EP2365108B1 - Corde de fil d'acier pour une utilisation dans un système d'entraînement - Google Patents

Corde de fil d'acier pour une utilisation dans un système d'entraînement Download PDF

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EP2365108B1
EP2365108B1 EP11169291.9A EP11169291A EP2365108B1 EP 2365108 B1 EP2365108 B1 EP 2365108B1 EP 11169291 A EP11169291 A EP 11169291A EP 2365108 B1 EP2365108 B1 EP 2365108B1
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Wouter Vandenbranden
Dominique Lefebvre
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  • the invention relates to the field of steel wire ropes more in particular to steel wire ropes that have to withstand corrosive circumstances during operation.
  • steel wire ropes can be found in many drive systems such as a window elevator in a car door, or a drive system for a sliding door, or a canvas roof drive, or a garage door opener drive system, or a hoisting rope to name just a few.
  • the invention offers a more corrosion resistant kind of rope while maintaining good fatigue properties and improved friction properties.
  • Steel wire ropes are in many cases the preferred means to convey force and displacement (i.e. work) over a distance between meters and kilometres at a low cost.
  • the ropes can be made very flexible - so that the rope can accommodate small bending pulleys - by using fine wire diameters.
  • the strength of the rope can be increased thus enabling the transmittal of higher forces.
  • the modulus of elasticity is close to that of steel and the elongation of the cord can be minimised thus eliminating slack out of the drive system.
  • the ropes can be designed to withstand the repeated bending, torsion or stretch movements that occur in such drive systems.
  • steel wire ropes are reliable because the fatigue limit can be accurately predicted by means of tests that simulate the real live usage of the ropes.
  • the steel wire ropes show a favourable friction coefficient with respect to wear pieces, a property that in many cases allows the replacement of bending pulleys with fixed rope guides with considerable cost savings in the drive system as a consequence.
  • the current state of the art for drive system ropes is therefore dominated by zinc or zinc alloy coated wire ropes that are immersed with a lubricant.
  • the thickness of the zinc or zinc alloy coating is chosen to withstand a certain number of hours in a corrosive environment.
  • Such corrosion tests are widely known in the field as the ISO 9227 standard (national equivalents are ASTM B117 or DIN 50021).
  • samples as obtained from the steel wire rope manufacturer are hung in a closed chamber filled with a nebula maintained at a 100% relative humidity at a temperature of 35°C.
  • the atmosphere in the chamber is saturated by means of a circulating spray of water containing 5% by weight of NaCl. So far to what is described in the ISO 9227 standard.
  • the corrosion progress is regularly (e.g. every 24 hours) visually monitored and graded into a number of classes ('dots of light brown rust', 'spots of light brown rust', 'dots of dark brown rust', 'spots of dark brown rust' and '5% surface coverage with dark brown rust').
  • 'dots of light brown rust', 'spots of light brown rust', 'dots of dark brown rust', 'spots of dark brown rust' and '5% surface coverage with dark brown rust' the number of hours salt spray withstood in this test is until 'spots of dark brown rust' appear on the sample.
  • wire ropes must withstand a minimum of 72 hours of salt spray before being accepted in the automobile industry.
  • the lubricant is chosen in order to optimise the fatigue life. Estimates for the fatigue life can be obtained through dedicated test procedures that simulate the real life usage of the rope in the drive system. Hence, there are a number of proprietary test benches available to determine this fatigue life. A publicly available test is the MIL-W-83420 standard that was (and is) still widely used to test 'aircraft cable'.
  • the inventors have searched for a particularly simple corrosion inhibitor adapted to the specific use of wire ropes in drive systems that is effective, cheap, environmentally friendly and easy to apply: another object of their invention.
  • a steel wire rope is provided that is intended for use in a drive system.
  • Such wire ropes have a diameter smaller than 5 mm, although sizes below 3 mm are more preferred while nowadays sizes of 2 mm and 1.5 mm are most popular.
  • the inventors believe that the trend towards smaller diameter wire ropes will continue and foresee that 1 mm diameter ropes will become possible in the foreseeable future.
  • the steel wire rope is assembled out of zinc or zinc alloy coated steel wires.
  • the steel used to produce these wires is - as high strength is needed - a high carbon steel.
  • Such steels have compositions according following lines: a carbon content between 0.35 and 1.15 wt. %, preferably between 0.60 and 1.00 wt.% carbon, a manganese content between 0.30 and 0.70 wt. %, a silicon content between 0.10 and 0.60 wt.%, a maximum sulphur content of 0.05 wt. %, a maximum phosphorus content of 0.05 wt.%.
  • Micro-alloying with particular elements such a chromium, nickel, vanadium, boron, cobalt, copper, molybdenum are not excluded for amounts ranging from 0.01 to 0.08 wt.% as this alloying may help to reach higher strength levels.
  • the wires are assembled into strands that may or may not be further assembled into wire ropes.
  • Typical configurations that are common in the field are 7x7, 7x19, 19+8x7, 19W+8x7, 7x8, 8x7, 8x8 19+9x7, 1x3+5x7 to name just a few.
  • 7x8 designates a rope consisting of 7 strands that each consist of 8 wires.
  • a strand consists of a core wire around which 7 outer wires are helically twisted with a certain pitch. Six of said strands are twisted around a central core strand, again with a defined pitch.
  • the diameters of the outer wires are by preference chosen such that they easily fit around the core wire.
  • the diameter of the core strand can be so chosen as to be adapted to the diameter of the outer strands.
  • the strands can be produced layer by layer by twisting wires around intermediate strands leading to an exemplary configuration of a core wire surrounded by six wires again surrounded by twelve wires giving a 1+6+12 configuration that is shortened to a 19 wire strand.
  • a special case is where the wire diameters are so chosen as to fit nicely together as in a Warrington configuration (as in the core of the 19W+8x7 construction). All 19 wires are then assembled together with the same pitch.
  • strands are compacted prior to cabling or even complete cables are compacted.
  • a fibre replaces the core wire. The inventive idea of this application is equally well applicable to all these variations.
  • the amount of coating on the wire is expressed in grams of coating per square meter of wire surface. As the coating does not add to the strength of the cord, it must be as thin as possible without jeopardising the corrosion resistance.
  • Conventional coating amounts are - the number between brackets refers to the average thickness for a corresponding zinc coating having a density of 7.14 kg/dm 3 - minimum 30 g/m 2 (4.2 ⁇ m).
  • lower amounts such as lower than 25 g/m 2 (3.5 ⁇ m), or lower than 20 g/m 2 (2.8 ⁇ m) or even lower as 15 g/m 2 (2.1 ⁇ m) are more preferred for this inventive wire rope.
  • hot-dip processes are preferred as they provide a solid coating welded to the steel. Due to the hot dip, an alloy layer will form between the steel and the coating that entails additional protection to the steel. Particularly preferred from the viewpoint of strength and fatigue is the coating as described in EP 1 280 958 B1 .
  • a zinc coating with a reduced thickness of below 2 micrometer (14.3 g zinc per m 2 of wire) inclusive the zinc-iron alloy layer is described together with the associated process to coat the wires.
  • Such a wire has a reduced thickness of zinc, which is favourable to obtain a higher breaking load of the cord.
  • the roughness of the zinc to steel transition layer is much reduced what results in an improved fatigue.
  • the coating on itself does not protect sufficiently against corrosion.
  • the inventors have found that the reduced corrosion resistance can be compensated by the use of corrosion inhibitor applied by means of a liquid carrier.
  • a very simple compound namely magnesium oxide (MgO) was best fitted to this end.
  • the magnesium oxide (MgO) must be finely dispersed in the carrier.
  • the carrier only serves to distribute the magnesium oxide evenly over the surface of the wire: the particles must come in close contact with the coating of the wire.
  • the liquid carrier can remain in place or may evaporate: it has been found that the positive, corrosive inhibitive effects remain.
  • the magnesium oxide makes it possible to use thinner zinc coatings, entailing the advantages of higher strength and better fatigue, while maintaining and even improving the corrosion resistance. Mutatis mutandis the magnesium oxide gives more certainty against corrosion when used on wires with the currently used zinc coatings.
  • Magnesium oxide (MgO) is a very common product that can be obtained through a number of process routes.
  • a first route is through heating of magnesite (magnesium carbonate, a natural mineral deposit) in the presence of oxygen.
  • a second route uses brine containing MgCl 2 that is first converted to Mg(OH) 2 for purification through wet precipitation followed by calcination to drive out the water. The latter route is more preferred.
  • the resultant magnesium oxide (MgO) can be classified in different grades:
  • an aliphatic mineral oil is most preferred. Aliphatic mineral oils are normally used to enhance the fatigue life of the wire rope by reducing the friction between the wires as they are bent over a pulley or a wear piece. As they are to be applied on the wire rope anyhow, they can conveniently be used as a carrier for the magnesium oxide dispersion.
  • Other possible liquid carriers are paraphenes and more in particular isoparaphenes that are known to easily evaporate.
  • MgO magnesium oxide
  • the effect of the corrosion protection of magnesium oxide (MgO) is already apparent when only minute quantities are applied on the zinc or zinc alloy coated surface. Indeed, at a minimum of 100 milligram of MgO per square meter of wire surface, already positive effects on the number of hours survived in the salt spray test can be identified. Compared to the amount of the zinc coating (present in an amount of typically 15 000 to 30 000 mg/m 2 ) this is remarkable. The effects increase linear with the amount of MgO applied on the zinc or zinc alloy coating. An amount of 200 mg /m 2 MgO is therefore more preferred. Higher quantities of 1 000 mg/m 2 or 2 000 mg/m 2 or even 4 000 mg/m 2 MgO still lead to improved results. At present, no levelling off of the positive effects has been detected.
  • the magnesium oxide is finely spread over the wire surface in order to obtain a uniform spread of the magnesium oxide flocs. This is best obtained by using a finely ground magnesium oxide with an average particle size of between 1 and 100 micrometer, most preferred being 5 to 75 micrometer.
  • the magnesium oxide must be in physical contact with the zinc or zinc coating layer, otherwise the corrosion protection is less effective or non-existent.
  • abrasive particles of about the same size (5 to 50 micrometer average particle size) as the magnesium oxide particles into the liquid carrier. The idea was that by adding this abrasive, the surface of the zinc coating is ground thus embedding better the magnesium oxide particles. Much to their surprise they found that adding such an abrasive reduced the wear of polymer guiding pieces in the drive system.
  • Such guiding pieces are usually made of hard polymers such as polyoxymethylene (POM) or polyamide (Nylon 6).
  • abrasive particles not only activate the zinc coating, but also polish the surface of the wire making it smoother.
  • silicon carbide SiC
  • Other abrasives quartz, cubic boron nitride, diamond and many others
  • Remarkable is also that these abrasive particles do not have a negative influence on the fatigue behaviour of the steel wire rope. It has been found that between 0.1 and 10, preferably between 0.1 and 2 grams of SiC per kilogram of wire rope more than suffices to obtain the positive effects.
  • a steel wire product that comprises at least one zinc or zinc alloy coated steel wire.
  • a corrosion inhibitor is embedded in the zinc or zinc alloy coating as a finely dispersed solid.
  • this corrosion inhibitor is present in the outer surface of the coating.
  • the solid corrosion inhibitor is embossed, pressed into the outer surface of said coating.
  • this corrosion inhibitor is magnesium oxide (MgO) .
  • a method to protect a steel wire product.
  • the method starts from a steel wire of intermediate diameter provided with a zinc or zinc alloy coating.
  • the steel and coating compositions are in line with the compositions described in the first aspect of the invention.
  • On a wire drawing bench preferably a wet wire drawing bench, the wire is sequentially drawn through progressively smaller dies, a technique common in the art.
  • the wire drags a finally dispersed corrosion inhibitor into one of the drawing dies.
  • the corrosion inhibitor gets impressed into to the outer surface of the coating by the compressive action of the die on the wire.
  • the corrosion inhibitor can be applied on the wire at one die e.g. the entrance (i.e. the largest) die or at the exit (i.e. the smallest) die. Or the inhibitor can be fed to the wire at two or more dies, or at every die of the whole die series.
  • the corrosion inhibitor can be provided in a powder form.
  • the corrosion inhibitor can be mixed into powder soaps that are common in the art of steel wire dry drawing as solid lubricants.
  • a powder mixture can be fed together with the wire into the die by guiding the wire through a soap box at the entrance of the die.
  • the corrosion inhibitor can be mixed into a liquid carrier that is dragged by the wire into the die entrance.
  • the corrosion inhibitor comes in intimate, electrical contact with the zinc or zinc alloy coating. The corrosion inhibitor therefore should not be isolated from the zinc or zinc alloy coating by drawing soap residues.
  • the corrosion inhibitor is magnesium oxide (MgO).
  • MgO magnesium oxide
  • Preferred is that the magnesium oxide powder has been finely ground so as to pass a 74 micrometer mesh.
  • the cord is of the following make: 0.15 + 6 ⁇ 0.14 3.5 s + 12 ⁇ 0.14 8.5 s + 8 ⁇ 0.14 + 6 ⁇ 0.14 4.8 z 12 S the different bracket levels indicating single operations, the subscripts indicating lay lengths and lay directions.
  • the cord has a linear mass of 9.78 g/m and a wire surface of 33.56 m 2 /km of cord. If not indicated to the contrary, the rope wires have obtained a hot dip galvanised, technically pure zinc coating of about 100 g per kg of coated steel wire rope (i.e. 28 g/m 2 or an average thickness of 3.9 ⁇ m).
  • the radius of curvature of the POM guiding piece was 15 mm while the rope covers 180° of the piece.
  • the wear is evaluated after 5 000 back and forth cycles (i.e. 10 000 passages) in which the same 430 mm of rope glides over the guiding piece. No lubricant is added prior to the testing.
  • the inventors want to stress that the invention is equally well applicable to all kinds of configurations of steel wire ropes and that their use is not limited to window elevator systems but to all kinds of drive systems (sliding doors, sliding rooftops, garage doors, curtain drives, brake cables, clutch cable, door latch system, a non-exhaustive list).

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  1. Câble d'acier destiné à une utilisation dans un système d'entraînement, comprenant des fils d'acier revêtus de zinc ou d'un alliage de zinc, lesdits fils d'acier comprenant en outre un revêtement à véhicule liquide, ledit revêtement à véhicule liquide comprenant des particules d'oxyde de magnésium utilisées comme inhibiteur de corrosion,
    caractérisé en ce que
    ledit revêtement à véhicule liquide comprend en outre des particules abrasives ayant une taille de particule de 5 à 50 micromètres, et une quantité d'au moins 100 milligrammes d'oxyde de magnésium par mètre carré de surface de fil étant présente sur ledit câble d'acier, lesdites particules d'oxyde de magnésium et particules abrasives étant finement dispersées dans ledit véhicule liquide, lesdites particules abrasives servant à polir la surface dudit fil.
  2. Câble d'acier selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit véhicule liquide est sélectionné dans le groupe constitué d'une huile minérale aliphatique, d'une paraffine, d'une isoparaffine, ou de mélanges de celles-ci.
  3. Câble d'acier selon la revendication 1 ou 2, une quantité d'au moins 200 milligrammes d'oxyde de magnésium par mètre carré de surface de fil dudit câble d'acier étant présente.
  4. Câble d'acier selon la revendication 1 ou 3, dans lequel la taille de particule moyenne dudit oxyde de magnésium finement dispersé est de 1 à 100 micromètres.
  5. Câble d'acier selon la revendication 4, dans lequel ledit oxyde de magnésium finement dispersé a une taille de particule approximativement identique à la taille desdites particules abrasives.
  6. Câble d'acier selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, dans lequel lesdites particules abrasives sont sélectionnées dans le groupe constitué du carbure de silicium, du quartz, du nitrure de bore cubique, du diamant, et de mélanges de ceux-ci.
  7. Câble d'acier selon la revendication 6, dans lequel lesdites particules abrasives sont en carbure de silicium.
  8. Câble d'acier selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7, une quantité de 0,1 à 10 grammes de particules abrasives par kilogramme dudit câble d'acier étant présente.
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