Hysteresis brake

Details Hysteresis brake Hysteresis brake

1999-07-29

2001-05-15

Ramirez, Nestor (Department: 2834)

Electrical generator or motor structure

Dynamoelectric

Rotary

C310S076000, C310S078000, C310S092000, C310S093000, C188S267000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06232686

ABSTRACT:

The invention relates to a permanent-magnet excited hysteresis brake having one roller, one hysteresis ring and one magnetic ring provided with magnetic poles.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The working mode of hysteresis clutches or hysteresis brakes generally depends on poles that provides a magnetic effect in synchronous running or reverse magnetism of a permanent magnetic materials in a slip operation, wherein the slip capacity is converted to heat. In particular, hysteresis brakes are suited for use as retarders in the processing of material in a production plane, e.g. cables, yarn manufacture, coil winding, etc. The system defines the speed at which the material is removed from the cycle, the retarder defining the traction. For this purpose, the material is adequately led out of the supply via a roller, e.g. by the material winding around the latter, wherein the roller transmits to the material the braking action of the hysteresis brake.
The reverse magnetization in the hysteresis ring made of semihard magnetic permanent magnetic material (sic) can be implemented by different arrangements of exciter magnets. German Patent 28 21 973 thus describes a magnetic torque clutch essentially consisting of the combination of a permanent-magnet excited eddy current clutch. Said known clutch or brake has a driving clutch body on the front side of which a flat hysteresis ring is situated. Opposite to said hysteresis ring, at adequate distance, several permanent magnets are provided in annular arrangement, the south-north alignment changing in the curve of the ring. The permanent magnets are situated on the front surface of a magnetizable disc. In this known arrangement, there is no possible adjustability of the torque.
DE-OS 37 32 766 has disclosed a permanent-magnet excited hysteresis clutch or brake with a hysteresis part designed as a bell-shaped rotor and having an exciter part consisting of an inner and an outer pole ring, wherein the magnetic poles are disposed without contact at both sides of the bell-shaped rotor; the pole rings consist of a soft magnetic material in which are located permanent magnetic pieces which are fully embedded in the soft magnetic material so that the magnetic poles facing the bell-shaped rotor are alternately formed of a permanent magnet and a soft magnet; the outer pole ring and the inner pole ring are rigidly interconnected but magnetically separated by a non-magnetizable intermediate ring.
With such a hysteresis brake, a simple design is not only achieved but also an adjustability of the torque to be transmitted due to the axial depth of immersion of the hysteresis ring body is changeable. In this known hysteresis brake, this results from an arrangement of the hysteresis ring body on a threaded spindle and fixing the position of the ring on the spindle, e.g. by a fixed nut. The torque is thus continuously changed, but in this known hysteresis brake, it is a disadvantage also that the two annular air gaps are required due to the magnet poles situated on both sides of the bell-shaped rotor and that costly processing in the form of a groove milling for embedding the permanent magnet pieces in the pole rings is required. Finally, in this known solution, it is disadvantageous that the braking torque is transmitted by the regulating device and, therefore, the fixed nut is required which at each adjusting operation has to be time-consumingly first loosened and then retightened.
The problem to be solved by this invention is to provide a simplified hysteresis brake with contactless torque transmission of a speed-independent torque which is quickly is manually adjustable as to its braking torque in very small steps which makes possible an exact reproducibility of the adjustment and ensures the uniformity of the adjustment even in case of a large number of specimens.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the invention, the hysteresis brake is suited, in particular, to use in textile processes, such as the processing of twine, wherein the braking torque is manually adjustable in a range between, e.g. 10% and 100%, in very small steps such as 5% steps.
Unlike in the known hysteresis brake, by providing the magnetic pole on only one surface (shell) of the magnetic ring, preferably situated inside the hysteresis ring, the advantage is achieved that only one annular air gap is needed. Since the magnetic poles are alternately embossed on the circumference of a closed ring of permanent magnetic material, only one simple part is required whereby the productions costs are reduced.
The non-rotatable connection of the roller with the hysteresis ring provides a simple, practical total design.
The segmented, radial, throughly magnetized development of the magnetic ring and the joining with an inner ring made of ferro-magnetic material affords the advantage of an extensive utilization of the relatively important magnetic material. The development according to the invention of the regulating device allows a displacement of the hysteresis ring without the braking torque acting upon the adjusting ring. The magnetic ring—even when the adjusting ring is regulated—is non-rotatably connected with a machine-fixed adapter plate. Contrary to the known solutions, there is no need of a locking device which has to be loosened for each adjustment operation.
The detent device provided, according to the invention, makes an exact reproducibility of the adjusting values possible while the provided adapter plate for adaptation to a machine ensures the easiest handling of the regulating device. A design of the detent device with flexible tabs, having spherical lug pieces and uniformly distributed longitudinal grooves, can be economically produced as plastic spray part.
Two interacting locking cams act upon the adapter plate or in the adjusting ring so that the regulating device can turn only within a specific rotation angle range and, accordingly, incorrect adjustments are prevented.
The axial arrangement of the roller by means of a central axial spring, which defines the position of the roller relative to a central bolt, makes possible a basic axial adjustment of the hysteresis brake with the aid of said bolt, and thus a fine gauging of any number of specimens so that the specimen dispersion is reduced to a minimum.


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