Drive Device, Hydraulic Pump, Motor Vehicle

Abstract

A drive device for a hydraulic pump of a braking system for a motor vehicle includes a housing, a rotor, a rotor shaft mounted in the housing and supporting the rotor, and a commutator arranged in the housing. The commutator includes at least one commutator brush held by a brush holder. The commutator brush cooperates with a commutator ring arranged on the rotor shaft in a non-rotatable manner. The brush holder includes a sealing ring assigned to the commutator which is arranged coaxially to the rotor shaft and interacts with the rotor shaft in a sealing manner.

Claims

1. A drive device for a hydraulic pump of a braking system for a motor vehicle, comprising: a housing; a rotor; a rotor shaft mounted in the housing and supporting the rotor; and a commutator arranged in the housing and including at least one commutator brush held by a brush holder, the at least one commutator brush configured to cooperate with a commutator ring arranged on the rotor shaft in a non-rotatable manner, wherein the brush holder includes a sealing ring assigned to the commutator, the sealing ring arranged coaxially to the rotor shaft and configured to interact with the rotor shaft in a sealing manner.

2. The drive device according to claim 1, wherein the brush holder is comprised of plastic.

3. The drive device according to claim 1, wherein the sealing ring is comprised of plastic.

4. The drive device according to claim 1, wherein the brush holder and the sealing ring are integrally formed.

5. The drive device according to claim 1, wherein the sealing ring defines a sealing lip-shape.

6. The drive device according to claim 1, wherein the sealing ring is elastically deformable, at least in sections.

7. The drive device according to claim 1, wherein the sealing ring tapers in a direction of the rotor shaft.

8. The drive device according to claim 1, wherein the sealing ring has a conical shape in a longitudinal direction.

9. The drive device according to claim 1, further comprising: a roller body bearing supporting the rotor shaft, wherein the sealing ring is arranged between the commutator and the roller body bearing.

10. The drive device according to claim 1, further comprising: an eccentric bearing configured to actuate at least one pump piston of the hydraulic pump and arranged on a side of the brush holder facing away from the commutator on the rotor shaft.

11. A hydraulic pump for a braking system of a motor vehicle, comprising: at least one actuable pump piston; and a drive device configured to actuate the at least one actuable pump piston, the drive device including: a housing; a rotor; a rotor shaft mounted in the housing and supporting the rotor; and a commutator arranged in the housing and including at least one commutator brush held by a brush holder, the at least one commutator brush configured to cooperate with a commutator ring arranged on the rotor shaft in a non-rotatable manner, wherein the brush holder includes a sealing ring assigned to the commutator, the sealing ring arranged coaxially to the rotor shaft and configured to interact with the rotor shaft in a sealing manner.

12. A braking system for a motor vehicle, comprising: a hydraulic pump including: at least one actuable pump piston; and a drive device configured to actuate the at least one actuable pump piston, the drive device including: a housing; a rotor; a rotor shaft mounted in the housing and supporting the rotor; and a commutator arranged in the housing and including at least one commutator brush held by a brush holder, the at least one commutator brush configured to cooperate with a commutator ring arranged on the rotor shaft in a non-rotatable manner, wherein the brush holder includes a sealing ring assigned to the commutator, the sealing ring arranged coaxially to the rotor shaft and configured to interact with the rotor shaft in a sealing manner.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0016] Further advantages and preferred features and combinations of features result from what has previously been described and also from the claims. The disclosure is to be explained in greater detail below with the help of the drawing. For this purpose

[0017] FIG. 1 shows a hydraulic pump for a braking system of a motor vehicle as a simplified sectional representation and

[0018] FIG. 2 shows a perspective longitudinal section through a brush holder of the hydraulic pump.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0019] FIG. 1 shows as a simplified longitudinal sectional depiction a drive device 1 for a hydraulic pump 2 not shown in greater detail here which has at least one pump piston that can be driven by an eccentric bearing 3 drivable by the drive device 1. The eccentric bearing 3 is only shown in dotted lines in FIG. 1.

[0020] The drive device 1 has an electric motor 4 which exhibits a housing 5 with a rotor shaft 6 rotatably mounted therein. The rotor shaft 6 is rotatably mounted in the housing 5 by multiple roller body bearings 7. Moreover, a rotor 8 is arranged in a non-rotatable manner on the rotor shaft 6 and also an inner ring of the eccentric bearing 3. Furthermore, the electric motor 4 has a commutator 9 which has a commutator ring 10 arranged in a non-rotatable manner on the rotor shaft 6 and also a plurality of commutator brushes 12 carried by a brush holder 11. The commutator brushes 12 in this case are elastically pretensioned radially against the commutator ring 10, in order to interact therewith.

[0021] The commutator ring 10 in this case is arranged between the rotor 8 and one of the roller body bearings 7 and the eccentric bearing 3 in the housing 5. The brush holder 11 is disc-shaped, in particular washer-shaped, and substantially closes off the housing 5 at the front end and is arranged coaxially to the rotor shaft 6 in the housing 5. On its inner diameter, the brush holder 11 has a sealing ring 13. The sealing ring 13 is configured integrally with the brush holder 11 and has a sealing lip shape. For this purpose, the sealing ring 13 tapers in the direction of the rotor shaft 6. In this case, the sealing lip is not oriented radially, but inclined obliquely thereto, so that the sealing ring 13 has a conical shape viewed in the longitudinal section, with an inner diameter which increases in the direction of the commutator 9.

[0022] The sealing ring 13 and the rotary housing 11 are produced from plastic, wherein the sealing ring 13, in particular, is elastically deformable at least in sections. The inner diameter of the sealing ring 13 is chosen in such a manner that the sealing ring rests on the outside or else the outer casing wall of the rotor shaft 6. Due to the elastic deformability and thin bearing surface at the tip, there is only a small amount of wear in this case.

[0023] FIG. 2 shows the brush holder 11 as a perspective sectional depiction with the sealing ring 13 configured thereon. A brush holder 14 can also be seen in the sectional depiction with which a commutator brush can be pushed in against the force of a spring element, in order to be forced by the spring force in the direction of the commutator ring 10 in the mounted state. The integral design means that the brush holder 11 and the sealing ring 13 can be produced easily and cost-effectively.

[0024] The contour of the sealing ring 13 in this case lies particularly in the main demolding direction of the injection-molding tool and can therefore be realized without special additional costs. The building space required for integrating the proposed embodiment usually already exists in the drive device. The sealing ring 13 with the stripping geometry preferably lies with slight pretensioning on the rotor shaft 6 or on the outer casing wall thereof, in order to create a safe seal against fluid and abrasion dust. The pretensioning is achieved, for example, in that the shaft through opening is smaller in the unmounted state than the outer diameter of the rotor shaft 6 in a section assigned to the sealing ring 13.

[0025] According to an alternative exemplary embodiment not shown here, the brush holder 11 and the sealing ring 13 are preferably produced as a two-component injection-molded part, in other words using the two-component injection molding method. In this way, a plastic with a different, in particular higher, elasticity than for the brush holder 11 can be used for the sealing ring 13, for example. In this way, the two elements can be optimally adapted to their respective functions.