Hydraulic device, in particular low-pressure accumulator with a closure element

Abstract

A hydraulic device includes a housing and a closure element arranged thereon. The closure element is connected to the housing by torsional welding.

Claims

1. A hydraulic device, comprising: a housing defining a cylindrical bore and including a centering member that extends along only a portion of a circumference of the cylindrical bore, the centering member completely spaced apart from the cylindrical bore, such that no portion of the centering member is located within the cylindrical bore; and a closure element arranged on the housing and configured to be centered relative to the cylindrical bore by the centering member, wherein the closure element is connected to the housing by a torsional weld.

2. The hydraulic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein: the housing further defines an abutment shoulder that extends completely around the circumference of the bore, the closure element defines a circular periphery, and the torsional weld is formed on the abutment shoulder along an entire circumference of the closure element.

3. The hydraulic device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the centering member is not formed at a transition of the abutment shoulder to side surfaces of the housing.

4. The hydraulic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the closure element is formed with a step facing toward the housing.

5. The hydraulic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hydraulic device is a piston pump.

6. The hydraulic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the centering member includes a first chamfer formed in the housing and a second chamfer formed in the housing.

7. A method for producing a hydraulic device, comprising: centering a closure element relative to a cylindrical bore defined by a housing with a centering member of the housing that extends along only a portion of a circumference of the cylindrical bore and is completely spaced apart from the cylindrical bore, such that no portion of the centering member is located within the cylindrical bore; and connecting the closure element to the housing by a torsional weld.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the closure element defines a circular periphery, and the method further comprises: forming the torsional weld on an abutment shoulder of the housing along an entire circumference of the closure element.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein: the housing further defines an abutment shoulder that extends completely around the cylindrical bore, and the centering member is not formed at a transition of the abutment shoulder to side surfaces of the housing.

10. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the method produces a low-pressure accumulator of a vehicle brake system of a motor vehicle.

11. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the hydraulic device is a pressure accumulator or a piston pump.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) An exemplary embodiment of the solution according to the disclosure will be explained in more detail below on the basis of the appended schematic drawings, in which:

(2) FIG. 1 shows an axial longitudinal section of a pump housing during the step of the pressing-on of a closure element, as per the prior art,

(3) FIG. 2 shows a plan view of a pump housing of a piston pump according to the disclosure,

(4) FIG. 3 shows a view from below of a sonotrode for torsional welding on the pump housing as per FIG. 2,

(5) FIG. 4 shows the section IV-IV in FIG. 2 in a production step “chip-removing drilling”,

(6) FIG. 5 shows the section V-V in a production step “chip-removing drilling”,

(7) FIG. 6 shows the view as per FIG. 4 in a production step “mounting of the cover”,

(8) FIG. 7 shows the view as per FIG. 4 in a production step “welding of the cover”,

(9) FIG. 8 shows the view as per FIG. 5 in the production step “welding of the cover”,

(10) FIG. 9 shows the detail IX in FIG. 8, and

(11) FIG. 10 shows a variant of the detail X in FIG. 6.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

(12) FIG. 1 illustrates the connection of a closure element 7 in the form of a cover to a pump housing 10 (in the present case a housing of a hydraulic device in the form of a piston pump) by pressing by means of a press plunger 22, as per the prior art.

(13) The figure shows the pump housing 10, a cylindrical bore 12 formed therein, a helical spring 14 arranged in the bore 12, and an accumulator piston 16 resiliently preloaded by the helical spring 14. The accumulator piston 16 forms, together with the helical spring 14, an accumulator or an accumulator arrangement for the piston pump which is formed by the pump housing 10 and which is not illustrated in any more detail.

(14) The closure element 7 is held, by means of a holding plunger 24, on a stepped abutment 26 which is formed in the interior of the cylindrical bore 12. The press plunger 22 is designed such that, through the exertion of axial pressure on the edge of the cylindrical bore 12, material of the pump housing 10 is displaced over the outer edge region of the closure element 7.

(15) Here, in order to be able to attain fluid-tight sealing over the entire circumference of the closure element 7, it is important that material is displaced over the edge region of the closure element 7 likewise over the entire circumference thereof. The pump housing 10 is thus designed to be so thick or broad with regard to its thickness 18 that sufficient material for deformation is available even on side surfaces 20 of the pump housing 10.

(16) The piston pump designed in this way with a pump housing 10 and a closure element 7 on the associated accumulator is designed for delivering fluids in particular for a hydraulic motor vehicle brake system in motor vehicles. Said piston pump serves in particular for selectively decreasing or increasing the brake pressure in the wheel brake cylinders within the context of a traction control system.

(17) The piston pump according to the disclosure may however also be used, for example, as a high-pressure fuel delivery pump for an internal combustion engine, wherein the fuel enclosed in a delivery chamber is compressed.

(18) FIG. 2 shows a plan view of a pump housing 10, according to the disclosure, of a piston pump 34. On the pump housing 10 there is formed an interface for the mounting and attachment of a closure element 7, said interface being shown in more detail in sectional views in FIGS. 4 and 5. The interface forms a support for the closure element 7 for the subsequent connection of said closure element in a cohesive and in particular also leak-tight manner to the pump housing 10 by means of a torsional welding process.

(19) FIG. 3 shows a view from below of a corrugated sonotrode 28 of a torsional welding plant (not illustrated in any more detail). Said sonotrode 28 generates the cohesive connection between the closure element 7 and pump housing 10 by means of plastic deformation.

(20) FIG. 4 illustrates a first step of the method according to the disclosure for the production of a connection between a closure element 7 and a pump housing 10. For this purpose, there is likewise formed in the pump housing 10 a cylindrical bore 12 which then serves as a piston surface for an accumulator piston 16. On the outer edge of the cylindrical bore 12 there is formed a first chamfer 2, that is to say a beveled surface for a transition to an abutment shoulder 3, which merges into a second chamfer 4. The second chamfer 4 merges into a transition radius 5 on the top side 21 of the pump housing 10. The depth of the abutment shoulder 3 relative to the top side 21 is approximately 0.7 mm.

(21) FIG. 5 illustrates the form of said edge configuration at the side surfaces 20 of the pump housing 10. In said lateral region of the pump housing 18, the latter is formed so as to be so thin or narrow that only the first chamfer 2 and the abutment shoulder 3, but not the second chamfer 4, exist over the entire circumference of the cylindrical bore 12. As can be seen in particular in FIG. 4, the pump housing 10 may thus be formed with a particularly thin or narrow thickness 8.

(22) FIG. 6 shows, in an axial section, the next step for the production of the connection of pump housing 10 and closure element 7. Here, the closure element 7 is placed onto the abutment shoulder 3 and, in the process, is centered with the outer radius 6 of the closure element 7 on the transition radius 5 and the second chamfer 4. Said centering by means of the transition radius 5 and the second chamfer 4 is preferably not realized at the edge regions at the side surfaces 20, because no second chamfer 4 is provided there.

(23) FIGS. 7, 8 and 9 show the positively locking connection by means of torsional welding in a third step in which the welding itself takes place. For this purpose, a pressure force is applied axially to the closure element 7 by means of the sonotrode 28, and the sonotrode 28 is simultaneously excited at high frequency by means of a torsional welding plant which is not illustrated in any more detail. In this way, the material at the lower edge region of the closure element 7 connects to the material on the abutment shoulder 3 of the pump housing 10. The material which fuses on or melts on in the process is indicated in FIG. 7 and FIG. 9 by reference numeral 30.

(24) At the same time, the negative form of the sonotrode 28 is impressed on the top side of the closure element 7, because said sonotrode is in particular of corrugated form on its contact surface facing the closure element 7.

(25) FIG. 10 shows a variant of the connection of the closure element 7 to the pump housing 10 and the cylindrical bore 12 thereof. The figure shows the chamfer 2 at the top edge of the cylindrical bore 12, and a step 32 which is formed on the closure element 7 and which projects into the cylinder bore 12 and, in so doing, covers the chamfer 2 in the axial direction of the bore 12. With said step 32 on the closure element 7, it is achieved that chips formed at the edge of the bore 12 during the formation of the torsional weld are retained in the chamfer 2 and cannot enter into the bore 12 and thus into the associated hydraulic system.

(26) All of the features presented in the description, in the following claims and in the drawings may be essential to the disclosure both individually and also in any desired combination with one another.