CN109681309A - A kind of automobile-used urea pump bracket of diesel oil with retractility - Google Patents

A kind of automobile-used urea pump bracket of diesel oil with retractility Download PDF

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CN109681309A
CN109681309A CN201910010919.1A CN201910010919A CN109681309A CN 109681309 A CN109681309 A CN 109681309A CN 201910010919 A CN201910010919 A CN 201910010919A CN 109681309 A CN109681309 A CN 109681309A
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张立永
姚居明
任红星
刘晓军
武国政
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Henan Nabao Automobile Industry Co Ltd
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01NGAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
    • F01N13/00Exhaust or silencing apparatus characterised by constructional features ; Exhaust or silencing apparatus, or parts thereof, having pertinent characteristics not provided for in, or of interest apart from, groups F01N1/00 - F01N5/00, F01N9/00, F01N11/00
    • F01N13/18Construction facilitating manufacture, assembly, or disassembly
    • F01N13/1805Fixing exhaust manifolds, exhaust pipes or pipe sections to each other, to engine or to vehicle body
    • F01N13/1811Fixing exhaust manifolds, exhaust pipes or pipe sections to each other, to engine or to vehicle body with means permitting relative movement, e.g. compensation of thermal expansion or vibration
    • F01N13/1822Fixing exhaust manifolds, exhaust pipes or pipe sections to each other, to engine or to vehicle body with means permitting relative movement, e.g. compensation of thermal expansion or vibration for fixing exhaust pipes or devices to vehicle body
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    • B60KARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES
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Abstract

The invention discloses a kind of automobile-used urea pump brackets of diesel oil with retractility, including two bearing bases, carrier, positioning mechanism I, turntable mechanism, positioning mechanism II, spring, displacement sensor, pressure sensor and control circuit;Mechanism of the present invention is simple, flexible and convenient to use, versatility is good, on the one hand can effectively meet the needs used with the diesel vehicle urea pump of different structure, using the mutual cooperation between electric telescopic rod, positioning mechanism and spring, the flexibility and portability of mounting bracket are greatly improved;It is another to facilitate structure simple, it is flexible and convenient to use, and the vibration that is generated in the process of moving in diesel vehicle and jolt and will not generate any influence to urea pump bracket, to increase the reliability that urea pump uses.

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A kind of automobile-used urea pump bracket of diesel oil with retractility
Technical field
The invention belongs to technical field of automobile parts, and in particular to a kind of automobile-used urea pump branch of diesel oil with retractility Frame.
Background technique
Four diesel engine after treatment route of state uses SCR route, SCR(Selective Catalytic substantially Reduction) technology is to eliminate one of the main aftertreatment technologies of nitrogen oxides in diesel exhaust gas, is mainly divided according to function For control unit, urea dosage device and catalysis reaction member three parts;The after-treatment system of SCR route includes following sections Composition: urea injection unit, urea supply unit, urea control unit, SCR catalytic muffler and related harness and pipeline;By It needs to be fixed on vehicle in urea supply unit (i.e. urea pump) and urea control unit, and has one to fixed form Fixed requirement;The technical solution of SCR injection urea post-processing is generallyd use to realize the reduction of pollutant, control urea sprays Urea pump is typically mounted on the chassis of diesel vehicle, due to diesel oil crossbeam limited width, is commonly installed one block of steel plate and is made To connect the mounting bracket between diesel oil crossbeam and urea pump, but in the process of moving due to diesel vehicle, often generate It shakes and jolts, can make steel plate that torsion deformation occur, to make urea pump position change, to influence making for urea pump With reliability, and the flexibility that uses of urea pump bracket and portability are poor;Therefore, for this status, there is an urgent need to open The automobile-used urea pump bracket of the diesel oil for sending out a kind of with retractility, to meet the needs of actual use.
Summary of the invention
In view of the shortcomings of the prior art, the present invention provides a kind of automobile-used urea pump branch of the diesel oil with retractility Frame.
To achieve the above object, the present invention adopts the following technical scheme: a kind of automobile-used urea pump of diesel oil with retractility Bracket, including two bearing bases, carrier, positioning mechanism I, turntable mechanism, positioning mechanism II, spring, displacement sensor, pressure Force snesor and control circuit;The carrier is the frame structure of axis and horizontal plane distribution, and in frame mechanism Beam and column just connect or be hinged and connected by several electric telescopic rods and connect composition, and electric telescopic rod be internally provided with it is several plus Strengthening tendons;The length of the bearing base is 200~800mm, and the width of the carrier is the 1/3~1/2 of bearing base length Between, the carrier is arranged between two bearing bases, and the height of the bearing base is 10~80mm, the carrying base Seating face is provided with several installation through-holes, and the height that wear-resisting cushion and wear-resisting cushion are provided on the inner wall of the installation through-hole is Between the 1/2~2/3 of height of mounting through hole, the aperture of the installation through-hole is 5~20mm, and the bearing base is divided into top and holds Pedestal and lower part bearing base are carried, the upper surface of lower part bearing base is arranged in the bottom of the carrier, the carrier Top is arranged in the lower surface of top bearing base, the positioning mechanism I be separately positioned on carrier and top bearing base and Offset the two sides at place between carrier and lower part bearing base, and each offsets place at least provided with a positioning mechanism I, and Each positioning mechanism I is arranged along bearing base axis direction;Uniformly distributed several sliding slots in the bearing base outer surface and carrier, And each sliding slot is hinged by turntable mechanism with bearing base inner surface, is in 0 °~90 angles between sliding slot axis and horizontal plane, The positioning mechanism II is separately positioned on the two sides of bearing base Yu installation through-hole junction, and each edge positioning mechanism II is held Carry base axis direction arrangement;Between the sliding slot and sliding slot or sliding slot passes through spring with bearing base and connect, the spring It is filled with rubber mount, institute's displacement sensors and pressure sensor at least two with sliding slot or the bearing base place of offseting, it is described Displacement sensor is embedded in carrier inner surface and uniformly distributed in the axial direction, and the pressure sensor is embedded in the outer surface of bearing base And it is uniformly distributed in the axial direction, the control circuit passes through sliding slot and is mounted on carrier outer surface, and respectively with positioning mechanism I, Turntable mechanism, turntable mechanism II, displacement sensor, pressure sensor electrical connection.
Further, the bearing base is in rotary table bearing base, trapezoidal bearing base or six terrace with edge bearing bases Any one.
Further, the installation through-hole be arc-shaped installation through-hole, L shape installation through-hole, triangle installation through-hole or Any one in six prismatic installation through-holes.
Further, the spring is any one in serpentine spring, rubber spring, helical spring or gas spring.
Further, the control circuit is the automatic control circuit based on industrial single-chip microcontroller, and the control circuit is another If data communication apparatus.
By adopting the above technical scheme, beneficial effects of the present invention:
A kind of automobile-used urea pump bracket of diesel oil with retractility, mechanism of the present invention is simple, and flexible and convenient to use, versatility is good, On the one hand can effectively meet the needs used with the diesel vehicle urea pump of different structure, using electric telescopic rod, positioning mechanism and Mutual cooperation between spring greatly improves the flexibility and portability of mounting bracket;It is another to facilitate structure simple, it uses Flexibly and easily, and in diesel vehicle it the vibration that generates in the process of moving and jolts and will not generate any shadow to urea pump bracket It rings, to increase the reliability that urea pump uses.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 is a kind of structural schematic diagram of the automobile-used urea pump bracket of diesel oil with retractility in the present invention.
Specific embodiment
To be easy to understand the technical means, the creative features, the aims and the efficiencies achieved by the present invention, below with reference to Specific embodiment, the present invention is further explained:
Therefore, claimed is not intended to limit to the detailed description of the embodiment of the present invention provided in the accompanying drawings below The range of invention, but it is merely representative of selected embodiment of the invention, based on the embodiments of the present invention, ordinary skill Personnel's every other embodiment obtained without creative efforts, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
It should also be noted that similar label and letter indicate similar terms in following attached drawing, therefore, once a certain Xiang Yi It is defined in a attached drawing, does not then need that it is further defined and explained in subsequent attached drawing.
Term " first ", " second ", " third " etc. are only used for distinguishing description, are not understood to indicate or imply relatively heavy The property wanted.
In the description of the present invention, it is also necessary to which explanation is unless specifically defined or limited otherwise, term " setting ", " installation ", " connected ", " connection " shall be understood in a broad sense, for example, it may be fixedly connected, may be a detachable connection or one Connect to body;It can be mechanical connection, be also possible to be electrically connected;It can be directly connected, it can also be indirect by intermediary Be connected, can be the connection inside two elements, for the ordinary skill in the art, can be understood with concrete condition on State the concrete meaning of term in the present invention.
As shown in connection with fig. 1: a kind of automobile-used urea pump bracket of diesel oil with retractility, including two bearing bases 1, carrying Frame 2, positioning mechanism I3, turntable mechanism 4, positioning mechanism II5, spring 6, displacement sensor 7, pressure sensor 8 and control circuit 9;The carrier 2 is the frame structure of axis and horizontal plane distribution, and the beam and column in frame mechanism is by several Electric telescopic rod 11, which just connects or is hinged and connected, connects composition, and electric telescopic rod 11 is internally provided with several reinforcing ribs 12;It is described The length of bearing base 1 is 200~800mm, and the width of the carrier 2 is institute between the 1/3~1/2 of 1 length of bearing base It states carrier 2 to be arranged between two bearing bases 1, the height of the bearing base 1 is 10~80mm, the bearing base 1 Surface is provided with several installation through-holes 13, and wear-resisting cushion 14 and wear-resisting cushion 14 are provided on the inner wall of the installation through-hole 13 Height is between the 1/2~2/3 of 13 height of installation through-hole, and the aperture of the installation through-hole 13 is 5~20mm, the bearing base 1 point is top bearing base 20 and lower part bearing base 30, and the upper of lower part bearing base 30 is arranged in the bottom of the carrier 2 The lower surface of top bearing base 20 is arranged in surface, the top of the carrier 2, and the positioning mechanism I3, which is separately positioned on, to be held Offset the two sides at place between carrier 2 and top bearing base 20 and carrier 2 and lower part bearing base 30, and each place of offseting is extremely It is provided with a positioning mechanism I3 less, and each positioning mechanism I3 is arranged along 1 axis direction of bearing base;The bearing base Uniformly distributed several sliding slots 15 in 1 outer surface and carrier 2, and each sliding slot 15 is cut with scissors with 1 inner surface of bearing base by turntable mechanism 4 It connects, is in 0 °~90 angles between 15 axis of sliding slot and horizontal plane, the positioning mechanism II5 is separately positioned on bearing base 1 and peace The two sides of 13 junction of through-hole are filled, each positioning mechanism II5 is arranged along 1 axis direction of bearing base;The sliding slot 15 with Between sliding slot 15 or sliding slot 15 is connect by spring 6 with bearing base 1, and the spring 6 offsets with sliding slot 15 or bearing base 1 Place is filled with rubber mount 16, institute's displacement sensors 7 and pressure sensor 8 at least two, and institute's displacement sensors 7 are embedded in and hold 2 inner surface of carrier and uniformly distributed in the axial direction, the pressure sensor 8 is embedded in the outer surface and in the axial direction of bearing base 1 Uniformly distributed, the control circuit 9 is mounted on carrier outer surface by sliding slot 15, and respectively with positioning mechanism I3, turntable mechanism 4, turntable mechanism II5, displacement sensor 7, pressure sensor 8 are electrically connected.
In the present embodiment, the bearing base 1 is in rotary table bearing base, trapezoidal bearing base or six terrace with edge bearing bases Any one.
In the present embodiment, the installation through-hole 13 is arc-shaped installation through-hole, the installation of L shape installation through-hole, triangle is logical Any one in hole or six prismatic installation through-holes.
In the present embodiment, the spring 6 is any one in serpentine spring, rubber spring, helical spring or gas spring.
In the present embodiment, the control circuit 9 is the automatic control circuit based on industrial single-chip microcontroller, and the control circuit Separately set data communication apparatus.
The utility model in a particular embodiment, first to two bearing bases, carrier, positioning mechanism I, turntable mechanism, fixed Position mechanism II, spring, displacement sensor, pressure sensor and control circuit and each component of internal setting carry out assembly and connection Afterwards, urea pump can be connect by the installation through-hole being arranged on nut and top bearing base, and for placing urea pump, lower part is held It carries the installation through-hole being arranged on pedestal to be placed on the chassis of diesel vehicle by nut, and by positioning mechanism II to nut and peace It fills through-hole and carries out second consolidation;Positioning mechanism I is the fastness and safety in order to reinforce two bearing bases and carrier, is increased Add reliability;When in use, the pressure being subject in traveling is monitored by pressure sensor, and according to the pressure detected Size cases are transferred to control circuit as control signal, can be with accuracy controlling electricity according to the variation of pressure size by control circuit Dynamic telescopic rod according to pressure condition and to cope with different road conditions and reach the stretching motion of control accurate electric telescopic rod, and passes through Displacement sensor detects the situation of change of electric telescopic rod, and feeds back to control circuit, passes control circuit to pressure The real-time change of sensor and displacement sensor is regulated and controled in time;Displacement sensor, pressure sensor and turntable machine can be passed through Cooperation adjustment between structure adapts to the best angles and positions of road conditions;It simultaneously can be by turntable mechanism to the operating angle of urea pump Degree and position are adjusted, to reach portability, flexibility and versatility of the equipment in application;Spring is combined with electronic stretch Change and move between contracting bar and carrier, to increase the reliability of urea pump bracket.
The present embodiment not makes any form of restriction shape of the invention, material, structure etc., all according to this hair Bright technical spirit any simple modification, equivalent change and modification to the above embodiments, belong to the technology of the present invention side The protection scope of case.

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1. a kind of automobile-used urea pump bracket of diesel oil with retractility, it is characterised in that: including two bearing bases, carrier, Positioning mechanism I, turntable mechanism, positioning mechanism II, spring, displacement sensor, pressure sensor and control circuit;The carrier For the frame structure of axis and horizontal plane distribution, and the beam and column in frame mechanism has just been connect by several electric telescopic rods Or it is hinged and connected and connects composition, and electric telescopic rod is internally provided with several reinforcing ribs;The length of the bearing base be 200~ 800mm, the width of the carrier are between the 1/3~1/2 of bearing base length, and the carrier is arranged in two carrying bases Between seat, the height of the bearing base is 10~80mm, and the bearing base surface is provided with several installation through-holes, the peace It fills and is provided with the height of wear-resisting cushion and wear-resisting cushion on the inner wall of through-hole and is between the 1/2~2/3 of height of mounting through hole, it is described The aperture of installation through-hole is 5~20mm, and the bearing base is divided into top bearing base and lower part bearing base, the carrier Bottom the upper surface of lower part bearing base is set, the lower surface of top bearing base is set at the top of the carrier, The positioning mechanism I is separately positioned between carrier and top bearing base and carrier and lower part bearing base the place that offsets Two sides, and place each is offseted at least provided with a positioning mechanism I, and each positioning mechanism I is along bearing base axis direction Arrangement;Uniformly distributed several sliding slots in the bearing base outer surface and carrier, and each sliding slot passes through with bearing base inner surface Turntable mechanism is hinged, is in 0 °~90 angles between sliding slot axis and horizontal plane, and the positioning mechanism II is separately positioned on carrying base The two sides of seat and installation through-hole junction, each positioning mechanism II are arranged along bearing base axis direction;The sliding slot with Between sliding slot or sliding slot passes through spring with bearing base and connect, and the spring and sliding slot or the bearing base place of offseting are filled with rubber Glue cushion, institute's displacement sensors and pressure sensor at least two, institute's displacement sensors are embedded in carrier inner surface and edge Axis direction is uniformly distributed, outer surface and in the axial direction uniformly distributed, the control circuit of the pressure sensor embedded in bearing base Carrier outer surface is mounted on by sliding slot, and respectively with positioning mechanism I, turntable mechanism, turntable mechanism II, displacement sensing Device, pressure sensor electrical connection.
2. the automobile-used urea pump bracket of a kind of diesel oil with retractility according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: the carrying Pedestal is any one in rotary table bearing base, trapezoidal bearing base or six terrace with edge bearing bases.
3. the automobile-used urea pump bracket of a kind of diesel oil with retractility according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: the installation Through-hole is any one in arc-shaped installation through-hole, L shape installation through-hole, triangle installation through-hole or six prismatic installation through-holes Kind.
4. the automobile-used urea pump bracket of a kind of diesel oil with retractility according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: the spring For any one in serpentine spring, rubber spring, helical spring or gas spring.
5. the automobile-used urea pump bracket of a kind of diesel oil with retractility according to claim 1, it is characterised in that: the control Circuit is the automatic control circuit based on industrial single-chip microcontroller, and the control circuit separately sets data communication apparatus.
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