CN104989731A - Automobile pressure bearing - Google Patents

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CN104989731A
CN104989731A CN201510437599.XA CN201510437599A CN104989731A CN 104989731 A CN104989731 A CN 104989731A CN 201510437599 A CN201510437599 A CN 201510437599A CN 104989731 A CN104989731 A CN 104989731A
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成少华
任国正
赵晖
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SHANXI XINHUAN RUBBER PLASTIC PRODUCTS CO Ltd
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An automobile pressure bearing comprises a seat ring, tapered rollers, an annular sealing ring, a shaft ring and a dustproof cover. The taper rollers are of tapered structures, are arranged in an annular-structure manner, and form a ring roller set, and the ring roller set is arranged on the seat ring; the annular sealing ring is arranged on the outer side of the ring roller set in a sleeving manner, and ring roller set is arranged on the inner side face of the seat ring; the shaft ring is of an annular structure matched with the seat ring in shape, a rolling way is arranged on the shaft ring, and is matched with the ring roller set in shape, and the rolling way bottom faces, in contact with the tapered rollers, of the rolling way are of an inclined surface structure; and the ring sealing ring is abutted against the second inner side face of the shaft ring. The dustproof cover is provided with an annular side plate, wherein a ring sealing plate in contact with the second outer side face of the shaft ring is arranged at one end of the side plate, and the other end of the side plate is provided with a clamping folding angle connected with the seat ring in a clamped manner. Through the structural design, the bearing capacity and the sealing performance of the bearing can be well achieved, and the bearing has the beneficial effects of being long in service life and high in reliability.

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Automobile pressure bearing
Technical field
The present invention relates to auto-parts technical field, more particularly, particularly a kind of automobile pressure bearing.
Background technique
Automotive suspension pressure bearing is used for bearing automobile car body weight, and therefore it bears very large thrust load and certain radial load.
For some vehicles on market, pressure bearing, while bearing thrust load, also will bear larger radial direction (side direction) load.At present, the bearing structure used is difficult to the requirement meeting radial load, occurs unbalance loading situation, shows as: exception sound of bearing rings obviously, thus makes bearing wear aggravation, service life reduction.
Summary of the invention
(1) technical problem
How to solve automobile pressure bearing for the lower problem of radial load ability to bear.
(2) technological scheme
The invention provides a kind of automobile pressure bearing, comprising:
Seat ring, described seat ring is cirque structure, and a side of described seat ring is the first inner side surface for installing miscellaneous part, and another side of described seat ring is the first outer side surface;
Tapered roller, described tapered roller is conical structure, one end of described tapered roller is miner diameter end, the other end of described tapered roller is bigger diameter end, the diameter of described miner diameter end is less than the diameter of described bigger diameter end, described tapered roller ringwise structural arrangement arranges and forms annulus and rolls group, and the center of circle that the miner diameter end of described tapered roller rolls group towards described annulus is arranged, and described annulus rolls group and is arranged on the first inner side surface of described seat ring;
O-ring seal, the diameter of described O-ring seal is greater than the diameter that described annulus rolls group, and described O-ring seal is sheathed on the outside that described annulus rolls group, and described annulus to roll on inner side surface that group is arranged at described seat ring and offsets with described seat ring;
Blowout patche, described blowout patche is the cirque structure with described seat ring shape adaptation, one side of described blowout patche is the second inner side surface, the another side of described blowout patche is the second outer side surface, described second outer side surface is plane, described second inner side surface is used for contacting with described tapered roller, described second inner side surface has raceway, described raceway and described annulus roll group shape adaptation, the raceway bottom surface that described raceway is used for contacting with described tapered roller is ramp structure, and described second inner side surface of described O-ring seal and described blowout patche offsets;
Dust-proof cover, described dust-proof cover has the side plate of annular, and one end of described side plate is provided with the annulus shrouding for contacting with the second outer side surface of described blowout patche, and the other end of described side plate is for the clamping knuckle with described seat ring clamping.
Preferably, described raceway includes described raceway bottom surface and raceway sidewall; Described raceway sidewall is plane structure, and the bigger diameter end of described raceway sidewall and described tapered roller offsets.
Preferably, the position that described raceway bottom surface connects with described raceway sidewall is the annular ditch structure of the end face side for accommodating described bigger diameter end.
Preferably, the end face side of described bigger diameter end is chamfering structure; The end face side of described miner diameter end is chamfering structure.
Preferably, the outer rim side of the first outer side surface of described seat ring is chamfering structure; The outer edge side checkpost of the first outer side surface of described clamping knuckle and described seat ring connects.
Preferably, described seat ring is GCr15 Bearing Steel seat ring; Described tapered roller is GCr15 Bearing Steel tapered roller; Described blowout patche is GCr15 Bearing Steel blowout patche.
Preferably, described dust-proof cover is low-carbon cold rolling steel plate dust-proof cover.
Preferably, described seal ring is sealed nylon circle.
Preferably, described dust-proof cover impact briquetting; Described dust-proof cover is integral type structure.
(3) beneficial effect
The present invention adopts full dress tapered roller thrust bearing structure, effectively can improve the axis of bearing and radial bearing capacity, alleviate the generation of unbalance loading situation.Adopt O-ring seal and punching press dust cover structure simultaneously, meet the sealing of bearing and dust-proof requirement.The present invention can solve bearing load carrying capacity and sealability problem preferably, has long service life, advantage that reliability is high.
Accompanying drawing explanation
Fig. 1 is the structural representation of automobile pressure bearing in the embodiment of the present invention;
In FIG, the corresponding relation of component names and accompanying drawing number is:
Seat ring 1, tapered roller 2, O-ring seal 3, blowout patche 4, dust-proof cover 5, raceway a.
Embodiment
Below in conjunction with drawings and Examples, embodiments of the present invention are described in further detail.Following examples for illustration of the present invention, but can not be used for limiting the scope of the invention.
In describing the invention, except as otherwise noted, the implication of " multiple " is two or more; Term " on ", D score, "left", "right", " interior ", " outward ", " front end ", " rear end ", " head ", the orientation of the instruction such as " afterbody " or position relationship be based on orientation shown in the drawings or position relationship, only the present invention for convenience of description and simplified characterization, instead of indicate or imply that the device of indication or element must have specific orientation, with specific azimuth configuration and operation, therefore can not be interpreted as limitation of the present invention.In addition, term " first ", " second ", " the 3rd " etc. only for describing object, and can not be interpreted as instruction or hint relative importance.
In describing the invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise clearly defined and limited, term " is connected ", " connection " should be interpreted broadly, such as, can be fixedly connected with, also can be removably connect, or connect integratedly; Can be mechanical connection, also can be electrical connection; Can be directly be connected, also indirectly can be connected by intermediary.For the ordinary skill in the art, concrete condition above-mentioned term concrete meaning in the present invention can be understood.
Please refer to Fig. 1, Fig. 1 is the structural representation of automobile pressure bearing in the embodiment of the present invention.
The invention provides a kind of automobile pressure bearing, comprising: seat ring 1, seat ring 1 is cirque structure, and a side of seat ring 1 is the first inner side surface for installing miscellaneous part, and another side of seat ring 1 is the first outer side surface; Tapered roller 2, tapered roller 2 is conical structure, one end of tapered roller 2 is miner diameter end, the other end of tapered roller 2 is bigger diameter end, the diameter of miner diameter end is less than the diameter of bigger diameter end, tapered roller 2 ringwise structural arrangement arranges and forms annulus and rolls group, and the center of circle that the miner diameter end of tapered roller 2 rolls group towards annulus is arranged, and annulus rolls group and is arranged on the first inner side surface of seat ring 1; O-ring seal 3, the diameter of O-ring seal 3 is greater than the diameter that annulus rolls group, and O-ring seal 3 is sheathed on the outside that annulus rolls group, and annulus to roll on inner side surface that group is arranged at seat ring 1 and offsets with seat ring 1; Blowout patche 4, blowout patche 4 is the cirque structure with seat ring 1 shape adaptation, one side of blowout patche 4 is the second inner side surface, the another side of blowout patche 4 is the second outer side surface, and the second outer side surface is plane, and the second inner side surface is used for contacting with tapered roller 2, second inner side surface has raceway a, raceway a and annulus roll group shape adaptation, and the raceway bottom surface that raceway a is used for contacting with tapered roller 2 is ramp structure, and O-ring seal 3 offsets with the second inner side surface of blowout patche 4; Dust-proof cover 5, dust-proof cover 5 has the side plate of annular, and one end of side plate is provided with the annulus shrouding for contacting with the second outer side surface of blowout patche 4, and the other end of side plate is for the clamping knuckle with seat ring 1 clamping.
In the present invention, seat ring 1 adopts loop configuration to design, and its outer rim is circular, and center offers circular hole, passing for Axle Parts.The downside of seat ring 1 is the first outer side surface, and the side board edge of dust-proof cover 5 can be positioned on the first outer side surface, and the upper side of seat ring 1 is the first inner side surface, for installing tapered roller 2.Blowout patche 4 has carried out special structural design according to tapered roller 2, limits: the upper side of blowout patche 4 is the second outer side surface, and the downside of blowout patche 4 is the second inner side surface at this.Second inner side surface is used for contacting with tapered roller 2, raceway a is provided with on the surface of the second inner side surface, raceway a adopts ramp structure, raceway bottom surface is inclined-plane according to the profile design of tapered roller 2, so, when tapered roller 2 is placed to after on seat ring 1, blowout patche 4 can horizontal shutting on tapered roller 2.Tapered roller 2 adopts conical structure to design, and coordinate with the raceway a on blowout patche 4, when the present invention is installed to after on Axle Parts, tapered roller 2 can bear axial force, can bear radial force again.In addition, the present invention also specifically provides O-ring seal 3 and dust-proof cover 5, for improving sealability of the present invention in said structure design.
Innovative point of the present invention is that pressure bearing rolling element adopts tapered roller 2 to substitute traditional steel ball mode, improve the bearing capacity of automobile pressure bearing, especially radial bearing capacity, alleviate generation and the exception sound of bearing of unbalance loading situation, adopt O-ring seal 3 and punching press dust-proof cover 5 structure simultaneously, meet the sealing of bearing and dust-proof requirement.More compact structure, in the confined space, makes bearing usability and life-span be improved.
Particularly, raceway a includes raceway bottom surface and raceway sidewall; Raceway sidewall is plane structure, and the bigger diameter end of raceway sidewall and tapered roller 2 offsets.The end face of the bigger diameter end of raceway sidewall and tapered roller 2 offsets, and for carrying out spacing to tapered roller 2, ensures its high speed rotating in set designed path, improves stability and the reliability of the present invention's use.
In mechanical field, known as a kind of general knowledge: if the edge of mechanical part adopts sharp edge or right angle side, easily to cause edge stress to concentrate, there is the problem that edge-of-part some structural strength reduces.Concentrating in order to avoid mechanical part edge stress causes the situation of mechanical part reduction in working life to occur, the end face side of bigger diameter end is chamfering structure; The end face side of miner diameter end is chamfering structure.
Based on said structure design, the position that raceway bottom surface connects with raceway sidewall is the annular ditch structure of the end face side for accommodating bigger diameter end.Annular ditch structure is set, the area of blowout patche 4 and tapered roller 2 EDGE CONTACT can be reduced, thus avoid the edge of tapered roller 2 to be subject to blowout patche 4 pressure causing and collapse broken situation and occur.
Particularly, the outer rim side of the first outer side surface of seat ring 1 is chamfering structure; The outer edge side checkpost of the first outer side surface of clamping knuckle and seat ring 1 connects.
In the present invention:
Seat ring 1 is GCr15 Bearing Steel seat ring;
Tapered roller 2 is GCr15 Bearing Steel tapered roller;
Blowout patche 4 is GCr15 Bearing Steel blowout patche;
Dust-proof cover 5 is low-carbon cold rolling steel plate dust-proof cover;
O-ring seal 3 is sealed nylon circle.
In order to improve the structural strength of dust-proof cover 5, dust-proof cover 5 impact briquetting; Dust-proof cover 5 is integral type structure.
Automobile pressure bearing provided by the invention is applied to accessory on automotive suspension vibration damper, can bearing automobile car body weight car assistedly to turn to.
Former conventional pressure bearing all adopts steel ball as rolling element, the present invention completely fills thrust cone roller 2 bearing structure by adopting, axis and the radial bearing capacity of bearing are improved, simultaneously, because roller is effectively guided, greatly can alleviate the generation of unbalance loading situation, improve working life and the reliability of bearing.
In a specific embodiment of the present invention, pressure bearing is made up of seat ring 1, tapered roller 2, blowout patche 4, dust-proof cover 5 and O-ring seal 3.Wherein, seat ring 1, tapered roller 2, blowout patche 4 material are GCr15 Bearing Steel, and dust-proof cover 5 is low-carbon cold rolling steel plate materials, and the material of O-ring seal 3 is nylon66 fiber.Tapered roller 2 is sequentially arranged on seat ring 1, O-ring seal 3 is placed on the raceway a of seat ring 1, then blowout patche 4 is loaded in tapered roller 2, seat ring 1 and O-ring seal 3, the rib of blowout patche 4 is fully contacted with roller large end face, finally dust-proof cover 5 is contained on blowout patche 4 and seat ring 1, and be locked on the slope of seat ring 1 bottom surface, one-tenth is integrated.
Embodiments of the invention provide in order to example with for the purpose of describing, and are not exhaustively or limit the invention to disclosed form.Many modifications and variations are apparent for the ordinary skill in the art.Selecting and describing embodiment is in order to principle of the present invention and practical application are better described, and enables those of ordinary skill in the art understand the present invention thus design the various embodiments with various amendment being suitable for special-purpose.

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1. an automobile pressure bearing, is characterized in that, comprising:
Seat ring (1), described seat ring is cirque structure, and a side of described seat ring is the first inner side surface for installing miscellaneous part, and another side of described seat ring is the first outer side surface;
Tapered roller (2), described tapered roller is conical structure, one end of described tapered roller is miner diameter end, the other end of described tapered roller is bigger diameter end, the diameter of described miner diameter end is less than the diameter of described bigger diameter end, described tapered roller ringwise structural arrangement arranges and forms annulus and rolls group, and the center of circle that the miner diameter end of described tapered roller rolls group towards described annulus is arranged, and described annulus rolls group and is arranged on the first inner side surface of described seat ring;
O-ring seal (3), the diameter of described O-ring seal is greater than the diameter that described annulus rolls group, and described O-ring seal is sheathed on the outside that described annulus rolls group, and described annulus to roll on inner side surface that group is arranged at described seat ring and offsets with described seat ring;
Blowout patche (4), described blowout patche is the cirque structure with described seat ring shape adaptation, one side of described blowout patche is the second inner side surface, the another side of described blowout patche is the second outer side surface, described second outer side surface is plane, described second inner side surface is used for contacting with described tapered roller, described second inner side surface has raceway (a), described raceway and described annulus roll group shape adaptation, the raceway bottom surface that described raceway is used for contacting with described tapered roller is ramp structure, and described second inner side surface of described O-ring seal and described blowout patche offsets;
Dust-proof cover (5), described dust-proof cover has the side plate of annular, and one end of described side plate is provided with the annulus shrouding for contacting with the second outer side surface of described blowout patche, and the other end of described side plate is for the clamping knuckle with described seat ring clamping.
2. automobile pressure bearing according to claim 1, is characterized in that,
Described raceway includes described raceway bottom surface and raceway sidewall;
Described raceway sidewall is plane structure, and the bigger diameter end of described raceway sidewall and described tapered roller offsets.
3. automobile pressure bearing according to claim 2, is characterized in that,
The position that described raceway bottom surface connects with described raceway sidewall is the annular ditch structure of the end face side for accommodating described bigger diameter end.
4. automobile pressure bearing according to claim 3, is characterized in that,
The end face side of described bigger diameter end is chamfering structure;
The end face side of described miner diameter end is chamfering structure.
5. automobile pressure bearing according to claim 1, is characterized in that,
The outer rim side of the first outer side surface of described seat ring is chamfering structure;
The outer edge side checkpost of the first outer side surface of described clamping knuckle and described seat ring connects.
6. the automobile pressure bearing according to any one of claim 1 to 5, is characterized in that,
Described seat ring is GCr15 Bearing Steel seat ring;
Described tapered roller is GCr15 Bearing Steel tapered roller;
Described blowout patche is GCr15 Bearing Steel blowout patche.
7. the automobile pressure bearing according to any one of claim 1 to 5, is characterized in that,
Described dust-proof cover is low-carbon cold rolling steel plate dust-proof cover.
8. the automobile pressure bearing according to any one of claim 1 to 5, is characterized in that,
Described O-ring seal is sealed nylon circle.
9. automobile pressure bearing according to claim 1, is characterized in that,
Described dust-proof cover impact briquetting;
Described dust-proof cover is integral type structure.
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