Friction bearing, and method for lubricating and cooling a friction bearing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12135077-B2
Application number	US-202217882170-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 5, 2022
Priority date	Aug 26, 2021
Publication date	Nov 5, 2024
Grant date	Nov 5, 2024

Abstract

A friction bearing of a planetary gearbox has a first rotationally fixed component and a second component rotatably connected thereto. Oil in the region of an oil feed pocket of the first component is directed into the bearing clearance between the components. The oil is directed into the oil feed pocket via at least one first line that opens into the oil feed pocket. Oil is also directed via at least one second line into the oil feed pocket, the port region of said second line into the oil feed pocket in the circumferential direction of the bearing clearance and in the main rotation direction of the second component in relation to the first component and/or in the axial direction of the friction bearing being spaced apart from the port region of the first line into the oil feed pocket.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A friction bearing of a planetary gearbox, comprising:
a rotationally fixed first component and a second component rotatably connected thereto,
an oil feed pocket positioned on the first component and configured to direct oil into a bearing clearance between the first and second components,
the oil feed pocket having a group of ports opening into the oil feed pocket in a sole triangular configuration, as follows:
a first port connected to a first line opening into the oil feed pocket, and configured for directing the oil into the oil feed pocket,
a second port connected to a second line opening into the oil feed pocket, and configured for directing the oil into the oil feed pocket, the second port trailing the first port in a rotation direction of the second component and spaced apart from the first port in an axial direction of the friction bearing, and
a third port connected to a third line opening into the oil feed pocket, and configured for directing the oil into the oil feed pocket, the third port trailing the first port in the rotation direction of the second component and spaced apart from both the first port and the second port in the axial direction, with the first port being positioned between the second port and the third port in the axial direction, the first port, second port and third port forming the sole triangular configuration.

2. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein the oil feed pocket and/or the first, second and third ports are disposed in an axial center of the friction bearing.

3. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein the oil feed pocket and/or the first, second and third ports are disposed to be axially positioned away from an axial center in the friction bearing.

4. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein a spacing in a circumferential direction of the bearing clearance and in the rotation direction of the second component in relation to the first component between the third port and the first port and between the first port and the second port is substantially the same.

5. The friction bearing according to claim 4 , wherein axial spacings between the first, second and third ports and spacings between the first, second and third ports in the circumferential direction of the bearing clearance and in the rotation direction of the second component in relation to the first component are arranged so that the second port and the third port are disposed within a sector, the sector originating at the first port, extending in the rotation direction of the second component, and enclosing an angle of approximately 120°.

6. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein axial spacings between the first, second and third ports as well as spacings between the first, second and third ports in the circumferential direction of the bearing clearance and in the rotation direction of the second component in relation to the first component are arranged so that the second and third ports are disposed within a sector, in which the first port is positioned, the sector originating at the first port, extending in the rotation direction of the second component, and enclosing an angle of approximately 120°.

7. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein the first port is disposed in an axially center region of the friction bearing which extends across at most 25% of an axial bearing width of the friction bearing.

8. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein the second port and the third port are disposed in an axially center region of the friction bearing center which extends across at most 50% of an axial bearing width of the friction bearing.

9. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein a spacing between the first port and the second port in a circumferential direction and in the rotation direction of the second component corresponds to at most four times a diameter of an opening cross section of the first port, or to at most 10% of an entire bearing circumference of the friction bearing.

10. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein a spacing between the first port and the third port in a circumferential direction and in the rotation direction of the second component corresponds to at most four times a diameter of an opening cross section of the first port, or to at most 10% of an entire bearing circumference of the friction bearing.

11. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein axial spacings between the first port and the second port, as well as between the first port and the third port, each correspond to at most four times a diameter of an opening cross section of the first port.

12. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first, second and third ports is embodied to be circular, elliptic or slot-shaped.

13. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein a size of an opening cross section of the first port deviates from a size of an opening cross section of the second port and/or from a size of an opening cross section of the third port.

14. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first, second and third lines includes a first line portion and, a second line portion adjoining the first line portion in a feed direction of the oil into the oil feed pocket,
wherein a flow cross section of the first line portion is smaller than a flow cross section of the second line portion, and wherein the first and second line portions are mutually disposed so that a flow cross section for the oil, proceeding from the first line portion in the direction of the second line portion, in a circumferential direction of the bearing clearance and in the rotation direction of the second component in relation to the first component, increases more than counter to the rotation direction of the second component,
or
in the circumferential direction of the bearing clearance and counter to the rotation direction of the second component the flow cross section for the oil increases more than in the rotation direction of the second component.

15. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein a profile of at least one of the first, second and third lines conjointly with a radial direction of the bearing clearance encloses an angle and arranged to direct the oil from the at least one of the first, second and third lines into the oil feed pocket at an angle of approximately 5° to 60° in relation to a radial direction of the bearing clearance and in the rotation direction of the second component in relation to the first component, or at an angle of approximately 5° to 20° in relation to the radial direction of the bearing clearance and in a circumferential direction of the bearing clearance and counter to the rotation direction of the second component in relation to the first component.

16. The friction bearing according to claim 1 , wherein the first line is impinged by oil from a first oil circuit, and the second line and/or the third line are/is impinged by oil from a second oil circuit.

Assignees

• Rolls Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co Kg

Inventors

• Schütt Alexander
• Eberhardt Tobias
• Douma Rens
• Kracht Uwe
• Prölss Maximilian
• Kurz-Hardjosoekatmo Wolfram
• UHKÖTTER Stephan

Classifications

• F16H2057/085

  Bearings for orbital gears · CPC title

• F16C33/1055

  from radial inside, e.g. via a passage through the shaft and/or inner sleeve · CPC title

• F16C32/0651

  Details of the bearing area per se · CPC title

• F16C33/101

  Details of the bearing surface, e.g. means to generate pressure such as lobes or wedges · CPC title

• F16H57/0486

  with fixed gear ratio  (axle or inter-axle differentials F16H57/0483) · CPC title