CN204713350U - Super bicycle - Google Patents
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The utility model provides a kind of super bicycle.Described super bicycle comprises electrical motor, input lever group, transmission levers group, output lever group and electrical generator, described input lever group, transmission levers group and output lever group include lever, pivot shaft and are positioned at the lever track at lever two ends, described lever track comprises master arm track and passive arm track, the output shaft of described electrical motor connects described transmission levers group by star-like wheel provided thereon, described transmission levers group connects described output lever group, and the output shaft of described output lever group connects described electrical generator.Described super bicycle operating efficiency is high.
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Technical field
The utility model relates to vehicular field, is specifically related to a kind of super bicycle.
Background technology
Current vehicle motor generally adopts crankshaft-connecting rod mechanism, valve mechanism, fuel system, lube system, cooling system and circuit part composition, principle of work be by electric energy, fluid oil or water, wind-force or steam through the continuous transmission of said mechanism and energy transferring, be finally converted into the power of externally acting.There is larger friction drag in this process, energy is reduced gradually, therefore need constantly to provide fuel and the energy.
Patent CN101867282 discloses electric energy circulating type cluster engine, provide a kind of energy transferring mode of to be mechanical energy by converting electric energy by mechanical energy be again electric energy, it reaches laborsaving condition by lever principle, mainly through electrical motor, lever, star-likely to take turns, adapter shaft, the transmission of electrical generator realizes, by electrical motor, coupling band is connected to the input shaft in casing, input lever track room is equipped with in casing, intermediate lever track chamber and output lever track chamber are connected, in each lever track room, by a longitudinal levers support axle lateral suspension arranged side by side for lever track identical for twice in the middle of track chamber, install in lever track the inner that active is star-like to be taken turns, another root lever track outer end installs that active is star-like to be taken turns, and the initiatively star-like other end of taking turns is connected with star-like a wheel of input shaft, passive arm the inner of above-mentioned lever track is taken turns one end with passive star and is connected, the other end of passive star wheel is taken turns with tween drive shaft passive star and is connected, the star-like wheel of active in coaxial by tween drive shaft again is initiatively connected star-like one end of taking turns with centre, the middle initiatively star-like other end of taking turns is connected with the master arm track of the intermediate lever track in intermediate orbit room again, other end passive arm track is taken turns one end with middle passive star again and is connected, the star-like other end of taking turns is taken turns with another tween drive shaft passive star again and is connected, during tween drive shaft is coaxial, active is star-like takes turns and is initiatively connected star-like one end of taking turns with the output of output lever track chamber, export the initiatively star-like other end of taking turns to be connected with output lever track one end master arm track again, the lever track passive arm of the other end is taken turns one end with output passive star again and is connected, export the passive star wheel other end to be connected with star-like wheel of output shaft, finally by output shaft, coupling band arrives electrical generator again and connects to form.
Its star-like wheel is taken turns for semicircle is star-like, rotates a circle each time and lever master arm just can be made to move once, transmit primary energy; In master arm movement clearance, star-like wheel is idle running, wastes the time of run of driving engine.
Utility model content
The utility model object is to provide a kind of super bicycle, to improve the operating efficiency of existing super bicycle.
Described super bicycle comprises electrical motor, input lever group, transmission levers group, output lever group and electrical generator, described input lever group, transmission levers group and output lever group include lever, pivot shaft and are positioned at the lever track at lever two ends, described lever track comprises master arm track and passive arm track, be provided with sliding wheel in described master arm track and star-likely take turns, described star-like wheel surface is multiple salient angle; The described upper and lower both sides of passive arm track are provided with the protruding horizontal surface slideway of band; Described master arm track is symmetrical arranged the convex bar towards orbit centre up and down, and it protrudes in the middle of termination and has groove, and the heart is provided with pin hole in a groove, has a sliding wheel to be located at described groove by pivot pin, and star-like described salient angle of taking turns contacts with described sliding wheel; ; Described passive arm track is the rectangular hollow square structure of upper and lower both sides band projection, and described passive arm track connects the sliding wheel of tween drive shaft by slip drive bearing; Described slip drive bearing two ends and described passive arm interorbital all leave gap, and this gap is stroke gap; The height of described salient angle is greater than the stroke gap width of lever passive arm; The output shaft of described electrical motor connects described transmission levers group by star-like wheel provided thereon, and described transmission levers group connects described output lever group, and the output shaft of described output lever group connects described electrical generator.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model, described star-like described salient angle connecting bridge surperficial with it of taking turns seamlessly transits.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model, each star-like salient angle number of taking turns is odd number.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model, described input lever group, described transmission levers group and described output lever group are two groups of lever groups be parallel to each other.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model, described lever is multiplying lever, and the length of passive arm is the 1/50-1/2 of whole lever length, and the length of the horizontal surface slideway in passive arm lever track is the 1/50-1/2 of master arm swing.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model, on the axis of symmetry of input lever master arm track, two relative convex bars are set and protrude to orbit centre direction.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model, described super bicycle also comprises hydraulic top.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present utility model, described super bicycle also comprises storage battery.
The utility model has following beneficial effect:
Take turns upper salient angle be set to several by star-like for described input shaft, make star-like sliding wheel of taking turns in the rotation time of a circle in multiple-contact lever master arm lumen channels, described master arm is repeatedly upwards moved downward, thus make described passive arm repeatedly corresponding downward upward movement, subsequently transmission of power is organized lever to next.
Each group lever is within the star-like time of taking turns rotation one circle, the times of exercise identical with star-like cam lobe number n can be produced, along with transmission, and all corresponding generation n the motions on the basis of upper one group of lever n motion of each group lever, the move distance of described master arm is constantly amplified, kinematic velocity is constantly accelerated, and realizes the transmission of energy.
By the height arranging described salient angle of science, make its distance three variablees to the inner radius of described master arm end lever track, oval long axis length and the difference of the pivot shaft diameter of axle, between the inner chamber center of circle of master arm end and the passive arm track center of circle relevant, make described salient angle described master arm can be made to swing to greatest extent with contacting each time of described sliding wheel, and can farthest down transferring energy, reasonable energy utilization.
Except object described above, feature and advantage, the utility model also has other object, feature and advantage.Below with reference to figure, the utility model is described in further detail.
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The accompanying drawing forming a application's part is used to provide further understanding of the present utility model, and schematic description and description of the present utility model, for explaining the utility model, is not formed improper restriction of the present utility model.In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is the integral structure schematic diagram of super bicycle of the present utility model;
Fig. 2 is the structural representation of the running part of super bicycle of the present utility model;
Fig. 3 is that first of super bicycle of the present utility model star-likely takes turns the structural representation with stretcher;
Fig. 4 is the structural representation of the input lever group of super bicycle of the present utility model;
Fig. 5 is the structural representation of the slip drive bearing of super bicycle of the present utility model;
Fig. 6 is that second of super bicycle of the present utility model star-likely takes turns the structural representation with tween drive shaft;
Fig. 7 is the structural representation of the auxiliary interlock lever of super bicycle of the present utility model;
Fig. 8 is the output shaft of super bicycle of the present utility model and the structural representation of electrical generator;
Wherein: 1, electrical motor, 2, input lever group, 3, transmission levers group, 4, output lever group, 5, electrical generator, 6, lever, 7, lever track, 8, pivot shaft, 9, master arm track, 10, sliding wheel, 11, first star-likely takes turns, 12, salient angle, 13, passive arm track, 14, slip drive bearing, 15, second star-likely takes turns, 16, input shaft, 17, tween drive shaft, 18, output shaft, 19, stroke gap, 20, horizontal surface slideway, 21, pivot shaft axle bed hole, 22, standing screw, 23, coupler, 24, stretcher, 25, pedal cranks, 26, stretcher unilateral bearing, 27, unilateral bearing, 28, storage battery, 29, hydraulic top, 30, auxiliary interlock lever.
Detailed description of the invention
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, embodiment of the present utility model is described in detail, but the multitude of different ways that the utility model can limit according to claim and cover is implemented.
See Fig. 1, Fig. 4, Fig. 6 and Fig. 8, a kind of super bicycle, comprises electrical motor 1, input lever group 2, transmission levers group 3, output lever group 4 and electrical generator 5, described input lever group 2 comprise input shaft 16 and be connected with input shaft 16 first star-likely take turns 11; Described transmission levers group 3 comprises tween drive shaft 17 and sliding wheel 10, second and star-likely takes turns 15, and sliding wheel 10, second is star-likely taken turns 15 and is all connected with tween drive shaft 17; The coupler 23 that described output lever group 4 comprises output shaft 18 and is connected with output shaft 18, described electrical motor 1 is all connected by coupler 23 with described electrical generator 5 with described input lever group 2, described output lever group 4.
Please continue see Fig. 3, stretcher 24, pedal cranks 25, stretcher unilateral bearing 26 are connected successively with input shaft 16, and first star-likely takes turns 11 and be located at input shaft 16.
See Fig. 2, the passive arm of input lever is connected with master arm one end of transmission levers, with projection inside the lever track 7 of transmission levers passive arm one end by transmission support axle 8; Transmission levers group 3 is connected in the above described manner with output lever group 4, until power is passed to electrical generator 5 by output lever group 4.Refer to Fig. 4, described input lever group 2, transmission levers group 3, output lever group 4 include lever 6, pivot shaft 8 and are positioned at the lever track 7 at lever two ends, lever track 7 is the side of lever 6 two ends inner chamber, master arm inner chamber is star-likely taken turns 11 or second for holding first and is star-likely taken turns 15, and passive arm inner chamber is for holding slip drive bearing 14.
Please continue see Fig. 4, standing screw 22 connects centre portion and passive arm track 13 one end of described input lever group 2, each side one.
Please simultaneously see Fig. 1, Fig. 4, Fig. 6 and Fig. 7, tween drive shaft 17 is located at pivot shaft boss 21, auxiliary interlock lever 30 is for being provided with the flats metal piece of three through holes, being equipped with standing screw 22 in its front aperture with lever track 7 connects, its interstitial hole is connected with pivot shaft 8, and interstitial hole internal diameter is greater than pivot shaft 8 diameter of axle, and its size is relevant to auxiliary axle interlock lever work swing, thereafter arrange unilateral bearing 27 in stomidium, its bearing inner ring and tween drive shaft 17 are connected.
Unilateral bearing 27 is provided with between the boss of described slip drive bearing 14 and described tween drive shaft 17.
Refer to Fig. 4 and Fig. 5, described lever track 7 comprises master arm track 9 and passive arm track 13; Be provided with sliding wheel 10 and first in the master arm track 9 of lever and star-likely take turns 11, or sliding wheel 10 and second star-likely takes turns 15; The both sides up and down of passive arm track 13 are provided with the protruding horizontal surface slideway 20 of band, and it wears projection for upper and lower sides, two ends are the rectangular hollow square structure of plane.
See Fig. 1, described storage battery 28 is located at chassis, and described storage battery 28 connects described electrical generator 5, can store unnecessary electric energy when electric energy has more than needed.
Described hydraulic top 29 is located at chassis, and described hydraulic top 29 connects the hydraulic efficiency pressure system of bicycle, bicycle rear portion can be propped up when needs externally provide electric energy, and recycling self generating machine 5 generates electricity, and realizes the effect of mobile supply station.
See Fig. 3, in the vertical axis of symmetry of the inner chamber of input lever master arm track 9, at least one convex bar is set and protrudes to track lumen centers direction, in the middle of the end of convex bar, have groove, the heart is provided with pin hole in a groove, has a sliding wheel 10 to be arranged among described groove by pivot pin; Input lever passive arm track 13 be upper and lower both sides band projection rectangular hollow square structure, passive arm track 13 is connected with the slip drive bearing 14 being located at tween drive shaft 17; Slip drive bearing 14 Transverse is less than length from passive arm track 13 to length is set, the forced stroke of slip drive bearing 14 sliding stroke operationally and lever master arm is matched.
Described sliding wheel 10 is installed and is protruded from the inside face of described master arm inner chamber, be beneficial to star-like with first take turns 11 or second star-like salient angle 12 of taking turns 15 contact.Salient angle 12 pairs of sliding wheels 10 apply pressure, and lever master arm is moved.
Electrical motor 1 is connected by the inner chamber of input shaft 16 with the master arm track 9 inputting lever, and described first star-likely takes turns 11 and be provided with towards the salient angle 12 on sliding wheel 10 surface.The rotary motion that electrical motor 1 inputs is become the high speed crank motion of track lever 6 by master arm, also can do transmission conversion with the increasing velocity of square multiple.
Described lever track 7 is arranged on the inner side at lever 6 two ends, input lever passive arm track 13 is the rectangular hollow square structure of upper and lower sides band projection, the square long edge lengths of rectangular hollow is greater than the length of slip drive bearing 14, be provided with stroke gap 19 between the two, slip drive bearing 14 just can carry out the slip on horizontal surface slideway 20 in stroke gap 19, thus the crank motion of lever 6 is become the rotary motion of slip drive bearing 14.
It should be noted that, often organize described lever and comprise the identical lever 6 that twice be arranged in parallel, input shaft 16 or tween drive shaft 17 correspondence are provided with star-likely takes turns 11 or second towards two first of two levers 6 and star-likely takes turns 15 respectively, and first star-likely takes turns 11 and second and star-likely take turns 15 and be provided with towards the salient angle 12 on sliding wheel 10 surface.Two star-like wheels carry out dislocation assembling respectively, and upward, another salient angle 12, forms convex-concave shape down to a salient angle 12.As shown in Figure 1, Figure 2 and Figure 3, first star-likely takes turns 11 and second and star-likely takes turns 15 and be arranged on input shaft 16 two ends, and interval angles is between the two the most advanced and sophisticated and star-like angle of taking turns between circle center line connecting of each salient angle 12; First star-likely takes turns 11 and second and star-likely takes turns 15 and be arranged on two levers 6, if both are projected to same plane at the rotary state of synchronization, must there is certain angle between the two.
Each first star-like take turns 11 or second the number of star-like salient angle 12 of taking turns on 15 be odd number, as: 1,3,5,7,9 ..., salient angle 12 quantity often increases by one, and transmission speed can double.Such as: the star-like wheel of input lever group 2 is 3, then represent that the lever 6 of input lever group 2 is within the star-like time of taking turns rotation one circle, inputs the master arm up-and-down movement of lever 3 times; Motion transmission is to transmission levers group 3 each time, all cause transmission levers 6 to rotate one week, when transmission levers group 3 star-like take turns also be 3 time, then take turns in time that rotation one encloses at the lever 6 of input lever group 2 star-like, the master arm up-and-down movement of transmission levers 69 times, namely 3
2secondary; By that analogy, then the master arm motion frequency of lever 6 can be more and more faster.The numerical value of salient angle 12 is larger, and the rotating speed of transmission can be made faster.
It is identical or not identical that adjacent lever group star-like takes turns convex 12 jiaos of numbers.Such as, the number of the star-like cam lobe 12 of input lever group 2 is 5, and the number of the star-like cam lobe 12 of transmission levers group 3 is also 5; Or the number of the star-like cam lobe 12 of input lever group 2 is 5, and the number of the star-like cam lobe 12 of transmission levers group 3 is also 3.
Described lever 6 is multiplying lever, and the length of passive arm is the 1/50-1/2 of whole lever 6 length.
Horizontal plane itself up and down in passive arm track 13 arranges the protruding horizontal surface slideway 20 of band, and slip drive bearing 14 can slide in the horizontal direction of passive arm track 13; The length of described horizontal surface slideway 20 is 1/50-1/2 of master arm swing.
Preferably, described star-like described salient angle 12 of taking turns and connecting bridge surperficial with it seamlessly transit, and to reduce friction, make transmission more steady, reduce waste of power.
Preferably, can in the vertical axis of symmetry of input lever master arm track 9 inner chamber, arrange two relative convex bars to protrude to track lumen centers direction, the protrusion termination of bar is provided with sliding wheel 10, makes star-like wheel increase to twice, a circle with the contact frequency of sliding wheel 10.The length size of convex bar is relevant to the work swing that track lever 6 is arranged.
Preferably, described slip drive bearing 14 is axle sleeve, also can be bearing.
Also can arrange some sliding wheels 10 on input lever passive arm track 13 surface, described sliding wheel 10 contacts with the spindle nose periphery of slip drive bearing 14, with auxiliary slip.
Principle of work is as follows:
See Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, be provided with in casing be connected input lever track room, intermediate lever track chamber and output lever track chamber, in input lever track room, first and second longitudinal levers support bearings input the first and second track levers lateral suspension arranged side by side in the middle of lever track respectively; In intermediate lever track chamber, third and fourth longitudinal levers support bearing respectively the first and second track levers lateral suspension arranged side by side in the middle of intermediate lever track chamber; In output lever track chamber, the 5th and the 6th longitudinal levers support bearing respectively the first and second track lever Bing Lie Transverse to being suspended in the middle of output lever track chamber.
In above-mentioned each lever track room, hold at the first track lever master arm Inner that installation salient angle 12 active is upward star-like to be taken turns, hold at the second track lever master arm Inner that installation salient angle 12 active is down star-like to be taken turns, and initiatively star-like salient angle 12 of taking turns is contacted with the sliding wheel 10 on lever master arm Inner chamber, be provided with upper and lower two independently convex bars in described lever master arm Inner chamber.Connect about two slip drive bearings 14 towards the opposite side by side in tween drive shaft 17 one end, the other end connects two salient angles 12 side by side takes turns towards active is one on the other star-like.
Lever 6 constructs and is made up of master arm, centre of support and passive arm, and it is semi-circular that described lever 6 master arm is set to cylindrical, and two ends, inner circle center line left and right are set to flange shape, and its length is relevant to the work swing of track lever 6; Master arm two convex boom ends have groove, sliding wheel 10 is fixed by pivot pin in groove, sliding wheel 10 outer ring wheel face is connected with star-like wheel of active, bearing center in described track lever is equipped with an inner chamber, the bearing Inner loop diameter of inserting in axle bed hole is greater than the diameter of axle of tween drive shaft 17, ensures tween drive shaft 17 is rotated in inner ring.
The foregoing is only preferred embodiment of the present utility model, be not limited to the utility model, for a person skilled in the art, the utility model can have various modifications and variations.All within spirit of the present utility model and principle, any amendment done, equivalent replacement, improvement etc., all should be included within protection domain of the present utility model.
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1. a super bicycle, is characterized in that, comprises electrical motor, input lever group, transmission levers group, output lever group and electrical generator,
Described input lever group, transmission levers group and output lever group include lever, pivot shaft and are positioned at the lever track at lever two ends, described lever track comprises master arm track and passive arm track, be provided with sliding wheel in described master arm track and star-likely take turns, described star-like wheel surface is multiple salient angle;
Described master arm track is symmetrical arranged the convex bar towards orbit centre up and down, and it protrudes in the middle of termination and has groove, and the heart is provided with pin hole in a groove, has a sliding wheel to be located at described groove by pivot pin; Star-like described salient angle of taking turns contacts with described sliding wheel;
Described passive arm track is the hollow square structure of upper and lower both sides band projection, and described passive arm track connects the sliding wheel of tween drive shaft by slip drive bearing; Described slip drive bearing two ends and described passive arm interorbital all leave gap, and this gap is stroke gap; The height of described salient angle is greater than the stroke gap width of lever passive arm;
The output shaft of described electrical motor connects described transmission levers group by star-like wheel provided thereon, and described transmission levers group connects described output lever group, and the output shaft of described output lever group connects described electrical generator.
2. super bicycle according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described star-like described salient angle of taking turns and star-like wheel surface connecting bridge seamlessly transit.
3. super bicycle according to claim 1, is characterized in that, each star-like salient angle number of taking turns is odd number.
4. super bicycle according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described input lever group, described transmission levers group and described output lever group are two groups of lever groups be parallel to each other.
5. super bicycle according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, described lever is multiplying lever, and the length of passive arm is the 1/50-1/2 of whole lever length, and the length of the horizontal surface slideway in passive arm lever track is the 1/50-1/2 of master arm swing.
6. super bicycle according to claim 1, is characterized in that, on the axis of symmetry of input lever master arm track, arranges two relative convex bars and protrudes to orbit centre direction.
7. super bicycle according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described super bicycle also comprises hydraulic top.
8. super bicycle according to claim 1, is characterized in that, described super bicycle also comprises storage battery.
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