Exhaust gas flap

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10458343-B2
Application number	US-201715797397-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2017
Priority date	Oct 31, 2016
Publication date	Oct 29, 2019
Grant date	Oct 29, 2019

Abstract

An exhaust gas flap, especially for the exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine, includes a flap tube (22) and a flap diaphragm (24) carried in an interior of the flap tube on a pivot shaft (16) rotatable about a pivot axis. A flap wing (28, 30) is mounted on the pivot shaft (16) and a wing stop (32, 34) is associated with the flap wing (28, 30) on an inner circumferential area of the flap tube. The flap wing (28, 30) has a mounting area (56, 58) with uncurved mounting surfaces (60, 64). Opposing mounting surfaces (62, 66) or/and a mounting recess (52, 54) at the pivot shaft (16) provide an opposing mounting area that at least partially receives the flap wing mounting area (56, 58) of the flap wing (28, 30), the opposing mounting area being provided on the outer circumferential area of the pivot shaft (16).

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An exhaust gas flap, for an exhaust gas stream of an internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas flap comprising:
a flap tube;
a pivot shaft rotatable about a pivot axis;
a flap diaphragm comprising at least one flap wing mounted on the pivot shaft;
a wing stop associated with the at least one flap wing on an inner circumferential area of the flap tube, wherein:
the at least one flap wing has a mounting area having an essentially uncurved wing mounting surface; and
the pivot shaft, in association with the at least one flap wing, has an opposite mounting area with an essentially uncurved opposite mounting surface, the uncurved opposite mounting surface being located opposite the essentially uncurved wing mounting surface;
the wing stop associated with the at least one flap wing has a stop surface oriented essentially in the direction of a flap tube longitudinal axis, and when the flap diaphragm is positioned in a closed position, the at least one flap wing is in contact with the stop surface of the wing stop and the opposite mounting surface located opposite the mounting surface of the at least one flap wing is set back in the direction of the flap tube longitudinal axis in relation to the stop surface.

2. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 1 , further comprising another flap wing, wherein the flap wings are mounted on the pivot shaft and the pivot shaft includes another mounting recess, whereby one of the mounting recesses is provided in association with each flap wing.

3. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 2 , wherein the mounting recesses associated with the two flap wings are configured as essentially having radial symmetry in relation to a pivot axis of the pivot shaft.

4. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 2 , wherein the flap wings are mounted on the pivot shaft, and an opposite mounting surface of the pivot shaft is provided in association with each flap wing.

5. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 4 , wherein the opposite mounting surfaces associated with the two flap wings are arranged essentially parallel to one another.

6. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 2 , wherein a distance of the opposite mounting surfaces associated with the two flap wings to one another is smaller than a distance of the stop surfaces associated with the two flap wings to one another in the direction of the flap tube longitudinal axis.

7. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 1 , wherein when the flap diaphragm is positioned in the closed position, the opposite mounting surface located opposite the mounting surface of the at least one flap wing is arranged essentially parallel to the stop surface.

8. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the mounting recess provided in association with the at least one flap wing provides the opposite mounting surface located opposite the wing mounting surface, or/and that at least one mounting recess is provided only in a length area of the pivot shaft extending in the interior of the flap tube.

9. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 8 , wherein the mounting recess associated with the at least one flap wing provides a mounting stop surface, which mounting stop surface is essentially at right angles to the opposite mounting surface provided by the mounting recess.

10. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 1 , wherein in association with at least one flap wing, a mounting stop, predetermining a positioning of the at least one flap wing in relation to the pivot shaft, is provided on the pivot shaft essentially at right angles to the pivot axis.

11. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 10 , wherein the mounting recess associated with the at least one flap wing provides a mounting stop surface, which mounting stop surface is essentially at right angles to the opposite mounting surface provided by the mounting recess.

12. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the pivot shaft is carried rotatably about the pivot axis in two pivot shaft axial end areas at the flap tube, and a stop surface of the at least one wing stop extends in the circumferential direction from a first circumferential end area, positioned in the area of a first pivot shaft axial end area without interruption, to a second circumferential end area, positioned in the area of a second axial end area of the pivot shaft.

13. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the pivot shaft has two pivot shaft axial end areas and one of the two pivot shaft axial end areas is coupled with a flap drive driving the pivot shaft for the rotation about the pivot axis.

14. An exhaust gas flap in accordance with claim 1 , wherein the pivot shaft, in association with the at least one flap wing, has a mounting recess provided on an outer circumferential area of the pivot shaft and providing an opposite mounting area and at least partially receiving the wing mounting area.

15. An exhaust gas flap comprising:
a flap tube with an inner circumferential area and a flap tube longitudinal axis;
a flap diaphragm comprising a flap wing movably mounted in said flap tube, said flap wing having a wing mounting area with a flat wing mounting surface;
a pivot shaft rotatably mounted in said flap tube about a pivot axis, said pivot shaft having a mounting recess on an outer circumferential area of said pivot shaft, said mounting recess providing an opposite mounting area and at least partially receiving said wing mounting area, said opposite mounting area having a flat opposite mounting surface, said flap wing mounting surface being mounted on said opposite mounting surface of said pivot shaft, said pivot shaft with said flap diaphragm being movably mounted in said flap tube between an open position and a closed position;
a wing stop mounted on said inner circumferential area of said flap tube, said wing stop having a stop surface oriented in a direction of said flap tube longitudinal axis, said wing stop and said flap wing being configured in said closed position with said flap wing in contact with said stop surface of said wing stop, said opposite mounting surface being spaced from said stop surface in said direction of the flap tube longitudinal axis.

Assignees

• Eberspaecher Exhaust Tech Gmbh

Inventors

• Stark Annika
• Schmitt Steffen
• Varelis Stefanos
• Müller Bernd
• Pallmann Jan

Classifications

• F01N1/18

  having rotary movement · CPC title

• F02D9/1065

  Mechanical control linkage between an actuator and the flap, e.g. including levers, gears, springs, clutches, limit stops of the like · CPC title

• F16K1/22

  with axis of rotation crossing the valve member, e.g. butterfly valves · CPC title

• F01N2240/36

  an exhaust flap · CPC title

• F02D9/1005

  Details of the flap · CPC title