Modular screw and method of manufacturing a modular screw

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12006961-B2
Application number	US-202217590399-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 1, 2022
Priority date	Feb 12, 2021
Publication date	Jun 11, 2024
Grant date	Jun 11, 2024

Abstract

A modular screw is provided, wherein the screw includes, in an axial direction, the following elements: a screw head, a shank having a second functional portion, a third functional portion for distributing a prestressing force, wherein a washer is arranged in the second functional portion and is mounted so as to be rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the screw, and a fourth functional portion having an external thread, and wherein the washer is secured in an approximately positionally fixed manner in the axial direction by bearing against the second and the fourth functional portion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A modular screw, wherein the screw has, in an axial direction, the following elements:
a screw head,
a shank having
a first functional portion,
a second functional portion,
a third functional portion, for distributing a prestressing force, wherein a washer is arranged in the third functional portion and is mounted so as to be rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the screw, and
a fourth functional portion having an external thread, and
wherein the washer is secured in an approximately positionally fixed manner in the axial direction by bearing against the second functional portion and the fourth functional portion;
wherein the first functional portion is between the screw head and the second functional portion, wherein a clamping disk is arranged in the first functional portion to form a prestressing portion.

2. The modular screw as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the clamping disk takes the form of a disk spring and is connected and secured to the shank in a positionally fixed manner.

3. The modular screw as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein
the second functional portion is a compression-limiting portion whose diameter is larger than a diameter of the external thread.

4. The modular screw as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein
the washer has a larger diameter than the second functional portion.

5. The modular screw as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the modular screw is installed in a through-opening of a component,
wherein a length of the second functional portion and of the third functional portion in the axial direction is less than a height of the through-opening of the component in the axial direction.

6. The modular screw as claimed in claim 1 ,
produced by
pressing the screw head and the shank in a pressing machine, applying the washer and/or clamping disk to the shank, in a rolling machine, and
rolling the external thread in the rolling machine.

7. A modular screw, wherein the screw has, in an axial direction, the following elements:
a screw head,
a shank having
a first functional portion, for applying a prestressing force, wherein a clamping disk is arranged in the first functional portion adjacent to the screw head, wherein the clamping disk takes the form of a disk spring and is connected and secured to the shank in a positionally fixed manner,
a second functional portion,
a third functional portion, wherein a washer is arranged in the third functional portion and is mounted so as to be rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the screw,
and a fourth functional portion having an external thread,
wherein the washer is secured in a positionally fixed manner, in the axial direction, between the third functional portion and the external thread of the fourth functional portion by bearing against the second functional portion and the external thread of the fourth functional portion.

8. The modular screw as claimed in claim 7 ,
wherein
the clamping disk has a connecting means via which the clamping disk is connected to the shank in a positionally fixed manner by means of frictional and/or form-fitting engagement, wherein the connecting means is designed to provide a frictional connection.

9. The modular screw as claimed in claim 8 ,
wherein
the clamping disk has a through-opening, wherein the connecting means takes the form of tabs having retaining edges, said tabs being directed from an edge of the through-opening in the radial direction inwardly in the direction of the longitudinal axis.

10. A method for producing the screw as claimed in claim 7 , comprising the following steps:
pressing the screw head and the shank in a pressing machine,
applying the clamping disk and/or the washer in a feeding device of a rolling machine, and
rolling the external thread in the rolling machine, and

heat-treating and/or coating the modular screw.

Assignees

• Illinois Tool Works

Inventors

• Becker Sven
• Da Rocha Bruno
• Jakob Andreas
• Helbert Stefan
• Santos Nelson

Classifications

• F16B43/00

  Washers or equivalent devices; Other devices for supporting bolt-heads or nuts (circlips F16B21/18; {for indicating tensile load F16B31/02; forming a whole with the bolt or nut F16B33/00; locking bolts or nuts by means of a fixed plate or ring, or washer-like resilient plates F16B39/10, F16B39/24}) · CPC title

• B21K1/44

  bolts, studs, or the like (making screw-thread B21K1/56; making U-bolts B21K1/74) · CPC title

• F16B35/041

  Specially-shaped shafts (shape of thread F16B33/02) · CPC title

• F16B39/26

  with spring washers fastened to the nut or bolt-head · CPC title

• F16B35/048 Primary

  Specially-shaped necks (F16B35/06 takes precedence) · CPC title