Active rotary stabilizer and stabilizer bar link assembly for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9586457-B2
Application number	US-201514862272-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2015
Priority date	Sep 25, 2014
Publication date	Mar 7, 2017
Grant date	Mar 7, 2017

Abstract

The present invention relates to an active rotary stabilizer and a stabilizer bar link assembly for a vehicle, which particularly may increase a degree of design freedom for a lower side of a vehicle body, improve ride comfort for a passenger, enhance durability of an actuator, and reduce the occurrence of noise caused by a backlash when the actuator is operated.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An active rotary stabilizer for a vehicle, comprising:
a housing which has a predetermined space therein, one side, and an other side opposite to the one side;
a drive unit positioned in the housing at the one side and including a stator and a rotor;
a first reduction unit which is provided in the housing at the other side, is disposed to be adjacent to the drive unit, receives rotational force from the drive unit, and primarily reduces the rotational force at a predetermined ratio;
a second reduction unit which is provided at the other side in the housing, receives the primarily reduced rotational force from an output portion of the first reduction unit, and secondarily reduces the rotational force at a predetermined ratio;
a drive unit cover which is coupled to and seals the one side of the housing, wherein the drive unit cover comprises a recess formed at an inner surface of the drive unit cover, and a bearing installed in the recess and rotatably supporting an end portion of the rotor;
a fixed stabilizer bar which is welded on the drive unit cover at an outer surface of the drive unit, rotates in conjunction with the housing, and provides predetermined torsional force to one side of a vehicle body of a vehicle that turns; and
a rotary stabilizer bar which is coupled to an output end that protrudes toward the other side of the housing adjacent to the second reduction unit, rotates relative to the housing, and provides predetermined torsional force to an other side of the vehicle body of the vehicle that turns.

2. The active rotary stabilizer of claim 1 , wherein
the first reduction unit is any one of a cycloid reduction unit using a cycloid gear and a planetary gear reduction unit using a planetary gear set, and
the second reduction unit is a reduction unit of the cycloid reduction unit and the planetary gear reduction unit which is different from the first reduction unit.

3. The active rotary stabilizer of claim 2 , wherein a length of the cycloid reduction unit is shorter than a length of the planetary gear reduction unit.

4. The active rotary stabilizer of claim 2 , wherein rotational force provided from the rotor is primarily reduced by the cycloid reduction unit, secondarily reduced by the planetary gear reduction unit, and then output.

5. An active rotary stabilizer for a vehicle, comprising:
a housing which has a predetermined space therein, one side, and an other side opposite to the one side;
a drive unit positioned in the housing at the one side and including a stator and a rotor;
a first reduction unit which is provided in the housing at the other side, is disposed to be adjacent to the drive unit, receives rotational force from the drive unit, and primarily reduces the rotational force at a predetermined ratio;
a second reduction unit which is provided at the other side in the housing, receives the primarily reduced rotational force from an output portion of the first reduction unit, and secondarily reduces the rotational force at a predetermined ratio;
a drive unit cover which is coupled to and seal the one side of the housing, wherein the drive unit cover comprises a recess formed at an inner surface of the drive unit cover, and a bearing installed in the recess and supporting an end portion of the rotor;
a fixed stabilizer bar which is welded on the drive unit cover at an outer surface of the drive unit, rotates in conjunction with the housing, and provides predetermined torsional force to one side of a vehicle body of a vehicle that turns; and
a rotary stabilizer bar which is coupled to an output end that protrudes toward the other side of the housing adjacent to the second reduction unit, rotates relative to the housing, and provides predetermined torsional force to an other side of the vehicle body of the vehicle that turns, wherein
the first reduction unit is any one of a cycloid reduction unit using a cycloid gear and a planetary gear reduction unit using a planetary gear set, and
the second reduction unit is a reduction unit of the cycloid reduction unit and the planetary gear reduction unit which is different from the first reduction unit,
wherein the cycloid reduction unit includes:
an eccentric shaft which has one end connected to the rotor, and a pair of eccentric bodies that is provided at the other end of the eccentric shaft and is eccentrically and axially connected to each other so as to be symmetrical at 180 degrees;
a pair of cycloid discs which has cycloid teeth formed along outer circumferential surfaces of the cycloid discs, a plurality of disc moving holes penetratively formed in the axial direction along the same circumference, and fixing holes that are penetratively formed at centers of the cycloid discs in the axial direction so that the pair of eccentric bodies of the eccentric shaft is sequentially inserted into and rotatably supported by the fixing holes;
an output shaft which has a plurality of input legs that is formed at one side of the output shaft and inserted into the disc moving holes, and an output sun gear portion that is formed at the other side of the output shaft, extends to a side where the planetary gear reduction unit is provided, and is rotated at a reduced speed along with the rotation of the pair of cycloid discs; and
an internal teeth portion which has internal teeth that are formed on an inner surface of the housing and engaged with the cycloid teeth of the pair of cycloid discs.

6. The active rotary stabilizer of claim 5 , wherein the number of cycloid teeth formed on the pair of cycloid discs is one less than the number of internal teeth of the internal teeth portion.

7. The active rotary stabilizer of claim 5 , wherein the eccentric shaft and the pair of cycloid discs perform rolling motion by means of a roller bearing interposed between the fixing holes.

8. The active rotary stabilizer of claim 5 , wherein the planetary gear reduction unit includes:
a sun gear which protrudes from a center at the other end of the output shaft of the cycloid reduction unit toward the other side in the housing at a predetermined length, is rotated integrally with the output shaft, and has gear teeth formed on an outer circumferential surface thereof;
a plurality of planet gears which has gear teeth that mesh with the gear teeth of the sun gear, is disposed along an outer circumference of the sun gear, and revolves around the sun gear in accordance with the rotation of the sun gear;
a carrier unit which simultaneously receives rotational force from the plurality of planet gears, and obtains a reduction ratio at which the carrier unit is rotated at the revolution speed of the plurality of planet gears; and
a planetary gear housing which is disposed to surround the sun gear, the plurality of planet gears, and the carrier unit.

9. The active rotary stabilizer of claim 8 , wherein rotational force provided from the rotor is primarily reduced by the planetary gear reduction unit, secondarily reduced by the cycloid reduction unit, and then output.

Assignees

• Hyundai Mobis Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jeon Jin Moo
• Park Jun Sung

Classifications

• B60G2202/135

  Stabiliser bar and/or tube · CPC title

• B60G2202/442

  Rotary actuator · CPC title

• B60G21/0556

  including a releasable coupling (B60G21/0555 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60G2204/4191

  Planetary or epicyclic gears · CPC title

• B60G21/0555 Primary

  including an actuator inducing vehicle roll · CPC title