Machine element or mechanism – Mechanical movements – Rotary to or from reciprocating or oscillating
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-12
2001-01-23
Wright, Dirk (Department: 3681)
Machine element or mechanism
Mechanical movements
Rotary to or from reciprocating or oscillating
Reexamination Certificate
active
06176144
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to a pressure medium operated actuator with a position regulator for regulated action on the opening and closing of, for example, a process valve, and with a transmission device for transmitting the movement of a driving member to the position regulator and more particularly to such an actuator which has reduced actuating inaccuracies.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
Pressure medium operated actuators of the type described above are used, for example, for actuating process valves. In this case, high actuating accuracy is required, making it necessary to use a position regulator which compensates system-induced actuating inaccuracies.
Actuating inaccuracies may develop from an essentially calibrated initial state, for example when wear occurs due to friction. This is to be detected by the position regulator and a corresponding actuating correction is to be carried out thereby. Yet even the pickup between the actuating member and regulator is subject to wear. The mechanical transmission of movement between driving member and position regulator has to in the long term, be reliable and consequently free of play.
This problem of the coupling of movement between driving member and position regulator so as to be free of play even in the long term is illustrated, inter alia, in DE 42 39 432 C2.
In this context, the transmission of movement, in most cases, is from a linear movement of the actuator into a rotational movement of the return lever of the position regulator.
Most valve and regulator manufacturers satisfy this requirement by equipping a lever on the regulator shaft with a rigid bolt which penetrates into a long hole of a drive-side sheet-metal angle piece. In order to eliminate the play between the bolt and long hole during the upward and downward movement of the driving or push-rod, the bolt is braced on one side in the long hole of the sheet-metal angle piece by means of a wire spring.
Due to the linear movement of the push-rod and the rotational movement of the return lever, relative movement occurs between the sheet-metal angle piece and the bolt. Since said parts interact frictionally with one another, this also results in corresponding wear. A play is produced which can no longer be compensated by the wire spring after a corresponding operating period. This results, in turn, in time-dependent hysteresis which thus leads to considerable inaccuracies.
In order to eliminate this problem, there are, as is also shown in the above mentioned prior art, known principles in which, instead of a metallic connection between bolt and sheet-metal angle piece, an axially resiliently mounted plastic cone presses on the regulator lever on the push-rod side between two round rods.
A disadvantage of this solution is that, due to regulator mounting tolerances, the axial prestress of the cone differs greatly, and therefore loads of varying intensity act on the regulator lever, particularly in the case of long levers, thus having repercussions on the mounting of the regulator shaft.
Proceeding from this, the present invention uses a material pairing which is advantageous per se and, at the same time, to achieve movement transmission which is free of play even in the long term.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In a pressure medium operated actuator of the with a position regulator for regulated action on the opening and closing of actuable device and with a transmission device for transmitting the movement of a driving member to the position regulator, the position regulator is provided in accordance with the present invention with a resetting lever having a polygonal rotary slide which is prestressed in the manner of a torsion spring and which, by being tilted slightly by a torsion-spring effect, engages between two parallel round-rod portions of a driver connected to the push-rod.
It is essential, in the polygonal rotary slide described above, that the play between the round-rod portions of the driver and the jaw span of the polygonal rotary slide be eliminated by the tilting of the latter. That is to say, the dimensioning of the polygonal rotary slide in relation to the spacing of the two round-rod portions is selected in such a way that the spring prestress keeps the rotary slide in a more or less tilted position. The play occurring due to wear is consequently eliminated by a virtually self adjusting tilting.
At the same time, the arrangement is selected in such a way that the forces acting on the resetting lever have no axial component acting as a bending moment on the resetting lever and/or on the regulator shaft-bearing.
The advantage is that reliable and consistently play-free coupling between position regulator and driving rod is maintained. The sensing of the actuating travel and, consequently, regulation as such thereby remains virtually free of hysteresis. Moreover, the parts are very simple to assemble and the material combination between plastic and steel or high-grade steel ensures minimal wear.
REFERENCES:
patent: 944121 (1909-12-01), Allan
Hartmann & Braun GmbH & Co. KG
Rickin Michael M.
Wright Dirk
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