Actuating drive for adjusting a large rolling bearing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11761482-B2
Application number	US-202017091967-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 6, 2020
Priority date	May 7, 2018
Publication date	Sep 19, 2023
Grant date	Sep 19, 2023

Abstract

An adjusting drive for adjusting the rotational position of a large rolling bearing that comprises two bearing rings that can be rotated relative to each other, having an actuator for rotating the two bearing rings relative to each other. According to the invention, the actuating drive has a ring channel cylinder, which is formed in or on one of the bearing rings of the large rolling bearing, and at least one piston, which is received in the ring channel cylinder in a movable manner and is drivingly connected to the other bearing ring of the two bearing rings.

First claim

We claim:

1. An actuating drive for adjusting a rotational position of a large roller bearing having at least two bearing rings configured to be rotated with respect to one another,
an annular groove cylinder in or at a first bearing ring of the at least two bearing rings, wherein the annular groove cylinder is interrupted at least once at a periphery and is provided at both sides of the interruption with a feed for hydraulic fluid, and
at least one piston displaceably received in the annular groove cylinder, wherein the at least one piston is drive-wise connected to a second bearing ring of the at least two bearing rings via a driving disk running around at least in a sealing gap of the annular groove cylinder,
wherein a connection of the driving disk to the second bearing ring is free of play-in a peripheral direction or is subject to play in axial and radial directions.

2. The actuating drive of claim 1 , wherein the connection comprises a pin connection with pins axially and/or radially displaceably guided at the second bearing ring and/or at the driving disk.

3. The actuating drive of claim 1 , wherein the annular groove cylinder is located at a front face of an axial front face of one of the at least two bearing rings.

4. The actuating drive of claim 3 , wherein an annular groove cylinder body surrounding the annular groove cylinder comprises annular groove cylinder body parts, and wherein the annular groove cylinder has a dividing plane parallel with a trajectory of the at least one piston and that passes centrally through the annular groove cylinder viewed in cross-section.

5. The actuating drive of claim 4 , wherein a first annular groove cylinder body part of the annular groove cylinder body parts is integrated with the first bearing ring or is fastened to the first bearing ring as a separate ring.

6. The actuating drive of claim 5 , wherein an annular groove cover comprises a second annular groove cylinder body part of the annular groove cylinder body parts, and wherein the annular groove cover is releasably connected to the first bearing ring and/or to the first annular groove cylinder part.

7. The actuating drive of claim 4 , wherein the annular groove cylinder body parts are sealed on a first side of the annular groove cylinder by a static seal and are sealed on a second side of the annular groove cylinder by a sliding seal against a driving disk that is connected to the at least one piston.

8. The actuating drive of claim 7 , wherein the static seal acts axial and/or wherein the sliding seal acts axially.

9. The actuating drive of claim 1 , wherein the annular groove cylinder is defined by an annular groove cylinder body that is attached to the first bearing ring such that in a service case the annular groove cylinder body is at least partly dismantlable without releasing the at least two bearing rings from one another and/or releasing the large roller bearing from an installation environment.

10. The actuating drive of claim 1 , wherein the at least two bearing rings are supported against one another by at least two axial roller bearings, and wherein the at least two axial roller bearings, viewed in cross section, are on the same side of the annular groove cylinder.

11. The actuating drive of claim 10 , wherein the annular groove cylinder and the at least two axial roller bearings define mutually overlapping diameter regions.

12. The actuating drive of claim 1 , wherein the at least two bearing rings are supported against one another by a radial roller bearing.

13. The actuating drive of claim 12 , wherein the radial roller bearing is between two axial roller bearings.

14. The actuating drive of claim 12 , wherein the radial roller bearing is in a diameter region that is 75% to 125% of a diameter region of the annular groove cylinder.

15. The actuating drive of claim 1 , wherein seals for sealing a bearing gap between the at least two bearing rings in which roller bearing rows are seated are provided between the at least two bearing rings, and wherein the annular groove cylinder is outside the bearing gap such that the annular groove cylinder is accessible and dismantlable without dismantling the seals.

16. A wind turbine comprising a rotor having a plurality of rotor blades, wherein the rotor blades are each fastened to a rotor hub of the rotor by the actuating drive of claim 1 , and wherein the rotor blades have adjustable pitch angles.

Assignees

• Liebherr Components Biberach Gmbh

Inventors

• Dahl Martin
• Kreiner Stephan
• Schuster Markus
• Schulze Thomas
• Graner Klaus
• Palmer Andreas

Classifications

• Y02E10/72

  Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction · CPC title

• F16C19/381 Primary

  with at least one row for radial load in combination with at least one row for axial load · CPC title

• F03D1/0658

  Arrangements for fixing wind-engaging parts to a hub · CPC title

• F03D7/0224

  Adjusting blade pitch · CPC title

• F03D80/70

  Bearing or lubricating arrangements · CPC title