High-precision tensioning device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10730159-B2
Application number	US-201715609504-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 31, 2017
Priority date	Jun 15, 2016
Publication date	Aug 4, 2020
Grant date	Aug 4, 2020

Abstract

A high-precision tensioning device is provided. The high-precision tensioning device is composed of a stepping motor, an encoder, a harmonic reducer, a rotary table, connecting rods, contacts, force sensors, a rotary table connecting piece, a gasket, a nut, bolts, a set screw, a shell and an end cover. The tensioning device provided by the disclosure can achieve closed-loop control on a tensioning force in order to improve the tensioning precision of the tensioning device; and as long as machining and assembling errors meet design requirements, stable synchronous tensioning of three contacts can be ensured, and the location precision of a hub is improved.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A high-precision tensioning device, comprising a stepping motor, an encoder, a harmonic reducer, a rotary table, connecting rods, contacts, force sensors, a rotary table connecting piece, a gasket, a nut, bolts, a set screw, a shell and an end cover, wherein a back end of the stepping motor is connected with the encoder, and an output end of the stepping motor is connected with the harmonic reducer; the harmonic reducer is fixed on an internal structure of the shell by the bolts, and an output shaft of the harmonic reducer is connected with the rotary table connecting piece through the set screw; the rotary table is connected with the rotary table connecting piece through threads, and is fastened with the nut through the gasket; three protruded eccentric shafts are uniformly distributed at an outer edge of the rotary table and are connected with first ends of the connecting rods, and second ends of the connecting rods are connected with small protruded shafts of the contacts; the contacts are mounted in circular holes of the shell and are set to only axially move along the circular holes of the shell, so that the rotary table, the connecting rods, the contacts and the circular holes of the shell form a slider-crank mechanism, wherein an overall size of each of the contacts is smaller than a size of each of the circular holes of the shell; when the stepping motor drives the harmonic reducer to rotate, the connecting rods drive the contacts to do linear motion, and the contacts are set to utilize the linear motion to complete operations of tensioning and loosening an inner hole of a hub; and each force sensor of the force sensors is mounted in a corresponding contact of the contacts, measures a size of a tensioning force between the corresponding contact and the inner hole of the hub in real time and transmits the size of the tensioning force to a controller of the stepping motor in real time, and once the size of the tensioning force is beyond a range allowed by the hub, the controller controls rotation of the stepping motor to adjust the size of the tensioning force,
wherein each of the contacts comes into contact with the inner hole of the hub when tensioning the inner hole of the hub, and each of the contacts is separated from the inner hole of the hub when loosening the inner hole of the hub.

2. The high-precision tensioning device according to claim 1 , wherein a number of the contacts is three and the three contacts are driven by the rotary table.

3. The high-precision tensioning device according to claim 1 , wherein a step angle of the stepping motor is smaller than or equal to 0.9 degrees.

4. The high-precision tensioning device according to claim 3 , wherein the step angle of the stepping motor is subdivided by the encoder and the harmonic reducer.

Assignees

• Citic Dicastal Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhou Ruixiao
• Yu Zhiyuan
• Liu Minghua
• Liu Huiying
• Liu Weidong
• Luo Fengbao
• Li Dengyao

Classifications

• B23Q2703/06

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• B23B2260/076

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• Y02P70/10

  Greenhouse gas [GHG] capture, material saving, heat recovery or other energy efficient measures, e.g. motor control, characterised by manufacturing processes, e.g. for rolling metal or metal working · CPC title

• B23B31/16

  moving radially · CPC title

• B23Q3/14

  Mandrels in general (expansion mandrels B23B31/40) · CPC title