Pump for metering a liquid additive for a selective catalytic reduction device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10054116-B2
Application number	US-201414772698-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 4, 2014
Priority date	Mar 5, 2013
Publication date	Aug 21, 2018
Grant date	Aug 21, 2018

Abstract

A pump for conveying a liquid, having a pump housing that has at least one inlet and at least one outlet, an eccentric element being rotatably arranged in said pump housing and surrounded by a deformable membrane, the deformable membrane and pump housing delimiting at least one conveyor path from the at least one inlet to the at least one outlet and forming at least one seal for the conveyor path, and the seal being able to be displaced along the conveyor path by a movement of the eccentric element. Between the eccentric element and the deformable membrane, a spring layer is arranged by the eccentric element and deformable membrane are tensioned relative to one another.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A pump for delivering a liquid, comprising:
a pump housing having at least one inlet and at least one outlet;
an eccentric arranged rotatably in the pump housing;
a deformable diaphragm that surrounds the eccentric
at least one delivery path from the at least one inlet to the at least one outlet delimited by the deformable diaphragm and the pump housing;
at least one seal that is displaceable along the at least one delivery path by way of a movement of the eccentric; and
a circumferential spring layer arranged between the eccentric and the deformable diaphragm, the circumferential spring layer completely surrounding the eccentric and biases the deformable diaphragm away from the eccentric and having substantially a same axial width as the at least one delivery path.

2. The pump as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a seal arranged between the outlet and the inlet and configured to prevent a flow of the liquid from the outlet to the inlet counter to a delivery direction.

3. The pump as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the deformable diaphragm has a first spring constant in a radial direction proceeding from an axis of rotation of the eccentric, and the spring layer has one or more second spring constants in the radial direction, wherein the second spring constants are each lower than the first spring constant.

4. The pump as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the deformable diaphragm comprises a polymer material that swells due to the liquid such that at least one of a thickness and a spring constant of the deformable diaphragm in the radial direction changes.

5. The pump as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
a sealing ply arranged between the deformable diaphragm and the spring layer that prevents an ingress of the liquid from the deformable diaphragm into the spring layer.

6. The pump as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the spring layer comprises a plurality of spring elements arranged between the deformable diaphragm and the eccentric.

7. The pump as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the spring layer comprises an elastic material arranged between the deformable diaphragm and the eccentric.

8. The pump as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the eccentric has an outer bearing ring and an inner eccentric section, and
wherein, at least one bearing is arranged between the inner eccentric section and the outer bearing ring and configured to convert a rotational movement of the inner eccentric section into an eccentric wobbling movement of the outer bearing ring.

9. The pump as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the spring layer is braced between the eccentric and the deformable diaphragm and configured to compresses in the radial direction between the eccentric and the deformable diaphragm.

10. A motor vehicle comprising:
an internal combustion engine;
an exhaust-gas treatment device configured to purify exhaust gases of the internal combustion engine;
a tank in which a liquid for exhaust-gas purification is stored; and
a pump for delivering the liquid to the exhaust-gas treatment device, comprising:
a pump housing having at least one inlet and at least one outlet;
an eccentric arranged rotatably in the pump housing;
a deformable diaphragm that surrounds the eccentric
at least one delivery path from the at least one inlet to the at least one outlet delimited by the deformable diaphragm and the pump housing;
at least one seal that is displaceable along the at least one delivery path by way of a movement of the eccentric; and
a circumferential spring layer arranged between the eccentric and the deformable diaphragm, the circumferential spring layer completely surrounding the eccentric and biases the deformable diaphragm away from the eccentric and having substantially a same axial width as the at least one delivery path.

11. The motor vehicle as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the spring layer is braced between the eccentric and the deformable diaphragm and configured to compresses in the radial direction between the eccentric and the deformable diaphragm.

Assignees

• Continental Automotive Gmbh

Inventors

• Brück Rolf
• Hodgson Jan

Classifications

• F04C5/00

  Rotary-piston machines or pumps with the working-chamber walls at least partly resiliently deformable (such pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids F04C18/00) · CPC title

• F04B43/123 Primary

  using an excenter as the squeezing element · CPC title

• F04C2/30

  having the characteristics covered by two or more groups F04C2/02, F04C2/08, F04C2/22, F04C2/24 or having the characteristics covered by one of these groups together with some other type of movement between co-operating members · CPC title

• Y02T10/24

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F01C21/08

  Rotary pistons (reciprocating pistons in general F16J) · CPC title