JP2013078818A - Angle drive and torque equipment including the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an angle drive unit having a structure capable of improving durability in view of a lateral hole part of an angle drive.SOLUTION: An angle drive 1 includes: a square shaft-like angle drive part 2 having one end to which an attachment transmitting torque to a fastening member is detachably attached; a torque transmission part 3 integrally formed at the other end of the angle drive part 2 and transmitting input torque to the angle drive part 2; a bottomed lateral hole part 4 formed at one side surface at the one end side of the angle drive part 2 and in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the angle drive part 2; a spring member 5 disposed at the lateral hole part 4; and an engagement member 6 biased by the spring member 5 to protrude outward from an opening of the lateral hole part 4 and detachably engaged with the attachment. The angle drive part 2 includes an engagement part 11 engaged with the attachment at the one end side and a non-engagement part 12 not engaged with the attachment at a more distal end side than the engagement part 11, and the lateral hole part 4 is formed at a formation region of the non-engagement part 12.

Description

  The present invention relates to a square drive that is provided in a torque device such as a torque wrench and is removably connected to an attachment such as a socket or an extension bar that engages a fastening member such as a bolt or a nut and transmits a tightening torque.

  The torque wrench has a head part and a lever part with the head part attached to the tip part, and a square drive is arranged in the head part. In the angular drive, the socket is directly attached to the angular drive portion formed in the shape of the square axis, or the socket is attached via an extension bar that is an extension member. And a socket is engaged with fastening members, such as a volt | bolt or a nut, and the said fastening member is fastened by rotating the said lever in the fastening direction of the said fastening member.

  In the angular drive provided in the head part, the angular drive part is formed integrally with a torque transmission part that transmits a tightening force, for example, with ratchet teeth formed on the outer periphery (Patent Document 1). The torque transmission part is formed in a solid columnar shape, and the angular drive part formed in a solid rectangular parallelepiped shape is integrally formed on one end surface of the torque transmission part, for example, with the axes aligned.

  In addition, a bottomed lateral hole portion in which an engagement member such as a steel ball for preventing attachments such as sockets and extension bars from falling off is formed on one side surface of the corner drive portion. A spring that pushes the engaging member radially outward is disposed in the lateral hole, and the engagement member is prevented from coming off by a caulking process that slightly narrows the inner diameter of the edge of the lateral hole.

  When the fastening member is tightened, a torsional stress is generated in the corner drive portion, and the lateral hole portion is deformed. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the lateral hole portion formed in the corner drive portion in terms of durability of the corner drive portion.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-261938

  An object of the present invention is to provide an angular drive capable of improving the durability of the angular drive unit in consideration of a lateral hole formed in the angular drive unit and a torque device provided with the angular live.

  According to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the angular drive unit that realizes the object of the present invention has an angular shaft-shaped angular drive unit 2 in which an attachment for transmitting torque to a fastening member is detachably attached to one end. The torque transmission unit 3 is formed integrally with the other end of the corner drive unit 2 and transmits the input torque to the corner drive unit 2. The shaft of the corner drive unit 2 is attached to one side of the corner drive unit 2 on one side. The bottomed horizontal hole 4 formed in a direction orthogonal to the direction, the spring member 5 disposed in the horizontal hole 4, and urged by the spring member 5 to protrude outward from the opening of the horizontal hole 4, and can be detached from the attachment. An angular drive 1 having an engagement member 6 that engages with the attachment, and the angular drive portion 2 has an engagement portion 11 that engages with the attachment at one end and the distal end side of the engagement portion 11 with the engagement portion 11. Does not engage with attachment An engagement portion 12, to form a lateral hole section 4 to the formation region of the non-engaging portion 12.

  The configuration of the torque device that realizes the object of the present invention includes the angular drive configured as described above.

  According to the corner drive according to the present invention, the lateral hole portion in which the engagement member for preventing the attachment from falling off is hardly deformed by torsional stress, so that the durability of the corner drive portion is improved.

  The torque device according to the present invention can provide a torque device with improved durability.

The corner drive perspective view which shows 1st Embodiment of this invention. The front view of the torque wrench provided with the square drive unit of FIG.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on embodiments shown in the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a corner drive showing an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a front view of a torque wrench including the corner drive of FIG.

  The angular drive 1 of this embodiment is provided in the head part 21 of the torque wrench 20 shown in FIG. 2, for example, and the attachments 24, such as the socket 22 and the extension bar 23, are attached so that attachment or detachment is possible.

  The angular drive 1 has a structure in which a rectangular angular drive unit 2 and a disk-shaped torque transmission unit 3 are integrally formed. The rectangular drive unit 2 is formed in a solid rectangular parallelepiped shape, and torque is applied to the other end side. The transmission part 3 is formed.

  The torque transmission unit 3 according to the present embodiment has, for example, ratchet teeth formed on the outer peripheral portion, and shaft portions 3b having a smaller diameter than the main body portion 3a of the torque transmission unit 3 are formed, for example, on both ends in the axial direction. The small diameter shaft portion 3b is rotatably supported by, for example, a support member that forms a structural member of the head portion 21 of the torque wrench 20 of FIG. A ratchet pawl (not shown) that engages with ratchet teeth formed on the outer peripheral portion of the torque transmitting portion 3 is attached to the structural member of the head portion 21 to constitute a one-way clutch.

  Accordingly, when torque is applied to the torque transmission unit 3, the angular drive 2 rotates integrally with the torque transmission unit 3 and transmits torque to the attachment 24 such as a socket or an extension bar.

  On one side surface of one end portion of the corner drive unit 2, a bottomed lateral hole portion 4 is formed in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the corner drive unit 2 (referred to as a lateral direction). A spring 5 is disposed in the side hole 4, and a plunger-type or steel ball engaging member 6 is movably disposed. The engaging member 6 is urged outward by the spring 5. The The engagement member 6 is prevented from coming off by a caulking process that slightly narrows the inner diameter of the opening edge of the side hole 4. The plunger-type engaging member 6 has a configuration in which a hemispherical spherical surface portion 8 is provided on the front surface of a disk-shaped base portion 7, and the protruding length of the spherical surface portion 8 protruding outward from the open end of the lateral hole portion 4. To make it longer.

  When a steel ball is used as the engaging member, the protruding length of the steel ball protruding outward from the open end of the horizontal hole portion becomes shorter as the inner diameter of the horizontal hole portion 13 becomes smaller. For this reason, from the viewpoint of reducing the inner diameter of the horizontal hole portion 4 as the width of the opposite side surface of the corner drive portion 2 is shortened, or improving the durability of the corner drive portion 2, the horizontal hole portion When the inner diameter of 4 is made small, a sufficient engagement length cannot be obtained with a steel ball. On the other hand, in the plunger-type engaging member 6, the base portion 7 comes into contact with an edge portion whose inner diameter of the opening edge of the horizontal hole portion 4 is slightly narrowed by caulking, and the spherical surface portion 8 is outside the opening end of the horizontal hole portion 4. Therefore, even if the inner diameter of the lateral hole portion 4 is reduced, a sufficient engagement length can be obtained by appropriately setting the length of the spherical surface portion 8.

  A torque wrench 20, which is a manual torque tool as a torque device shown in FIG. 2, has a head portion 21 rotatably attached to a tip end portion of a lever portion 25 via a pin 26, and is inserted into the lever portion 25. 21 is connected to a torque limiter such as a toggle mechanism (not shown). And the grip part 27 of the lever part 25 is grasped, the lever part 25 is rotated in the fastening direction, and fastening members, such as a volt | bolt, are fastened. When the set torque value set in the torque limiter is reached, the lever portion 25 rotates with respect to the head portion 21 using the pin 26 as a fulcrum, and the operator is notified that the set torque value has been reached.

  The torque wrench 20 changes the dimension of the two-surface width of the corner drive unit 2 according to the torque adjustment range. In the large torque adjustment range, the width across flats is large, and in the small adjustment range the width across flats is small. In general, the width across flats is standardized, and attachments such as sockets and extension bars are used for angular drive parts. The size of the fitting hole to be fitted to the is also standardized accordingly.

  By the way, in the angular drive in which the torque transmission part 3 and the angular drive part 2 are formed integrally, the dimension of the two-surface width of the angular drive part 2 is set in terms of stress concentration on the root part of the angular drive part 2. It is getting bigger. When the size of the two-sided width of the corner drive unit 2 is increased, the size of the attachment to be attached is also increased, so the size of the engagement member 6 is increased to increase the engagement force. For this reason, the inner diameter of the lateral hole 4 is also increased.

  The fitting hole portion of the attachment 24 into which the rectangular shaft shaped corner drive portion 2 is fitted is formed into a square fitting hole, and the rectangular drive portion 2 formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape is inserted into the fitting hole. In FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the corner drive unit 2 has the corner C abutting against the inner peripheral wall surface of the fitting fitting hole, and transmits the torque of the corner drive unit 2 to the attachment.

  The corner drive portion 2 of the present embodiment does not engage with the formation region 11 of the corner portion C that forms an engagement portion that engages with the inner peripheral wall surface of the attachment fitting hole and the inner peripheral wall surface of the attachment fitting hole. A non-formation region 12 of a corner portion C that forms a non-engagement portion is provided. The non-formation area 12 of the corner C is provided on the tip side from the formation area 11 of the corner C in the axial direction. The lateral hole 4 is disposed in the non-formation region 12 of the corner C.

  In the present embodiment, the tip portion of the rectangular parallelepiped corner drive portion 2 is formed in a truncated cone shape to provide a non-formation region 12 of the corner portion C, and a corner between the non-formation region 12 of the corner portion C and the root is formed. The formation region 53 of the part C is used. In other words, the region from the side hole portion 4 to the tip provided in the corner drive portion 2 is the non-formation region 12 of the corner portion C, and the region adjacent to the non-formation region 12 of the corner portion C is the formation region 11 of the corner portion C. Yes.

  When the fastening member is fastened by the torque wrench 20, torsional torque is applied to the corner drive unit 2. Torsional deformation due to torsional stress occurs from the tip of the formation area of the corner C to the base.

  According to the present embodiment, the region where the lateral hole portion 4 is provided from the tip of the corner drive portion 2 is the non-formation region 12 of the corner portion C where the corner portion C is not provided. For this reason, when torque is transmitted to the attachment 24, no torsional torque is applied to the non-formation region 12 of the corner C, so that almost no torsional stress is generated in the non-formation region 12 of the corner C.

  Therefore, since the horizontal hole part 4 hardly receives deformation | transformation, durability can be improved.

  When the corner drive portion 2 does not have the corner C non-formation region 12 and the corner C is formed in the entire region from the tip to the root, the lateral hole portion 4 is subjected to deformation due to torsional stress. , A stress concentration part occurs. When a large stress concentration portion is generated in the side hole portion 4, cracks are likely to occur from the stress concentration portion as a starting point due to long-term use. In order to reduce the deformation of the side hole 4 and avoid stress concentration as much as possible, it is effective to reduce the inner diameter of the side hole 4. For this reason, it is advantageous to provide a plunger-type engagement member 6 in order to be able to cope with a reduction in the diameter of the lateral hole 13.

  In this embodiment, the torque wrench has been described as an example of the torque device. However, the torque device is not limited to the torque wrench, and an angular drive unit to which an attachment such as an automatic tightening machine or a socket or an extension bar is attached. And can be applied to a device configured to transmit an input torque to the angular drive unit.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Square drive 2 Square drive part 3 Torque transmission part 4 Side hole part 5 Spring 6 Engagement member 7 Base part 8 Spherical part 20 Torque wrench 21 Head part 22 Socket 23 Extension bar 24 Attachment 25 Lever part 26 Pin 11 Formation area 12 Non-formation area C Corner

Claims (6)

An angular drive unit that is detachably mounted with an attachment that transmits torque to the fastening member at one end, and is integrally formed at the other end of the angular drive unit, and transmits input torque to the angular drive unit. And a bottomed lateral hole formed in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the angular drive part on one side surface of the one end part side of the angular drive part,
A spring member disposed in the side hole,
An angular drive having an engagement member that is urged by the spring member and protrudes outward from the opening of the lateral hole portion and detachably engages with the attachment,
The corner drive portion has an engagement portion that engages with the attachment at one end portion, and a non-engagement portion that does not engage with the attachment at the tip side of the engagement portion, and forms the non-engagement portion. A corner drive characterized in that the lateral hole is formed in a region.   The angular drive according to claim 1, wherein the engagement member is of a plunger type.   The angular drive according to claim 1, wherein the torque transmission unit is rotatably supported by a support member.   A torque device comprising the angular drive according to any one of claims 1 to 3.   The torque device according to claim 4, further comprising: a head portion having the angular drive; and a lever portion coupled to the head portion. 6. The torque device according to claim 4, wherein a ratchet is formed on an outer periphery of the torque transmission portion, and a ratchet claw that engages the ratchet is provided on the support member to form a one-way clutch.

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