Electropneumatic impact mechanism

Abstract

An electropneumatic impact mechanism for an electric hand-held power tool, in particular a hammer drill and/or chipping hammer, wherein the impact mechanism has a transmission housing, a guide tube arranged at least partially in the transmission housing, an exciter piston that is movable in the guide tube, a connecting rod coupled to the exciter piston, and an eccentric wheel which is designed as an externally toothed gearwheel and is coupled to the connecting rod on one side and is mounted so as to be rotatable with respect to the transmission housing about an axis of rotation on the other side, an axial gap, preferably for optionally receiving at least part of a lubrication space separating element, is provided between an eccentric wheel surface facing the connecting rod and a connecting rod surface facing the eccentric wheel.

Claims

1-14. (canceled)

15. An electropneumatic impact mechanism for an electric hand-held power tool, the impact mechanism comprising: a transmission housing; a guide tube arranged at least partially in the transmission housing; an exciter piston movable in the guide tube; a connecting rod coupled to the exciter piston; and an eccentric wheel designed as an externally toothed gearwheel and being coupled to the connecting rod on one side and being mounted so as to be rotatable with respect to the transmission housing about an axis of rotation on the other side, the eccentric wheel having an axis of rotation defining an axial direction; an axial gap being provided between an eccentric wheel surface facing the connecting rod and a connecting rod surface facing the eccentric wheel.

16. The impact mechanism as recited in claim 15 wherein a radial spacing is provided between a contact point furthest away from the axis of rotation in a radial direction between the connecting rod and the eccentric wheel and the a root circle of the eccentric wheel.

17. The impact mechanism as recited in claim 16 wherein the radial spacing receives at least part of a lubrication space separating element.

18. The impact mechanism as recited in claim 15 wherein the axial gap is at least 20 percent as large as a thickness of the eccentric wheel in the axial direction.

19. The impact mechanism as recited in claim 16 wherein the radial spacing is at least 5 percent of a root circle diameter of the root circle.

20. The impact mechanism as recited in claim 15 further comprising a lubrication space separating element received in the axial gap or in the radial spacing.

21. The impact mechanism as recited in claim 20 wherein the lubrication space separating element has an annular sealing collar with a dynamic sealing ring arranged coaxially with respect to the axis of rotation and pressed against the radial spacing.

22. The impact mechanism a recited in claim 20 wherein the lubrication space separating element has an end sealing collar at least partially sealing the eccentric wheel in relation to a housing wall and has a static sealing ring.

23. The impact mechanism a recited in claim 22 wherein the static sealing ring at least partially arranged coaxially with respect to the axis of rotation and is pressed against the housing wall.

24. The impact mechanism as recited in claim 20 wherein the lubrication space separating element has a sleeve-shaped sealing chamber for receiving a pinion of an electric motor.

25. The impact mechanism as recited in claim 24 wherein the annular sealing collar, the end sealing collar and the sealing chamber are formed integrally with one another.

26. The impact mechanism as recited in claim 20 wherein the lubrication space separating element is free from axial support loads which are indirectly or directly caused by the connecting rod.

27. The impact mechanism as recited in claim 20 further comprising a cover shell having, on a side facing the eccentric wheel, a retaining lip for securing the connecting rod in the axial direction, wherein a profile of the retaining lip at least partially follows a circular path of an eccentric point of the eccentric wheel.

28. The impact mechanism as recited in claim 15 wherein the axial gap receives at least part of a lubrication space separating element.

29. An electric hand-held power tool comprising the impact mechanism as recited in claim 15.

30. The electric hand-held power tool as recited in claim 29 wherein the power tool is a hammer drill or a chipping hammer.

31. The hand-held power tool as recited in claim 29 further comprising an electric motor with a pinion for directly driving the eccentric wheel via the external toothing thereof, wherein the pinion and the external toothing of the eccentric wheel are located in a motor lubrication space, and wherein the connecting rod and a wheel surface of the eccentric wheel facing a cover shell are housed in an impact mechanism lubrication space hydraulically separated from the motor lubrication space.

32. A lubrication space separating element comprising an annular sealing collar, an end sealing collar and a sealing chamber formed integrally with one another.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

[0013] In the FIGURES, identical and similar components are denoted by the same reference signs. Specifically:

[0014] FIG. 1 shows a preferred exemplary embodiment of an impact mechanism according to the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0015] A first preferred exemplary embodiment of an electropneumatic impact mechanism 70 of an electric hand-held power tool is illustrated in FIG. 1.

[0016] The electropneumatic impact mechanism 70 has a transmission housing 60 and a guide tube 50, wherein the guide tube 50 is arranged at least partially in the transmission housing 60. The electropneumatic hammer mechanism 70 also has an exciter piston 40 that is movable in the guide tube 50, a connecting rod 30 coupled to the exciter piston 40, and an eccentric wheel 20. The eccentric wheel 20 is coupled to the connecting rod 30 on one side and is mounted so as to be rotatable with respect to the transmission housing 60 about an axis of rotation DA via an end plate 10 of the transmission housing 60 on the other side. The end plate 10 is integrated in the transmission housing 60. The eccentric wheel 20 is mounted rotatably on a bearing body 25 by means of a pair of plain bearings 28. The bearing body 25 is introduced into the end plate 10 for rotation therewith. The eccentric wheel 20 is designed as an externally toothed gearwheel 29, which can be rotationally driven by an electric motor 90. For this purpose, the electric motor 90 has a pinion 91 which is paired with the external toothing 29.

[0017] As can be seen from FIG. 1, an axial gap AS is provided between an eccentric wheel surface EO facing the connecting rod 30 and a connecting rod surface PO facing the eccentric wheel 20. The axial gap AS, based on the axis of rotation DA of the eccentric wheel 20 in the axial direction AR, is, for example, about 30 percent as large as a thickness DE of the eccentric wheel 20 in the axial direction AR. As can likewise be gathered from FIG. 1, a radial spacing RA is provided between a contact point KP furthest away from the axis of rotation DA in the radial direction RR, which is between the connecting rod 30 and the eccentric wheel 20, and the root circle FK of the external toothing 29 of the eccentric wheel 20. The radial spacing RA between the contact point KP and the root circle FK is, for example, 5 percent of a root circle diameter FD of the root circle FK of the eccentric wheel. The connecting rod 30 has a connecting rod pin 31 which engages in the eccentric wheel 20. The contact point KP is located at the transition from the connecting rod pin 31 to the eccentric wheel 20.

[0018] Inside the transmission housing 60, the impact mechanism 70 has an optionally introduced lubrication space separating element 90, which realizes a hydraulic separation between the motor lubrication space 92 and the impact mechanism lubrication space 62. The pinion 91 and the external toothing 29 of the eccentric wheel 20 are located in the motor lubrication space 92. The connecting rod 30 and a wheel surface 26 facing the cover shell 65 (the diameter of which preferably corresponds at most to the root circle diameter FK) are housed in an impact mechanism lubrication space 62 which is hydraulically separated from the motor lubrication space 92.

[0019] The lubrication space separating element 80 itself has an annular sealing collar 81, an end sealing collar 83 and a sealing chamber 85. In the exemplary embodiment shown here, the annular sealing collar 81, the end sealing collar 83 and the sealing chamber 85 are formed integrally with one another. The lubrication space separating element 80 is composed, for example, of plastic.

[0020] The annular sealing collar 81 is used to seal the eccentric wheel 20 on its side facing the cover shell 65. For this purpose, the annular sealing collar 81, based on the axial direction AR, is accommodated in the axial gap AS between the connecting rod 30 and the eccentric wheel 20. The annular sealing collar 81, based on the radial direction RR, rests, as it were, on the radial spacing RA. The axial gap AS and the radial spacing RA are thus occupied by one and the same separating element in the form of the annular sealing collar 81. The annular sealing collar 81 is provided with a dynamic sealing ring 82 which is arranged coaxially with respect to the axis of rotation DA and is pressed against the radial spacing RA.

[0021] The end sealing collar 83 is used to at least partially seal the eccentric wheel 20 in relation to a housing wall 68. For this purpose, the end sealing collar 83 has a static sealing ring 84, which is pressed in the axial direction AR against the housing wall 68. The static sealing ring 84 in the exemplary embodiment of FIG. 1 is arranged coaxially with respect to the axis of rotation DA in the region of the eccentric wheel 20. In the region of the pinion 91, the static sealing ring 84 also lies pressed against the housing wall 68 in the axial direction AR. In this region, however, the sealing ring 84 extends coaxially with respect to the rotation axis RO of the pinion 91.

[0022] The sleeve-shaped sealing chamber 85 of the lubrication space separating element 80 finally serves to accommodate the pinion 91 of the electric motor 90.

[0023] As can be gathered from FIG. 1, the transmission housing 60 is closed on an upper side 61—from here the connecting rod 30 and the eccentric wheel 20, inter alia, are introduced into the transmission housing 60—by a cover shell 65, which is composed, for example, of plastic. The cover shell 65 has a retaining lip 67 on a side 63 facing the eccentric wheel 20, wherein a profile of the retaining lip 67 follows a circular path 23 of an eccentric point 21 of the eccentric wheel 20. In the exemplary embodiment in FIG. 1, four retaining lips 67 which are concentric with respect to one another and each have a different diameter are provided. The retaining lips 67 are used to secure the connecting rod 80 in the axial direction AR.

[0024] The connecting rod 30 also secures the eccentric wheel 20 in the axial direction AR by an annular contact 33 of the connecting rod pin 31 in the eccentric wheel 20—the contact point KP is furthermore located on said annular contact 33. The cover shell 65 is thus directly responsible for securing the connecting rod 30 and indirectly (via the connecting rod 30) for securing the eccentric wheel 20 in the axial direction AR. This power flow described here manages without the “aid” of the lubrication space separating element 90. In other words, the connecting rod 30 and the eccentric wheel 20 are axially secured even without the lubrication space separating element 90, such that, if required —for example if there is no regulatory requirement—the lubrication space separating element 90 can be dispensed with.

[0025] In the exemplary embodiment of FIG. 1, a lubrication space separating element 90 is provided. As can also be gathered from FIG. 1, the cover shell 65 has a support collar 66 which extends in the axial direction AR and which stands up in the axial direction AR on the end sealing collar 83 and thus also exerts a pressing effect on the static sealing ring 84 in the axial direction AR. The lubrication space separating element 90 itself is thus held in the transmission housing 60. In addition to the power flow described above without a lubrication space separating element 90 being introduced, when a lubrication space separating element 90 is introduced, additional securing of the eccentric wheel 20 in the axial direction is provided, namely indirectly via the dynamic sealing ring 82 of the annular sealing collar 81, which is formed integrally with the end sealing collar 83. Advantageously, the height of the annular sealing collar 81 is slightly smaller than the axial gap AS, and the annular sealing collar 81 and thus the entire lubrication space separating element 90 are free from axial support loads which are caused indirectly or directly by the connecting rod 30. The lubrication space separating element 90 can thus optionally be encompassed by the impact mechanism 70.

LIST OF REFERENCE SIGNS

[0026] 10 End plate

[0027] 20 Eccentric wheel

[0028] 21 Eccentric point

[0029] 23 Circular path

[0030] 25 Bearing body

[0031] 26 Wheel surface

[0032] 28 Pair of plain bearings

[0033] 29 External toothing

[0034] 30 Connecting rod

[0035] 31 Connecting rod pin

[0036] 33 Contact

[0037] 40 Exciter piston

[0038] 50 Guide tube

[0039] 60 Transmission housing

[0040] 61 Upper side

[0041] 62 Impact mechanism lubrication space

[0042] 63 Facing side

[0043] 65 Cover shell

[0044] 66 Supporting collar

[0045] 67 Retaining lip

[0046] 68 Housing wall

[0047] 70 Impact mechanism

[0048] 80 Lubrication space separating element

[0049] 81 Annular sealing collar

[0050] 82 Dynamic sealing ring

[0051] 83 End sealing collar

[0052] 84 Static sealing ring

[0053] 85 Sealing chamber

[0054] 90 Electric motor

[0055] 91 Pinion

[0056] 92 Motor lubrication space

[0057] AR Axial direction

[0058] AS Axial gap

[0059] DA Axis of rotation of the eccentric wheel

[0060] DE Thickness of the eccentric wheel

[0061] EO Eccentric wheel surface

[0062] FK Root circle

[0063] KP Contact point

[0064] FD Root circle diameter

[0065] PO Connecting rod surface

[0066] RA Radial spacing

[0067] RO Rotation axis of the pinion

[0068] RR Radial direction