CN115405184A - Stopper pull and locking mechanism - Google Patents

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CN115405184A
CN115405184A CN202210957376.6A CN202210957376A CN115405184A CN 115405184 A CN115405184 A CN 115405184A CN 202210957376 A CN202210957376 A CN 202210957376A CN 115405184 A CN115405184 A CN 115405184A
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苏相伟
张军浩
侯景馨
仲朝懿
都业鑫
刘中凯
尚金路
祝喜峰
韩列
刘洋
刘禄
杨会生
宫文彪
关英俊
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05DHINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D15/00Suspension arrangements for wings
    • E05D15/06Suspension arrangements for wings for wings sliding horizontally more or less in their own plane
    • E05D15/10Suspension arrangements for wings for wings sliding horizontally more or less in their own plane movable out of one plane into a second parallel plane
    • E05D15/1002Suspension arrangements for wings for wings sliding horizontally more or less in their own plane movable out of one plane into a second parallel plane specially adapted for use in railway-cars or mass transit vehicles
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61RAILWAYS
    • B61DBODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
    • B61D19/00Door arrangements specially adapted for rail vehicles
    • B61D19/02Door arrangements specially adapted for rail vehicles for carriages
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05DHINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
    • E05D13/00Accessories for sliding or lifting wings, e.g. pulleys, safety catches
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05FDEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING
    • E05F15/00Power-operated mechanisms for wings
    • E05F15/60Power-operated mechanisms for wings using electrical actuators
    • E05F15/603Power-operated mechanisms for wings using electrical actuators using rotary electromotors
    • E05F15/632Power-operated mechanisms for wings using electrical actuators using rotary electromotors for horizontally-sliding wings
    • E05F15/652Power-operated mechanisms for wings using electrical actuators using rotary electromotors for horizontally-sliding wings operated by screw-and-nut mechanisms
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05YINDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
    • E05Y2900/00Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
    • E05Y2900/50Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for vehicles
    • E05Y2900/51Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for vehicles for railway cars or mass transit vehicles
    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05YINDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
    • E05Y2900/00Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
    • E05Y2900/50Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for vehicles
    • E05Y2900/53Type of wing
    • E05Y2900/531Doors

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Abstract

The invention discloses a stopper pull and locking mechanism, which comprises a rack, a stopper pull guide slideway, a slide rail, a driving assembly, a door carrying frame, a connecting rod, a driven member and a limiting piece, wherein the stopper pull guide slideway is horizontally fixed at the position, close to the bottom, of the rack; the sliding rail is connected with the longitudinal rail of the rack in a sliding way and is horizontally arranged; the driving component is rotationally connected with the frame; the door carrying frame is connected with the sliding rail in a sliding way; the driving component is connected with the door carrying frame through a connecting rod; the driven piece is in rolling connection with the plug pull guide slideway and is in rotating connection with the door carrying frame; the locating part is fixed on the frame and is close to the extension end of the driving component. The invention has the advantages of simple structure, high reliability, stable operation, low noise, high plug tension conversion rate, high mechanism transmission efficiency and wide application range.

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Stopper pull and locking mechanism
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of railway vehicles, in particular to a plugging and locking mechanism.
Background
The existing sliding plug and locking mechanism used in the sliding plug door mainly includes the following: 1. the double motors are respectively driven to complete the plug motion through electric control; 2. the single motor is used for driving the screw rod, the nut assembly arranged on the screw rod is driven to reciprocate by using the spiral driving screw rod, a door leaf connected with the nut assembly is further driven, the nut assembly is locked by using the electromagnetic lock, and the door locking function is further realized; 3. the single motor drive uses a specially designed screw rod to drive the nut assembly to realize the plugging movement, realizes the passive locking in place through the non-spiral tooth surface on the screw rod, and has simple structure.
However, the electric control system of the first mode is complex, high in cost and low in reliability; the electromagnetic lock of the second mode can ensure the stability of the lock door only by electrifying at any time, and has a complex structure and low reliability; the lead screw of the third mode is not the traditional thread line, needs special processing customization, and high in manufacturing cost, moreover in order to realize passive locking, nut component need all contact with the lead screw in screw thread section and flat section, lead screw and nut have not traditional screw drive like this, but cam drive, nut component and lead screw are high vice transmission, this kind of transmission is easy wearing and tearing, the noise is great, and this kind of mode cock valve power is little, and need design auxiliary device to make nut component rotate certain angle and just can realize passive locking.
Therefore, it is a problem to be solved by those skilled in the art to provide a stable and reliable plugging and locking mechanism.
Disclosure of Invention
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a stopper and lock mechanism to solve the above-mentioned problems.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
a stopper pull and locking mechanism comprises a rack, a stopper pull guide slideway, a slide rail, a driving assembly, a door carrying frame, a connecting rod, a driven member and a limiting member, wherein the stopper pull guide slideway is horizontally fixed at a position, close to the bottom, of the rack; the sliding rail is connected with the longitudinal rail of the rack in a sliding manner and is horizontally arranged; the driving assembly is rotationally connected with the rack; the door carrying frame is connected with the sliding rail in a sliding manner; the driving assembly is connected with the door carrying frame through the connecting rod; the driven piece is in rolling connection with the plug pull guide slideway and is connected with the carrying frame; the limiting part is fixed on the rack and close to the extending end of the driving component.
By adopting the scheme, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
the driving assembly is in transmission connection with the portal frame which is in rotary connection with the driven part through the connecting rod, on one hand, the driving assembly is prevented from being specially customized and high-pair contact is avoided, the existing screw rod structure is used, the operation is more stable, the noise is lower, and the service life is longer; on the other hand, passive locking is realized, the structure is simple and reliable, the manufacturing cost is low, and the system integration level is high; finally, the conversion rate of the plug tension is improved, and the transmission efficiency is high.
Furthermore, the driving assembly comprises a lead screw and a nut, and two ends of the lead screw are respectively connected with the rack in a rotating manner; the nut is in screw transmission connection with the lead screw; one end of the connecting rod is rotatably connected with the nut, and the other end of the connecting rod is rotatably connected with the portal frame.
Adopt the beneficial effect that above-mentioned further technical scheme produced to do, realized that nut and door carrying frame pass through the connecting rod transmission and connect.
Furthermore, the driven part is a guide wheel, the guide wheel is connected with the plug pull guide slideway in a rolling or sliding manner, and correspondingly, the guide wheel is connected with the carrying frame in a rotating or fixed manner.
Adopt the beneficial effect that above-mentioned further technical scheme produced to do, realized the sliding connection of door carrying frame with stopper draws the direction slide.
Further, the plug pull guide slide way comprises a horizontal section and a downward-inclined bending section which are connected into a whole.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the provided drawings without creative efforts.
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a stopper and latch mechanism according to the present invention in a partially open position;
fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a plugging and locking mechanism provided by the present invention in a locked state.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be obtained by a person skilled in the art without making any creative effort based on the embodiments of the present invention, belong to the protection scope of the present invention, and especially do not change two main factors of the main body of the present invention: the arc transition section is in the shape of reverse arc curve and the transition between straight line and arc structure, which should be included in the disclosure of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1 and 2, an embodiment of the present invention discloses a stopper and locking mechanism, which includes a frame 1, a stopper guide slideway 2, a slide rail 3, a driving assembly, a door carrying frame 4, a connecting rod 5, a driven member 6 and a limiting member 7, wherein the stopper guide slideway 2 is horizontally fixed at a position near the bottom of the frame 1; the slide rail 3 is connected with the longitudinal rail of the frame 1 in a sliding manner and is horizontally arranged, namely the slide rail 3 can slide along the vertical direction of the frame 1; two ends of the driving component are rotationally connected with the frame 1; the door carrying frame 4 is connected with the slide rail 3 in a sliding manner, namely the door carrying frame 4 can horizontally slide along the slide rail 3; the driving component is connected with the door carrying frame 4 through a connecting rod 5; the driven piece 6 is connected with the plug pull guide slideway 2 in a rolling way, and the driven piece 6 is connected with the door carrying frame 4; the limiting member 7 is fixed on the frame 1 and is close to the extending end of the active component. According to the invention, the driving component is in transmission connection with the portal frame 4 which is in rotation connection with the driven component 6 through the connecting rod 5, on one hand, the driving component is prevented from being specially customized and high-pair contact is formed, only the existing screw rod structure is used, the operation is more stable, the noise is lower, and the service life is longer; on the other hand, passive locking is realized, the structure is simple and reliable, the manufacturing cost is low, and the system integration level is high; finally, the conversion rate of the plug tension is improved, and the transmission efficiency is high.
Specifically, the driving component comprises a screw 8 and a nut 9, and two ends of the screw 8 are respectively rotatably connected with the rack 1; the nut 9 is in screw transmission connection with the screw rod 8; one end of the connecting rod 5 is rotationally connected with the nut 9, and the other end of the connecting rod 5 is rotationally connected with the door carrying frame 4.
Specifically, the driven member 6 is a guide wheel, the guide wheel is connected with the plug pull guide slideway 2 in a rolling or sliding manner, and correspondingly, the guide wheel is connected with the door carrying frame 4 in a rotating or fixed manner.
Specifically, the plug guide chute 2 comprises a horizontal section and a downward-inclined bent section which are connected into a whole.
The working principle of the invention is as follows:
the screw 8 rotates to further drive the nut 9 to translate along the axial direction of the screw 8, the nut 9 drives the connecting rod 5 to drive the door carrying frame 4 to move, namely the nut 9 and the door carrying frame 4 are in transmission connection through the connecting rod 5, the door carrying frame 4 transversely translates along the sliding rail 3, meanwhile, the door carrying frame 4 rolls along the plug-pull guide slideway 2 under the action of the guide wheel, namely, a space cam motion pair is formed, when the position of the limiting part 7 is close, the track of the plug-pull guide slideway 2 (calculated by using the degree of freedom, the degree of freedom of a plug-pull and door-locking mechanism is equal to the number of power sources and is fixed track motion) is limited and guided, the sliding rail 3 longitudinally translates along the rack 1, at the moment, the included angle between the connecting rod 5 and the door carrying frame 4 in the sliding direction is increased, when the nut 9 is in mechanical limiting contact with the limiting part 7, at the moment, the included angle between the connecting rod 5 and the door carrying frame 4 in the sliding direction is greater than or equal to 90 degrees, a horizontal leftward component force can be generated, the nut 9 and the closer to the limiting part 7, and the closer to the stop point, and the passive locking connecting rod transmission is formed, and the dead point is realized. It is worth mentioning that in practical products, the sealing force of the rubber strip of the sliding plug door, the leaning force of passengers and the auxiliary elastic structure can realize the locking pretightening force.
Certainly, in actual use, the lead screw 8 is driven by a driving motor, which is the prior art, and is not described herein again, when the nut 9 is in mechanical limit contact with the limiting part 7, the driving motor stops rotating (of course, in order to improve the intelligent automation level, a sensor is installed on the limiting part 7, and once the contact with the nut 9 is monitored, information is transmitted to the controller, so as to control the driving motor to stop rotating).
In the process, the included angle between the sliding direction of the connecting rod 5 and the door carrying frame 4 is large during door plugging, the included angle is small in the horizontal moving process, and through stress decomposition analysis, the transmission force of the nut 9 is converted into the plug pulling force in a high proportion in the door plugging movement or horizontal moving process, so that the transmission efficiency is very high.
The embodiments in the present description are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other. The device disclosed by the embodiment corresponds to the method disclosed by the embodiment, so that the description is simple, and the relevant points can be referred to the method part for description.
The previous description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.

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1. The stopper pulling and locking mechanism is characterized by comprising a rack (1), a stopper pulling guide slideway (2), a slide rail (3), a driving component, a door carrying frame (4), a connecting rod (5), a driven part (6) and a limiting part (7), wherein the stopper pulling guide slideway (2) is horizontally fixed at the position, close to the bottom, of the rack (1); the sliding rail (3) is connected with the longitudinal rail of the rack (1) in a sliding manner and is horizontally arranged; the driving component is rotationally connected with the frame (1); the door carrying frame (4) is connected with the sliding rail (3) in a sliding manner; the driving assembly is connected with the door carrying frame (4) through the connecting rod (5); the driven part (6) is in rolling connection with the plug pull guide slideway (2), and the driven part (6) is connected with the carrying frame (4); the limiting piece (7) is fixed on the rack (1) and is close to the extending end of the driving component.
2. The plugging and locking mechanism according to claim 1, wherein said driving assembly comprises a lead screw (8) and a nut (9), and both ends of said lead screw (8) are respectively connected with said frame (1) in a rotating manner; the nut (9) is in screw transmission connection with the lead screw (8); connecting rod (5) one end with nut (9) rotate to be connected, connecting rod (5) other end with portal frame (4) rotate to be connected, work as nut (9) with during locating part (7) mechanical spacing contact, connecting rod (5) this moment with the contained angle more than or equal to 90 degrees of portal frame (4) slip direction.
3. Stopper and locking mechanism according to claim 2, characterised in that said follower (6) is a guide wheel, which is in rolling or sliding connection with said stopper-guide chute (2), and in correspondence with which said guide wheel is in rotational or fixed connection with said door-carrying frame (4).
4. A stopper and locking mechanism as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the stopper guide channel comprises a horizontal section and a downwardly inclined curved section which are integrally connected.
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CN107605310A (en) * 2017-09-20 2018-01-19 宁波中车时代传感技术有限公司 A kind of bearing driving mechanism of sliding door
CN110552579A (en) * 2018-05-31 2019-12-10 比亚迪股份有限公司 Door drive arrangement and have its door assembly and rail vehicle of rail vehicle
CN211229966U (en) * 2019-08-23 2020-08-11 广州通达汽车电气股份有限公司 Sliding plug door stabilizing device, sliding plug door system and motor vehicle

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CN2328558Y (en) * 1998-04-07 1999-07-14 江苏康尼机电新技术公司 Movable support mechanism for hand plug pull door of railway carriage
CN102305006A (en) * 2011-08-26 2012-01-04 南京工程学院 Spiral door carrying guide rod groove cam combination space mechanism for sliding-plug door
JP2015004246A (en) * 2013-06-21 2015-01-08 ナブテスコ株式会社 Plug door device for vehicle
CN104695796A (en) * 2015-03-09 2015-06-10 法中轨道交通运输设备(上海)有限公司 Swing type sliding plug door mechanism
CN205113342U (en) * 2015-12-04 2016-03-30 宁波南车时代传感技术有限公司 A Y is to moving mechanism that is used for vehicle stopper sliding door system
CN205840591U (en) * 2016-06-28 2016-12-28 南京擎煜辉机械科技有限公司 A kind of drive mechanism of the biparting stopping sliding door of passenger vehicle
CN107605310A (en) * 2017-09-20 2018-01-19 宁波中车时代传感技术有限公司 A kind of bearing driving mechanism of sliding door
CN110552579A (en) * 2018-05-31 2019-12-10 比亚迪股份有限公司 Door drive arrangement and have its door assembly and rail vehicle of rail vehicle
CN211229966U (en) * 2019-08-23 2020-08-11 广州通达汽车电气股份有限公司 Sliding plug door stabilizing device, sliding plug door system and motor vehicle

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