PISTON-CHAMBER COMBINATION
20180372090 · 2018-12-27
Inventors
Cpc classification
F16J1/008
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F04B53/143
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F16J10/00
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F16J10/02
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F16J3/06
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F16F9/368
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
International classification
F04B53/14
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F16F9/48
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F16J3/06
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
Abstract
A piston-chamber combination including a chamber (2) which is bounded by an inner chamber wall (4), and including a piston (1) in the chamber (2) to be engagingly movable relative to the chamber wall (4) at least between a first position and a second position of the chamber (2), the chamber (2) having cross-sections of different cross-sectional areas and differing circumferential lengths at the first and second longitudinal positions, and at least substantially continuously different cross-sectional areas and circumferential lengths at intermediate longitudinal positions between the first and second longitudinal positions, the cross-sectional area and circumferential length at the second longitudinal position being smaller than the cross-sectional area and circumferential length at the first longitudinal position, and the piston (1) includes a rotatable member (12) for suspension of the sealing (8,9).
Claims
1. A piston-chamber combination comprising: a chamber defined at least by an inner chamber wall; and a piston in said chamber configured to be engagingly movable relative to said inner chamber wall at least between a first longitudinal position and a second longitudinal position of said chamber, said chamber having cross-sections of different cross-sectional areas and differing circumferential lengths at said first longitudinal position and said second longitudinal position, and at least substantially continuously different cross-sectional areas and circumferential lengths at intermediate longitudinal positions between said first longitudinal position and said second longitudinal position, a cross-sectional area and circumferential length at said second longitudinal position being less than a cross-sectional area and circumferential length at said first longitudinal position, said piston comprising a member for suspension of a sealing, said member being rotatable, and said sealing comprising a separate part engaging said inner chamber wall of said chamber and said sealing being made of elastically deformable impervious material, and mounted on a piston rod, said piston having a production-size of said separate part and said sealing in a stress-free and undeformed state thereof in which a circumferential length of said piston is approximately equivalent to the circumferential length of said inner chamber wall at said second longitudinal position, said piston being expandable from said production size in a direction transversally with respect to a longitudinal/circular direction of said chamber to provide an expansion of sealing of said piston from said production size thereof during relative movements of said piston from said second longitudinal position to said first longitudinal/circular position, wherein at one end, closest to a second longitudinal/circular position of said chamber, said sealing being embedded in said separate part, said sealing of said piston comprising sealing sections in a direction along said piston rod, said sealing being divided in said sealing sections over a circumference of said sealing, and, an angle in-between two adjacent sealing sections is less than 180, wherein at one other end, closest to a first longitudinal/circular position of said chamber, said sealing is divided in said sealing sections over said circumference of said sealing, and, another angle in-between two adjacent sealing sections is greater than said angle.
2. A piston-chamber combination according to claim 1, wherein closest to said first longitudinal/circular position of said chamber is a cross-sectional diameter of said separate part is greatest, and closest to said first longitudinal/circular position of said chamber (2) a cross-sectional diameter of said separate part is less than said cross-sectional diameter of said separate part at said second longitudinal/circular position of said chamber.
3. A piston-chamber combination according to claim 1, wherein said sealing sections are plane sections, said plane sections having transitions in-between said sealing sections, said plane sections and said transitions comprising reinforcements, said reinforcements communicating with each other.
4. A piston-chamber combination according to claim 1, wherein said sealing sections are curved sections and said sealing sections comprising in turning centers reinforcements positioned in a direction along said piston rod, said sealing sections comprising reinforcements, said reinforcements communicating with each other.
5. A piston-chamber combination according to claim 1, wherein said angles are between two adjacently positioned section planes.
6. A piston-chamber combination according to claim 4, wherein said angles are between two adjacently positioned reinforcement ends of turning centers in a transversal cross-section.
7. A piston-chamber combination according to claim 1, further comprising turning points for the sealing and for said member, wherein said turning points are positioned adjacent to each other.
8. A piston-chamber combination according to claim 1, further comprising a coil spring for suspending said separate part, said coil spring comprising a part which can turn over an angle.
9. A piston-chamber combination according to claim 1, wherein said member further comprises a shaped holder, wherein said holder has a circle round shape corresponding to an outside shape of a coil spring.
10. A piston-chamber combination according to claim 9, wherein said shaped holder is part of a portion of said member, wherein said portion is retractable, by a stop mounted on said piston rod.
11. A piston-chamber combination according to claim 1, wherein the member has an angle of approximately 60 with a center axis of said piston rod.
12. A piston-chamber combination according to claim 1, wherein a turning point, spot of the sealing, is positioned very nearly the center of an axle of the member.
13. A pump for pumping a fluid, the pump comprising: a piston-chamber combination comprising a chamber defined by at least an inner chamber wall and a piston in said chamber configured to be engagingly movable relative to said inner chamber wall at least between a first longitudinal position and a second longitudinal position of said chamber, said chamber having cross-sections of different cross-sectional areas and differing circumferential lengths at said first longitudinal position and said second longitudinal position, and at least substantially continuously different cross-sectional areas and circumferential lengths at intermediate longitudinal positions between said first longitudinal position and said second longitudinal position, a cross-sectional area and circumferential length at said second longitudinal position being less than a cross-sectional area and circumferential length at said first longitudinal position, said piston comprising a member for suspension of a sealing, said member being rotatable, and said sealing comprising a separate part engaging said inner chamber wall of said chamber and said sealing being made of elastically deformable impervious material, and mounted on a piston rod, said piston having a production-size of said separate part and said sealing in a stress-free and undeformed state thereof in which a circumferential length of said piston is approximately equivalent to said circumferential length of said chamber wall at said second longitudinal position, said piston being expandable from said production size in a direction transversally with respect to a longitudinal/circular direction of said chamber to provide an expansion of sealing of said piston from said production size thereof during relative movements of said piston from said second longitudinal position to said first longitudinal/circular position, wherein at one end, closest to a second longitudinal/circular position of said chamber, said sealing being embedded in said separate part, said sealing of said piston comprising sealing sections in a direction along said piston rod, said sealing being divided in said sealing sections over a circumference of said sealing, and, an angle in-between two adjacent sealing sections is less than 180, wherein at one other end, closest to a first longitudinal/circular position of said chamber, said sealing is divided in said sealing sections over said circumference of said sealing, and, another angle in-between two adjacent sealing sections is greater than said angle; means for engaging said piston from a position outside said chamber; a fluid entrance connected to said chamber and comprising a valve means; and a fluid exit connected to said chamber, said separate part sealingly engaging said inner chamber wall of said chamber, at least from said first longitudinal/circular position to said second longitudinal/circular position of the chamber.
14. A pump according to claim 13, wherein said engaging means has an outer position where said piston is at said first longitudinal/circular position of said chamber, and an inner position where said piston is at said second longitudinal/circular position of said chamber.
15. A pump according to claim 14, wherein said engaging means has an outer position where said piston is at said second longitudinal/circular position of said chamber, and an inner position where said piston is at said first longitudinal/circular position of said chamber.
16. A shock absorber comprising: a piston-chamber combination comprising a chamber defined by at least an inner chamber wall and a piston in said chamber configured to be engagingly movable relative to said inner chamber wall at least between a first longitudinal position and a second longitudinal position of said chamber, said chamber having cross-sections of different cross-sectional areas and differing circumferential lengths at said first longitudinal position and said second longitudinal position, and at least substantially continuously different cross-sectional areas and circumferential lengths at intermediate longitudinal positions between said first longitudinal position and said second longitudinal position, a cross-sectional area and circumferential length at said second longitudinal position being less than a cross-sectional area and circumferential length at said first longitudinal position, said piston comprising a member for suspension of a sealing, said member being rotatable, and said sealing comprising a separate part engaging said inner chamber wall of said chamber and said sealing being made of elastically deformable impervious material, and mounted on a piston rod, said piston having a production-size of said separate part and said sealing in a stress-free and undeformed state thereof in which a circumferential length of said piston is approximately equivalent to said circumferential length of said chamber wall at said second longitudinal position, said piston being expandable from said production size in a direction transversally with respect to a longitudinal/circular direction of said chamber to provide an expansion of sealing of said piston from said production size thereof during relative movements of said piston from said second longitudinal position to said first longitudinal/circular position, wherein at one end, closest to a second longitudinal/circular position of said chamber, said sealing being embedded in said separate part, said sealing of said piston comprising sealing sections in a direction along said piston rod, said sealing being divided in said sealing sections over a circumference of said sealing, and, an angle in-between two adjacent sealing sections is less than 180, wherein at one other end, closest to a first longitudinal/circular position of said chamber, said sealing is divided in said sealing sections over said circumference of said sealing, and, another angle in-between two adjacent sealing sections is greater than said angle; a means for engaging said piston from a position outside said chamber, wherein said engaging means has an outer position where said piston is at said first longitudinal/circular position of said chamber, and an inner position where said piston is at the second longitudinal/circular position, said separate part is sealingly engaging said inner chamber wall of said chamber, at least from said first longitudinal/circular position of said chamber and said second longitudinal/circular position of said chamber.
17. A shock absorber according to claim 16, further comprising a fluid entrance connected to said chamber and comprising a valve means.
18. A shock absorber according to claim 14, further comprising a fluid exit connected to said chamber and comprising a valve means.
19. A shock absorber according to claim 16, wherein said chamber and said piston form an at least substantially sealed cavity comprising a fluid, said fluid being compressed when said piston moves from said first longitudinal/circular position to said second position of said chamber.
20. A shock absorber according to claim 16, further comprising a means for biasing said piston toward said first longitudinal/circular position of said chamber.
21. An actuator comprising: a piston-chamber combination comprising a chamber defined by at least an inner chamber wall and a piston in said chamber configured to be engagingly movable relative to said inner chamber wall at least between a first longitudinal position and a second longitudinal position of said chamber, said chamber having cross-sections of different cross-sectional areas and differing circumferential lengths at said first longitudinal position and said second longitudinal position, and at least substantially continuously different cross-sectional areas and circumferential lengths at intermediate longitudinal positions between said first longitudinal position and said second longitudinal position, a cross-sectional area and circumferential length at said second longitudinal position being less than a cross-sectional area and circumferential length at said first longitudinal position, said piston comprising a member for suspension of a sealing, said member being rotatable, and said sealing comprising a separate part engaging said inner chamber wall of said chamber and said sealing being made of elastically deformable impervious material, and mounted on a piston rod, said piston having a production-size of said separate part and said sealing in a stress-free and undeformed state thereof in which a circumferential length of said piston is approximately equivalent to said circumferential length of said chamber wall at said second longitudinal position, said piston being expandable from said production size in a direction transversally with respect to a longitudinal/circular direction of said chamber to provide an expansion of sealing of said piston from said production size thereof during relative movements of said piston from said second longitudinal position to said first longitudinal/circular position, wherein at one end, closest to a second longitudinal/circular position of said chamber, said sealing being embedded in said separate part, said sealing of said piston comprising sealing sections in a direction along said piston rod, said sealing being divided in said sealing sections over a circumference of said sealing, and, an angle in-between two adjacent sealing sections is less than 180, wherein at one other end, closest to a first longitudinal/circular position of said chamber, said sealing is divided in said sealing sections over said circumference of said sealing, and, another angle in-between two adjacent sealing sections is greater than said angle; a means for engaging the piston from a position outside said chamber; a means for introducing fluid into said chamber to displace said piston between said first longitudinal/circular position and said second longitudinal/circular position of said chamber, said separate part sealingly engaging said inner chamber wall of said chamber, from said second longitudinal/circular position to said first longitudinal/circular position of said chamber or from said first longitudinal/circular position to said second longitudinal/circular position of said chamber.
22. An actuator according to claim 21, further comprising a fluid entrance connected to said chamber and comprising a valve means.
23. An actuator according to claim 21, further comprising a fluid exit connected to said chamber and comprising a valve means.
24. An actuator according to claim 21, further comprising a means for biasing said piston toward one of said first longitudinal/circular position and said second longitudinal/circular position of said chamber.
25. An actuator according to claim 21, wherein said introducing means comprises a means for introducing pressurized fluid into said chamber.
26. An actuator according to claim 21, wherein said introducing means is adapted to introduce a combustible fluid into said chamber, and the actuator further comprises a means for combusting said combustible fluid.
27. An actuator according to claim 21, further comprising a crank adapted to translate translation of said piston into a rotation of said crank.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0025] In the following, preferred embodiments of the invention will be described with reference to the drawings wherein:
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DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
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[0041] The cross-section of the piston 6 and the chamber 2 is shown left of the center axis 3. The radius of said chamber 2 is at said first longitudinal position a. The angle is the angle between the line 15 straight between centers of the turning points 11 and the center 17 of the O-ring 6 of the member 12 and a horizontal line 16 which is perpendicular to the center axis 3. The diameter x of said O-ring 6 has been reduced substantially in relation to the diameter y of said O-ring 6 at a second longitudinal position. The circle segment t shows the movement of the center 17 of said O-ring when said piston is moving between first and second longitudinal positions. The circle segment s shows the rotation of arm 12, turning around said axle 13 through the center 17 of said O-ring when said piston 1 is moving between first and second longitudinal positions. The circle segment t shows the rotation around the middle of the sealing just under the bottom of the vulcanization on said piston rod 5 of the center 17 of said O-ring when said piston 1 is moving between first and second longitudinal positions. The difference c at a second longitudinal position shows that the sealing is stretched a length c in comparison with the sealing length at a first longitudinal position. Said difference c needs to be as small as possible, in order to avoid stressing the sealing, thereby enhancing life time. The traject curves 49 and 50 of the centers 17 and 48, of the coil spring 34 and the O-ring 6,6, respectively when the piston is moving from a first- to a second longitudinal/circular position of the chamber.
[0042] The cross-section at a second longitudinal position is showing right of the center axis 3 the piston 1 at a second longitudinal position of said chamber 2. The radius of said chamber 2 is at said second longitudinal position b. The angle is the angle between the line 15 and the center axis 3 of the piston 1. g is the diameter of the O-ring 6 at the first longitudinal/circular position, which is smaller than h, which is the diameter of the O-ring 6 at a second longitudinal/circular position. Both diameters are measured in a cross-section in a plane through the center axis 3 of the chamber 2, 2.
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[0044] The coil spring 34 (see also WO2000/070227) which is pressing the O-ring 6, 6 onto the internal wall 4 of the chamber 2, is shaped such, that O-ring 6, 6 is supported in pressing itself onto said internal wall, thereby enabling a proper sealing. Said spring is suspended by a holder 38 at the end of the member 12. At a 1.sup.st position of the chamber is said member positioned at the very end of said arm 12. At a 2.sup.nd position of the chamber 2 has said coil spring 34 be turned, in relation to its position at said 1.sup.st position of the chamber, in a plane through said center axis 3. Said holder 38 is shaped in such a way that it allows a torsional turn of said coil spring 34. At said 2.sup.nd position of the chamber 2 is said holder 34 positioned farthest from the end of said member 12. The change of the position of the holder 38, 38 is done by a stop 39. This enables the sealing to be unstressed at said position, and this enlarges life time. See
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[0048] The suspension 25 of the members 12 is having a tight fit with the piston rod 5. Five members 12 are shown. Said members 12 are communicating with an axle 26, which have a tight fit with the suspension 25. Said members can turn around said axles 26, the center line 27 of said axle 26.
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