Synchronising device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9933022-B2
Application number	US-201314892088-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 3, 2013
Priority date	Jun 3, 2013
Publication date	Apr 3, 2018
Grant date	Apr 3, 2018

Abstract

A synchronizing device is provided for synchronizing a first rotatable part with a second rotatable part adjacent to the first rotatable part. The synchronizing device includes a first part provided with an engaging sleeve and a second part provided with a synchronizer ring. The synchronizing device has at least one positioning resilient member which is arranged to act upon the synchronizer ring and the second part, in order to allow a design with few parts and also to resynchronize the synchronizing ring with the second part. A transmission including such a synchronizing device is also provided.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A synchronising device for synchronising a first rotatable part with a second rotatable part adjacent to the first rotatable part, wherein the synchronising device comprises:
a first rotatable part provided with an engaging sleeve, and
a second rotatable part provided with a synchroniser ring, wherein the engaging sleeve is
provided with a first set of internal teeth enabling a rotationally fix and axially displaceable arrangement upon the first rotatable part,
provided with a first conical friction surface, and
is adapted to be positioned in a first and a second axial position, wherein in the first axial position the first set of internal teeth engages only with the first rotatable part and in the second axial position, the first set of internal teeth engages with both the first and the second rotatable part, wherein the synchroniser ring is
provided with a mating conical friction surface, wherein the first conical friction surface and the mating conical friction surface are adapted to interact with each other in order to synchronise the engaging sleeve and the synchroniser ring of the first and second rotatable parts,
provided with a second set of internal teeth enabling an arrangement upon the second rotatable part, wherein the second set of internal teeth is provided with a first blocking surface adapted to interact with a corresponding second blocking surface upon the second rotatable part,
adapted to be positioned in a first and a second axial position, wherein in the first axial position the blocking surfaces can interact with each other and the second axial position enables engagement of the engaging sleeve with the second rotatable part, and
adapted to be positioned in a first and a second rotational position relative to the second rotatable part, wherein the first rotational position enables the blocking surfaces to interact with each other and the second rotational position enables an axial displacement of the synchroniser ring, wherein
the synchronising device further comprises at least an axial positioning resilient member arranged relative to the synchroniser ring and the second rotatable part such that the axial positioning resilient member exerts a force upon the synchroniser ring in a direction towards the first axial position of the synchroniser ring,
wherein the axial positioning resilient member acts upon an axial reaction surface of the second rotatable part, and the axial reaction surface is provided upon a first external tooth of the second rotatable part.

2. The synchronising device according to claim 1 , wherein the axial reaction surface has a radial inwardly directed inclination in an axial direction of the first rotatable part.

3. The synchronising device according to claim 2 , wherein the radial inwardly directed inclination has a transition to a radial outwardly directed inclination directed in an axial direction of the first rotatable part at an end of the axial reaction surface arranged close to the first rotatable part.

4. The synchronising device according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of axial positioning resilient members is provided substantially evenly spread about the synchronizer ring.

5. The synchronising device according to claim 1 , wherein the synchroniser ring is further provided with at least one rotational positioning resilient member, which acts upon a rotational reaction surface of the second rotatable part, wherein the rotational positioning resilient member and the rotational reaction surface are arranged such relative each other, that the rotational positioning resilient member exercises a force upon the synchroniser ring in direction towards its first rotational position.

6. The synchronising device according to claim 5 , wherein the rotational reaction surface, is provided with an inclination directed radially inwardly in a first circumference direction of the second rotatable part.

7. The synchronising device according to claim 6 , wherein the inclination directed radially inwardly in a first circumference direction of the second rotatable part has a transition to a radially outwardly directed inclination in the first circumference direction of the second rotatable part.

8. The synchronising device according to claim 6 , wherein the rotational positioning resilient member is arranged with direction of action having an angle to a radial direction of the synchroniser ring and the rotational reaction surface is constituted by an original flank of a second external tooth of the second rotatable part.

9. The synchronising device according to claim 6 , wherein a plurality of rotational positioning resilient members are provided and substantially evenly spread about the synchronising ring.

10. The synchronising device according to claim 5 , wherein the rotational reaction surface is provided upon a second external tooth of the second rotatable part.

11. The synchronising device according to claim 1 , wherein engaging sleeve is provided with a groove provided in an axial central position among the first set of internal teeth, wherein the groove is adapted to interact with a detent resilient member arranged in the first rotatable part, and the detent resilient member acts radially outwards such that it holds the engaging sleeve in its first position.

12. The synchronising device according to claim 11 , wherein the detent resilient member is able to hold the engaging sleeve in its second position, by protruding outside the first set of internal teeth.

13. A transmission provided with the synchronizing device according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Volvo Truck Corp

Inventors

• Olsson Ronald

Classifications

• F16D2023/0631

  Sliding sleeves; Details thereof · CPC title

• F16D23/0606

  the blocking mechanism comprising an axially-extending shouldered pin passing through a hole in a radial wall · CPC title

• F16D2023/0618

  Details of blocking mechanism comprising a helical spring loaded element, e.g. ball · CPC title

• F16D23/025 Primary

  Synchro rings · CPC title

• F16D2023/0668

  Details relating to tooth end or tip geometry · CPC title