EP1490185A1 - Verfahren zur herstellung eines piezoaktorgeh uses sowie pie zoaktorgeh use - Google Patents
Verfahren zur herstellung eines piezoaktorgeh uses sowie pie zoaktorgeh useInfo
- Publication number
- EP1490185A1 EP1490185A1 EP03745744A EP03745744A EP1490185A1 EP 1490185 A1 EP1490185 A1 EP 1490185A1 EP 03745744 A EP03745744 A EP 03745744A EP 03745744 A EP03745744 A EP 03745744A EP 1490185 A1 EP1490185 A1 EP 1490185A1
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- Prior art keywords
- housing
- piezo actuator
- interface
- actuator housing
- seam
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- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
- B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES, PROFILES OR LIKE SEMI-MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
- B21C37/00—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape
- B21C37/06—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape of tubes or metal hoses; Combined procedures for making tubes, e.g. for making multi-wall tubes
- B21C37/08—Making tubes with welded or soldered seams
- B21C37/0815—Making tubes with welded or soldered seams without continuous longitudinal movement of the sheet during the bending operation
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
- B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES, PROFILES OR LIKE SEMI-MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
- B21C37/00—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape
- B21C37/06—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape of tubes or metal hoses; Combined procedures for making tubes, e.g. for making multi-wall tubes
- B21C37/08—Making tubes with welded or soldered seams
- B21C37/0826—Preparing the edges of the metal sheet with the aim of having some effect on the weld
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B21—MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
- B21C—MANUFACTURE OF METAL SHEETS, WIRE, RODS, TUBES, PROFILES OR LIKE SEMI-MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS OTHERWISE THAN BY ROLLING; AUXILIARY OPERATIONS USED IN CONNECTION WITH METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
- B21C37/00—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape
- B21C37/06—Manufacture of metal sheets, rods, wire, tubes, profiles or like semi-manufactured products, not otherwise provided for; Manufacture of tubes of special shape of tubes or metal hoses; Combined procedures for making tubes, e.g. for making multi-wall tubes
- B21C37/30—Finishing tubes, e.g. sizing, burnishing
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
- B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
- B23K26/20—Bonding
- B23K26/21—Bonding by welding
- B23K26/24—Seam welding
- B23K26/244—Overlap seam welding
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
- B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
- B23K26/20—Bonding
- B23K26/21—Bonding by welding
- B23K26/24—Seam welding
- B23K26/26—Seam welding of rectilinear seams
- B23K26/262—Seam welding of rectilinear seams of longitudinal seams of tubes
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
- B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
- B23K26/20—Bonding
- B23K26/21—Bonding by welding
- B23K26/24—Seam welding
- B23K26/30—Seam welding of three-dimensional [3D] seams
- B23K26/302—Seam welding of three-dimensional [3D] seams of helicoidal seams
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10N—ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10N30/00—Piezoelectric or electrostrictive devices
- H10N30/80—Constructional details
- H10N30/88—Mounts; Supports; Enclosures; Casings
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a method for producing a piezo actuator housing and a housing for a piezo actuator.
- Piezo actuators are used, for example, in the case of injectors for the injection of fuel as actuators in order to determine a start or an end of an injection. Piezo actuators have a very small stroke. Furthermore, the thermal expansion behavior of the piezo actuator made of ceramic is very different from the steel injector components that otherwise surround it. In order to maintain the stroke over the entire temperature range occurring in the motor area despite the small stroke of the piezo actuator, a housing for the piezo actuator is usually used, which has a similar expansion behavior as the piezo actuator. Such housings are made from Invar, for example.
- Invar is not a pipe or the like, but only a solid material, such as Bar material, producible, so that the piezo actuator housing has to be machined from the entire body. Since Invar is very difficult to machine, the low cutting speed, unfavorable chip formation, excessive tool wear etc. result in very high manufacturing costs and tents for the piezo actuator housing, since the machining volume for manufacturing the housing is approx. 50%. Since Invar is also very expensive as a material, the piezo actuator housing has very high costs.
- the housing is no longer machined from the solid, but by means of forming, in particular rolling or bending, from a flat material to form a tube with an open seam in the longitudinal direction of the Tube. The seam is then welded so that a closed tube is obtained as a tubular actuator housing.
- the very expensive and complex machining existing in the prior art can be dispensed with and more than 50% of the previous production costs can be saved with the method according to the invention.
- the welded pipe is preferably calibrated with regard to its roundness. This calibration process also makes any further post-processing of the workpiece significantly easier.
- the housing is preferably also subjected to a heat treatment.
- the housing is preferably subjected to a machining process in which the required dimensions of the housing can be manufactured with high accuracy.
- a machining process in which the required dimensions of the housing can be manufactured with high accuracy.
- only a small amount of machining is required on the housing.
- the welding of the seam of the housing is preferably carried out without additional material.
- the piezo actuator housing is particularly preferably laser welded.
- the method according to the invention can be carried out particularly inexpensively if the flat material for reshaping the housing is preferably punched out of a strip.
- a material which has a similar coefficient of thermal expansion to that of the piezo actuator is preferably used as the material for the piezo actuator housing.
- this can be particularly preferably Invar.
- the housing according to the invention for a piezo actuator is tubular and is made from a flat material.
- An interface that is continuous from a first end face to a second end face of the housing is formed on the housing. This interface is preferably welded.
- the housing according to the invention can be produced particularly easily if the interface preferably runs parallel to a central axis of the housing.
- the seam runs obliquely to the central axis of the housing. This can be achieved, for example, by using a trapezoidal flat material as the starting material.
- the interface of the housing is preferably formed with areas for a positive connection.
- the welded seam In order to be able to provide the welded seam particularly cost-effectively, it is designed as a butt seam, in which two end faces of the formed flat material running perpendicular to the circumference have to be welded to one another.
- the seam is designed as a bevel seam, in which the end faces to be welded to one another are not arranged perpendicularly, but rather at an angle to the circumference. This results in a longer weld seam in the radial direction of the housing.
- Figure 1 is a flat material as a starting material
- FIGS. 2a and 2b show a side view and a perspective view of the piezo actuator housing according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention
- FIGS. 3a to 3e different manufacturing steps for manufacturing the piezo actuator housing according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention
- Figures 4a and 4b are a sectional view and an enlarged view
- FIG. 5 shows a side view of a piezo actuator housing according to a second exemplary embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 6 shows a side view of a piezo actuator housing according to a third exemplary embodiment of the present invention
- Figure 7 is a plan view of a piezo actuator housing according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 8 is a plan view of a piezo actuator housing according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention.
- Piezo actuator housing 1 and a manufacturing method for manufacturing the piezo actuator housing 1 are described.
- the piezo actuator housing 1 is an essentially cylindrical tube in which the piezo ceramic is arranged.
- the upper or lower end of the actuator housing 1 is closed with a top or bottom plate.
- Invar is used as the material for the piezo actuator housing 1, which has a similar coefficient of thermal expansion as the piezoceramic.
- the method according to the invention for producing the piezo actuator housing is as follows.
- a rectangular flat material 2 is punched out of a strip material 7 (cf. FIG. 3a) (cf. FIG. 1 and FIG. 3b).
- the thickness of the strip material 7 or the flat material 2 punched out from it corresponds as closely as possible to the wall Thickness of the piezo actuator housing 1.
- the flat material has a height H deviating from the later height of the piezo actuator housing 1 and a length U which essentially corresponds to the later circumferential length of the cylindrical actuator housing.
- the opposite sides in the direction of the height H of the housing form a first butt edge 3 or a second butt edge 4.
- the flat material 2 is cold-formed by rolling, so that a cylinder blank is obtained as shown in FIG. 3c.
- the first butt edge 3 and the second butt edge 4 lie opposite each other with a narrow gap between them.
- the abutting edges 3 and 4 are connected to one another by means of laser welding in the longitudinal direction of the housing 1, so that a welded seam 8 is obtained. In this case, no additional material for welding is introduced during laser welding, so that the gap between the two abutting edges 3, 4 should be as small as possible.
- the rolled and welded piezo actuator housing is calibrated for its roundness in order to compensate for any out-of-roundness.
- a heat treatment for example an annealing treatment, is then carried out on the actuator housing in order to reverse any thermal expansion coefficient that may have changed due to the welding or the cold deformations.
- a machining operation is then carried out, for example, on a lathe in order to make recesses 9, 10, 11 in the outer surface of the housing 1 or to rework the seam 8.
- Post-processing steps on a first end face 5 and a second end face 6 or on the inner circumference of the housing may also be necessary.
- further post-treatment steps in particular for surface treatment such as polishing, can be carried out, so that the seam 8 which is still clearly visible after welding is practically no longer visible to the naked eye is noticeable. This is indicated in Figure 3e by line 8 '.
- the finished piezo actuator housing 1 is shown in more detail in FIGS. 2a and 2b and 4a and 4b.
- the two upper and lower annular recesses 9 and 10 serve to receive O-rings and the recess 11 serves to receive a snap ring, via which the piezo actuator housing 1 can be clamped axially by means of a banjo bolt.
- On the lower inner circumference is one with the highest accuracy
- Machined, machined, annular inner surface 12 can be seen (see FIG. 4b), to which a membrane, not shown, for sealing the piezo actuator from the fuel is attached.
- the piezo actuator housing 1 In comparison with the machining volume previously required in the prior art when producing the piezo actuator housing from a solid bar material from Invar, only a machining volume of approximately 1% remains in the present invention. According to the invention, not only material costs of the extremely expensive material Invar are saved, but also the manufacturing costs are significantly reduced, since the method according to the invention on the one hand has a very short manufacturing time and on the other hand only leads to tool wear to a significantly smaller extent.
- the piezo actuator housing 1 according to the invention has a continuous longitudinal seam in the direction of a central axis X-X of the housing, this interface has no negative effects on the strength or the thermal expansion coefficient of the housing, since the interface consists of the same material as the housing wall. In any case, the subsequent heat treatment can prevent areas with different coefficients of thermal expansion from forming on the housing.
- FIGS. 5 and 6 show a piezo actuator housing 1 according to a second or a third exemplary embodiment. posed.
- the interface 8 is arranged obliquely to the central axis XX. This is achieved, for example, in that the punched flat material has a trapezoidal shape.
- form-locking elements 13 are formed on the two abutting edges 3, 4 of the flat material, which lead to a form-fit after the flat material has been formed.
- the piezo actuator housing is then also welded at the interface 8.
- the form-locking elements 13 can be produced in a simple manner when punching out the flat material and can have any shape as long as only a form-fit between the two abutting edges is made possible.
- FIGS. 7 and 8 show two different examples for the formation of the interface 8, which can be used in each of the previously described exemplary embodiments.
- FIG. 7 shows a butt seam in which the two abutting edges of the flat material in the rolled state are perpendicular to the circular circumference of the housing. This results in a seam 8 perpendicular to the circumference.
- FIG. 8 shows a housing with an oblique seam, in which the two abutting edges are not arranged perpendicular to the circumference of the housing, but instead have a predetermined angle ⁇ with respect to the circumference.
- the oblique seam 8 ′′ results in a larger welded area than in comparison to the butt seam in FIG. 7, so that greater connection security can be achieved during welding.
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Applications Claiming Priority (5)
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| DE10214929 | 2002-04-04 | ||
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| DE10228748 | 2002-06-27 | ||
| DE10228748 | 2002-06-27 | ||
| PCT/DE2003/001060 WO2003084691A1 (de) | 2002-04-04 | 2003-04-01 | Verfahren zur herstellung eines piezoaktorgehäuses sowie piezoaktorgehäuse |
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| EP1490185A1 true EP1490185A1 (de) | 2004-12-29 |
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