EP2929550A1 - Dispositif de réglage électromagnétique - Google Patents

Dispositif de réglage électromagnétique

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EP2929550A1
EP2929550A1 EP13789230.3A EP13789230A EP2929550A1 EP 2929550 A1 EP2929550 A1 EP 2929550A1 EP 13789230 A EP13789230 A EP 13789230A EP 2929550 A1 EP2929550 A1 EP 2929550A1
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core
coil
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permanent magnet
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Timo Rigling
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ETO Magnetic GmbH
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01L—CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES
    • F01L25/00—Drive, or adjustment during the operation, or distribution or expansion valves by non-mechanical means
    • F01L25/08—Drive, or adjustment during the operation, or distribution or expansion valves by non-mechanical means by electric or magnetic means
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01L—CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES
    • F01L1/00—Valve-gear or valve arrangements, e.g. lift-valve gear
    • F01L1/34—Valve-gear or valve arrangements, e.g. lift-valve gear characterised by the provision of means for changing the timing of the valves without changing the duration of opening and without affecting the magnitude of the valve lift
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01L—CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES
    • F01L13/00—Modifications of valve-gear to facilitate reversing, braking, starting, changing compression ratio, or other specific operations
    • F01L13/0015—Modifications of valve-gear to facilitate reversing, braking, starting, changing compression ratio, or other specific operations for optimising engine performances by modifying valve lift according to various working parameters, e.g. rotational speed, load, torque
    • F01L13/0036—Modifications of valve-gear to facilitate reversing, braking, starting, changing compression ratio, or other specific operations for optimising engine performances by modifying valve lift according to various working parameters, e.g. rotational speed, load, torque the valves being driven by two or more cams with different shape, size or timing or a single cam profiled in axial and radial direction
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01F—MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
    • H01F7/00—Magnets
    • H01F7/06—Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets
    • H01F7/08—Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets with armatures
    • H01F7/16—Rectilinearly-movable armatures
    • H01F7/1638—Armatures not entering the winding
    • H01F7/1646—Armatures or stationary parts of magnetic circuit having permanent magnet
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F01—MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL; STEAM ENGINES
    • F01L—CYCLICALLY OPERATING VALVES FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES
    • F01L13/00—Modifications of valve-gear to facilitate reversing, braking, starting, changing compression ratio, or other specific operations
    • F01L13/0015—Modifications of valve-gear to facilitate reversing, braking, starting, changing compression ratio, or other specific operations for optimising engine performances by modifying valve lift according to various working parameters, e.g. rotational speed, load, torque
    • F01L13/0036—Modifications of valve-gear to facilitate reversing, braking, starting, changing compression ratio, or other specific operations for optimising engine performances by modifying valve lift according to various working parameters, e.g. rotational speed, load, torque the valves being driven by two or more cams with different shape, size or timing or a single cam profiled in axial and radial direction
    • F01L2013/0052—Modifications of valve-gear to facilitate reversing, braking, starting, changing compression ratio, or other specific operations for optimising engine performances by modifying valve lift according to various working parameters, e.g. rotational speed, load, torque the valves being driven by two or more cams with different shape, size or timing or a single cam profiled in axial and radial direction with cams provided on an axially slidable sleeve
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01F—MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
    • H01F7/00—Magnets
    • H01F7/06—Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets
    • H01F7/08—Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets with armatures
    • H01F7/16—Rectilinearly-movable armatures
    • H01F2007/1669—Armatures actuated by current pulse, e.g. bistable actuators
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01F—MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
    • H01F7/00—Magnets
    • H01F7/06—Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets
    • H01F7/08—Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets with armatures
    • H01F7/081—Magnetic constructions

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  • the present invention relates to an electromagnetic actuator according to the preamble of the main claim.
  • a device is known from WO 2010/063394 A1 of the applicant and describes a coil means having core unit, which is designed to interact with relative to the core unit movably guided anchor means in response to energization of the coil means.
  • the anchor means comprise a plurality of ram units which each have permanent magnet means at their end directed towards the core unit.
  • it is thus possible to selectively drive individual ones of the ram units, in that the core unit repels, by the electromagnetically generated flow, a respective one of the permanent magnet units.
  • an opposite movement of, for example, a pair of plunger units can be realized.
  • an electromagnetic actuator device for camshaft adjustment has prevailed.
  • Such a technology makes it possible, in particular, to intervene by means of a ram unit driven in the manner described above into a positioning groove of an adjusting cam or the like of the engine assembly designed to cooperate with the ram end, thus effecting camshaft adjustment.
  • a positioning groove then also allows the return of an extended ram unit back into a stop position on the core unit after the end of the energization.
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to provide an electromagnetic actuator device for simultaneously driving (moving) a plurality of ram units from a starting position into an engagement position (for example offered by a camshaft adjustment), which is structurally simple to implement and simplifies in assembly and maintenance ,
  • the present invention is intended to be particularly suitable for a context of use (intended use) in an internal combustion engine.
  • the object is achieved by the electromagnetic actuator device having the features of the main claim; Advantageous developments of the invention are described in the subclaims.
  • the generic technology is further developed in that the plurality of plunger units with their permanent magnet means end-to-end cooperate with a (possibly multi-part) end face of the core unit which is homopolar for each of the associated plunger units, ie each time has a same polarity.
  • the present invention differs in principle from the used as a generic educated WO 2010/066394, since the local design and geometric conditions inevitably lead to the fact that for the respective the ram units associated end faces of different pole end faces of the core unit are assigned.
  • the invention property " Dermatpolig" with respect to the end face (s) of the core unit does not mean that it is immutable during any operating phases of the electromagnetic actuator device according to the invention in the absence of electromagnetic flux in the core unit) a first (permanently magnetically generated) polarity is impressed into the end face (s) of the core unit by the effect of the permanent magnet means of the respective tappet units, since in this respect the core unit is part of a permanent magnetic flux circuit in the no-current (rest)
  • the polarity of the end face acts repulsively against the respective permanent magnet means of the ram unit and thus drives it from its starting position on the core unit into an engagement position of the respective associated setting partner.
  • the permanent magnet means (typically realized as permanent-magnetic disks, which are provided on one or both ends with suitable flux-conducting disk elements) have axially equidirectional permanent magnetization, in other words, between one direction the permanent magnetization of the plurality of adjacently provided permanent magnets of the respective ram units there is no directional difference.
  • the coil unit realized as a single coil form an axially and centrally extending portion of the core unit enclosing.
  • a compact, easily produced and magnetically powerful unit is produced, with the (uniformly polar) end face preferably protruding axially from an enclosed or overlapping region of the coil ,
  • a guide element guide portion
  • a guide section as part of a closed about the housing magnetic circuit, inside not only offers a stop for the permanent magnet means of the respective ram units, but also, realize by a suitable permanent magnetic adhesive effect, a bistability for the de-energized case can.
  • the core unit In the preferred structural-geometric configuration of the core unit, it is on the one hand further education and preferably provided to form the core unit as a single, further preferably integrally realized core element. This can then engage with the above-described axial center section in the (surrounded) coil, at the same time have a extending out of the coil and radially widening section, which then end- or frontally realized the same pole end face of the core unit.
  • Such an embodiment of the invention in turn, combines design simplicity and thus ease of manufacture and assembly with favorable electromagnetic or flux-guiding properties, so that for both operating states - in the de-energized adhesive state of the tappet units and in the movement or extended state of the tappet units - Each optimized flow conditions are present.
  • such a configuration, widened with respect to the end face, of the core unit makes it possible to produce a respective plurality of magnetic flux circuits corresponding to the plurality of tappet units, which are guided approximately radially-edge-sided to a housing section provided correspondingly there and then closed via the housing can be.
  • Such an advantageous effect can also be realized by an alternative embodiment of the core unit by means of a plurality of core elements, wherein according to this embodiment, the (same pole) end face can be realized by a plurality of more preferably flat or plate-like core elements, which, more preferably, the magnetic associated or cooperating permanent magnet elements of the plunger units appropriately aligned and / or dimensioned, allow an optimization of the mechanical, geometric and magnetic conditions in the Aktuatorvorrich- tion.
  • the majority of the core elements eg plate-like, permanent magnet means adapted to a circumferential contour
  • suitable flux-guiding means in the form of transverse or bridge pieces of suitably magnetically flux-conducting material, so that, analogously to the above-described principle of a one-piece or one-piece core element, the same magnetic effect can be realized with a core composed of a plurality of elements or components.
  • the flux guiding means thus advantageously cause a magnetic flux distribution into the core elements when the coil is energized, wherein in preferred implementations an air gap is formed between the core elements (core end pieces).
  • the coil unit upstream or associated drive means to design so that they can make the energization in only one polarity, namely that polarity, which in the manner described above when activated the repulsion of the plurality causes the ram units to effect the simultaneous-parallel movement.
  • the advantageous unipolar configuration of the energization does not mean that, nevertheless, alternative polarity reversal can be performed for the purpose of assisting a reset, but this is usually not necessary for core applications of the present invention.
  • the present invention is thus outstandingly suitable for realizing a camshaft adjustment with a plurality of suitably engaging ram units, the present invention combining design simplicity and high operational reliability with favorable maintenance and assembly characteristics, in particular providing the opportunity for having substantially standardized ones Components synchronous and parallel movable plunger movements can be realized.
  • Fig. 1 is an end view of the electromagnetic actuator according to a first embodiment of the invention with a multi-part core unit;
  • FIG. 2 shows a longitudinal sectional view along the section line AA in the view of FIG. 1 in the de-energized state of the coil unit (a) or in the energized state and extended in an engaged position ram units (b); different views of the core unit in the embodiment of Fig. 1, Fig. 2; an end view analogous to Figure 1 of an electromagnetic actuator according to a second embodiment of the invention with a one-piece core unit.
  • FIG. 3 shows along the section line AA in FIG. 4 for clarifying a currentless (a) or energized (b) state of the coil unit in a longitudinal section
  • FIG. 6 shows different views of the core unit of the second exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 4, FIG. 5 ,
  • a cylindrical core element 10 of the multipart core unit 12 shown in detail in FIG. 3 is enclosed on the shell side by a coil 16 wound on a coil carrier 14 and engages at one end in a disc-shaped bottom section 18 of a housing 20 of the positioning device shown in FIGS first embodiment.
  • this magnetically conductive with a transversely to the axial direction (vertical direction in the figure representation of FIG. 2) extending connecting or bridge piece 22 is connected, in turn turn plate-shaped (Fig. 3) core end pieces 24, 26 engage as a pair of magnetically conductive. At the end, these form an iW in a common end face of the core unit 12 lying transversely to the longitudinal axis.
  • each of the permanent magnet assemblies has a disk-shaped axially magnetized permanent magnet 34 axially covered on both sides by a magnetic flux-conducting disk 36, 38.
  • the permanent magnetization of the respective permanent magnet assemblies 34, 36, 38 of the two plunger units 30, 32 is directed axially equal, wherein in the representation shown in Fig. 2, the permanent magnetic south pole is directed upwards and toward the core unit 12.
  • a return to the starting position of Fig. 2 (a) takes place in the described embodiment in that the control grooves (not shown) by cooperating with the engaging ends 42 of the plunger 30, 32 move them back towards the core unit 12, wherein from a certain stroke then the situation shown in Fig. 2 (a) - energized - occurs, in which by permanent magnet action of the discs 34, the anchor units are pulled back to the core unit or its end face.
  • the reset can take place without current supply (in particular even without reversed current supply) of the coil 16, even if, according to the training and alternatively, such a polarity reversal can possibly also support the reset.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates with its front view (a), its rear view (d) and their tilted by 90 ° to each other side views (b) and (c) structural details of the multi-part core unit of the first embodiment.
  • the plate-like elements 24, 26 are aligned in the radial diameter and corresponding to the permanent magnet assemblies 34, 36, 38, so far as the magnetic flux conditions are optimized, it can be done compact and space-saving. It is advantageous both for manufacturing and assembly reasons, as well as for reasons of reliable magnetic flux, the plate-shaped core elements 24, 26 with central projections in adapted holes or through holes. intervene fractures of the bridge element 22, as illustrated in particular the sectional views of Figures 2 (a) and (b).
  • this one-piece core unit 50 is integrally formed in Figure 1.
  • this one-piece core unit includes a center portion 52, to which a pair of radially widened core portions 54 connects, which, in turn provided with a conical shape 56, the end face a gleichpolare surface for cooperation with the plunger units 30, 32 and forming permanent magnet assemblies 34, 36, 38 thereon.
  • the one-piece core unit shown in FIG. 6 from various views achieves the same geometry and functionality as the unit assembled from individual parts of the first embodiment, and also the operation when the coil 16 is energized.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif actionneur électromagnétique pourvu d'un noyau (12 ; 50) comportant un moyen d'induction (16), qui est réalisé pour interagir avec des moyens d'ancre (34, 36, 38, 32, 30), disposés de manière mobile par rapport au noyau, en réaction à la circulation d'un courant électrique dans le moyen d'induction. Les moyens d'ancre comportent une pluralité d'unités de coulissement (30, 32) pouvant être entraînées simultanément et disposées à une certaine distance les unes des autres, auxquelles sont affectés respectivement, en direction du noyau, des moyens d'aimant permanent (34) qui présentent une magnétisation permanente le long de l'axe longitudinal de déplacement respectif des unités de coulissement. La pluralité des unités de coulissement pouvant être commandées parallèlement les unes aux autres interagissent magnétiquement avec une surface frontale de même polarité et les moyens d'aimant permanent présentent une magnétisation permanente dirigée dans la même direction axiale.
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