Spindle-rotor unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10125851-B2
Application number	US-201415038685-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 3, 2014
Priority date	Nov 27, 2013
Publication date	Nov 13, 2018
Grant date	Nov 13, 2018

Abstract

A spindle drive unit, in particular for an actuator having a planetary screw drive (PWG) for actuating a clutch of a motor vehicle by an actuating element is provided, where the drive unit has an e-motor with a rotor and a stator and where a spindle provided with a pitch is connected non-rotatingly to the rotor and is drivable by the rotor around an axis of rotation. The spindle is designed as a threaded rod and a rotor carrier that holds the rotor is screwed onto the threaded rod, and the rotor carrier is rotationally secured and axially fixed on the spindle by a lock nut.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A spindle drive unit comprising:
an e-motor with a rotor and a stator;
a spindle provided with a pitch and connected non-rotatingly to the rotor, the spindle drivable by the rotor around an axis of rotation, the spindle including a threaded rod; and
a rotor carrier holding the rotor and screwed onto the threaded rod, the rotor carrier being rotationally secured and axially fixed on the spindle via a lock nut.

2. The spindle drive unit as recited in claim 1 further comprising a piston axially movable by the e-motor via the spindle, wherein the lock nut is screwed onto a side of the spindle opposite the piston to connect the rotor carrier non-rotatingly.

3. The spindle drive unit as recited in claim 1 further comprising an intermediate plate positioned between the rotor carrier and the lock nut.

4. The spindle drive as recited in claim 3 further comprising, between the rotor carrier and lock nut, a spring accumulator operating in the axial direction, the spring accumulator being combined with the intermediate plate.

5. The spindle drive as recited in claim 3 wherein the intermediate plate is a spring accumulator.

6. The spindle drive unit as recited in claim 1 further comprising a signal generator indirectly or directly fixed to the lock nut.

7. The spindle drive unit as recited in claim 1 wherein the lock nut is designed as a self-clamping nut.

8. The spindle drive unit as recited in claim 1 wherein the stator is held on a frame-fixed stator carrier and the rotor carrier is supported rotatingly on the stator carrier via a bearing having an inner ring and an outer ring, the bearing being fastened on the stator carrier by a reshaped region of the stator carrier.

9. The spindle drive unit as recited in claim 8 wherein the rotor carrier has an axially extending first region provided with inner threading and screwed onto the spindle, the first region being adjoined on a side of the lock nut by a radially extending region, followed at a radial interval from the axially extending first region by an axially extending second region, so that between the first region and the second region an annular space is formed, the stator carrier carrying the stator engaging the annular space of the rotor carrier with the bearing.

10. A motor vehicle comprising a clutch and the spindle drive unit as recited in claim 1 , the spindle drive unit being for an actuator having a planetary screw drive for actuating the clutch.

11. The spindle drive unit as recited in claim 1 wherein the threaded rod includes a threaded outer surface, the rotor carrier being screwed onto the threaded outer surface.

12. The spindle drive unit as recited in claim 11 wherein the lock nut is screwed onto the threaded outer surface at a same end of spindle as the rotor carrier.

13. The spindle drive unit as recited in claim 12 wherein the threaded rod includes a first axial end received in the lock nut and a second axial end opposite of the first axial end, the spindle drive unit further comprising a gear engaging the threaded outer surface axially between the lock nut and the second axial end, the electric motor being configured for axially moving the gear on the threaded rod via the rotor carrier.

14. The spindle drive unit as recited in claim 6 wherein the signal generator is directly fixed to the lock nut.

15. The spindle drive unit as recited in claim 1 wherein the rotor carrier includes a radially inner axially extending first region contacting a threaded outer surface of the threaded rod, a radially outer axially extending second region and a radially extending region connecting the axially extending first region and the axially extending second region, the spindle drive unit further comprising a bearing radially between the axially extending first region and the axially extending second region.

16. The spindle drive unit as recited in claim 3 wherein the intermediate plate contacts the rotor carrier and the lock nut.

Assignees

• Schaeffler Technologies Ag

Inventors

• Schumann Lars
• Man Lazlo
• Greb Peter
• Dreher Alexander

Classifications

• F16D2023/123

  Clutch actuation by cams, ramps or ball-screw mechanisms · CPC title

• F16D23/12

  Mechanical clutch-actuating mechanisms arranged outside the clutch as such (specific for combined clutches F16D21/00; mechanisms specific for synchronisation F16D23/02) · CPC title

• H02K7/06

  Means for converting reciprocating motion into rotary motion or vice versa · CPC title

• F16H25/2472

  Safety nuts · CPC title

• F16H25/2252 Primary

  Planetary rollers between nut and screw · CPC title