CN108204469B - The dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of novel gas-liquid - Google Patents

The dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of novel gas-liquid Download PDF

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CN108204469B
CN108204469B CN201711301821.9A CN201711301821A CN108204469B CN 108204469 B CN108204469 B CN 108204469B CN 201711301821 A CN201711301821 A CN 201711301821A CN 108204469 B CN108204469 B CN 108204469B
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柳国斌
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F16K11/02Multiple-way valves, e.g. mixing valves; Pipe fittings incorporating such valves with all movable sealing faces moving as one unit
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Abstract

The invention discloses the dual-purpose high frequency rotary valves of novel gas-liquid, including pedestal, spool on the base is fixedly installed and is equipped with the valve pocket on spool, the two sides of the pedestal offer high pressure chest and low pressure chamber respectively, the upper plane of the pedestal offers the first high-pressure gas-liquid channel being connected to high pressure chest, the first low-pressure gas-liquid channel being connected to low pressure chamber;The spool bottom offers and the first high-pressure gas-liquid channel corresponding second high-pressure gas-liquid channel on pedestal in plane, with the first low-pressure gas-liquid channel corresponding second low-pressure gas-liquid channel, the first section and the second section are respectively equipped in the spool outer wall, the beneficial effects of the present invention are: passing through design transition valve core structure, and first through hole and the second through-hole are opened up on transition spool, pass through seal chamber between the closed type chamber and transition spool and spool between valve pocket and transition spool and height channel, low tension loop is staggeredly connected to and then realizes high frequency direction changing ratio function.

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The dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of novel gas-liquid
Technical field
The present invention relates to component of machine technical fields, and in particular to the dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of novel gas-liquid.
Background technique
It is an important tests in modern processing technical field that exciting, which combines test with other process equipments, existing It has been widely used in many important machining production fields, including the various components manufacture in industrial production, structure The everyways such as part production assembly and material preparation, which need flutter to test in conjunction with production equipment, can just be accurately determined theirs Mechanical property determines the superiority and inferiority of product, calculates fatigue life of material etc.;It needs to pass through flutter in Building Engineering Design The shock resistance of engineering is determined to simulate amplitude and the frequency test of earthquake.Excitation system can be with by the difference of its exciting mode It is divided into 3 classes: mechanical shaker, electrohydraulic shaker and electrodynamic vibration shaker.
Have at present realize high frequency flutter nuclear structure be hydraulic reversing valve based on, the rotation of exciting valve core is by watching Motor driven is taken, the valve port area size for matching the groove circumferentially uniformly opened up along spool land with window on valve pocket is at week The variation of phase property, and the groove mutual dislocation on adjacent shoulder cause to realize periodically-varied by the oil liquid direction of excitation valve.So And according to it was verified that the rotary valve spool just will appear fever deformation when commutating frequency reaches 6000HZ or more seriously, to go out Now with the stuck phenomenon that breaks of valve pocket.And due to opening up groove, and required precision with higher on spool, substantially increase Manufacture difficulty and exchange cost, therefore special proposition " the dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of novel gas-liquid " is come such issues that overcome.
Summary of the invention
In order to solve the problems in the existing technology, the Novel air high the present invention provides structurally reasonable, commutating frequency The dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of liquid.
Technical scheme is as follows:
The dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of novel gas-liquid including pedestal, is fixedly installed spool on the base and is equipped in spool On valve pocket, which is characterized in that the two sides of the pedestal offer high pressure chest and low pressure chamber, the upper plane of the pedestal respectively The the first low-pressure gas-liquid channel for offering the first high-pressure gas-liquid channel being connected to high pressure chest and being connected to low pressure chamber;The spool Bottom offers and the first high-pressure gas-liquid channel corresponding second high-pressure gas-liquid channel on pedestal in plane and low with first Gas-liquid channel corresponding second low-pressure gas-liquid channel is pressed, is respectively equipped with the first section and the second section in the spool outer wall, The high pressure spool outlet being connected to the second high-pressure gas-liquid channel is offered on first section, is offered on second section The low pressure spool circuit being connected to the second low-pressure gas-liquid channel;Transition fuse, the spool are equipped between the spool and valve pocket It is equipped with transition fuse so that the first section and the second section constitute seal chamber between transition fuse inner wall respectively;It is described First step, second step and third step, the valve pocket and transition fuse is respectively set along axial direction on the outer wall of transition fuse The first step and second step matched constitutes closed type chamber;It is being located at first step and the on the outer wall of the transition fuse One group of first through hole is circumferentially offered between two steps, is being located at second step and third platform on the outer wall of the transition fuse One group of second through-hole is circumferentially offered between rank, is punished on the valve pocket outer wall with first through hole and the second through-hole corresponding position Oil inlet and outlet is not offered.
The dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of the novel gas-liquid, which is characterized in that set between the upper end and valve pocket of the transition fuse Have a thrust ball bearing, the lower end of the transition fuse and spool it is outer between be equipped with thrust ball bearing.
The dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of the novel gas-liquid, which is characterized in that the first through hole and the second through-hole are respectively equipped with 7 It is a, and shifted to install between first through hole and the second through-hole.
The dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of the novel gas-liquid, which is characterized in that the valve pocket is equipped with pressing sleeve.
The dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of the novel gas-liquid, which is characterized in that the bottom of the valve pocket and the third of transition fuse Detachable-type sealed ring is equipped between step.
The dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of the novel gas-liquid, which is characterized in that the high pressure chest, the first high-pressure gas-liquid channel, Two high-pressure gas-liquid channels and high pressure spool export mixes high-pressure passage, the low pressure chamber, the first low-pressure gas-liquid channel, the second low pressure Gas-liquid channel and low pressure spool circuit constitute low tension loop.
The beneficial effects of the present invention are:
1) by design transition valve core structure, and first through hole and the second through-hole are opened up on transition spool, and first is logical Hole is shifted to install with the second through-hole, by close between the closed type chamber and transition spool and spool between valve pocket and transition spool Envelope chamber is staggeredly connected to height channel, low tension loop and then realizes commutation high-frequency functions, and first through hole and the second through-hole are in transition Spool is respectively equipped with multiple, substantially increases the frequency of commutation.
2) since transition spool being arranged between spool and valve pocket, to reduce the processing request of spool and valve pocket, substantially Degree reduces difficulty of processing, improves production efficiency.
3) since transition valve core rotation uses thrust ball bearing transition, significantly reduce the friction in motion process, significantly Reducing the part distortion that friction generates influences, and significantly promotes upper frequency limit, while improving service life.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is overall structure diagram of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the schematic diagram of the section structure of the invention;
Fig. 3 is the structural schematic diagram of transition fuse of the present invention;
Fig. 4 is the structural schematic diagram of pedestal of the present invention and spool installation;
Fig. 5 is spool three dimensional structure diagram of the present invention;
In figure: 1- pedestal, 101- high pressure chest, 102- low pressure chamber, the first high-pressure gas-liquid of 103- channel, the first low pressure gas of 104- Liquid channel, 2- spool, the second high-pressure gas-liquid of 201- channel, the second low-pressure gas-liquid of 202- channel, the outlet of 203- high pressure spool, 204- Low pressure spool circuit, the first section 205-, the second section 206-, 3- transition fuse, 301- first step, 302- second step, 303- third step, 304- first through hole, the second through-hole of 305-, 4- valve pocket, 401- oil inlet and outlet, 5- pressing sleeve, 6- thrust ball axis It holds, 7- sealing ring.
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Below in conjunction with Figure of description, the invention will be further described.
As shown in Figs. 1-5, the dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of novel gas-liquid, including pedestal 1, high pressure chest 101, low pressure chamber 102, first are high Press gas-liquid channel 103, the first low-pressure gas-liquid channel 104, spool 2, the second high-pressure gas-liquid channel 201, the second low-pressure gas-liquid channel 202, high pressure spool exports 203, low pressure spool circuit 204, the first section 205, the second section 206,3 first step of transition fuse 301, second step 302, third step 303, first through hole 304, the second through-hole 305, valve pocket 4, oil inlet and outlet 401, pressing sleeve 5, Thrust ball bearing 6 and sealing ring 7.Spool 2 is fixed on pedestal 1, and valve pocket 4 is equipped in spool 2, and valve pocket 4 is equipped with Pressing sleeve 5, the two sides of pedestal 1 offer high pressure chest 101 and low pressure chamber 102 respectively, and the upper plane of pedestal 1 offers and high pressure chest First high-pressure gas-liquid channel 103 of 101 connections, the first low-pressure gas-liquid channel 104 being connected to low pressure chamber 102;It opens 2 bottom of spool Equipped with the first corresponding second high-pressure gas-liquid channel of high-pressure gas-liquid channel 103 201 in plane on pedestal 1, it is low with first 104 corresponding second low-pressure gas-liquid channel 202 of gas-liquid channel is pressed, is respectively equipped with the first section 205 and second on 2 outer wall of spool Section 206, offer on the first section 205 be connected to the second high-pressure gas-liquid channel 201 high pressure spool outlet 203, second cuts The low pressure spool circuit 204 being connected to the second low-pressure gas-liquid channel 202 is offered on face 206;It is equipped between spool 2 and valve pocket 4 Transition fuse 3 is equipped with thrust ball bearing 6, bottom and the transition fuse 3 of valve pocket 4 between the upper end and valve pocket 4 of transition fuse 3 Detachable-type sealed ring is equipped between third step 303;Spool 2 and transition fuse 3 are equipped with so that the first section 205 and the Two sections 206 constitute seal chamber between 3 inner wall of transition fuse respectively;It is equipped with and pushes away between outside the lower end of transition fuse 3 and spool 2 Power ball bearing 6;First step 301, second step 302 and third step is respectively set along axial direction on the outer wall of transition fuse 3 303, the first step 301 and second step 302 that valve pocket 4 is matched with transition fuse 3 constitute closed type chamber;Transition fuse 3 One group of first through hole 304, transition fuse 3 are circumferentially being offered between first step 301 and second step 302 on outer wall Outer wall on one group of second through-hole 305, and first are circumferentially being offered between second step 302 and third step 303 Through-hole 304 and the second through-hole 305 are respectively equipped with 7, and shift to install between first through hole 304 and the second through-hole 305;Valve pocket 4 On offer two oil inlet and outlets 401 corresponding with first through hole 304 and 305 position of the second through-hole respectively.
High pressure chest 101, the first high-pressure gas-liquid channel 103, the second high-pressure gas-liquid channel 201 and high pressure spool export 203 structures At high-pressure passage, the low pressure chamber 102, the first low-pressure gas-liquid channel 104, the second low-pressure gas-liquid channel 202 and low pressure spool are returned Road 204 constitutes low tension loop.
Spool 2 is fixed on pedestal 1, by the first high-pressure gas-liquid channel 103 and the first low-pressure gas-liquid channel 104 respectively with The high pressure chest 101 of pedestal 1 is connected with low pressure chamber 102, and transition fuse 3 opens up two rows of through-holes to intermesh, and respectively first Through-hole 304, the second through-hole 305, and every row is equipped with 7, is uniformly distributed on 3 outer wall of transition fuse, in conjunction with pedestal 1 and spool 2 On high-pressure passage and low tension loop, can be realized transition rotor rotation one circle realize 14 times commutation i.e. it is every 12.8 ° realize one The handoff functionality of secondary high-low pressure.
Spool 2 is installed at the inner hole of transition fuse 3, and valve pocket 4 is installed on 3 periphery of transition fuse, by transition fuse 3 First step 301, second step 302, third step 303 and valve pocket 4 form two cavitys being completely closed, in conjunction with inner hole with The type chamber of the composition of the first section 205 and the second section 206 of spool 2 realizes high-low pressure by the rotation of transition fuse 3 Switching output.
Working principle:
When the first through hole 304 of transition fuse 3 is connected to high-pressure passage, due to the first through hole 304 on transition fuse 3 It is shifted to install with the second through-hole 305, the second through-hole 305 of transition fuse 3 is connected to low tension loop at this time, due to transition fuse 3 Two closed chambers are constituted between the first step 301 and second step 302 and valve pocket 4 opened up, the high pressure of 4 top of valve pocket connection at this time is logical Road, lower part are connected to low tension loop, and transition fuse 3 is made to rotate 12.8 °, after transition fuse 3 rotates 12.8 °, transition spool at this time First through hole 304 be connected to low tension loop, the second through-hole 305 is connected to high-pressure passage, then formed valve pocket top connection Low tension loop, lower part connect high-pressure passage, then form primary commutation.
The rotary valve collectively forms sealing and resistance reducing effect by pressing sleeve 5, thrust ball bearing 6 and sealing ring 7, passes through a cycle Rotation 14 commutation functions may be implemented, set motor speed separately as 3000 revs/min, then amplify by the revolving speed of retarder Under, biggish switching frequency may be implemented, the electrodeless adjustment of whole commutating frequency is then realized by the adjustment to motor speed. And friction minimum between spool 2, transition fuse 3, valve pocket 4 overcomes the size generated due to frictional heat generation to the full extent Deformation and cause unitary rotation to cannot achieve problem.Due to transition fuse 3 presence for spool 2 and valve pocket 4 processing request It is greatly lowered, improves whole manufacture simplicity and exchanges performance.

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1. the dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of novel gas-liquid including pedestal (1), the spool (2) being fixed on pedestal (1) and is equipped with Valve pocket (4) on spool (2), which is characterized in that the two sides of the pedestal (1) offer high pressure chest (101) and low respectively Press chamber (102), the upper plane of the pedestal (1) offer the first high-pressure gas-liquid channel (103) being connected to high pressure chest (101) and The first low-pressure gas-liquid channel (104) being connected to low pressure chamber (102);Spool (2) bottom offers and plane on pedestal (1) On first high-pressure gas-liquid channel (103) corresponding second high-pressure gas-liquid channel (201) and with the first low-pressure gas-liquid channel (104) corresponding second low-pressure gas-liquid channel (202) are respectively equipped with the first section (205) and on spool (2) outer wall Two sections (206) offer the high pressure spool being connected to the second high-pressure gas-liquid channel (201) on first section (205) It exports (203), offers the low pressure spool circuit being connected to the second low-pressure gas-liquid channel (202) on second section (206) (204);Transition fuse (3) are equipped between the spool (2) and valve pocket (4), the spool (2) sets with transition fuse (3) cooperation It sets so that the first section (205) and the second section (206) constitute seal chamber between transition fuse (3) inner wall respectively;The mistake It crosses on the outer wall of fuse (3) and first step (301), second step (302) and third step (303), institute is respectively set along axial direction It states valve pocket (4) and passes through composition closed type chamber between first step (301) and second step (302) and transition fuse (3);The mistake Cross on the outer wall of fuse (3) circumferentially offered between first step (301) and second step (302) one group first it is logical Hole (304) is circumferentially opened between second step (302) and third step (303) on the outer wall of the transition fuse (3) Equipped with one group of second through-hole (305), shifted to install between the first through hole (304) and the second through-hole (305);The valve pocket (4) oil inlet and outlet (401) are offered respectively with first through hole (304) and the second through-hole (305) corresponding position on outer wall;It is described High pressure chest (101), the first high-pressure gas-liquid channel (103), the second high-pressure gas-liquid channel (201) and high pressure spool export (203) structure At high-pressure passage, the low pressure chamber (102), the first low-pressure gas-liquid channel (104), the second low-pressure gas-liquid channel (202) and low pressure Spool circuit (204) constitutes low tension loop.
2. the dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of novel gas-liquid according to claim 1, which is characterized in that the transition fuse (3) it is upper Be equipped with thrust ball bearing (6) between end and valve pocket (4), the lower end of the transition fuse (3) and spool (2) outside between equipped with thrust Ball bearing (6).
3. the dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of novel gas-liquid according to claim 1, which is characterized in that the first through hole (304) with Second through-hole (305) is respectively equipped with 7.
4. the dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of novel gas-liquid according to claim 1, which is characterized in that the valve pocket (4) is equipped with pressure It covers (5).
5. the dual-purpose high frequency rotary valve of novel gas-liquid according to claim 1, which is characterized in that the bottom of the valve pocket (4) with Detachable-type sealed ring (7) are equipped between the plane of the third step (303) of transition fuse (3).
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