JP2009281369A - Muffler manufacturing method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a muffler manufacturing method for holding the deposit density of long glass fibers uniform in the axial direction even in a direct filling method. <P>SOLUTION: The muffler manufacturing method includes a first step of blowing fiber materials from the one-end opening of an outer cylinder and exhausting air from the one-end opening of an inner pipe so that the fiber materials are filled between the outer cylinder and the inner pipe, a second step of closing the one-end opening of the outer cylinder and exhausting air from the outer cylinder to set pressure in the outer cylinder to be negative, and a third step of introducing gas through the one-end opening of the inner pipe into the outer cylinder. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a silencer for an internal combustion engine or the like, and more particularly to a method for manufacturing a silencer that injects and fills a fiber material into an outer cylinder.

  Conventionally, in a silencer interposed in the middle of an exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine, a combustion apparatus, or the like, glass wool, which is a complex body of glass fiber, is filled inside, and a number of openings (ventilation holes) are formed therein. A sound absorption type (resonance type) silencer in which an installed inner pipe is inserted and used is often used. Then, in order to facilitate fiber filling and prevent scattering, a so-called direct filling method is adopted in which continuous glass fibers are blown directly into the silencer and laminated to form a sound absorbing layer in the silencer. Things are increasing.

  For example, in Patent Document 1, a continuous strand of glass multi-fiber and compressed air are introduced into a nozzle and blown into a gap between an outer cylinder and an inner pipe while being defibrated into a continuous single fiber within the nozzle, and laminated in the gap. A method for producing a silencer by a direct filling method for forming a sound absorbing layer is disclosed. When blowing, the air in the outer cylinder is exhausted through the opening of the inner pipe, and the long glass fiber is positively sucked into the gap. In particular, Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for performing necking with the stacked layers in an icing state in order to prevent the stacked layers from expanding and protruding after filling and necking.

  In recent sound absorbing silencers, the inner pipe opening group is sometimes unevenly distributed not on the entire inner pipe but on one end side in order to muffle the sound volume and tune the resonance region. When the above method is applied to such a sound-absorbing silencer, the long glass fibers are densely deposited around the aperture group due to the force of air discharge, but the other parts are merely deposited, so that they are relatively sparse. Deposition. That is, there is a concern that when the sound absorption type silencer has a uniform accumulation density distribution in the axial direction, a desired accumulation level and resonance region cannot be obtained due to a dense accumulation distribution. Such uneven distribution of deposition density is not improved by bulk expansion after filling.

JP 2008-69766 A

  In view of the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a silencer in which a long glass fiber has a uniform deposition density distribution in the axial direction even in direct filling.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the invention of claim 1, there is provided a method of manufacturing a silencer having an outer cylinder and a perforated inner pipe penetrating the outer cylinder, and a fiber material is injected into the outer cylinder. A first step of filling and discharging the air in the outer cylinder from one end opening of the inner pipe to fill the fiber material between the outer cylinder and the inner pipe; and closing the one end opening of the outer cylinder A second step of discharging the air in the outer cylinder to make the inside of the outer cylinder a negative pressure, and a third step of introducing a gas into the outer cylinder of the negative pressure from one end opening of the inner pipe. Included.

  In the second invention, in the first invention, the introduction of the gas is instantaneous and intermittent.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to produce a sound absorbing silencer in which the long glass fibers have a uniform deposition density in the axial direction even in direct filling.

  The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  1 to 3 are longitudinal sectional views showing a filling state of the outer cylinder 1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. The vertical direction in each figure indicates the vertical direction of the device 40. An annular receiving portion 16 is fixed on the opening 41 of the top plate 17 of the apparatus 40, and the outer cylinder 1 is placed vertically thereon. The tapered portion 2 of the outer cylinder 1 is pressed against the elastic receiving portion 16 to ensure airtightness. The outer cylinder 1 is formed with a taper portion 2 and a small diameter portion 3 in the previous step, and one end of the inner pipe 4 is fitted and fixed to the small diameter portion 3. It is open.

  Both the upper ends of the outer cylinder 1 and the inner pipe 4 are hermetically closed by an elastic cap 8. The insertion portion 10 protrudes integrally from the center portion of the cap 8 and is fitted into the inner pipe 4. The distal end of the insertion portion 10 is loosely fitted into the inner pipe 4, but the distal end does not reach the porous group 5. The inner pipe 4 is wound with a stainless wool 7 as a metal complex around the substantially entire region of the outer cylinder 1. And each blower outlet 14 of the two nozzles 13 for injecting a continuous long fiber penetrates the cap 8, and is opened in the space 15. FIG.

  In this state, while driving the discharge pump 33 to forcibly discharge air (A) from the lower end of the inner pipe 4, the continuous long fibers 11 are ejected together with the pressurized air from the upper outlets 14. Fill the gap with the inner pipe 4. At this time, the long glass fibers riding on the momentum of air inflow into the porous group 5 are pressed against the outer surface of the inner pipe 4 and are densely deposited around the porous group 5, but the other portions are merely deposited. Sparsely deposited.

  Next, when the supply of the long glass fibers and the air discharge (A) are stopped and the filling is completed, as shown in FIG. 2, the laminated fibers 15 having a dense distribution along the axial direction of the outer cylinder 1 are formed. If the upper end opening of the outer cylinder 1 is reduced or closed in the next process as it is, a silencer with a non-uniform density of the laminated fibers 15 is completed. In such a silencer, the silencer and the silenced region (resonance frequency) as designed are designed. ) Is difficult to obtain. Therefore, immediately after completion of the filling process, a next process for making the density of the laminated fibers 15 uniform is performed.

  FIG. 3 shows a process of making the uneven density of the laminated fibers 15 uniform. Only the air discharge (A) is operated with the filling stopped, and the inside of the outer cylinder is set to a negative pressure. It is desirable to discharge more strongly than the air discharge at the time of filling, and to form a negative pressure space of around -20 kpa. And air discharge (A) is once stopped and a negative pressure state is maintained.

  Next, air is introduced (B) from the lower end of the inner pipe 4. By opening the valve 26 instantaneously, the atmosphere flows in and propagates and flows into the inner pipe 4 as a positive pressure shock wave and an air flow. And when it passes through the porous group 5 and flows into the gap between the outer cylinder 1 and the inner pipe 4, it collides with the laminated fiber 15. Due to this collision, dense laminated fibers around the porous group 5 are pushed and moved upward in the figure (in the direction of sparse lamination). As a result, the density around the porous group 5 is reduced, and the density of other sparse parts is improved. As a result, density uneven distribution of the laminated fibers 15 is eliminated.

  The time for opening the valve 26 instantaneously is preferably 1 second or less, and may be intermittently performed several times at intervals of 5 to 10 seconds. Further, instead of sucking in air, pressurized air or pressurized gas may be blown.

  An apparatus 40 that embodies the above-described density equalization process will be described in detail with reference to FIG. Four pillars 18 are erected on the bottom plate 19 to support the top plate 17. A receiving portion 16 is attached to the top surface of the top plate 17 and a funnel 23 is attached to the bottom surface thereof so as to be coaxial with the opening 41 of the top plate 17. A funnel-shaped space 42 is formed inside the funnel 23, and when the outer cylinder 1 is placed on the receiving portion 16, the lower end of the inner pipe 4 opens into the space 42. The other end of the pipe 24 connected to the funnel 23 is connected to a discharge pump 33 and fixed by a clamp 32. Further, a gas discharge duct 34 is connected to the discharge pump 33.

  The pipe 24 has a branch pipe 25, and the lower end opening of the branch pipe 25 can be freely opened and closed by a rotating valve 26. The valve 26 rotates through the pivot 27, the arm 28, and the pivot 29 according to the expansion / contraction drive of the cylinder device 30 as an actuator, and opens and closes the lower end opening of the branch pipe 25. The cylinder device 30 is supported on one of the columns 18 by an arm 31. As described above, in order to allow positive pressure air to flow (B) into the inner pipe 4, the cylinder device 30 may be driven and the valve 26 may be opened at the lower end opening of the branch pipe 25.

  A column 20 is erected on the top surface of the top plate 17 and supports the cylinder device 22 via an arm 21. The rod 12 which is a driving body of the cylinder device 22 is movable up and down in the vertical direction, and drives the cap 8 and the nozzle 13 up and down. That is, the cap 8 is moved down together with the nozzle 13 so that the upper end of the outer cylinder 1 and the upper end of the inner pipe 4 are hermetically closed, or the upper end is raised and opened arbitrarily. The opening / closing valve is not limited to a rotary type, and may be arbitrarily selected such as an axial movement type or a shutter type.

  FIG. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view showing a fiber density distribution equalizing process in the silencer 51 according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The device 60 is generally the same structure as the filling device 40, but the cap 56 does not have a nozzle. That is, the device 60 does not have a fiber filling function.

  The device 60 is the same as the first embodiment in that the outer cylinder 51 is placed vertically on the annular receiving portion 16, but the fiber filling has already been completed, and the tapered portion is also formed on the upper portion of the outer cylinder 51. 52 and a small end portion 53 are formed, and the upper end of the inner pipe 55 is held in the small end portion 53 via a buffer member 54. That is, the muffler 51 forms the body of the muffler except for the inner fiber density distribution that has been previously subjected to the upper contraction processing applied after the first embodiment. As described above, whether density is uniformed in the final process of manufacturing the silencer or whether it is uniformed during manufacturing (immediately after filling) as in the first embodiment may be selected as appropriate.

  Also in the second embodiment, after negative pressure is generated in a state where the small end portion 53 and the upper end opening of the inner pipe 55 are closed by the cap 56, the gas is instantaneously and intermittently flowed (C), The internal fiber density distribution can be made uniform.

  Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and modifications within a range that does not depart from the spirit of the present invention are included in the present invention. What is necessary is just to set the shape of an outer cylinder or an apparatus suitably. Moreover, like patent document 1, you may perform a necking process by making the laminated fiber which finished the homogenization process into an icing state.

Sectional drawing of the filling state which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention Sectional drawing of the filling completion state which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention Sectional drawing of the filling unification state which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention Front view of the apparatus used in the present invention Sectional drawing of the filling state which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1,51 Outer cylinder 2,52 Tapered part 3,53 Small end part 4,55 Inner pipe 5,59 Porous group 6,58 Laminated fiber 7 Stainless wool 8,56 Cap 9 Convex part 10 Insertion part 11 Connection part 12,57 Rod 13 Nozzle 14 Outlet 15 Space 16 Receiving part 17 Top plate 18 Column 19 Bottom plate 20 Column 21, 28, 31 Arm 22, 30 Cylinder device 23 Funnel 24 Pipe 25 Branch pipe 26 Valve 27, 29 Pivot 32 Clamp 33 Discharge pump 34 Duct 40, 60 Device 54 Buffer member

Claims (2)

A method of manufacturing a silencer having an outer cylinder and a perforated inner pipe passing through the outer cylinder,
A first step of injecting a fiber material into the outer cylinder and discharging air in the outer cylinder from one end opening of the inner pipe to fill the fiber material between the outer cylinder and the inner pipe; ,
A second step of closing one opening of the outer cylinder, discharging air in the outer cylinder, and setting the inside of the outer cylinder to a negative pressure;
And a third step of introducing gas into the negative pressure outer cylinder from one end opening of the inner pipe.   The method for manufacturing a silencer according to claim 1, wherein the introduction of the gas is instantaneous and intermittent.

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