EP1319832B1 - Pompe électromagnétique - Google Patents

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EP1319832B1
EP1319832B1 EP02102744A EP02102744A EP1319832B1 EP 1319832 B1 EP1319832 B1 EP 1319832B1 EP 02102744 A EP02102744 A EP 02102744A EP 02102744 A EP02102744 A EP 02102744A EP 1319832 B1 EP1319832 B1 EP 1319832B1
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Pierluigi Dell'orto
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B17/00—Pumps characterised by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors
    • F04B17/03—Pumps characterised by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors driven by electric motors
    • F04B17/04—Pumps characterised by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors driven by electric motors using solenoids
    • F04B17/046—Pumps characterised by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors driven by electric motors using solenoids the fluid flowing through the moving part of the motor

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  • the present invention concerns an electromagnetically operated pump to feed two-stroke internal-combustion engines with precise and controlled amounts of oil.
  • the present invention concerns a pump of this type, the structure of which - while preserving the characteristics of a simple construction, a metering precision and an easy setting, which are indispensable for the specific use for which the pump is designed - allows to considerably reduce its overall dimensions and guarantees an improved reliability thereof.
  • the pump according to the invention - of the type as described in the introductory part of Claim 1 is characterized from the features pointed out in the characterizing part of Claim 1.
  • said piston element is of nonmagnetic material and said annular coil is housed into a cavity of the cylinder formed on the front of said keeper in said second base of the cylinder.
  • a disk is interposed between said second base of the cylinder and said keeper, said disk having a central hole through which said piston element freely passes.
  • the spring means act between said disk and said keeper, opposing the movements of the piston element controlled by said coil, said spring means being positioned close to the hole of said disk, or close to its periphery.
  • the spring means are housed peripherally into the pumping chamber, so as to act directly on the piston element, in correspondence of its first end.
  • Said spring means preferably consist of a cylindrical helicoidal spring, coaxial to the cylinder of said pump.
  • the piston element is suitably formed - in the different variants of the aforedescribed embodiment - with a portion of reduced diameter towards its second end, the extension of said portion contributing to determine the capacity of the pump.
  • the piston element has instead a constant diameter and the capacity of the pump depends on the distance between the keeper and the cylinder, when the keeper is subject merely to the action of the spring means which oppose the movements of the piston element controlled by said coil.
  • spring means can consist of a Belleville washer, coaxial to the cylinder of the pump and interposed between said second base of the cylinder and said keeper, or of a cylindrical helicoidal spring housed peripherally into the pumping chamber.
  • Fig. 1 is an axial section view of a first embodiment of the pump according to the present invention
  • Fig. 2 shows a detail of the pump of fig. 1 , along the line II-II thereof;
  • Fig. 3 illustrates a first variant of the embodiment of the pump shown in fig. 1 ;
  • Fig. 4 illustrates a second variant of the embodiment of the pump shown in fig. 1 ;
  • Fig. 5 shows a second embodiment of the pump according to the present invention, illustrating a first variant thereof
  • Fig. 6 illustrates a second variant of the embodiment of the pump shown in fig. 5 ;
  • Fig. 7 shows a detail of the pump of fig. 6 , along the line VII-VII thereof.
  • the pump according to the present invention is of the type comprising - as clearly illustrated - a casing 1 housing a cylinder 2 and a piston element 3, axially movable in the cylinder 2 and crossed by a through pipe 4 connected to pipe unions 5 and 6 in the casing 1, for the inlet and respectively the outlet of oil.
  • a pumping chamber 8 Close to a first base 7 of the cylinder 2, in contact with the casing 1 and along the corresponding pipe union 6, there is a pumping chamber 8 to pump the oil to be fed, said chamber also housing valve means of the pump, as described hereinafter.
  • a cavity 10 is formed close to the second base 9 of the cylinder 2, into said cavity there being housed a compact electromagnetic annular coil 11 which surrounds the piston element 3 and which is fed with pulse current in strict correlation with the running of the two-stroke engine to be equipped with the pump.
  • the depth of the cavity 10 slightly exceeds the height of the coil 11, so that this latter can be fully housed therein and be efficiently protected.
  • the piston element 3 is connected, at its end 12 in correspondence of the base 9 of the cylinder 2, to a keeper 13 parallel and close to said base 9.
  • the electromagnetic coil 11 acts frontwards onto said keeper 13 - which is of ferromagnetic material - against the action of spring means.
  • the keeper 13 draws in its movements the piston element 3, preferably made of nonmagnetic material. Thanks to the efficiency of the frontward action - with a low magnetic gap and a magnetic circuit with low reluctance - of the electromagnetic coil 11 on the keeper 13, the movements of the piston element 3 of the pump according to the invention can be controlled by means of a coil 11 of very small dimensions and having a very compact structure.
  • the efficiency of said action is in fact far higher than that which could be obtained up to date in the pumps having coils usually extending along the whole cylinder of the pump, externally thereof, and acting directly onto a piston of ferromagnetic material in an axial sense, in magnetic circuits with a very high reluctance.
  • the arrangement of the present invention thus allows to considerably reduce the overall dimensions of the pump, providing an advantage which is particularly important for the applications pointed out in the introductory part of the present description, such as feeding oil in two-stroke internal combustion engines.
  • a disk 14 is interposed between the second base 9 of the cylinder 2 and the keeper 13, said disk 14 preferably being of nonmagnetic material and having a central hole through which freely passes the end 12 of said piston element 3 having a portion 12A of reduced diameter ( fig. 2 ); the portion of wider diameter of said piston element 3 stops instead against said disk 14.
  • Spring means act between said disk 14 and said keeper 13 opposing the movements of the piston element 3 controlled by the coil 11.
  • said spring means are centrally positioned - in 15 - close to the hole of the disk 14; whereas, in the variant of fig.
  • said spring means consist of a cylindrical helicoidal spring 17, coaxial to the cylinder 2 and housed peripherally into the pumping chamber 8.
  • the spring 17 acts directly onto the piston element 3, in correspondence of its first end, opposite to that fixed to the keeper 13.
  • the piston element 3 has a constant diameter, it being obtained from a ground bar (thereby reducing the costs in respect of the previous embodiment).
  • the coil 11 controls, when energized, the movements of the piston element 3 towards the chamber 8, while attracting the keeper 13 against the action of the spring means 15, 16 or 17.
  • Such means produce movements in the opposite sense when the coil 11 is deenergized.
  • Two ball valves 19 and 20 are provided, in known manner, in the pipe union 6 in the casing 1, in correspondence of the oil pumping chamber 8, the valve 19 cooperating with the end of the piston element 3 in correspondence of the base 7 of the cylinder 2.
  • the valve 19 is closed while the valve 20 opens.
  • the valve 20 closes while the valve 19 opens again.
  • Fig. 2 shows a detail of fig. 1 , illustrating how the capacity of the oil being pumped, for each stroke of the pump according to the invention, may be determined by varying the distance a-b in fig. 1 , namely the ratio between the length of the portion of wider diameter and the length of the portion 12A of reduced diameter of the piston element 3. This obviously also applies to the other variants of the pump adopting a similar piston element 3 ( figs. 3 and 4 ).
  • the capacity of the oil being pumped for each stroke of the pump is instead determined, as clearly shown in fig. 7 , by the distance a-b between the keeper 13 and the base 9 of the cylinder 2, when said keeper is subject merely to the action of the spring means 18 or 17 and the coil 11 is deenergized.
  • the aforedescribed pump has a very simple structure and a highly reliable working but, above all - as already mentioned - it allows to drastically limit the dimensions of the electric circuit and of the coil controlling the movements of the piston element; this considerably affects the overall dimensions of the pump, so as to be able to assert that it leads to a miniaturization thereof.
  • the pump according to the invention can moreover be easily adapted, with reduced costs, to the most different requirements of capacity, by simply varying the axial position of the abutment of the piston element 3, formed in two portions of different diameter.
  • the pump is instead less versatile, but it involves lower production costs.

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Claims (12)

  1. Pompe actionnée électromagnétiquement pour alimenter des moteurs à combustion interne à deux temps avec des quantités précises et maîtrisées d'huile, du type comprenant, dans un carter (1) : un cylindre (2) ; un élément de piston (3) avec une conduite traversante (4), mobile axialement dans ledit cylindre (2) ; une bobine électromagnétique (11) coaxiale avec le cylindre (2), pour commander les mouvements de l'élément de piston (3) contre l'action d'un moyen à ressort (15, 16, 17, 18) ; une chambre de pompage (8) pour l'huile devant être fournie, coaxiale avec le cylindre (2) et proche d'une première base (7) de celui-ci ; et un moyen à vanne (19, 20) logé dans ledit carter (1) et dans ladite chambre (8), un desdits moyens (19) coopérant avec une première extrémité dudit élément de piston (3), caractérisée en ce que la bobine électromagnétique (11) est une bobine annulaire qui entoure l'élément de piston (3), agit vers l'avant sur une armature (13) de matériau ferromagnétique, est logée à l'intérieur d'une cavité (10) du cylindre (2) formée, sur l'avant de ladite armature (13), dans ladite deuxième base (9) du cylindre (2), ladite armature étant proche de la deuxième base (9) du cylindre (2) et parallèle à celle-ci et reliée à la deuxième extrémité (12) de l'élément de piston (3), ladite deuxième extrémité (12) dépassant de ladite deuxième base (9) du cylindre (2).
  2. Pompe selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle l'élément de piston (3) est constitué d'un matériau non magnétique.
  3. Pompe selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle ladite cavité (10) du cylindre (2) logeant la bobine (11) présente une profondeur qui dépasse légèrement la hauteur de ladite bobine (11).
  4. Pompe selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle un disque (14) est intercalé entre ladite deuxième base (9) du cylindre (2) et ladite armature (13), ledit disque (14) comportant un trou central à travers lequel ledit élément de piston (3) passe librement, entre ledit disque (14) et ladite armature (13) actionnant le moyen à ressort (15, 16) qui s'oppose aux mouvements de l'élément de piston (3) commandé par ladite bobine (11).
  5. Pompe selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle ledit moyen à ressort (15) est positionné à proximité du trou dudit disque (14).
  6. Pompe selon la revendication 4, dans laquelle ledit moyen à ressort (16) est positionné à proximité de la périphérie du disque (14).
  7. Pompe selon les revendications 4 à 6, dans lequel le moyen à ressort (17) est constitué d'un ressort hélicoïdal cylindrique, coaxial avec le cylindre (2) de la pompe.
  8. Pompe selon les revendications 4 à 7, dans laquelle ledit disque (14) est constitué d'un matériau non magnétique.
  9. Pompe selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 8, dans laquelle l'élément de piston (3) est formé d'une partie d'un diamètre plus large et d'une partie d'un diamètre réduit (12A) vers sa deuxième extrémité (12).
  10. Pompe selon les revendications 1 à 3, dans laquelle l'élément de piston (3) présente un diamètre constant.
  11. Pompe selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle une rondelle Belleville (18) est intercalée entre ladite deuxième base (9) du cylindre (2) et ladite armature (13), coaxiale avec le cylindre (2) de la pompe, ladite rondelle (18) formant le moyen à ressort qui s'oppose aux mouvements de l'élément de piston (3) commandé par ladite bobine (11).
  12. Pompe selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle le moyen à ressort qui s'oppose aux mouvements de l'élément de piston (3) commandé par ladite bobine (11) est constitué d'un ressort hélicoïdal cylindrique (17), logé sur la périphérie à l'intérieur de la chambre de pompage (8) et agissant directement sur l'élément de piston (3), en correspondance avec sa première extrémité.
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BE1001379A5 (fr) * 1986-10-14 1989-10-17 Orbital Eng Pty Systeme de graissage perfectionne et pompe pour des moteurs a combustion interne.
FR2641338A1 (fr) * 1988-12-30 1990-07-06 Peugeot Motocycles Pompe a faible debit notamment pour le graissage d'un moteur a deux temps
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