192 clutches and power-stop control – Clutches – Axially engaging
Patent
1999-03-22
2000-10-24
Marmor, Charles A
192 clutches and power-stop control
Clutches
Axially engaging
19211334, F16D 1372
Patent
active
061352578
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an oil-cooled disc clutch.
In disc clutches, the discs are supplied with oil for cooling and to a certain degree lubricating purposes. Practical tests have shown that the wear of the discs is very irregularly distributed, which seems to indicate that the oil is unable to penetrate the interspaces between all the discs resulting in that some of the discs are subjected to overheating and strong wear.
The object of the invention is to eliminate this inconvenience and to achieve a disc clutch having a longer live due to improved cooling.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The solution of the problem is that the central hub supporting the first group of discs, and which hub in known clutches strongly contributes to a bad distribution of the oil to the discs, is designed like a drum with apertures that distribute the supply of oil to the separate discs. According to the invention, when the clutch is disconnected, oil will flow into all the interspaces between the discs and cool their surfaces. Even when the clutch is connected oil will flow in all interspaces if the discs are provided with the usual radial grooves in the surfaces of the discs.
According to a preferred embodiment the hub is attached to a driving shaft of the clutch resulting in that the oil, also when the clutch is disconnected, is forced out through the apertures in the hub by the action of centrifugal force.
The supply of oil to the hub, designed like a drum, is accomplished by a slit between the driving shaft and a piston coaxial to the shaft, which piston is arranged to operate the clutch, and which slit is axially extended by a collar on the piston, which collar extends to the hub. As a result, an oil channel is ot arranged in the driving shaft, which would otherwise lead to undesired complications.
The invention is described more clearly in the following description with reference to the accompanying drawing schematically showing by way of example a longitudinal section of an embodiment of a clutch according to the invention integrated with a supercharger of an internal combustion engine.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
The drawing discloses a screw compressor 1 with a rotor housing 2. At one end of the housing an end wall 3 is firmly attached. A male rotor 5 and a female rotor 6 are rotatably journalled in the end wall 3 and the opposite end wall 4.
The compressor is driven by an input shaft 7 that is secured to a synchronizing gear 8. A synchronizing gear 10 of the male rotor is secured to a shaft 11 of the male rotor.
An end wall part 12 is secured to the end wall 3 and forms a cover in which a clutch means 13 is journalled by two bearings 14 and 15.
The clutch means 13 comprises two main parts: one part 16 that is secured to the synchronizing gear 8, and one part 18 that extends out from the end wall part 12 and is secured to a belt pulley 19.
The clutch part 16 is in the usual way provided with a part 16a shaped like a sleeve with splines for receiving ring-shaped discs 20 which extend between corresponding discs 21 of the clutch part 18. A number of pressure springs 22 strive to keep the clutch parts and, accordingly, the discs 20,21 apart.
A cylinder chamber 23 is arranged in the end wall part 12, in which chamber an annular piston 24 is journalled to be axially movable. A pressure fluid channel 25 extends through the end wall part 12 to the cylinder chamber 23. A thrust bearing 27 is arranged between the annular piston 24 and a pressure plate 26 adjacent to an outer disc 20.
At supply of pressure fluid of the necessary pressure to the cylinder chamber 23, the annular piston 24 is moved towards the thrust bearing 27, which in turn is moved a small distance pushing the pressure plate 26 against the discs 20,21, which in the manner known per se are pressed together forming a non-rotatable connection between clutch part 18 and clutch part 16. The clutch part 16 is provided with knobs which in a manner known per se extend axially outwards with intermediate interspaces. Axial borings are made
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Lysholm Technologies AB
Marmor Charles A
Rodriguez Saul
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