EP1364127B1 - Internal gear pump that does not contain any filler elements - Google Patents

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EP1364127B1
EP1364127B1 EP02714073A EP02714073A EP1364127B1 EP 1364127 B1 EP1364127 B1 EP 1364127B1 EP 02714073 A EP02714073 A EP 02714073A EP 02714073 A EP02714073 A EP 02714073A EP 1364127 B1 EP1364127 B1 EP 1364127B1
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04CROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C2/00Rotary-piston machines or pumps
    • F04C2/08Rotary-piston machines or pumps of intermeshing-engagement type, i.e. with engagement of co-operating members similar to that of toothed gearing
    • F04C2/10Rotary-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
    • F04C2/102Rotary-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 the two members rotating simultaneously around their respective axes
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04CROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; ROTARY-PISTON, OR OSCILLATING-PISTON, POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT PUMPS
    • F04C15/00Component parts, details or accessories of machines, pumps or pumping installations, not provided for in groups F04C2/00 - F04C14/00
    • F04C15/0003Sealing arrangements in rotary-piston machines or pumps
    • F04C15/0007Radial sealings for working fluid
    • F04C15/0019Radial sealing elements specially adapted for intermeshing-engagement type machines or pumps, e.g. gear machines or pumps

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  • the invention relates to a filler-less internal gear pump with the features according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the bearing ring Due to unavoidable manufacturing tolerances should be taken to ensure that the bearing ring has the freedom of movement during operation, its position according to the hydraulic acting on it and by the meshing between pinion and Set ring gear on him transmitted mechanical forces.
  • This freedom of movement can be impaired by the spring force and the flat contact of the leaf spring or the helical compression spring.
  • the impairment may in particular lead to non-lubricating media to be kept tilted at unpressurized conditions of the internal gear pump, eg when starting, the bearing ring and with him the ring gear relative to the pinion, with a perfect sealing contact between the tooth heads does not exist. This leads to a frequent start / stop operation to operating problems, because the pressure buildup then takes place only delayed.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to propose an internal gear pump of the type described, in which a perfect sealing contact is ensured in particular between the tooth tips also due to the spring load of the bearing ring.
  • the abutment may be provided somewhere in the longitudinal direction of the bore, but is suitably arranged in the longitudinal center thereof; its axial extent is low relative to the bore length and advantageously rounded in terms of a reduction of the contact surface with the bar spring, so that it theoretically comes to a point contact.
  • the bar spring is supported at both ends provided in both sides of the bearing ring housing bores whose position relative to the pinion axis and is determined to the bore of the bearing ring so that in the assembled and pressureless state of the internal gear pump, the rod spring is bent to the desired extent under bias.
  • the internal gear pump shown in Figures 1 and 2 comprises a generally designated 1 housing, which is constructed from a cup-shaped housing part 11 and a fixed to its front side, also cup-shaped housing cover 12.
  • the housing 1 includes suction and pressure channels, not shown, which conduct the fluid to the internal gear pump and out of this in the usual way.
  • a pinion shaft 14 is rotatably supported via an unspecified sliding bearing 14 with a rotation axis 15 and has at the right in Fig.2 right end a coupling part 16 for engagement in the drive shaft of a drive motor, not shown.
  • a pinion 2 is integrally formed, which meshes with a ring gear 3.
  • the ring gear 3 is widened at its outer periphery to a race 4 and rotatably supported in a bearing ring 5, which is received in the housing 1 with axial and radial play.
  • the axial and radial play which is indicated by thick lines in FIG. 1 and exaggerated in FIG. 3, is for example 0.2 to 0.5 mm.
  • a bearing bush 6 is pressed from a bearing metal.
  • sealingly axial plates 8 which axially limit the sealed suction and pressure chamber within the teeth of pinion 2 and ring gear 3 and connect them through a respective breakthrough, not shown, with the suction channel and the pressure channel.
  • the pinion 2 and the ring gear 3 are mounted relative to each other with an eccentricity e.
  • This distance between the pinion axis 15 and the ring gear axis 18 corresponds to the theoretical gear geometry of pinion and ring gear and requires backlash-free rolling or sliding of the teeth together.
  • the tooth flanks of the teeth are each formed as involute curves, i. there is an involute, wherein the tooth heads are rounded to achieve a bum-free casserole each other in the non-invasive area and for the purpose of sealing.
  • the number of teeth of the ring gear 3 differs from that of the pinion 2 by 1.
  • the bearing housing 5 receiving housing part 11 is rotated concentrically with the pinion axis 15.
  • the bearing surface of the bearing ring 5, however, is concentric with the ring gear axis 18, from which it follows that the outer peripheral surface of the bearing ring 5 in turn is eccentric to the bearing surface.
  • the wall of the running unit receiving bore or recess of the housing part 11 is partially penetrated by a bearing pin 20 which is pressed into the bottom of this recess. With the projecting over the wall largely semi-cylindrical part peripheral surface of the bearing pin 20 projects into an axial groove 22 of the bearing ring 5, the circular cylindrical cross section of the bearing pin 20 is adapted.
  • This bearing pin forms for the bearing ring 5 a parallel to the axes of pinion 2 and ring gear 3 pivot axis about which the bearing ring 5 is pivotable in the recess of the housing part 11 in the context of the available radial clearance.
  • this pivot axis is offset by about 80 ° in the direction indicated by arrow rotation relative to the apex of the non-invasive area in which two tooth heads are exactly opposite each other.
  • the bore 24 is offset from both ends in each case to a shoulder, so that thereby an annular projection 26 is provided in the longitudinal center of the bore.
  • the bore 24 opens at both ends in each case in the region of a recess 28 in the housing or cover wall, which has a conically tapered bottom 30, which in turn merges into a housing bore 32 for supporting the rod spring 25.
  • the two housing bores 32 are aligned in this embodiment with each other and are offset with respect to the bore 24 radially to the pinion axis 15 out.
  • conveying medium is conveyed through the suction channel, not shown in the suction space (in Fig.1 left of the line AA) between the teeth of pinion 2 and ring gear 3.
  • the medium is pressed with increased pressure through the pressure channel, not shown.
  • the biased rod spring 25 generates in the unpressurized state, i. Outside the operation of the internal gear pump and in its start-up phase, approximately in the same direction as the compressive forces a pivoting moment on the bearing ring 5 and thereby ensures regardless of the occurrence of hydraulic pressure forces both for a proper mutual attachment and arrangement of the teeth as well as for the required sealing contact in the attack-free area. Since the contact of the bar spring 25 with the bearing ring 5 is limited to the short portion of the abutment projection 26 in the bore 24, the bearing ring 5 and with him the ring gear 3 lateral tilting and sliding movements follow, due to the hydraulic and mechanical forces due to tolerances in Operation occur.
  • the friction hysteresis between the bar spring 25 and the abutment projection 26 is so small that when the operating pressure is released, e.g. after switching off, the teeth of pinion 2 and ring gear 3 and in particular their tooth heads sealingly abut each other and consequently a perfect re-start is guaranteed with immediate pressure build-up.
  • the invention is not limited to the formation of the internal gear pump according to the embodiment.
  • the pinion and ring gear selected involute toothing also Trochoiden- or cycloid gears be used.
  • the bar spring may have other than circular cross sections and need not be of constant cross section.
  • the bearing ring bore penetrated by the bar spring need not necessarily be exactly parallel to the axis of the pinion axis cylindrically, but as a whole may have a curved or conical surface of revolution as inner surface, which results in a minimal contact surface with the bar spring.
  • the bar spring itself could have a preferably central thickening, which leads in the otherwise smooth bore to a locally limited contact with this.
  • the two support holes 32 do not necessarily align with each other, but may differ slightly from the coaxial orientation, provided that the required bias of the bar spring is guaranteed and an investment in at least one hole edge.

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Die Erfindung betrifft eine füllstücklose Innenzahnradpumpe mit den Merkmalen gemäß dem Oberbegriff des Patentanspruches 1.The invention relates to a filler-less internal gear pump with the features according to the preamble of claim 1.

Innenzahnradpumpen dieser Art sind bekannt. Darin ist das mit einem Ritzel kämmende Hohlrad umlaufend in einem Lagerring aufgenommen, der in dem Pumpengehäuse undrehbar, jedoch um eine zur Ringachse und zur Ritzelachse parallele Schwenkachse schwenkbar angeordnet ist. Um den notwendigen Dichtkontakt zwischen den Zahnköpfen des Hohlrad und des Ritzels aufrecht zu erhalten, ist die Schwenkachse des Lagerrings so angeordnet und steht dieser unter einer so gerichteten Federlast, daß er zusammen mit dem Hohlrad stets im Bereich des Dichtkontakts der Zahnköpfe radial zur Ritzelachse hin bewegt wird. Gemeinsam mit der Federlast können auf den Lagerring die im Druckraum zwischen Ritzel- und Hohlradverzahnung herrschenden Druckkräfte auf den Lagerring wirken ( DE 196 51 683 A1 , EP-A 848 165 ). Bei diesen bekannten Innenzahnradpumpen kann die auf den Lagerring wirkende Feder eine Haarnadel-Blattfeder sein, die in einer Axialnut mit einem Rechteckquerschnitt an dem Außenumfang des Lagerrings aufgenommen ist und flächig an dem Nutgrund anliegt, oder eine Schraubendruckfeder, die in einer vom Außenumfang des Lagerrings ausgehenden Radialbohrung angeordnet ist und sich über einen Kugelfuß an der Gehäusewand abstützt ( EP-A 848 165 ).Internal gear pumps of this type are known. In this, the meshing with a pinion ring gear is circumferentially received in a bearing ring which is arranged non-rotatably in the pump housing, but about a parallel to the ring axis and the pinion axis pivot axis. In order to maintain the necessary sealing contact between the tooth tips of the ring gear and the pinion, the pivot axis of the bearing ring is arranged and this is under a spring load so directed that it always moves together with the ring gear in the region of the sealing contact of the tooth heads radially to the pinion axis becomes. Together with the spring load can act on the bearing ring in the pressure chamber between the pinion and ring gear teeth prevailing pressure forces on the bearing ring ( DE 196 51 683 A1 . EP-A 848 165 ). In these known internal gear pumps acting on the bearing ring spring may be a hairpin leaf spring which is received in an axial groove with a rectangular cross section on the outer circumference of the bearing ring and flat against the groove bottom, or a helical compression spring, which emanates in a from the outer periphery of the bearing ring Radial bore is arranged and is supported by a ball base on the housing wall ( EP-A 848 165 ).

Aufgrund unvermeidbarer Fertigungstoleranzen sollte dafür gesorgt sein, daß der Lagerring im Betrieb die Bewegungsfreiheit hat, seine Lage entsprechend den auf ihn wirkenden hydraulischen und durch den Zahneingriff zwischen Ritzel und Hohlrad auf ihn übertragenen mechanischen Kräften einzustellen. Diese Bewegungsfreiheit kann durch die Federkraft und die flächige Anlage der Blattfeder oder der Schraubendruckfeder beeinträchtigt sein. Die Beeinträchtigung kann insbesondere bei nicht schmierenden Fördermedien dazu führen, daß bei drucklosen Zuständen der Innenzahnradpumpe, z.B. beim Anlaufen, der Lagerring und mit ihm das Hohlrad relativ zu dem Ritzel gekippt gehalten werden, wobei ein einwandfreier Dichtkontakt zwischen den Zahnköpfen nicht besteht. Das führt bei einem häufigen Start/Stop-Betrieb zu Betriebsproblemen, weil der Druckaufbau dann jeweils nur verzögert erfolgt.Due to unavoidable manufacturing tolerances should be taken to ensure that the bearing ring has the freedom of movement during operation, its position according to the hydraulic acting on it and by the meshing between pinion and Set ring gear on him transmitted mechanical forces. This freedom of movement can be impaired by the spring force and the flat contact of the leaf spring or the helical compression spring. The impairment may in particular lead to non-lubricating media to be kept tilted at unpressurized conditions of the internal gear pump, eg when starting, the bearing ring and with him the ring gear relative to the pinion, with a perfect sealing contact between the tooth heads does not exist. This leads to a frequent start / stop operation to operating problems, because the pressure buildup then takes place only delayed.

Aufgabe der Erfindung ist es daher, eine Innenzahnradpumpe der beschriebenen Art vorzuschlagen, bei welcher ein einwandfreier Dichtkontakt insbesondere zwischen den Zahnköpfen auch aufgrund der Federbelastung des Lagerrings gewährleistet ist.The object of the invention is therefore to propose an internal gear pump of the type described, in which a perfect sealing contact is ensured in particular between the tooth tips also due to the spring load of the bearing ring.

Erfindungsgemäß wird diese Aufgabe gelöst durch die Gestaltung gemäß dem Patentanspruch 1.According to the invention this object is achieved by the design according to claim 1.

Durch den Einsatz einer stabförmigen Biegefeder, die sich durch eine axial gerichtete Bohrung in dem Lagerring hindurch erstreckt, kommt es im ausgelenkten Zustand der Stabfeder zu einem sehr geringen Flächenkontakt zwischen dieser und der Bohrung, der sich auf die Anlage der Stabfeder an einer oder maximal zwei Bohrungskanten beschränkt. Die Bewegungsfreiheit des Lagerrings kann nach einer vorteilhaften Gestaltung noch weiter verbessert werden, wenn die im Lagerring vorhandene Bohrung einen Anlagevorsprung enthält, an welchem die Stabfeder anliegt und im übrigen keinerlei Kontakt mit der Bohrungswandung hat. Der Anlagevorsprung kann irgendwo im Längsverlauf der Bohrung vorgesehen sein, ist aber zweckmäßigerweise in deren Längsmitte angeordnet; seine axiale Erstreckung ist relativ zur Bohrungslänge gering und im Sinne einer Reduzierung der Kontaktfläche mit der Stabfeder vorteilhafterweise gerundet, sodaß es theoretisch zu einem Punktkontakt kommt.By the use of a rod-shaped spiral spring, which extends through an axially directed bore in the bearing ring, it comes in the deflected state of the bar spring to a very small surface contact between this and the bore, which is based on the system of the bar spring at one or a maximum of two Bore edges limited. The freedom of movement of the bearing ring can be further improved according to an advantageous design, if the existing bore in the bearing ring contains a bearing projection on which the rod spring rests and otherwise has no contact with the bore wall. The abutment may be provided somewhere in the longitudinal direction of the bore, but is suitably arranged in the longitudinal center thereof; its axial extent is low relative to the bore length and advantageously rounded in terms of a reduction of the contact surface with the bar spring, so that it theoretically comes to a point contact.

Zweckmäßigerweise ist die Stabfeder beidendig in beidseits des Lagerrings vorgesehenen Gehäusebohrungen abgestützt, deren Lage relativ zur Ritzelachse und zu der Bohrung des Lagerrings so bestimmt ist, daß im montierten und drucklosen Zustand der Innenzahnradpumpe die Stabfeder im gewünschten Maß unter Vorspannung ausgebogen ist.Conveniently, the bar spring is supported at both ends provided in both sides of the bearing ring housing bores whose position relative to the pinion axis and is determined to the bore of the bearing ring so that in the assembled and pressureless state of the internal gear pump, the rod spring is bent to the desired extent under bias.

Weitere Vorteile und Merkmale der Erfindung ergeben sich aus der nachfolgenden Beschreibung eines Ausführungsbeispiels anhand der beiliegenden Zeichnungen sowie aus den Unteransprüchen. In dem Zeichnungen zeigen:

Fig. 1
eine Stirnansicht der Laufeinheit Ritzel/Hohlrad als Schnitt längs der Linie C - C in Fig.2;
Fig.2
einen Schnitt längs der Linie A - A in Fig.1, und
Fig.3
als Einzelheit in vergrößertem Maßstab einen Teilschnitt längs der Linie B - B in Fig.1, wobei die Axialplatten weggelassen sind.
Further advantages and features of the invention will become apparent from the following description of an embodiment with reference to the accompanying drawings and from the dependent claims. In the drawings show:
Fig. 1
an end view of the running unit pinion / ring gear as a section along the line C - C in Figure 2;
Fig.2
a section along the line A - A in Figure 1, and
Figure 3
as a detail in an enlarged scale a partial section along the line B - B in Figure 1, wherein the axial plates are omitted.

Die in den Fig.1 und 2 dargestellte Innenzahnradpumpe umfaßt ein im Ganzen mit 1 bezeichnetes Gehäuse, das aus einem topfförmigen Gehäuseteil 11 und einem an dessen Stirnseite befestigten, ebenfalls topfförmigen Gehäusedeckel 12 aufgebaut ist. Das Gehäuse 1 enthält nicht gezeigte Saug- und Druckkanäle, die in üblicher Weise die Förderflüssigkeit zur Innenzahnradpumpe und aus dieser heraus leiten.The internal gear pump shown in Figures 1 and 2 comprises a generally designated 1 housing, which is constructed from a cup-shaped housing part 11 and a fixed to its front side, also cup-shaped housing cover 12. The housing 1 includes suction and pressure channels, not shown, which conduct the fluid to the internal gear pump and out of this in the usual way.

In dem Gehäuse 1 ist über nicht näher bezeichnete Gleitlager eine Ritzelwelle 14 mit einer Drehachse 15 drehbar gelagert und weist an dem in Fig.2 rechten Ende einen Kuppelteil 16 zum Eingriff in die Antriebswelle eines nicht gezeigten Antriebsmotors auf. Auf der Ritzelwelle 14 ist ein Ritzel 2 einstückig ausgebildet, das mit einem Hohlrad 3 kämmt. Das Hohlrad 3 ist an seinem Außenumfang zu einem Laufring 4 verbreitert und in einem Lagerring 5 drehbar gelagert, der in dem Gehäuse 1 mit Axial- und Radialspiel aufgenommen ist. Das Axial- und Radialspiel, das in Fig.1 durch dicke Linienführung angedeutet und in Fig.3 übertrieben dargestellt ist, beträgt beispielsweise 0,2 bis 0,5mm. In den Lagerring 5 ist eine Lagerbüchse 6 aus einem Lagermetall eingepreßt. An den Stirnflächen des Gehäuseteils 11 und des Deckels 12 einerseits und an den Stirnflächen von Ritzel 2 und Hohlrad 3 andererseits liegen abdichtend Axialplatten 8 an, welche innerhalb der Verzahnungen von Ritzel 2 und Hohlrad 3 den dicht abgeschlossenen Saugund Druckraum axial begrenzen und diese durch jeweils einen nicht gezeigten Durchbruch mit dem Saugkanal bzw. dem Druckkanal verbinden.In the housing 1, a pinion shaft 14 is rotatably supported via an unspecified sliding bearing 14 with a rotation axis 15 and has at the right in Fig.2 right end a coupling part 16 for engagement in the drive shaft of a drive motor, not shown. On the pinion shaft 14, a pinion 2 is integrally formed, which meshes with a ring gear 3. The ring gear 3 is widened at its outer periphery to a race 4 and rotatably supported in a bearing ring 5, which is received in the housing 1 with axial and radial play. The axial and radial play, which is indicated by thick lines in FIG. 1 and exaggerated in FIG. 3, is for example 0.2 to 0.5 mm. In the bearing ring 5, a bearing bush 6 is pressed from a bearing metal. At the end faces of the housing part 11 and the cover 12 on the one hand and on the end faces of the pinion 2 and ring gear 3 on the other hand are sealingly axial plates 8, which axially limit the sealed suction and pressure chamber within the teeth of pinion 2 and ring gear 3 and connect them through a respective breakthrough, not shown, with the suction channel and the pressure channel.

Wie aus Fig.1 hervorgeht, sind das Ritzel 2 und das Hohlrad 3 relativ zueinander mit einer Exzentrizität e gelagert. Dieser Abstand zwischen der Ritzelachse 15 und der Hohlradachse 18 entspricht der theoretischen Verzahnungsgeometrie von Ritzel und Hohlrad und setzt spielfreies Abwälzen bzw. Gleiten der Verzahnungen aneinander voraus. In dem gezeigten Ausführungsbeispiel sind die Zahnflanken der Verzahnungen jeweils als Evolventenkurven ausgebildet, d.h. es liegt eine Evolventenverzahnung vor, wobei die Zahnköpfe zur Erzielung eines stoßfreien Auflaufens aufeinander im eingriffsfreien Bereich und zum Zweck der Abdichtung gerundet sind. Die Zähnezahl des Hohlrads 3 unterscheidet sich von derjenigen des Ritzels 2 um 1.As is apparent from Fig.1, the pinion 2 and the ring gear 3 are mounted relative to each other with an eccentricity e. This distance between the pinion axis 15 and the ring gear axis 18 corresponds to the theoretical gear geometry of pinion and ring gear and requires backlash-free rolling or sliding of the teeth together. In the embodiment shown, the tooth flanks of the teeth are each formed as involute curves, i. there is an involute, wherein the tooth heads are rounded to achieve a bum-free casserole each other in the non-invasive area and for the purpose of sealing. The number of teeth of the ring gear 3 differs from that of the pinion 2 by 1.

Die Verzahnungen kämmen in einer Weise miteinander, daß in Fig.1 unten die Zähne des Ritzels 2 voll in die Zahnlücken des Hohlrads 3 eingreifen und an den Zahnflanken dichtend anliegen, während sie auf der gegenüber liegenden, in Fig.1 oberen Seite ganz aus den Zahnlücken des Hohlrads 3 ausgetreten sind. In diesem eingriffsfreien Hohlradbereich stützen sich mehrere der Zahnköpfe (in dem Ausführungsbeispiel jeweils drei Zahnköpfe) nacheinander im Verlauf der Umdrehung aufeinander ab und trennen dadurch den Saugraum von dem Druckraum in den Verzahnungen.The teeth mesh with each other in such a way that in Fig.1 down the teeth of the pinion 2 fully engage the tooth gaps of the ring gear 3 and sealingly abut the tooth flanks, while on the opposite, in Fig.1 upper side completely out of the Tooth gaps of the ring gear 3 have leaked. In this non-invasive ring gear area, several of the tooth heads (three tooth heads in the exemplary embodiment) are consecutively supported in the course of the revolution and thereby separate the suction space from the pressure space in the toothings.

In dem gezeigten Ausführungsbeispiel ist der den Lagerring 5 aufnehmende Gehäuseteil 11 konzentrisch zur Ritzelachse 15 ausgedreht. Die Lagerfläche des Lagerrings 5 hingegen liegt konzentrisch zur Hohlradachse 18, woraus sich ergibt, daß die äußere Umfangsfläche des Lagerrings 5 ihrerseits exzentrisch zu dessen Lagerfläche ist. Die Wand der die Laufeinheit aufnehmenden Bohrung oder Ausnehmung des Gehäuseteils 11 wird teilweise von einem Lagerstift 20 durchsetzt, der in den Boden dieser Ausnehmung eingepreßt ist. Mit der über die Wand überstehenden weitgehend halbzylindrischen Teil-Umfangsfläche des Lagerstifts 20 ragt dieser in eine Axialnut 22 des Lagerrings 5, die dem kreiszylindrischen Querschnitt des Lagerstifts 20 angepaßt ist. Dieser Lagerstift bildet für den Lagerring 5 eine zu den Achsen von Ritzel 2 und Hohlrad 3 parallele Schwenkachse, um welche der Lagerring 5 im Rahmen des zur Verfügung stehenden Radialspiels in der Ausnehmung des Gehäuseteils 11 schwenkbar ist. Wie aus Fig.1 hervorgeht, liegt diese Schwenkachse etwa um 80° in der durch Pfeil angedeuteten Drehrichtung versetzt gegenüber dem Scheitel des eingriffsfreien Bereichs, in dem zwei Zahnköpfe einander genau gegenüber liegen.In the embodiment shown, the bearing housing 5 receiving housing part 11 is rotated concentrically with the pinion axis 15. The bearing surface of the bearing ring 5, however, is concentric with the ring gear axis 18, from which it follows that the outer peripheral surface of the bearing ring 5 in turn is eccentric to the bearing surface. The wall of the running unit receiving bore or recess of the housing part 11 is partially penetrated by a bearing pin 20 which is pressed into the bottom of this recess. With the projecting over the wall largely semi-cylindrical part peripheral surface of the bearing pin 20 projects into an axial groove 22 of the bearing ring 5, the circular cylindrical cross section of the bearing pin 20 is adapted. This bearing pin forms for the bearing ring 5 a parallel to the axes of pinion 2 and ring gear 3 pivot axis about which the bearing ring 5 is pivotable in the recess of the housing part 11 in the context of the available radial clearance. As is apparent from Fig.1, this pivot axis is offset by about 80 ° in the direction indicated by arrow rotation relative to the apex of the non-invasive area in which two tooth heads are exactly opposite each other.

Etwa um den gleichen Betrag entgegen der Drehrichtung versetzt weist der Lagerring 5 eine zu den Drehachsen 15 und 18 parallel gerichtete Durchgangsbohrung 24 auf, durch welche sich eine Stabfeder 25 hindurch erstreckt. Die Bohrung 24 ist von beiden Enden her jeweils zu einer Schulter abgesetzt, sodaß dadurch in Längsmitte der Bohrung ein Ringvorsprung 26 geschaffen ist. Die Bohrung 24 mündet beidendig jeweils im Bereich einer Ausnehmung 28 in der Gehäuse- bzw. Deckelwandung, die einen sich konisch verjüngenden Boden 30 aufweist, der wiederum in eine Gehäusebohrung 32 zur Abstützung der Stabfeder 25 übergeht. Die beiden Gehäusebohrungen 32 fluchten in diesem Ausführungsbeispiel miteinander und liegen bezüglich der Bohrung 24 radial zur Ritzelachse 15 hin versetzt. Daraus ergibt sich die in Fig.3 gezeigte Biegevorspannung der Stabfeder 25, die mit ihrer Längsmitte an dem Anlagevorsprung 26 anliegt und folglich den Lagerring 5 mit einer zur Ritzelachse 15 hin gerichteten Federkraft belastet. Im übrigen verläuft die Stabfeder kontaktfrei durch die Bohrung 24 und die dieser gegenüber erheblich weiteren Gehäuseausnehmungen 28. In den Gehäusebohrungen 32 sind die Abstützenden der Stabfeder 25 jeweils mit Spiel aufgenommen. Die Stabfeder 25 hat über ihre ganze Länge einen gleichbleibenden Kreisquerschnitt. Die von ihr ausgeübte Federkraft ist jeweils abhängig von der Pumpengröße und beträgt im allgemeinen 2 - 5% der im Druckraum auftretenden DruckkräfteApproximately offset by the same amount against the direction of rotation of the bearing ring 5 has a to the axes of rotation 15 and 18 parallel through hole 24 through which a rod spring 25 extends therethrough. The bore 24 is offset from both ends in each case to a shoulder, so that thereby an annular projection 26 is provided in the longitudinal center of the bore. The bore 24 opens at both ends in each case in the region of a recess 28 in the housing or cover wall, which has a conically tapered bottom 30, which in turn merges into a housing bore 32 for supporting the rod spring 25. The two housing bores 32 are aligned in this embodiment with each other and are offset with respect to the bore 24 radially to the pinion axis 15 out. This results in the bending prestress shown in Figure 3 of the bar spring 25, which rests with its longitudinal center on the abutment projection 26 and consequently the bearing ring 5 loaded with a pinion axis 15 towards the spring force. Moreover, the rod spring extends without contact through the bore 24 and the latter compared to significantly further housing recesses 28. In the housing bores 32, the support ends of the bar spring 25 are each received with play. The bar spring 25 has over its entire length a constant circular cross-section. The spring force exerted by it depends on the size of the pump in each case and is generally 2-5% of the pressure forces occurring in the pressure chamber

Die Wirkungsweise der geschilderten Anordnung ist folgende:The operation of the described arrangement is the following:

Bei Drehung des Ritzels 2 in der gezeigten Drehrichtung wird Fördermedium durch den nicht gezeigten Saugkanal in den Saugraum (in Fig.1 links von der Linie A-A) zwischen den Verzahnungen von Ritzel 2 und Hohlrad 3 eingefördert. Aus dem Druckraum (in Fig.1 rechts von der Linie A - A) wird das Fördermedium mit erhöhtem Druck durch den nicht gezeigten Druckkanal gedrückt. Die diesbezügliche Funktion einer Innenzahnradpumpe sowie Lage und Verlauf von Saug- und Druckkanal in dem Gehäuse 1 sind bekannt und bedürfen daher hier keiner weiteren Erläuterung.Upon rotation of the pinion 2 in the direction of rotation shown conveying medium is conveyed through the suction channel, not shown in the suction space (in Fig.1 left of the line AA) between the teeth of pinion 2 and ring gear 3. From the Pressure chamber (in Fig.1 right of the line A - A), the medium is pressed with increased pressure through the pressure channel, not shown. The relevant function of an internal gear pump and the position and course of the suction and pressure channel in the housing 1 are known and therefore need no further explanation here.

Die im Druckraum herrschenden hydraulischen Druckkräfte wirken so, daß ihre Resultierende in Bezug auf die Schwenkachse 20 ein Schwenkmoment an dem Lagerring 5 erzeugt, durch welches dieser, genauer: sein dem eingriffsfreien Bereich zugeordneter Abschnitt, zusammen mit dem Hohlrad 3 radial zur Ritzelachse 15 hin gedrückt wird. Dadurch werden die Zahnköpfe in dem eingriffsfreien Bereich der Verzahnungen druckproportional in dem gegenseitigen Dichtkontakt gehalten. Da diese Funktion aus der eingangs genannten EP-A 848 165 bekannt ist, bedarf es auch hier keiner näheren Erläuterung dazu.The hydraulic pressure forces prevailing in the pressure chamber act so that their resultant with respect to the pivot axis 20 generates a pivoting moment on the bearing ring 5, through which this, more precisely: the non-engaging portion associated portion, pressed together with the ring gear 3 radially to the pinion axis 15 becomes. As a result, the tooth tips are held in the non-engagement region of the teeth pressure-proportional in the mutual sealing contact. Since this function from the aforementioned EP-A 848 165 is known, it requires no further explanation.

Die vorgespannte Stabfeder 25 erzeugt im drucklosen Zustand, d.h. außerhalb des Betriebs der Innenzahnradpumpe und in deren Anlaufphase, etwa in gleicher Richtung wie die Druckkräfte ein Schwenkmoment an dem Lagerring 5 und sorgt dadurch unabhängig von dem Auftreten der hydraulischen Druckkräfte sowohl für eine richtige gegenseitige Zu- und Anordnung der Verzahnungen als auch für den erforderlichen Dichtkontakt im eingriffsfreien Bereich. Da der Kontakt der Stabfeder 25 mit dem Lagerring 5 sich auf den kurzen Abschnitt des Anlagevorsprungs 26 in der Bohrung 24 beschränkt, kann der Lagerring 5 und mit ihm das Hohlrad 3 seitlichen Kipp- und Schiebebewegungen folgen, die infolge der hydraulischen und mechanischen Kräfte toleranzbedingt im Betrieb auftreten. Auch ist die Reibungshysterese zwischen der Stabfeder 25 und dem Anlagevorsprung 26 so gering, daß bei einer Aufhebung des Betriebsdrucks, z.B. nach dem Abschalten, die Zähne von Ritzel 2 und Hohlrad 3 und insbesondere deren Zahnköpfe dichtend aneinander anliegen und folglich ein einwandfreier erneuter Start mit sofortigem Druckaufbau gewährleistet ist.The biased rod spring 25 generates in the unpressurized state, i. Outside the operation of the internal gear pump and in its start-up phase, approximately in the same direction as the compressive forces a pivoting moment on the bearing ring 5 and thereby ensures regardless of the occurrence of hydraulic pressure forces both for a proper mutual attachment and arrangement of the teeth as well as for the required sealing contact in the attack-free area. Since the contact of the bar spring 25 with the bearing ring 5 is limited to the short portion of the abutment projection 26 in the bore 24, the bearing ring 5 and with him the ring gear 3 lateral tilting and sliding movements follow, due to the hydraulic and mechanical forces due to tolerances in Operation occur. Also, the friction hysteresis between the bar spring 25 and the abutment projection 26 is so small that when the operating pressure is released, e.g. after switching off, the teeth of pinion 2 and ring gear 3 and in particular their tooth heads sealingly abut each other and consequently a perfect re-start is guaranteed with immediate pressure build-up.

Die Erfindung ist nicht auf die Ausbildung der Innenzahnradpumpe nach dem Ausführungsbeispiel beschränkt. So können anstelle der für Ritzel und Hohlrad gewählten Evolventenverzahnung auch Trochoiden- oder Zykloidenverzahnungen eingesetzt werden. Die Stabfeder kann andere als Kreisquerschnitte aufweisen und braucht nicht von konstantem Querschnitt zu sein. Die von der Stabfeder durchsetzte Lagerringbohrung muß weder zwingend exakt achsparallel zu der Ritzelachse noch zylindrisch sein, sondern kann als ganzes eine gekrümmte oder konische Rotationsfläche als Innenfläche aufweisen, die eine minimale Kontaktfläche mit der Stabfeder ergibt. Auch könnte die Stabfeder selbst eine vorzugsweise zentrale Verdickung haben, die in der ansonsten glatt verlaufenden Bohrung zu einem örtlich beschränkten Kontakt mit dieser führt. Weiterhin ist denkbar, anstelle zweier Abstützbohrungen 32 für die Stabfeder 25 nur eine Gehäusebohrung vorzusehen, in welche die Stabfeder straff eingesetzt, z.B. eingepreßt ist und den Lagerring 5 nicht vollständig durchsetzt. Auch müssen die beiden Abstützbohrungen 32 nicht notwendig miteinander fluchten, sondern können geringfügig von der koaxialen Ausrichtung abweichen, sofern die erforderliche Vorspannung der Stabfeder gewährleistet ist und eine Anlage an mindestens einer Bohrungskante besteht.The invention is not limited to the formation of the internal gear pump according to the embodiment. Thus, instead of the pinion and ring gear selected involute toothing also Trochoiden- or cycloid gears be used. The bar spring may have other than circular cross sections and need not be of constant cross section. The bearing ring bore penetrated by the bar spring need not necessarily be exactly parallel to the axis of the pinion axis cylindrically, but as a whole may have a curved or conical surface of revolution as inner surface, which results in a minimal contact surface with the bar spring. Also, the bar spring itself could have a preferably central thickening, which leads in the otherwise smooth bore to a locally limited contact with this. Furthermore, it is conceivable to provide only one housing bore instead of two support bores 32 for the bar spring 25, in which the bar spring is inserted taut, eg pressed in, and the bearing ring 5 is not completely penetrated. Also, the two support holes 32 do not necessarily align with each other, but may differ slightly from the coaxial orientation, provided that the required bias of the bar spring is guaranteed and an investment in at least one hole edge.

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  1. Internal gear pump without filler elements, comprising a housing (1), a bearing ring (5) received in a bore of the housing to be movable transversely to the axis thereof, but non-rotatable, an internally toothed hollow wheel (3) mounted to rotate in the bearing ring and a pinion (2), which is rotatably mounted in the housing and meshes with the hollow wheel and the teeth of which define a suction chamber and a pressure chamber in the toothings by, on the one hand, full engagement in tooth gaps of the hollow wheel and, on the other hand, a sealing contact with the tooth tips of the hollow wheel in a hollow wheel region approximately diametrically opposite the tooth gap engagement and free of engagement, wherein the mounting ring (5) is so pivotable relative to the bore about a pivot axis (20, 22), which is parallel to the bore axis, by a spring (25) loading the bearing ring (5) that the sealing contact between the tooth tips of pinion (2) and hollow wheel (3) is maintained, characterised in that the spring (25) loading the bearing ring (5) is a bar spring which passes through a bore (24, 26), extending in the bearing ring (5) approximately in the axial direction thereof and which in the stressed state bears against the bore (24) with formation of a locally restricted contact area and which is supported at at least one end in a housing bore (32).
  2. Internal gear pump according to claim 1, characterised in that the bar spring (25) is supported at both ends in mutually aligned housing bores (32).
  3. Internal gear pump according to claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the bar spring passes through the bore (24) of the bearing ring (5) with play.
  4. Internal gear pump according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterised in that the bore (24) of the bearing ring forms a support projection (26) for the bar spring, against which the bar spring bears in the stressed state.
  5. Internal gear pump according to claim 4, characterised in that the support projection (26) is arranged in the longitudinal centre of the bore (24).
  6. Internal gear pump according to claim 4 or 5, characterised in that the support projection (26) is formed by an offset of smaller diameter of the bore (24).
  7. Internal gear pump according to claim 6, characterised in that the offset is rounded.
  8. Internal gear pump according to claim 4 or 5, characterised in that the support projection is formed by a curvature of the wall surface of the bore (24).
  9. Internal gear pump according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterised in that the housing bore (32) supporting the bar spring is provided in the base (30) of a housing recess (28), which conically tapers towards the housing bore (32).
  10. Internal gear pump according to one of claims 1 to 9, characterised in that the bearing ring (5) is loaded in pivot direction additionally to the bar spring (25) by hydraulic pressure forces acting in the pressure chamber on the hollow wheel.
  11. Internal gear pump according to one of claims 1 to 10, characterised in that the bearing ring (5) is loaded additionally to the bar spring (25) by at least one pressure field acting in pivot direction.
  12. Internal gear pump according to one of claims 1 to 11, characterised in that the bearing ring (5) is received in the housing (1) with axial play and suction chamber and pressure chamber in the toothings of pinion and hollow wheel are delimited by axial plates (8) sealingly bearing against the end faces of the pinion and hollow wheel.
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