Rotor device, valve and method for assembling a rotor device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12025236-B2
Application number	US-201917289925-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 29, 2019
Priority date	Oct 31, 2018
Publication date	Jul 2, 2024
Grant date	Jul 2, 2024

Abstract

A rotor device, in particular a stepper motor rotor device, with at least one hollow body, in particular a pressure pipe of a valve, and with at least one rotor assembly group that is fixated, in particular at least partially in a rotationally fixed and translationally fixed manner, in the hollow body, including at least one rotor element, which is at least configured to convert a magnetic field change into a rotational movement of the rotor element, further including a support element, which is at least configured for a rotational support of the rotor element, and including at least one fixation element, which is at least configured for a fixation of the rotor assembly group within the hollow body, in particular within the pressure pipe, wherein
the support element is arranged in the hollow body in such a way that axial forces pulling at least towards the rotor element and/or axial forces pulling and pressing the support element along at least two opposing directions are transmittable via the support element.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rotor device, with at least one hollow body which is closed in one of its axial end regions and with at least one rotor assembly group that is fixated in the hollow body, the rotor assembly group comprising
at least one rotor element, which is at least configured to convert a magnetic field change into a rotational movement of the rotor element,
a support element, which is at least configured for a rotational support of the rotor element, and
at least one fixation element, which is at least configured for a fixation of the rotor assembly group within the hollow body,
wherein the support element is arranged in the hollow body via a non-destructively inseparable connection of the support element and the rotor element with one another and via a non-destructively inseparable connection of the support element and the fixation element with one another, such that axial forces pulling at least towards the rotor element and/or axial forces pulling and pressing the support element along at least two opposing directions are transmittable via the support element,
wherein the support element is arranged on a side of the rotor element that faces away from an output of the rotor assembly group, and
wherein an output side of the rotor assembly group is free of support elements capable of transmitting axial forces.

2. The rotor device according to claim 1 , wherein a radial distance from a rotation surface described by the rotor element in a 360-degree rotation to the hollow body is maximally 4.5% of the maximum diameter of the rotation surface and/or is maximally 0.3 mm.

3. The rotor device according to claim 1 , wherein on at least one surface, which is situated on an outer side in a radial direction, the fixation element has at least one deepening, which is configured to enable the fixation of the rotor assembly group in the hollow body by means of an engagement at least of a portion of the hollow body into the deepening.

4. The rotor device according to claim 3 , wherein the deepening in the fixation element is formed as a groove.

5. The rotor device according to claim 1 , wherein the fixation element is introduced in the hollow body via a transition fit.

6. The rotor device according to claim 1 , wherein the support element is implemented as a ball bearing, as a two-row tapered roller bearing and/or as a rotational slide bearing.

7. The rotor device according to claim 1 , wherein the support element comprises an outer ring and an inner ring, the inner ring being at least configured for receiving axial forces from the rotor element and the outer ring being at least configured for transmitting the axial forces received by the inner ring to the fixation element and/or to the hollow body.

8. The rotor device according to claim 1 , wherein the support element comprises an outer ring, which is implemented integrally with the fixation element.

9. The rotor device according to claim 1 , wherein the fixation element is embodied as a bearing carrier.

10. The rotor device according to claim 9 , wherein the bearing carrier comprises a continuous recess in a direction extending parallel to an axial direction of the rotor element.

11. The rotor device according to claim 1 , wherein in at least one end region of the hollow body, the hollow body is implemented so as to be calotte-shaped, and/or at least the end region of the hollow body is produced via deep drawing.

12. The rotor device according to claim 1 , wherein the rotor device is a stepper motor rotor device.

13. The rotor device according to claim 1 , wherein the hollow body is implemented as a pressure pipe of a valve.

14. An electromagnetically controlled valve with a rotor device according to claim 1 .

15. The valve according to claim 14 , further comprising a stator, which is pressure-tightly and/or fluid-tightly separated from the rotor assembly group that can be flowed around by a fluid and that at least partially implements a rotor interacting with the stator.

16. A method for assembling the rotor device device, in particular according to claim 1 , comprising
fixedly pressing the rotor element and the fixation element with the support element outside the hollow body.

17. The method according to claim 16 , wherein in at least one further assembly step the rotor assembly group is fitted and/or inserted into the hollow body with a transition fit.

18. The method according to claim 17 , wherein the rotor assembly group is fixated in the hollow body at least via welding.

19. The method according to claim 17 , wherein the rotor assembly group is fixated in the hollow body at least by gluing.

20. The method according to claim 17 , wherein the axial forces, which during a fitting-in, during an insertion and/or during a fixation of the fixation element in the hollow body act onto the support element in a direction that is parallel to a rotation axis of the rotor element, are smaller than maximum axial forces which are to be expected in a normal operation of the rotor device and/or of the valve.

21. The method according to claim 16 , wherein in at least one additional further assembly step the rotor assembly group is fixated in the hollow body at least by a forming process acting at least onto a portion of the hollow body.

Assignees

• Eto Magnetic Gmbh

Inventors

• Fangauer Philipp
• Vincon Peter

Classifications

• H02K7/08

  Structural association with bearings · CPC title

• H02K5/128 Primary

  using air-gap sleeves or air-gap discs · CPC title

• H02K1/22

  Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit · CPC title

• F16K31/047

  characterised by mechanical means between the motor and the valve, e.g. lost motion means reducing backlash, clutches, brakes or return means (F16K31/043 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F16K27/029

  Electromagnetically actuated valves · CPC title