EP0302190B1 - Machine à engrenages à denture intérieure - Google Patents

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EP0302190B1
EP0302190B1 EP88108387A EP88108387A EP0302190B1 EP 0302190 B1 EP0302190 B1 EP 0302190B1 EP 88108387 A EP88108387 A EP 88108387A EP 88108387 A EP88108387 A EP 88108387A EP 0302190 B1 EP0302190 B1 EP 0302190B1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04C—ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C2/00—Rotary-piston machines or pumps
    • F04C2/08—Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing
    • F04C2/10—Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of internal-axis type with the outer member having more teeth or tooth-equivalents, e.g. rollers, than the inner member
    • F04C2/101—Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing of internal-axis type with the outer member having more teeth or tooth-equivalents, e.g. rollers, than the inner member with a crescent-shaped filler element, located between the inner and outer intermeshing members

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  • the invention relates to an internal gear machine, in particular an internal gear pump, with the features according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • the filler piece is so flexibly mounted in internal gear machines (cf. DE-A-15 53 027; CH-A-601 670) that it can follow the movements of the meshing gears during operation in order to compensate for radial leakage gaps that arise due to the movement.
  • internal gear machines cf. DE-A-15 53 027; CH-A-601 670
  • Through a targeted control of the hydraulic forces acting on the filler which is carried out by means of pre-filling grooves or slots provided on the filler and / or on the surfaces lying against it (cf. DE-A-15 53 027), it is ensured that the filler is at least partially by the action of the hydraulic forces held in the optimal position for the seal, ie pressed against the tooth tips of the gears.
  • an internal gear machine according to the preamble of claim 1 is also known (DE-A-22 23 916), in which the filler piece is supported by a bearing journal which is rotatably supported on both ends in the opposite housing walls.
  • the bearing journal In its central section, the bearing journal is shaped into a bearing body which is approximately square in cross section, which is received in a groove of the filling piece which is adapted in cross section and in this way also supports the filling piece so that it can be displaced in the radial direction. Since the bearing body also passes axially through the bearing body in this case of the filler piece and is therefore limited in its possible cross section in accordance with the dimensions of the filler piece, high operating pressures cannot be used.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object to provide an internal gear machine of the type specified, in particular for the promotion of low-viscosity media, which is not subject to the restrictions described with regard to the level of the operating pressure, but without the risk of overloading the filler bearing and the risk of being pulled in of the filler in the tooth mesh is excluded with certainty.
  • the invention is based on the consideration that a greater freedom in the arrangement of the bearing body is obtained by relocating the filler bearing from the suction chamber end towards the filler tip, so that on the one hand the bearing body has the largest possible storage area and, as a result, a corresponding one low surface pressure can be realized, but on the other hand it can also be ensured that the resultant of the hydraulic forces acting on the filler from the pressure chamber also passes through the bearing surface without the pressure chamber having to be enlarged unnecessarily. It goes without saying that with increasing operating pressure there must be an interest in keeping the pressure space as small as possible in order to keep the load on the internal gear machine within limits.
  • the bearing journal is expediently arranged in the filler half facing the suction chamber end of the filler and, in the limit case, lies in the longitudinal center of the filler.
  • Favorable kinematic conditions for the radial gap compensation are also obtained if the axis of rotation of the bearing pin passes through the filler at a point closer to the circumferential surface of the ring gear.
  • the bearing body is designed asymmetrically with respect to the axis of rotation of the bearing pin, since it is offset relative to the filler piece relative to the filler piece in accordance with the eccentric arrangement of the bearing pin axis.
  • the storage of the filling piece which is offset towards the filling piece tip, allows greater freedom in the orientation of the bearing surface.
  • the bearing surface and the groove receiving the bearing body in the side surface of the filling piece will always be placed in such a way that an optimal distribution of the filling piece on the one hand in Direction of the pinion, on the other hand, forces urging in the direction of the ring gear.
  • this always enables a compromise, which leads to a relatively large storage area and the resulting low surface pressure.
  • the bearing body which is expediently one-piece with the journal, has two mutually parallel flat surfaces, of which the bearing surface facing the filler tip assumes the support of the filler against the hydraulic and other forces that are effective during operation, while the surface facing the suction chamber is the retention surface , which absorbs the forces acting on the filler from the suction chamber and the frictional forces exerted on the filler by the gearwheels. Since these opposing forces do not coincide in terms of direction, however, in particular in the case of a long filler piece in which the frictional force component is greater, it can be considered to allow the bearing surfaces on the bearing body to run at a corresponding angle to one another, this angle normally being in Direction towards the ring gear opens.
  • the cross-section of the bearing body is thus wedge-shaped in this case, the suction-space-side retention surface being positioned such that the pressure forces acting from the suction space and the frictional forces are directed perpendicularly or almost perpendicularly to this surface.
  • the play between the filler and this retaining surface can always be kept small even with a parallel arrangement of the bearing surface and the retaining surface. In the described embodiment of the bearing body with a wedge-shaped cross section, this is possible to a particular degree, since the play decreases when the filler moves in the direction of the ring gear due to the wedge shape.
  • the embodiment according to the invention can in principle also be used for multi-part filling pieces (cf. DE-A-26 06 082).
  • the groove provided on the side of the filler expediently penetrates all parts or segments of the filler.
  • the retaining surface of the bearing body is not a flat surface, but has a kink at the separation point between the sealing segment and segment carrier on. This takes into account the fact that the Segment carrier and forces acting on the sealing segment from the suction space and the frictional forces have different directions. In order to align the retaining surface in the sense already explained above so that these forces are absorbed vertically, this adjustment is necessary.
  • the internal gear pump according to FIG. 1 has a housing 1 (not shown in more detail), an internal gear or ring gear 2 mounted therein with its circumference, a pinion 3 mounted in the housing and equipped with a shaft (not shown), and a filling piece designated as 4 overall.
  • the ring gear 2 bears on its entire circumference in a known manner only partially indicated openings 5, which enables the pumped medium that enters through a suction opening 6 to get into the suction chamber 7 and out of the pressure chamber 8 exit again, after which it is discharged through a pressure connection 9.
  • the structure of the internal gear pump described so far is conventional and therefore requires no further explanation.
  • the filler 4 has the shape of a half-crescent or a comma and is made relatively long in the embodiment shown, so that it is in contact with nine teeth of the ring gear 2 on its outer circumferential surface in order to achieve the best possible for the purpose of conveying particularly thin media Get waterproofing.
  • the filler 4 is composed of a shell-shaped sealing segment 11 and a segment carrier 12, which abut one another along a separating surface 13 which extends in the circumferential direction and are sealed off from one another by two sealing rollers 14.
  • two lateral housing plates 15, which are only indicated in FIG. 2 blind bores 16 are formed for the rotatable mounting of one bearing pin 17 each.
  • the bearing pins 17 are assigned to the two side surfaces of the filler piece 4 and have bearing bodies 18 formed integrally thereon, which project in the direction of the filler piece from the end face of the bearing pins 17.
  • the bearing bodies 18 have two plane-parallel surfaces, of which the surface 19 facing the filler tip is the bearing surface for absorbing the forces acting from the pressure chamber 8 and the opposite surface 20 is the retaining surface for supporting the filler 4 against the forces acting from the suction chamber 7 .
  • the journals 17 are arranged relative to the filler 4 in such a way that the axis of rotation 10 of the journals 17 is offset in the direction of the tip of the filler 4 and is located at a point that the filler length is approximately in the ratio of 2 to 3 shares.
  • the axis of rotation 10 is close to the interface 13 between the sealing segment 11 and segment carrier 12, i.e. thus closer to the tooth tips of the ring gear 2.
  • grooves 21 corresponding to the bearing bodies 18 are incorporated, which are intended for receiving the bearing bodies 18 and their groove flanks on the bearing surface 19 and on of the retaining surface 20 and transfer the forces acting on the filler 4 to this.
  • the shape of the grooves 21 and the bearing bodies 18 engaging therein results from FIG. 1, from which it can be seen that, due to the eccentric arrangement of the axis of rotation 10 relative to the filler 4, the bearing bodies 18 are arranged eccentrically in relation to the end face of the journal 17 in the direction of the pinion 3 are. It can also be seen from FIG.
  • the bearing body 18 largely fills the grooves 21 of the filler 4, that is to say that they are at least approximately matched to the circumferential shape of the filler 4 on their circumferential boundary surfaces in order thereby to keep the surfaces 19 and 20 as large as possible.
  • the groove flanks of the grooves 21, as can also be seen in FIG. 1, run at an angle of approximately 30 degrees to the plane in which the axis of the pinion 3 and the axis of rotation 10 of the bearing pins 17 lie.
  • This position ensures that, on the one hand, the forces acting on the filler 4 from the pressure chamber 8 are distributed in such a way that the filler experiences an optimal sealing system on the ring gear 2 and on the pinion 3, and on the other hand the surface pressure which arises on the bearing surface 19 is as low as possible .
  • the direction of the resultant force of the hydraulic forces acting from the pressure chamber 8 is determined in a known manner by control slots (not shown) in the axial plates 15 and / or the side faces of the filler 4 (cf. DE-A-15 53 027).
  • the embodiment according to FIG. 2A differs from the embodiment described above only in that instead of two bearing journals 17 assigned to the two side surfaces of the filling piece 4, only a bearing journal 17 ′ which is arranged on one side and is provided with its bearing body 18 ′ in a groove 21 ′ arranged on one side is provided. of the filler engages.
  • FIG. 3 differs from the embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 2 solely by the special design of the bearing body 28 on the bearing journal 27. For this reason, the other components of the internal gear pump are identified by the same reference numerals as in FIGS. 1 and 2 .
  • the bearing surface 29 is arranged, as in the first embodiment, at an angle of approximately 30 degrees to the plane containing the axis of rotation of the bearing journal 27 and the pinion 3, and is formed flat throughout.
  • the partial surfaces 30 'and 30 ⁇ meet in the area of the separating surface 13; the retention surface 30 is thus kinked.
  • This embodiment takes into account the fact that the forces acting from the suction space 7 act on the segment carrier 22 and the sealing segment 23 in different directions, so that it is necessary to incline them differently in the case of a vertical alignment of the respectively associated retaining surfaces.
  • FIG. 4 largely corresponds to that according to FIGS. 1 and 2; the only difference is that instead of a divided filler 4 an undivided filler 4 'is selected, in the axial side surfaces of which the bearing body receiving grooves are incorporated.

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1. Machine à engrenage à denture intérieure, en particulier pompe à engrenage à denture intérieure, comprenant une roue à denture intérieure (2), un pignon (3) à denture extérieure qui est en prise avec la roue et une fourrure (4, 4′) en forme de demi-croissant, qui s'étend dans la direction périphérique, est, par ses surfaces radiales, en appui étanche sur les sommets des dents de la roue à denture intérieure et du pignon, subdivise l'espace entre la roue à denture intérieure et le pignon en une chambre d'aspiration (7) et une chambre de refoulement (8), montre la chambre de refoulement par sa pointe et est, à une certaine distance de son extrémité tournée vers la chambre d'aspiration, supportée de manière à pouvoir tourner et coulisser par un tourillon de support (17, 17′), supporté de manière à pouvoir pivoter dans un trou (16) du corps, ainsi que par un corps de support (18, 18′, 28) du tourillon de support, pénétrant dans une rainure (21, 21′) de la fourrure, caractérisé en ce qu'un tourillon de support supporté uniquement d'un côté du corps de support est adjoint à au moins une surface latérale axiale de la fourrure et en ce que cette surface latérale présente une rainure (21, 21′) qui s'étend sur la hauteur radiale de la fourrure.
2. Machine à engrenage à denture intérieure suivant la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce qu'un tourillon de support (17, 27) pourvu d'un corps de support (18, 28) est agencé des deux côtés de la fourrure (4, 4′) et en ce que chacune des surfaces latérales de la fourrure (4, 4′) présente une rainure (21).
3. Machine à engrenage à denture intérieure suivant l'une des revendications 1 et 2, caractérisée en ce que le tourillon de support est agencé approximativement au centre en longueur de la fourrure.
4. Machine à engrenage à denture intérieure suivant l'une des revendications 1 et 2, caractérisée en ce que le tourillon de support (17, 27) est agencé, sur l'étendue longitudinale de la fourrure (4, 4′), en un endroit qui est disposé davantage à proximité de l'extrémité du côté chambre d'aspiration et qui subdivise la longueur d'arc de la fourrure (4, 4′) dans un rapport de 2 à 3.
5. Machine à engrenage à denture intérieure suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisée en ce que l'axe de rotation (10) du tourillon de support (17, 27) passe à travers la fourrure (4, 4′) davantage à proximité de sa surface périphérique du côté roue à denture intérieure.
6. Machine à engrenage à denture intérieure suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisée en ce que la rainure dans laquelle est logée le corps de support (18, 28) s'étend dans la surface latérale de la fourrure sous un angle par rapport au plan passant par l'axe du pignon et l'axe de rotation (10) du tourillon de support.
7. Machine à engrenage à denture intérieure suivant la revendication 6, caractérisée en ce que l'angle est d'environ 30°.
8. Machine à engrenage à denture intérieure suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisée en ce que les surfaces du côté chambre de refoulement et du côté chambre d'aspiration (29, 30) du corps de support (28) et les flancs adjacents de la rainure s'étendent l'un par rapport à l'autre sous un angle aigu qui s'ouvre en direction de la roue à denture intérieure.
9. Machine à engrenage à denture intérieure suivant la revendication 8, caractérisée en ce que la surface de support du côté chambre d'aspiration (surface de retenue 30) s'étend au moins approximativement parallèlement à la surface de séparation entre le chambre de refoulement (8) et la chambre d'aspiration (7), qui est fixée par un réglage à entaille.
10. Machine à engrenage à denture intérieure suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 9, caractérisée en ce que la fourrure est divisée le long d'une ou de plusieurs surfaces de séparation (13) qui s'étendent approximativement suivant la direction périphérique.
11. Machine à engrenage à denture intérieure suivant la revendication 10, caractérisée en ce que la rainure (21), réalisée dans la surface latérale de la fourrure (4), traverse les surfaces latérales de toutes les pièces (11, 12; 22, 23) de la fourrure.
12. Machine à engrenage à denture intérieure suivant la revendication 11, caractérisée en ce que la fourrure est subdivisée en un segment d'étanchéité (23) en forme de coquille et en un support de segment (22) et en ce que la surface de retenue (30) du côté chambre d'aspiration du corps de support (28) présente un coude à la surface de séparation (13) entre le segment d'étanchéité (23) et le support de segment (22).
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