Power plants – Pressure fluid source and motor – Pulsator
Patent
1997-05-28
1999-04-06
Ryznic, John E.
Power plants
Pressure fluid source and motor
Pulsator
B60T 1116, B60R 2100
Patent
active
058903585
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a master cylinder comprising a cylindrical body pointing along a main axis and having a free end, an attached end, and a piston rod projecting axially from the attached end.
In practice, all the master cylinders used in hydraulic braking systems for motor vehicles ever since the latter were invented correspond to this definition.
However, a tightening of safety standards has revealed a need to develop master cylinders in such a way that a frontal impact applied to the vehicle cannot be readily transmitted to the driver's leg by the master cylinder, even if the impact occurs while the driver is putting all of his weight on the brake pedal.
In order to achieve this, it is known practice, at least in some recent embodiments, for the master cylinder locally to be given a shape by virtue of which it can retract laterally when it receives an axial impact from a part of the engine which has been displaced by a frontal impact of the vehicle.
Such a solution does, however, have two major drawbacks.
On the one hand, insofar as the internal layout of the engine bay of a vehicle is practically specific to each vehicle, and as the most dangerous angle of impact on the master cylinder therefore varies from one vehicle to another, the known solution requires a master cylinder to be designed for each vehicle, and this leads to absolutely prohibitive development and manufacturing lead times and costs.
On the other hand, insofar as a master cylinder has to be manufactured from a metal which has physical properties which suit the conditions of manufacture, leaktightness and reliability with which a master cylinder has to comply, any excess of this metal with a view to fulfilling an impact-deflector function leads both to a substantial on-cost and to a risk of degrading the inherent performance of the master cylinder.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention falls within this context, and its object is to propose a master cylinder which is free of such drawbacks.
To this end, the master cylinder of the present invention is essentially characterized in that it includes an attached impact deflector covering the free end of the body, mounted removably on the body and having at least one deflecting surface which is inclined obliquely to the main axis.
In one possible embodiment of the invention, the impact deflector has a front part, a rear part, and a lower rib, the front part covering the free end of the cylindrical body, the rear part being fitted with two opposed lugs which form a clamp gripping the attached end of the cylindrical body removably between them, and the lower rib linking the front and rear parts and having a height which increases progressively from the front part towards the rear part
Furthermore, the lower rib preferably has at least one variation in slope, and may advantageously be delimited by an edge, at least one portion of which is not coplanar with the main axis of the master cylinder.
The front part of the impact deflector may itself be domed in order, at least in part, to constitute the deflecting surface, and it may be screwed to the body of the master cylinder to allow better transmission thereto of the forces of deformation which act in the event of an impact.
Further features and advantages of the invention will emerge clearly from the description thereof given hereafter by way of non-limiting example with reference to the attached figures, among which:
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a face-on view of a master cylinder in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 2 is an end-on view of such a master cylinder, observed from its front part end;
FIG. 3 is a face-on view of an impact deflector which can be used for a master cylinder in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 4 is a view from above of the impact deflector of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the impact deflector of FIG. 3, observed from its rear part end; and
FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the impact deflector of FIG. 3, observed from its front part end.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4823553 (1989-04-01), Reynolds
Valenzuela Alfonzo
Verbo Ulysse
Bosch Systems de Freinage
Comstock Warren
McCormick Jr. Leo H.
Ryznic John E.
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