Electromechanical actuating drive

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9895951-B2
Application number	US-201414910739-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 24, 2014
Priority date	Aug 12, 2013
Publication date	Feb 20, 2018
Grant date	Feb 20, 2018

Abstract

An electric roll control stabilizer for a vehicle, having an outer housing that rotates about a longitudinal axis, a wiring harness has at least one electric supply lead and/or electric control lead is connected at its first end to a first connection terminal provided on the outer housing and at its second end to a second fixed in position connection terminal. In an area of the first terminal, the harness extends tangential to or concentrical with an outer enveloping surface of the outer housing or a cylindrical structural element which is attached rotationally fixed and whose outer diameter is smaller than the diameter of the outer housing. From the area of the first terminal, the wiring harness extends concentrically with and is spaced from the outer enveloping surface, and the wiring harness is arranged in a transverse plane of the outer housing or the cylindrical structural element that passes through the first terminal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electromechanical actuating drive ( 1 ), in which an outer housing ( 3 ), or part thereof, undergoes rotational movement about a longitudinal central axis,
a wiring harness ( 13 ) that comprises at least one electric supply lead and control lead ( 13 a , 13 b , 13 c ), the wiring harness has a first end and an opposite second end, the first end of the wiring harness is connected to a first connection terminal ( 10 ) provided on the outer housing ( 3 ), the second end of the wiring harness is connected to a second plug ( 15 ) that is fixed in a position radially further from the longitudinal central axis than a radially outer surface of the outer housing,
the first end of the wiring harness ( 13 ) extends either tangentially to or concentrically with an outer enveloping surface of either the outer housing ( 3 ) or a cylindrical structural element ( 4 ) connected to the outer housing in a rotationally fixed manner, and an outer diameter of the cylindrical structural element is smaller than an outer diameter of the outer housing ( 3 ), and
from the first end of the wiring harness, the wiring harness ( 13 ) extends concentrically with and a radial distance away from the outer enveloping surface ( 14 ), so that the at least one electric supply lead and the control lead ( 13 a , 13 b , 13 c ), in each case, lies in a transverse plane of either the outer housing ( 3 ) or the cylindrical structural element ( 4 ), and the transverse plane extends normal to the longitudinal central axis and the transverse plane passes through the first connection terminal ( 10 ).

2. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 1 , wherein the first connection terminal ( 10 ) is in a form of a first plug ( 11 ).

3. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 2 , wherein the outer housing ( 3 ) is connected to the cylindrical structural element ( 4 ) and forms, with the cylindrical structural element, an annular end face ( 8 ), and the first plug ( 11 ) comprises plug contacts ( 22 ) that extend toward the end face ( 8 ).

4. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 1 , wherein the wiring harness ( 13 ) comprises at least two leads in a form of at least one of the electric supply lead and the electric control lead ( 13 a , 13 b , 13 c ) which are held in place, relative to one another, by at least one holder ( 18 ), and the at least one holder holds the at least two leads between the first connection terminal and the second plug.

5. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 4 , wherein the holder ( 18 ) is provided with a receiving groove ( 20 ) for guiding a separate sensor lead ( 17 ), and the sensor lead ( 17 ) is guided in a circumferentially extending groove ( 19 ) of the first connection terminal.

6. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 2 , wherein the first plug ( 11 ) is formed by injection molding plastic around the first end of the wiring harness ( 13 ) and, on an outer circumference of the first plug ( 11 ), a circumferentially extending groove ( 19 ) is provided to hold a separate sensor lead ( 17 ).

7. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 2 , wherein the first plug ( 11 ) is held in place, on the cylindrical structural element ( 4 ), by a shell ( 12 ).

8. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 2 , wherein an outer enveloping surface of the first plug ( 11 ) is covered by a protective sheet ( 25 ).

9. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 1 , wherein the second plug is a second connection terminal which has plug contacts ( 15 a ) that extend substantially in an axial direction of either the outer housing or the cylindrical structural element.

10. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one of the electric supply lead and the control lead ( 13 a , 13 b , 13 c ) is provided with cable screening.

11. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 1 , wherein at least one of the outer housing ( 3 ) of the actuating drive ( 1 ) and the cylindrical structural element ( 4 ) is rotatable about an angle of at least 45° relative to a positionally fixed articulation point to which a second connection terminal ( 15 ) is connected.

12. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 1 , wherein the electromechanical actuating drive is an actuator ( 2 ) of a roll stabilizer provided on a motor vehicle, and the first connection terminal is fixed on at least one of the outer housing ( 3 ) and on the cylindrical structural element ( 4 ) forming a stabilizer half ( 6 ).

13. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 12 , wherein a mechanical adjusting device of the actuator ( 2 ) is in a form of a high-ratio planetary gear system.

14. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 12 , wherein a mechanical adjusting device of the actuator ( 2 ) is in a form of a high-ratio strain wave gear.

15. An electromechanical actuating drive ( 1 ) comprising an outer housing which is aligned along a longitudinal central axis, a cylindrical structural element ( 4 ) extends from and is concentric with the outer housing ( 3 ), an outer diameter of the cylindrical structural element ( 4 ) is smaller than an outer diameter of the outer housing ( 3 ), at least one of the outer housing ( 3 ) and the cylindrical structural element ( 4 ) is rotatable about the longitudinal central axis, and a wiring harness ( 13 ) has a first end connected to a first connection terminal that is connected to the at least one of the outer housing ( 3 ) and the cylindrical structural element ( 4 ), and the wiring harness comprises at least one electric supply lead and electric control lead ( 13 a , 13 b , 13 c ) that extend from the first connection terminal,
the wiring harness has an opposite end that is connected to a positionally fixed second connection terminal ( 15 ),
the first end of the wiring harness ( 13 ) extends either tangentially to or concentrically with an outer enveloping surface ( 14 ) of the cylindrical structural element ( 4 ), and
the wiring harness ( 13 ), starting from an area of the first connection terminal, has a shape of a helix.

16. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 15 , wherein the first connection terminal ( 10 ) is in a form of a first plug ( 11 ).

17. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 16 , wherein the outer housing ( 3 ) is connected to the cylindrical structural element ( 4 ) and forms, with the cylindrical structural element, an annular end face ( 8 ), and the first plug ( 11 ) is provided with plug contacts ( 22 ) that extend toward the end face ( 8 ).

18. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 15 , wherein the wiring harness ( 13 ) comprises at least two leads in a form of at least one of the electric supply lead and the electric control lead ( 13 a , 13 b , 13 c ) which are held in place, relative to one another, by at least one holder ( 18 ), the at least one holder holds the at least two leads between the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal.

19. The electromechanical actuating drive according to claim 18 , wherein the holder ( 18 ) is provided with a receiving groove ( 20 ) for guiding a separate sensor lead ( 17 ), and the sensor lead ( 17 ) is guided in a circumferentially extending groove ( 19 ) of the first connection terminal.

20. An electromechanical actuating drive comprising:
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Assignees

• Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen

Inventors

• Pfeiffer Daniel
• Hoffmann Martin

Classifications

• B60R16/0215

  Protecting, fastening and routing means therefor · CPC title

• H02K26/00

  Machines adapted to function as torque motors, i.e. to exert a torque when stalled · CPC title

• B60G2206/427

  Stabiliser bars or tubes · CPC title

• B60G21/0555 Primary

  including an actuator inducing vehicle roll · CPC title

• H02G11/02

  using take-up reel or drum · CPC title