CN103307177A - Buffer automatically attracting and releasing slide block - Google Patents

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CN103307177A
CN103307177A CN2013102549606A CN201310254960A CN103307177A CN 103307177 A CN103307177 A CN 103307177A CN 2013102549606 A CN2013102549606 A CN 2013102549606A CN 201310254960 A CN201310254960 A CN 201310254960A CN 103307177 A CN103307177 A CN 103307177A
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唐全林
张智明
徐金明
谭晓强
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邓学山
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潘金亮
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The invention relates to a buffer automatically attracting and releasing a slide block. The buffer comprises cylinder bodies, wherein cylinder covers are arranged at open ends of the cylinder bodies and seals openings; center through holes are formd in central axes of the cylinder covers; a piston rod penetrates through the center through holes; piston body components are arranged at the top end of the piston rod; during buffering operation, the right end face of one cylinder body serves as a contact surface colliding with the slide block; an electromagnetic coil is arranged in a side wall of the cylinder body in a surrounding manner; a pressure sensor for detecting medium pressure is arranged on the right end face of one piston body component, and connected with a processor module; when the slide block collides with the right end face of the cylinder body, the processor module controls a direct current drive module to output direct current matched with a medium pressure value to allow the electromagnetic coil to generate a corresponding magnetic field to attract the slide block according to the medium pressure value; and the processor module controls the direct current driver module to output reverse current to release the slide block when the medium pressure value measured by the processor module is an equilibrium value.

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The buffer of a kind of automatic adhesive, release slider
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of buffer, relating in particular to a kind of is the buffer of buffer medium with the elastic gel.
Background technique
In the bumper and absorbing shock field, buffer uses very extensive, and it mainly acts on is to absorb various impact energys, protection equipment and reduce noise etc.
But slide block is when cushion at collision, because impact energy is excessive, piston has little time work in the buffer, causes the slide block phenomenon that has a rebound, and what how to avoid this scene is the technical barrier of related domain.
Summary of the invention
The technical problem to be solved in the present invention provides the buffer of a kind of automatic adhesive, release slider, and this buffer has solved slide block when shock eliminator, the technical problem that slide block has a rebound.
The invention provides the buffer of a kind of automatic adhesive, release slider, described buffer comprises: cylindrical, and be used for filling the cylinder body of buffer medium, opening end sealing at this cylinder body is provided with cylinder cap, the sealing activity is combined with a piston rod in the central through bore of described cylinder cap, the right-hand member of this piston rod is provided with the piston body assembly, and this piston body assembly is suitable for doing the piston motion in described cylinder body, and this slide block is magnetic slider; When buffering work, the surface of contact that right side conduct and the slide block of described cylinder body collides; Be arranged with electromagnetic coil in the sidewall of described cylinder body, the right side of described piston body assembly is provided with the pressure transducer for detection of pressure medium, and this pressure transducer links to each other with a processor module.
Described buffer comprises: when described slide block clashes into the right side of described cylinder body, described processor module is suitable for according to the pressure medium value, control the direct current (d.c.) that direct current current drives module output and this pressure medium value are complementary, make described electromagnetic coil produce corresponding magnetic field, with the described slide block of adhesive; When described processor module records the pressure medium value and is equilibrium value, control described direct current driven module and produce reverse output DC stream, to discharge described slide block.
Further, for the impact energy of efficient buffer slide block, described buffer is three grades of buffers, comprising: chopped-off head buffer, intergrade buffer and final stage buffer; Described chopped-off head buffer, intergrade buffer, final stage buffer comprise respectively: cylindrical, and be used for filling the cylinder body of buffer medium, opening end sealing at this cylinder body is provided with cylinder cap, the sealing activity is combined with a piston rod in the central through bore of described cylinder cap, the right-hand member of this piston rod is provided with the piston body assembly, this piston body assembly is suitable for doing the piston motion in described cylinder body, and cooperates with the inwall movable sealing of described cylinder body; Wherein, the cylinder body of described chopped-off head buffer constitutes the piston rod of described intergrade buffer, and the cylinder body of described intergrade buffer constitutes the piston rod of described final stage buffer; When buffering work, the surface of contact that the conduct of cylinder body right side and the slide block of described final stage buffer collides; Described electromagnetic coil is set around in the sidewall of cylinder body of described final stage buffer; Described pressure transducer is located on the right side of piston body assembly of described chopped-off head buffer; The piston body assembly of buffers at different levels is suitable for when doing the piston motion, and described processor is regulated the past regurgitation volume of medium in the corresponding cylinder body, with the speed of control piston motion according to the detected pressure medium of described pressure transducer.
Further, described piston body assembly comprises: the left and right piston body of coaxial setting, be arranged with the through hole that several are used for the medium axial flow on this left and right piston body, being sealed and matched between the adjacent face of left and right piston body, so that do piston when motion, medium is only realized coming and going by each through hole on the described left and right piston body and is flowed; Be provided with in the described left piston body for the cavity of placing motor, this motor is controlled by described processor module, its rotor is connected in described right piston body, be used for driving this right side piston body rotation according to pressure medium, to control the relative position relation of each through hole on the left and right piston body, and then control media flow, i.e. control piston movement velocity.
Compared with prior art, the present invention has following advantage: (1) the present invention produces the magnetic field that is complementary with surge pressure with the adhesive slide block by processor, direct current driven module, anti-limited slip block causes bounce-back because impact energy is excessive, and release slider fast after finishing to buffering; (2) the present invention has overcome in the prior art because the impact energy fluctuation, and cause the technical problem that multi-stage buffer can't co-ordination, the present invention detects impact energy by pressure transducer, and the medium of suitable adjusting buffers at different levels is toward regurgitation volume, to control the movement velocity of each piston body assembly, make buffer co-ordinations at different levels, avoided certain one-level buffer that may occur because impact energy is excessive, all the other buffers have little time compression, and cause the long-term work of this grade buffer under high pressure conditions, cause damage easily; (3) cooperate by each through hole in the left and right piston body, controlling medium in the corresponding cylinder body toward regurgitation volume, thereby change the shuttle speed of respective pistons, to alleviate the cavity pressure of cylinder bodies at different levels, prolong the buffer life-span; (4) these three grades of buffers need not to consider the medium difference, and the application place is extensive, need not to regulate in addition the buffer job order.
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Content of the present invention is easier clearly to be understood in order to make, below the specific embodiment and by reference to the accompanying drawings of basis, the present invention is further detailed explanation, wherein
The structural representation of Fig. 1 buffer of the present invention;
The structural representation one of Fig. 2 three grades of buffers of the present invention;
The structural representation two of Fig. 3 three grades of buffers of the present invention;
The structural representation of the piston body assembly in Fig. 4 three grades of buffers of the present invention;
The work schematic representation of Fig. 5 piston body assembly of the present invention;
Fig. 6 control circuit structured flowchart of the present invention.
Wherein, the piston rod of the piston rod of the piston rod of 1 chopped-off head buffer, 2 intergrade buffers, 3 final stage buffers, 4 cylinder bodies, 4-1 electromagnetic coil, 5 cylinder caps, 6 chopped-off head buffers, 6-1 intergrade buffer, 6-2 final stage buffer, 7 piston body assemblies, 8 urceolus, 9 pressure transducers, 10 slide blocks, 7-1 left piston body, the right piston body of 7-2,7-3 through hole, 7-4 motor, 7-5 rotor.
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The present invention is described in detail below in conjunction with drawings and Examples:
Embodiment 1
See Fig. 1 and Fig. 6, the buffer of a kind of automatic adhesive, release slider, comprise: cylindrical, and be used for filling the cylinder body 4 of buffer medium, opening end sealing at this cylinder body 4 is provided with cylinder cap 5, the sealing activity is combined with a piston rod 6 in the central through bore of described cylinder cap 5, and the right-hand member of this piston rod 6 is provided with piston body assembly 7, and this piston body assembly 7 is suitable for doing the piston motion in described cylinder body 4; When buffering work, the surface of contact that right side conduct and the slide block 10 of described cylinder body 4 collides, this slide block 10 is magnetic slider; Be arranged with electromagnetic coil 4-1 in the sidewall of described cylinder body 4, described piston body assembly 7 right sides are provided with the pressure transducer 9 for detection of pressure medium, and this pressure transducer 9 links to each other with a processor module.
When described slide block 10 clashes into the right side of described cylinder body 4, described processor module is suitable for according to the pressure medium value, control direct current current drives module output and the direct current (d.c.) that this pressure medium value is complementary, make described electromagnetic coil 4-1 produce corresponding magnetic field, with the described slide block 10 of adhesive; When described processor module records the pressure medium value and is equilibrium value, control described direct current driven module and produce reverse output DC stream, to discharge described slide block 10.
When described slide block 10 clashes into the right side of described cylinder body 4, described cylinder body 4 is moved to the left, piston body assembly 7 moves right with respect to described cylinder body 4, the right side buffer medium is subjected to big pressure in the cylinder body 4, when buffer medium flows toward piston body assembly 7 left sides, the pressure that the right side buffer medium is subjected in the cylinder body 4 reduces gradually, equate until the left and right sides of described piston body assembly 7 pressure medium, be that described pressure medium value is when being equilibrium value (being the hydraulic pressure value of the left and right sides of piston body assembly 4 force value when equating), when piston body assembly 7 quit work, slide block 10 also stopped mobile; At this moment, described direct current driven module produces reverse output DC stream, and namely electromagnetic coil 4-1 produces reverse magnetic field, repels each other with described slide block, with this slide block of quick release.
Wherein, described processor module adopts single-chip microcomputer, embedded-type ARM module; Pressure transducer 9 for example can adopt the gloomy P499VBS-404C in river.
Its right end face of urceolus 8 is fixed in the bottom of described piston rod 6.
Embodiment 2
See Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, described buffer is three grades of buffers, comprising: chopped-off head buffer 1, intergrade buffer 2 and final stage buffer 3; Described chopped-off head buffer 1, intergrade buffer, final stage buffer 3 comprise respectively: cylindrical, and be used for filling the cylinder body 4 of buffer medium, opening end sealing at this cylinder body 4 is provided with cylinder cap 5, the sealing activity is combined with a piston rod 6 in the central through bore of described cylinder cap 5, the right-hand member of this piston rod 6 is provided with piston body assembly 7, this piston body assembly 7 is suitable for doing the piston motion in described cylinder body 4, and cooperates with the inwall movable sealing of described cylinder body 4; Wherein, the cylinder body 4 of described chopped-off head buffer 1 constitutes the piston rod 6-1 of described intergrade buffer 2, and the cylinder body 4 of described intergrade buffer 2 constitutes the piston rod 6-2 of described final stage buffer 3; When buffering work, the surface of contact that the conduct of cylinder body 4 right sides and the slide block 10 of described final stage buffer 3 collides; Described electromagnetic coil 4-1 is set around in the sidewall of cylinder body 4 of described final stage buffer 3; Described pressure transducer 9 is located on the right side of piston body assembly 7 of described chopped-off head buffer 1; The piston body assembly 7 of buffers at different levels is suitable for when doing the piston motion, according to described pressure transducer 9 detected pressure mediums, regulates the past regurgitation volume of medium in the corresponding cylinder body 4, with the speed of control piston motion.
The left end of urceolus 8 is fixed in piston rod 6 bottoms of described chopped-off head buffer 1.
F represents the pressure direction that three grades of buffers are subjected to, and F1, F2, F3 represent the moving direction of piston in the buffers at different levels.
See Fig. 4 and Fig. 5, described piston body assembly 7 comprises: the left piston body 7-1 of coaxial setting, right piston body 7-2, be arranged with the through hole 7-3 that several are used for the medium axial flow on this left piston body 7-1, the right piston body 7-2, being sealed and matched between the adjacent face of described left and right piston body, so that do piston when motion, medium is only realized coming and going by each the through hole 7-3 on the described left and right piston body and is flowed; Be provided with in the described left piston body 7-1 for the cavity of placing motor 7-4, this motor 7-4 is controlled by described processor module, its rotor 7-5 is connected in described right piston body 7-2, be used for driving this right side piston body 7-2 rotation according to pressure medium, to control the relative position relation of each the through hole 7-3 on the left and right piston body, and then control media flow, i.e. control piston movement velocity.
Dotted line through hole 7-3 represents it is through hole 7-3 among the left piston body 7-1 among Fig. 5, solid line through hole 7-3 represents the through hole 7-3 among the right piston body 7-2, arrow is represented motor 7-4 sense of rotation, this Fig. 4 is illustrated in respective through hole 7-3 docking operation on the fitting surface of left and right piston body 7-2, with the rate-of flow in the control through hole.
Described right piston body 7-2 is with respect to the coaxial deflection of right piston body 7-2, its slewing area is no more than the diameter of through hole 7-3, also can be called deflection angle, be that motor 7-4 drives right piston body 7-2 in this diameter range according to pressure medium, do to come and go and rotate, to reach the purpose of control media flow, thereby play the piston movement speed of control respective pistons body assembly 7, and then alleviate pressure medium in the cylinder body 4, play the purpose that prolongs the buffer life-span, described three grades of buffers, can close arbitrary or two buffers according to use condition, keep a buffer proper functioning, the buffer that causes temperature to raise because of continuous firing is quit work, with cooling; Realize the cooling of buffer on non-stop-machine basis, can effectively prolong the buffer life-span.
Described motor 7-4 can adopt the high direct current generator 7-4 of precision, perhaps stepper motor 7-4.Power pack can adopt powered battery.Battery can be installed in a left side or the right piston body 7-2.
See Fig. 5, if described through hole 7-3 is how individual, its distribution can be concentric circle with left and right piston body 7-2 and distribute.The signal data line can be placed in cylinder body 4 walls of buffers at different levels, perhaps directly places medium.
Obviously, above-described embodiment only is for example of the present invention clearly is described, and is not to be restriction to embodiments of the present invention.For those of ordinary skill in the field, can also make other changes in different forms on the basis of the above description.Here need not also can't give all mode of executions exhaustive.And these belong to apparent variation or the change that spirit of the present invention extended out and still are among protection scope of the present invention.

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1. the buffer of an automatic adhesive, release slider is characterized in that comprising:
Cylindrical, and be used for to fill the cylinder body of buffer medium, be provided with cylinder cap in the opening end sealing of this cylinder body, the sealing activity is combined with a piston rod in the central through bore of described cylinder cap, the right-hand member of this piston rod is provided with the piston body assembly, and this piston body assembly is suitable for doing the piston motion in described cylinder body;
When buffering work, the surface of contact that right side conduct and the slide block of described cylinder body collides, this slide block is magnetic slider;
Be arranged with electromagnetic coil in the sidewall of described cylinder body, the right side of described piston body assembly is provided with the pressure transducer for detection of pressure medium, and this pressure transducer links to each other with a processor module;
When described slide block clashes into the right side of described cylinder body, described processor module is suitable for according to the pressure medium value, control direct current current drives module output and the direct current (d.c.) that this pressure medium value is complementary, make described electromagnetic coil produce corresponding magnetic field, with the described slide block of adhesive; When described processor module records the pressure medium value and is equilibrium value, control described direct current driven module and produce reverse output DC stream, to discharge described slide block.
2. buffer according to claim 1 is characterized in that, described buffer is three grades of buffers, comprising: chopped-off head buffer, intergrade buffer and final stage buffer;
Described chopped-off head buffer, intergrade buffer, final stage buffer comprise respectively:
Cylindrical, and be used for filling the cylinder body of buffer medium, opening end sealing at this cylinder body is provided with cylinder cap, the sealing activity is combined with a piston rod in the central through bore of described cylinder cap, the right-hand member of this piston rod is provided with the piston body assembly, this piston body assembly is suitable for doing the piston motion in described cylinder body, and cooperates with the inwall movable sealing of described cylinder body;
Wherein, the cylinder body of described chopped-off head buffer constitutes the piston rod of described intergrade buffer, and the cylinder body of described intergrade buffer constitutes the piston rod of described final stage buffer;
Described pressure transducer is located on the right side of piston body assembly of described chopped-off head buffer;
Described electromagnetic coil is set around in the sidewall of cylinder body of described final stage buffer;
When buffering work, the surface of contact that the conduct of cylinder body right side and the slide block of described final stage buffer collides;
The piston body assembly of buffers at different levels is suitable for when doing the piston motion, and described processor is regulated the past regurgitation volume of medium in the corresponding cylinder body, with the speed of control piston motion according to the detected pressure medium of described pressure transducer.
3. buffer according to claim 2, it is characterized in that, described piston body assembly comprises: the left and right piston body of coaxial setting, be arranged with the through hole that several are used for the medium axial flow on this left and right piston body, being sealed and matched between the adjacent face of left and right piston body, so that do piston when motion, medium is only realized coming and going by each through hole on the described left and right piston body and is flowed;
Be provided with in the described left piston body for the cavity of placing motor, this motor is controlled by described processor module, its rotor is connected in described right piston body, be used for driving this right side piston body rotation according to pressure medium, to control the relative position relation of each through hole on the left and right piston body, and then control media flow, i.e. control piston movement velocity.
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