U.S. patent application number 10/375607 was filed with the patent office on 2003-09-25 for motor/pump assembly for use in a braking device.
Invention is credited to Hartmann, Markus, Steegmueller, Horst, Tupy, Matthias.
Application Number | 20030180163 10/375607 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 27675649 |
Filed Date | 2003-09-25 |
United States Patent
Application |
20030180163 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Hartmann, Markus ; et
al. |
September 25, 2003 |
Motor/pump assembly for use in a braking device
Abstract
A driven-side rotor shaft end of an electric motor is
drive-connected to a drive-side pump shaft end of a pump via a
coupling piece, in the manner of a cardan joint, in each case by
means of the positive axial plug receptacle. The invention provides
protection against torsional thrusts and axial vibrations, and a
play-free drive by virtue of a conical design of the plug
receptacle, at the same time with a mutual axial prestress of the
rotor shaft end and pump shaft end.
Inventors: |
Hartmann, Markus;
(Thungersheim, DE) ; Steegmueller, Horst;
(Wuerzberg, DE) ; Tupy, Matthias; (Gerbrunn,
DE) |
Correspondence
Address: |
BAKER BOTTS, LLP
910 LOUISIANA
HOUSTON
TX
77002-4995
US
|
Family ID: |
27675649 |
Appl. No.: |
10/375607 |
Filed: |
February 27, 2003 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
417/360 ;
417/423.6 |
Current CPC
Class: |
F16D 3/26 20130101; B60T
8/4031 20130101; H02K 7/003 20130101; F04B 53/22 20130101; H02K
7/14 20130101; F04C 15/0061 20130101; F16D 3/50 20130101; F04B
17/03 20130101; F04C 11/00 20130101; F16D 3/04 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
417/360 ;
417/423.6 |
International
Class: |
F04B 017/00 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
Code |
Application Number |
Feb 27, 2002 |
EP |
02004529.0 |
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A motor/pump assembly for protection against torsional thrusts
and axial vibrations, said assembly comprising: an electric motor
having a driven-side rotor shaft, said shaft having an end plugged
with take-up webs; a pump having a drive-side pump shaft, said
shaft having an end plugged with take-up webs; said rotor shaft
plugged end connected to said pump shaft plugged end via an axial
positive plug receptacle for receiving the plugged shaft ends, said
receptacle including take-up grooves having conical take-up contact
surfaces, wherein the connection provides a play-free rotational
take-up.
2. The motor/pump assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the
braking device is an antilock braking device.
3. A motor/pump assembly for use in a motor vehicle antilock
braking device, said assembly comprising: an electric motor having
a driven-side rotor shaft, said shaft having an end plugged with
take-up webs having conical contact surfaces; a pump having a
drive-side pump shaft, said shaft having an end plugged with
take-up webs having conical contact surfaces; and a coupling device
having take-up grooves for receiving said take-up webs for
connecting said plugged ends under mutual prestress.
4. The motor/pump assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein the
connection is play-free.
5. An assembly for use in an antilock braking device to protect
against torsional thrusts and axial vibrations, said assembly
comprising: an electric motor having a driven-side rotor shaft,
said shaft having a plugged end; a pump having a drive-side pump
shaft, said shaft having a plugged end; a coupling device
comprising a plug receptacle for receiving said plugged ends under
mutual prestress to provide for play-free rotational take-up.
6. The motor/pump assembly as claimed in claim 5, wherein said plug
receptacle comprises radially projecting axially running take-up
webs.
7. The motor/pump assembly as claimed in claim 5, wherein said ends
are plugged with radially projecting axially running take-up
webs.
8. The motor/pump assembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein the
take-up webs have a conical contact surface.
9. The motor/pump assembly of claim 7, wherein the take-up webs
have a conical contact surface.
10. A motor/pump assembly for use in a motor vehicle braking
device, an electric motor; an axially following pump driven by the
latter; a drive connection, in the manner of a cardan joint,
between the motor and the pump via a coupling piece, in each case
with a positive plug receptacle for a driven-side rotor shaft end
of the motor and for a drive-side pump shaft end of the pump, and
an axially conical design of the plug receptacle and with a mutual
axial prestress of the rotor shaft end and of the pump shaft end
with the effect of a play-free rotational take-up.
11. The motor/pump assembly as claimed in claim 10, the plug
receptacle having two radially projecting axially running take-up
webs on the rotor shaft end and on the pump shaft end, or on the
coupling piece, and two mating take-up grooves on the coupling
piece or on the shaft ends.
12. The motor/pump assembly as claimed in claim 11, wherein the
coupling piece comprises take-up webs and said webs include conical
take-up surfaces.
13. The motor/pump assembly as claimed in claim 11, wherein the
shaft ends comprise take-up webs, said webs having conical take-up
surfaces.
14. The motor/pump assembly as claimed in claim 10, wherein said
assembly is adapted for use in a hydraulic pump drive of an ABS
braking device for a motor vehicle.
Description
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application is a continuation of European application
number EP02004529.0 filed Feb. 27, 2002.
TECHNICAL FIELD
[0002] The invention relates to a motor/pump assembly, in
particular to a motor vehicle braking device with the following
features: A motor/pump assembly for use in a coupling device for
protection against torsional thrusts and axial vibrations, said
assembly comprising an electric motor having a driven-side rotor
shaft, said shaft having an end; a pump having a drive-side pump
shaft, said shaft having an end; and said rotor shaft end
drive-connected via a joint to said pump shaft end, said joint
including a coupling piece comprising an axially conical positive
plug receptacle for plugging at least one shaft end to provide a
play-free rotational take-up.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0003] Motor vehicle braking devices are known, e.g., see EP 0 645
875 B1. In a motor vehicle braking device, in particular for an ABS
braking device, the pump is normally designed as a hydraulic pump;
in this case, pump plungers are driven by the pump shaft via
eccentrics. The pump shaft may be designed as a prolonged one-piece
rotor shaft end of the electric motor or be coupled as an
independent pump component with a pump shaft end to a corresponding
rotor shaft end of the electric motor when the electric motor and
pump are being assembled. For the intercoupling of the driven-side
pump shaft end of the electric motor, on the one hand, to the
drive-side pump shaft end of the pump, on the other hand, a
coupling piece may be provided, which provides a drive connection
in the manner of a cardan joint to the rotor shaft end and to the
pump shaft end, in each case via a positive axial plug
receptacle.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0004] According to the object of the present invention, a drive
connection protected against undesirable torsional vibrations and
axial thrusts is avoided in the case of drive connections of this
type in the manner of a cardan joint, with an axially mutual
positive plug receptacle of the rotor shaft end and pump shaft end
via a coupling piece.
[0005] This object is achieved, according to the invention, by
means of a motor/pump assembly according to the following: an
assembly for use in an antilock braking device to protect against
torsional thrusts and axial vibrations, said assembly comprising an
electric motor having a driven-side rotor shaft, said shaft having
a plugged end; a pump having a drive-side pump shaft, said shaft
having a plugged end; and a coupling device comprising a plug
receptacle for receiving said plugged ends under mutual prestress
to provide for play-free rotational take-up.
[0006] Advantageous embodiments of the invention are the subject
matter of the description to follow.
[0007] Proceeding from the recognition that torsional vibrations
and axial thrusts leading to premature damage are based
particularly on torque fluctuations of the pump and on a radial or
axial tolerance play between those ends of the rotor shaft or pump
shafts which are in positive take-up in the coupling piece, the
conicity according to the invention, at the same time with slight
mutual prestress of the rotor shaft end with respect to the pump
shaft end, makes it possible by simple means to eliminate
production-related slack between the parts to be driven in the
coupling piece, and the freedom from play therefore ensured within
the coupling piece makes it possible to avoid the torque
fluctuations which occur as a result of movement and which
penetrate via the coupling piece into the motor and lead within the
latter, for example, to winding damage.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES
[0008] The invention and further advantageous embodiments of the
invention according to the features of the subclaims are explained
in more detail below, by means of diagrammatic exemplary
embodiments, in the drawing in which:
[0009] FIG. 1 shows a fully mounted motor/pump assembly in an axial
part-sectional diagram;
[0010] FIG. 2 shows, in an enlarged detail from FIG. 1, the mutual
rotational take-up connection, in the manner of a cardan joint, of
the rotor shaft end of the electric motor, on the one hand, and of
the pump shaft end of the pump, on the other hand, via a coupling
piece;
[0011] FIG. 3 shows, in a perspectively enlarged detail from FIG.
2, a plug receptacle in the manner of a cardan joint, with a
conical design of the flat take-up webs of the rotor shaft end and
of the pump shaft end and with a design of the matching take-up
grooves of the coupling piece; and
[0012] FIG. 4 shows, in a perspectively enlarged detail from FIG.
2, a plug receptacle in the manner of a cardan joint, with a
conical design of the take-up grooves of the coupling piece and
with a design of the flat take-up webs of the rotor shaft end and
of the pump shaft end.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0013] FIG. 1 shows a complete motor/pump assembly capable of being
used, for example, for a motor vehicle antilock braking device in
an axial part-sectional diagram. A pump 2 for a hydraulic brake
fluid is flanged to an electric motor 1 on one end face and axially
in alignment and the other end face of the pump 2 has mounted on it
an electronic housing 3 which receives a connection unit, in
particular an electric or electronic supply or control unit, not
illustrated separately here, but known, for example, from EP 0 695
875 B1, and which is connected via a junction connection 1.1 to the
control or supply connections of the electric motor 1.
[0014] The electric motor 1 has a pump-side rotor shaft end 4 which
can be coupled via a coupling piece 6 to a pump shaft end 5 of the
pump 2, for example when the electric motor 1 and the pump 2 are
being assembled axially.
[0015] As may be gathered from the enlarged detail according to
FIG. 2 and particularly according to FIGS. 3, 4, the rotational
take-up coupling between the rotor shaft end 4, on the one hand,
and the pump shaft end 5, on the other hand, takes place in the
manner of a cardan joint, in such a way that the rotor shaft end 4
can be plugged with projecting flat take-up webs, in particular
two-flat take-up webs' 4.1;4.2, into corresponding take-up grooves,
in particular two-flat take-up grooves 6.1;6.2, of the coupling
piece 6 and the pump shaft end 5 can be plugged with two-flat
take-up webs 5.1;5.2 into matching take-up grooves, in particular
two-flat take-up grooves 6.3;6.4, of the coupling piece 6, said
two-flat take-up grooves being offset relative to one another, for
example, at 90.degree. with respect to the first-mentioned take-up
grooves. Instead of the version illustrated in FIGS. 3, 4 in the
reverse deign principle flat take-up webs may also be provided on
the coupling piece and matching two-flat take-up grooves may be
provided on the rotor shaft end and on the pump shaft end.
[0016] The rotor shaft end 4, on the one hand, or the pump shaft
end 5 can be plugged under slight mutual prestress into the
positive plug receptacle of the coupling piece 6.
[0017] According to the invention, as shown in FIG. 3, the two-flat
take-up webs 4.1;4.2 and 5.1;5.2 have, on their take-up surfaces
4.11;4.21 and 5.11;5.21 taking effect during rotational take-up and
coming to bear on the coupling piece 6, a conical design such that,
due to the mutual slight prestress, they come reliably into
play-free bearing contact on the matching flat-running take-up
surfaces of the take-up grooves 6.1-6.4. The take-up surfaces are
expediently provided with a corresponding conical design with
respect to both directions of rotation.
[0018] FIG. 4 shows basically the same solution principle as that
according to FIG. 3, but, in this case, the conical design is
provided on the take-up surfaces 6.11-6.41, coming into take-up
bearing contact, of the two-flat take-up grooves 6.1-6.4 of the
coupling piece 6, and the take-up surfaces of the two-flat take-up
webs 4.1;4.2 and 5.1;5.2 of the rotor shaft end 4 and of the pump
shaft end 5 have a flat-running design without any separate
machining as regards conicity.
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