cell wall on trailing flank.The preferred said structure of decontamination pit, had both been conducive to removing and the collection of dust, and this structure is under the prerequisite of guarantor's body slide block structure intensity simultaneously, and economize material, cost is low.
As preferably, described noise-reducing structure is symmetrical arranged along work bottom surface diagonal, noise-reducing structure is arranged to square body its center along work bottom surface diagonal by square body slide block corner, the fluting that described noise-reducing structure comprises arrow shaped structure sliding surface and offers along arrow shaped structure sliding surface periphery, described fluting is respectively to leading flank and right work plane or offer to trailing flank and left work plane, the end of arrow shaped structure sliding surface is provided with cambered surface, and described fluting communicates with cambered surface.The preferred said structure of noise-reducing structure can either be removed dust, can also play the effect eliminating abnormal sound simultaneously, and this structure design is unique, practical reliable, Be very effective.
As preferably, described fluting is offered to 1/2nd side's body slide block At The Heights.Height preferably 1/2nd side's body slide block height of fluting, like this can either the working strength of guarantor's body slide block, can play good sound deadening again.
As preferably, cambered surface maximum gauge place is apart from the distance at the Jiao Duanju center, body slide block diagonal angle, the distance side of being less than of square body its center.Globoidal structure the effect that fully ensure that the noise reduction of noise-reducing structure dust is set.
As preferably, leading flank and trailing flank are symmetrically arranged with two guiding projections along square body its center line, described guiding projection is arranged perpendicular to square body slide block front and back sides, described guiding projection and square body slide block front and back sides junction are provided with transition arc, and each edges and corners of guiding projection are provided with smooth circular arc.Guiding projection facilitates the installation of roller body, can avoid roller body direction setup error like this, increase unnecessary work, increase work efficiency.Arrange transition arc and smooth circular arc is to reduce the friction of this guiding projection at roller body motion process, protection roller body is run smooth and easy.
As preferably, above square body slide block, be respectively arranged with smooth work circular arc with the junction in face.The setting of smooth work circular arc ensure that roller body motion is smooth and easy, and frictional resistance is little, and flexibility is high.
As preferably, guide cylinder and square body slide block are coaxially set, and the height that the height of guide cylinder is greater than 1/3rd side's body slide blocks is less than the height of 1/2nd side's body slide blocks.Guide cylinder and square body slide block are coaxially set, and ensure that the reliability of roller body work, and the setting of guide cylinder height is according to the setting of roller rivet and conveniently installs.
As preferably, roller rivet hole is arranged along the axis of square body slide block and guide cylinder, roller rivet hole is spherical pore in the part of square body slide block inside, and the part in guide cylinder inside is bellmouth, and the diameter of bellmouth opening part is greater than the diameter with spherical pore link.The preferred said structure of roller rivet hole is that the press-in of conveniently roller rivet is installed and used.
Beneficial effect of the present invention is: this novel universal roller, and structure design is rationally unique, the working strength of the roller both ensured, also achieve simultaneously and remove roller chute internal dust, reduce the astringent and abnormal sound problem of roller motion, ensure that roller moves in roller chute smooth and easy, reliably working.And this Novel roller cost of manufacture is low, economical and practical.
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Fig. 1 is a kind of structural representation of novel universal roller of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is A-A sectional view in Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is the upward view of novel universal roller in Fig. 1;
The another kind of structural representation of Fig. 4 novel universal of the present invention roller;
In figure: 1, roller body, 2, roller rivet hole, 21, spherical pore, 22, bellmouth, 3, square body slide block, 31, guide cylinder joint face, 32, work bottom surface, 33, leading flank, 34, trailing flank, 35, left work plane, 36, right work plane, 4, guide cylinder, 5, decontamination pit, 6, noise-reducing structure, 61, arrow shaped structure sliding surface, 62, fluting, 63, cambered surface, 7, bottom land, 8, guiding projection.
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Also by reference to the accompanying drawings technical scheme of the present invention is described in further detail below by specific embodiment.
Embodiment 1:
In the embodiment shown in fig. 1, a kind of novel universal roller, comprise the roller body 1 be equipped with roller chute, roller body 1 inside is provided with roller rivet hole 2, body 1 side of comprising, sieve position body slide block 3 and guide cylinder 4, side's body slide block 3 comprises guide cylinder joint face 31, work bottom surface 32, leading flank 33, trailing flank 34, left work plane 35 and right work plane 36, and leading flank 33 and trailing flank 34 offer decontamination pit 5 respectively, and work diagonal angle, 35 two, bottom surface is provided with noise-reducing structure 6.
Decontamination pit 5 is groove, a diagonal along square body slide block 3 is arranged, decontamination pit 5 on leading flank 33 and trailing flank 34 is opened to work bottom surface 32 and guide cylinder joint face 31 respectively, decontamination pit 5 on left work plane 35 is near the edge of left work plane 35, decontamination pit 5 on right work plane 36 is near the edge of right work plane 36, and the decontamination pit 5 on left work plane 35 is arranged in this work plane near the walls parallel of left work plane 35, another cell wall that decontamination pit 5 on left work plane 35 is relative is inclined-plane and this inclined-plane ecto-entad tilts to bottom land 7, the walls parallel of decontamination pit 5 on right work plane 36 near right work plane 36 side is arranged in this work plane, another cell wall that decontamination pit 5 on right work plane is relative is inclined-plane and this inclined-plane ecto-entad tilts to bottom land 7, the A/F of decontamination pit 5 is greater than slot bottom width, bottom land 7 is arcuate structure, decontamination pit 5 inclined-plane cell wall on leading flank 33 is parallel to decontamination pit 5 inclined-plane cell wall on trailing flank 34.
Noise-reducing structure 6 is symmetrical arranged along work bottom surface 32 diagonal, diagonal is mutually vertical with the diagonal arranging decontamination pit 5, noise-reducing structure 6 is arranged to square body slide block 3 center along work bottom surface 32 diagonal by square body slide block 3 corner, the fluting 62 that noise-reducing structure 6 comprises arrow shaped structure sliding surface 61 and offers along arrow shaped structure sliding surface 61 periphery, fluting 62 near right work plane 36 side is offered respectively to leading flank 33 and right work plane 36 and is established to 1/2nd side's body slide block 3 At The Heights, fluting 62 near left work plane 35 side is offered to 1/2nd side's body slide block 3 At The Heights respectively to trailing flank 34 and left work plane 35, the end of arrow shaped structure sliding surface 61 is provided with cambered surface 63, fluting 62 communicates with cambered surface 63.Cambered surface 63 maximum gauge place is apart from the distance at the Jiao Duanju center, body slide block 3 diagonal angle, the distance side of being less than at square body slide block 3 center.That is, the end of arrow shaped structure sliding surface 61 is arranged on the interior below of front and back sides and left and right work plane.
Leading flank 33 and trailing flank 34 are symmetrically arranged with two guiding projections 8 along square body slide block 3 center line, guiding projection 8 is arranged perpendicular to square body slide block 3 front and back sides, guiding projection 8 and square body slide block 3 front and back sides junction are provided with transition arc, and each edges and corners of guiding projection 8 are provided with smooth circular arc.Side's body slide block 3 is respectively arranged with smooth work circular arc with the junction in face above.
Guide cylinder 4 and square body slide block 3 are coaxially set, and the height that the height of guide cylinder 4 is greater than 1/3rd side's body slide blocks 3 is less than the height of 1/2nd side's body slide blocks 3.
Roller rivet hole 2 is arranged along the axis of square body slide block 3 and guide cylinder 4, roller rivet hole 2 is spherical pore 21 in the part of square body slide block 3 inside, be bellmouth 22 in the part of guide cylinder 4 inside, the diameter of bellmouth 22 opening part is greater than the diameter with spherical pore 21 link.
Embodiment 2:
In the embodiment shown in fig. 4, a kind of novel universal roller, this universal roller is substantially identical with the structure in embodiment 1, and difference is the leading flank 33 of this universal roller and trailing flank 34 do not arrange guiding projection 8.
Universal roller in embodiment 1 and embodiment 2 is arranged on short roller chute respectively and long roller chute is inner, is applied in automobile lifter and drives principal arm to slide.
During use, first roller rivet hole roller rivet being pressed into this universal roller is inner, according to decontamination pit glide direction, this universal roller is installed on length roller chute inside, is connected on lifter, both principal arm can have been driven to slide, realized the elevating function of vehicle glass.
This novel universal roller, adopt cube structure, and reform in moulding, devise different grooves at four angles, decontamination pit and fluting, in motion process, dust shovel first falls by the edge of this universal roller side body slide block, the side's of ensure that body slide block is smooth and easy at roller chute internal slide, does not have astringent and generation that is abnormal sound phenomenon, ensure that result of use and the application life of automobile glass lifter.
This novel universal roller, structure design is unique rationally, the working strength of the roller both ensured, also achieves simultaneously and removes roller chute internal dust, reduces the astringent and abnormal sound problem of roller motion, ensure that roller moves in roller chute smooth and easy, reliably working.And this Novel roller cost of manufacture is low, economical and practical.
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1. a novel universal roller, comprise the roller body (1) be equipped with roller chute, described roller body (1) inside is provided with roller rivet hole (2), it is characterized in that: described body (1) side of comprising body slide block, sieve position (3) and guide cylinder (4), described square body slide block (3) comprises guide cylinder joint face (31), work bottom surface (32), leading flank (33), trailing flank (34), left work plane (35) and right work plane (36), described leading flank (33) and trailing flank (34) offer decontamination pit (5) respectively, described work bottom surface (32) wherein two diagonal angles place is provided with noise-reducing structure (6), described decontamination pit (5) is arranged along a diagonal of square body slide block (3), described noise-reducing structure (6) is symmetrical arranged along work bottom surface (32) diagonal, this diagonal is mutually vertical with the diagonal arranging decontamination pit (5).
2. a kind of novel universal roller according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described decontamination pit (5) is groove, decontamination pit (5) respectively with work bottom surface (32) and guide cylinder joint face (31) open-minded, the edge of the close left work plane (35) of described decontamination pit (5) or right work plane (36), and the walls parallel of decontamination pit (5) near left work plane (35) or right work plane (36) side is arranged in this work plane, another relative cell wall is inclined-plane and this inclined-plane ecto-entad tilts to bottom land (7), the A/F of decontamination pit (5) is greater than bottom land (7) width, described bottom land (7) is arcuate structure, decontamination pit inclined-plane cell wall on leading flank (33) is parallel to trailing flank (34) upper decontamination pit inclined-plane cell wall.
3. a kind of novel universal roller according to claim 1, it is characterized in that: described noise-reducing structure (6) is symmetrical arranged along work bottom surface (32) diagonal, noise-reducing structure (6) is arranged to square body slide block (3) center along work bottom surface (32) diagonal by square body slide block (3) corner, the fluting (62) that described noise-reducing structure (6) comprises arrow shaped structure sliding surface (61) and offers along arrow shaped structure sliding surface (61) periphery, described fluting (62) is respectively to leading flank (33) and right work plane (36) or offer to trailing flank (34) and left work plane (35), the end of arrow shaped structure sliding surface (61) is provided with cambered surface (63), described fluting (62) communicates with cambered surface (63).
4. a kind of novel universal roller according to claim 3, is characterized in that: described fluting (62) is offered to 1/2nd side's body slide block (3) At The Heights.
5. a kind of novel universal roller according to claim 3, is characterized in that: cambered surface (63) maximum gauge place is apart from the distance at the Jiao Duanju center, body slide block diagonal angle, the distance side of being less than at square body slide block (3) center.
6. a kind of novel universal roller according to claim 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5, it is characterized in that: leading flank (33) and trailing flank (34) are symmetrically arranged with two guiding projections (8) along square body slide block (3) center line, described guiding projection (8) is arranged perpendicular to square body slide block (3) front and back sides, described guiding projection (8) and square body slide block front and back sides junction are provided with transition arc, and each edges and corners of guiding projection (8) are provided with smooth circular arc.
7. a kind of novel universal roller according to claim 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5, is characterized in that: square body slide block (3) is respectively arranged with smooth work circular arc with the junction in face above.
8. a kind of novel universal roller according to claim 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5, it is characterized in that: guide cylinder (4) and square body slide block (3) are coaxially set, the height that the height of guide cylinder (4) is greater than 1/3rd side's body slide blocks is less than the height of 1/2nd side's body slide blocks.
9. a kind of novel universal roller according to claim 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5, it is characterized in that: roller rivet hole (2) is arranged along the axis of square body slide block (3) and guide cylinder (4), roller rivet hole (2) is spherical pore (21) in the part that square body slide block (3) is inner, the part inner in guide cylinder (4) is bellmouth (22), and the diameter of bellmouth (22) opening part is greater than the diameter with spherical pore (21) link.
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