EP2697511B1 - Pompe a piston comportant un guidage a plat - Google Patents

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EP2697511B1
EP2697511B1 EP12717431.6A EP12717431A EP2697511B1 EP 2697511 B1 EP2697511 B1 EP 2697511B1 EP 12717431 A EP12717431 A EP 12717431A EP 2697511 B1 EP2697511 B1 EP 2697511B1
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Khaled Abousaleh
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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
    • F04B1/00—Multi-cylinder machines or pumps characterised by number or arrangement of cylinders
    • 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
    • F04B13/00—Pumps specially modified to deliver fixed or variable measured quantities
    • 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
    • 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
    • F04B9/00—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members
    • F04B9/02—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being mechanical
    • 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
    • F04B9/00—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members
    • F04B9/02—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being mechanical
    • F04B9/04—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being mechanical the means being cams, eccentrics or pin-and-slot mechanisms
    • 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
    • F04B9/00—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members
    • F04B9/02—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being mechanical
    • F04B9/04—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being mechanical the means being cams, eccentrics or pin-and-slot mechanisms
    • F04B9/047—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being mechanical the means being cams, eccentrics or pin-and-slot mechanisms the means being pin-and-slot mechanisms

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  • the present invention relates to the field of piston pumps used in automatic sampling, including syringe type pumps used for the collection of a blood sample.
  • a piston pump comprises a working chamber and a piston slidably mounted in the chamber.
  • the working chamber is connected to a sampling means such as a pipe and a needle.
  • the volume of the chamber is varied according to whether it is desired to suck or discharge the sample taken, by moving the piston.
  • the piston is generally driven in translation by a screw which is engaged on a threaded socket rigidly secured to the piston and located in its extension, the screw being itself driven by a motor for example step by step.
  • a disadvantage of this assembly is that the screw tends to drive the piston in rotation about its axis if it is not locked in rotation.
  • the invention aims to solve these problems.
  • a pumping device according to claim 1, with a working chamber and a piston designed to slide in said working chamber so as to vary the useful volume of the chamber during pumping, comprising means for anti-rotation of the piston.
  • the anti-rotation means make it possible to ensure that the piston will be driven by an axial translation movement only.
  • the anti-rotation means may comprise an index mounted radially relative to the axis of the piston and the device may comprise a longitudinal slot, said index being provided to move in said slot.
  • the pumping device comprises an index projecting transversely with respect to the piston axis and a guide slot, rectilinear parallel to the axis of the piston, arranged for example in the body of the pump.
  • the index that moves in this guide slot ensures that the piston will not be rotated by the screw.
  • the transverse extension of the index is equal to or slightly less than the width of the guide slot so that it can slide freely.
  • the index may comprise two substantially parallel planar faces which extend longitudinally.
  • the index has a small longitudinal extension, for example when it is a cylindrical pin, the friction surface between the index and the flanks of the guide slot is low, which creates a rapid wear of the index and / or flanks of the slot.
  • it is advantageous to give a certain longitudinal extension to the index for example to provide it with two parallel and longitudinal plane faces, these faces sliding along the sides of the slot and reducing friction.
  • the pumping device may comprise at least one end-of-travel detection means situated in the vicinity of one end of the slot.
  • the pumping device is generally provided with at least one end-of-stroke detection means for stopping the engine and preventing any deterioration at the end of the stroke.
  • This limit switch can be located at any convenient location of the pump, but it can be advantageously located near an end of the slot, including the end near the working chamber.
  • the slot is extended by a cavity, the limit switch being provided to enter the cavity when it reaches the end of the race.
  • the slot communicates, at this end close to the working chamber, with a zone of greater width than the slot, but limited longitudinal extension, provided to receive a limit switch.
  • the index has a small footprint, for example a pin, it can exit completely from the slot by entering the detection zone, and no longer perform its function of anti-rotation of the piston.
  • the longitudinal extension of the index is greater than the distance between the end of the slot and the detection zone of the end of the index stroke.
  • the cavity may have any shape, but is generally of rectangular section, having a width greater than that of the slot and a limited longitudinal extension.
  • the detection zone must be understood as the point, the direction or the surface whose reaching by the index causes the end-of-travel signal by the detector.
  • the index finger does not risk abutting the narrowing that is the passage from the cavity to the slot.
  • the anti-rotation means further comprise a partition located upstream of the working chamber and through which the piston is provided to slide.
  • the piston passes through a bulkhead of the pump body before reaching the working chamber.
  • the thickness of this partition is sufficient to guide the piston axially, that is to say him to avoid any rocking movement transversely to its axis.
  • the piston is driven in translation by a screw engaged on a socket, and the pumping device further comprises means for canceling the clearance between said screw and said socket.
  • the piston is driven in translation by a screw which is engaged on a threaded bushing.
  • This arrangement is generally a source of play and therefore of inaccuracy in the measurement. It is therefore advantageous to provide means for canceling this game.
  • the invention proposes two variants: In a first variant, the screw is a ball screw. Ball screws are known to suppress the clearance between the screw and the workpiece which is screwed on, but the use of such a fitting in the present pump is unusual in that the ball screw is maintained only by a only bearing, located at the end of the screw near the engine.
  • the screw is a conventional threaded screw and the pump further comprises means for compensating for play between said screw and said sleeve, in particular a spring.
  • a spring permanently contacts the same faces of the threads of the screw and the bushing, canceling the clearance between these two elements.
  • the pump illustrated in Figures 1, 2A and 2B comprises a body 100 of substantially parallelepipedal shape with cut sides, surmounted by a working compartment 120 fixed to a transverse face of the body 100.
  • the body 100 encloses a piston 101 which is slidably mounted within the body 100.
  • the piston passes through the partition 102a which adjoins the working compartment 120, and opens into a working chamber 121 formed in this compartment.
  • a seal 103 located at the junction of the working chamber 121 and the body 100, seals around the piston 101.
  • On the side of the working compartment 120, at least one pipe (not shown) is attached to the pump and communicate with the working room.
  • the displacement of the piston modifies the working volume of the working chamber 121. If this working chamber is filled with a liquid, penetrating the piston drives the liquid into the pipe, withdrawing the piston draws liquid from the pipe. This liquid can serve as an intermediate or "liquid piston” between the piston 121 of the pump and a sample to be taken.
  • the piston 101 is rigidly secured to a support 104 located in the body 100, in which is formed a cavity 105 axially aligned with the piston 101.
  • the support 104 is rigidly fixed to a threaded bushing 106 coaxial with the cavity 105.
  • the screw 131 of a motor 102b In the cavity 105 and in the threaded bushing 106 takes place the screw 131 of a motor 102b.
  • the illustrated screw in Figure 2B is a ball screw engaged on a suitable sleeve 106. This ball screw has the particularity, in this application, to be used without bearing remote engine 102b.
  • the screw 131 is a conventional threaded screw, but the clearance between the screw and the sleeve 106 is canceled by a spring which constantly urges the sleeve in the same axial direction, way to remove the clearance between the screw and the threaded sleeve.
  • An index 107 extends radially from the support 104 and takes place in a slot 108 formed in a face of the body 100, but without projecting relative to this face of the body 100.
  • the index has a cross section of substantially rectangular, the small side being substantially equal to the width e of the slot 108 so as to slide without friction in the slot. In this way, the index prevents the support 104 and thus the piston 101 from rotating on its axis when the pin 131 is actuated in rotation by the motor, only a translational movement being possible.
  • the slot 108 is extended by a cavity 109 delimiting a zone of greater width of substantially rectangular shape. This cavity is intended to receive a piston end-of-travel detector, through the entry in this zone of the index 107.
  • the figure 4 illustrates such a limit switch in the form of an optical detector 110 or optical jumper.
  • This optical jumper 110 has two substantially parallel branches 111a and 111b, one of the branches being provided on its inner face with an optical transmitter (not shown), for example a diode, the other branch being provided on its face with a screw with respect to an optical detector (not shown), aligned along an optical axis XX 'substantially orthogonal to the branches 111a, 111b.
  • the optical detector 110 further comprises two fixing lugs 112a and 112b, situated on either side of the detector in the same plane orthogonal to the branches 111a, 111b. These fixing lugs each comprise a through opening for fixing by optical jumper 110 on a longitudinal face of the body 100 of the pump.
  • the branches 111a, 111b of the detector are provided to take place in the cavity 109 of the body 100, on either side of the axis of the slot 108, so that the space between the branches 111a and 111b comes in the extension of the slot 108.
  • the index 107 therefore passes between the branches 111a and 111b of the detector and interrupts the beam optical.
  • the figure 5 illustrates in section an index 107 arriving at the end of the race in the slot 108.
  • the front face of the index crosses the optical axis XX 'of the optical jumper 110 between its branches 111a and 111b which causes the pump to stop and the end of the progression of the index.
  • the longitudinal extension or length L of the index 107 is greater than the distance d between the end of the slot 108 and the optical axis X-X '. In this way, the index 107 remains engaged on the sides of the slot 108 until the end of stroke detection and therefore continues to play its role of anti-rotation of the piston 101, even if the spacing between the faces opposite the branches 111a, 111b of the optical sensor is greater than the width e of the slot 108.
  • This arrangement provides another advantage: when the index 107 moves away from the sensor 110 after reaching its end of travel, it is not likely to jam against the face 109a of the cavity 109 adjacent to the end of the slot 108, which could damage the pump.
  • the figures illustrate the use of an optical jumper 110 but the invention is not limited to such a detector, many detectors are covered by the invention, for example a contact detector, provided that the length L of the index is greater than the distance between the end of the slot 108 and the limit detection point. This condition will always be fulfilled if the length L of the index is greater than the depth P of the cavity 109.
  • the piston 101 is guided in rotation transverse to its axis, so as to avoid any rocking movement. This transverse guidance is achieved by the partition 102a traversed by the piston 101, this wall being for this purpose provided with a sufficient thickness.

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