CN107355665A - A kind of lubricating oil pump combination valve - Google Patents

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CN107355665A
CN107355665A CN201710809002.9A CN201710809002A CN107355665A CN 107355665 A CN107355665 A CN 107355665A CN 201710809002 A CN201710809002 A CN 201710809002A CN 107355665 A CN107355665 A CN 107355665A
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Abstract

The present invention relates to machine oil pump technical field, specially a kind of lubricating oil pump combination valve, including valve body, the hollow formation valve pocket of valve body, the valve body is provided with oil inlet and drain pan, the oil inlet connects with the pump discharge of lubricating oil pump, the drain pan connects with the oil sump of engine or the external world, pilot plunger is sequentially provided with from left to right in the valve pocket, safe valve element and spring, the pilot plunger front portion is additionally provided with the feedback oil pocket of connection engine main oil gallery, the pilot plunger afterbody is provided with drain path, the drain path connection oil inlet and pilot plunger its right end face, the oil liquid pressure in oil inlet is set to can be done directly on safe valve element.

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A kind of lubricating oil pump combination valve
Technical field
The present invention relates to machine oil pump technical field, specially a kind of lubricating oil pump combination valve.
Background technology
Oil supply mechanism of the lubricating oil pump as engine, most crucial effect is played for the reliability service of engine, in reality In the application of border, the running power moment of engine occurs to change, thus the traffic demand of lubricating oil is occurred to become with regard to the moment Change, prior art typically can all set up flow control valve to adjust the fuel supply flow rate of lubricating oil on the lubricating oil pump pump housing, but moisten Lubricating oil because of engine movements component wear can be mingled with some abrasive particles using after a period of time in itself, while when lubricating oil is with using Between increase its viscosity can also be continuously increased, in this case, lubricating oil pump be operationally likely occurred feedback oil circuit it is dirty stifled or Person's moving component clamping stagnation and the problem of cause oil extraction oil pocket hypertonia in oil pump, therefore, the pump housing of the prior art in lubricating oil pump On a safety valve can be also set, it is ensured that lubricating oil pump will not be damaged because oil pressure is too high in itself under foregoing extreme situation.
The content of the invention
The present invention mesh be to provide a kind of lubricating oil pump combination valve for having safety valve and oil pressure feedback regulation valve action concurrently, The valve has the advantages of simple in construction, compact, reliability is high.
To realize this purpose, the present invention adopts the following technical scheme that:A kind of lubricating oil pump combination valve, including valve body, institute The hollow formation valve pocket of valve body is stated, the valve body is provided with the pump discharge company of oil inlet and drain pan, the oil inlet and lubricating oil pump Logical, the drain pan connects with the oil sump of engine or the external world, is sequentially provided with pilot plunger, peace in the valve pocket from left to right Full valve core and spring, the pilot plunger front portion are additionally provided with the feedback oil pocket of connection engine main oil gallery, the pilot plunger tail Portion is provided with drain path, the drain path connection oil inlet and pilot plunger its right end face, makes the oil liquid pressure in oil inlet It can be done directly on safe valve element;
When the feedback oil pocket inner fluid hypertonia, the pilot plunger moves right under the promotion of feedback oil pocket inner fluid Dynamic, the oil inlet connects with drain pan, so that the fluid of pump discharge releases to oil sump or the external world;
When the feedback oil pocket inner fluid pressure is normal and pump discharge pressure is too high, the safe valve element is in pump discharge fluid pressure Individually moved right in the presence of power, the oil inlet connects through drain path with drain pan so that the fluid of pump discharge to Oil sump or the external world release.
Preferably, it is annular recess in the middle part of the pilot plunger, the oil inlet communicates with the annular recess of plunger, described Pilot plunger afterbody is provided with the safe valve pocket for accommodating safe valve element, the drain path connection annular recess and safe valve pocket, The side wall of the safe valve pocket is provided with some oil leak holes communicated with drain pan.
Preferably, the safe valve element is spherical the anterior arc being provided with the cooperation of safe spool face of the safe valve pocket Shape sealing surface, the safe valve element be able to can move forward and backward in the presence of pressure oil in safety valve intracavitary, so as to control described let out The break-make of oily passage and drain pan.
Preferably, the safe valve element is cylinder, and the safe valve pocket is also cylindrical cavity, and the safe valve element exists It is able to can be moved forward and backward in safety valve intracavitary in the presence of pressure oil, so as to control the break-make of the drain path and drain pan.
Further, the plunger spring both ends are equipped with pad.
Preferably, the angle position in the annular recess uses circular arc chamfering.
The beneficial effects of the present invention are:Combination valve provided by the present invention is compact-sized, ingenious in design, has machine oil concurrently The effect of pump discharge regulating valve and safety valve, a spring is shared located at the pilot plunger of valve body and safe valve element, but can The effect of regulation flow and oil pressure of releasing is implemented separately according to feedback oil pocket or pump discharge oil pressure, machine oil greatly reduces The complexity of pump pump body structure design.
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Fig. 1 is the top view of the embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is the sectional view for having in the embodiment of the present invention the safe valve element of cylinder.
Fig. 3 is to include a kind of sectional view of safe valve pocket in the embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is the sectional view that another safe valve pocket is included in the embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is the left view of the embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 6 is the schematic diagram of pilot plunger of the present invention comprising inclined oil hole of air.
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1- valve body 2- oil inlet 3- drain pans
The safe valve element 6- springs of 4- pilot plungers 5-
7- feeds back the safe valve pockets of oil pocket 8- drain paths 9-
10- oil leak holes.
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In the description of the invention, it is to be understood that the orientation or position relationship of the instruction such as term " interior ", " outer " are Based on orientation shown in the drawings or position relationship, it is for only for ease of the description present invention and simplifies description, rather than instruction or dark Show that the device of meaning or element there must be specific orientation, with specific azimuth configuration and operation, thus it is it is not intended that right The limitation of the present invention.
In addition, term " installation ", " connected ", " connection " should be interpreted broadly, for example, it may be mechanically connecting or being electrically connected Connect or the connection of two element internals, can be joined directly together, can also be indirectly connected by intermediary, for For one of ordinary skill in the art, the concrete meaning of the term can be understood as the case may be.
For the ease of the understanding of those skilled in the art, the present invention is made further with reference to embodiment and accompanying drawing Bright, the content that embodiment refers to not is limitation of the invention.
Before specific structure description and explanation is carried out, it is necessary to do brief description to the invention thinking of invention:Hair A person of good sense is when designing the engine oil pump of a specific model, due to the needs of enging cabin space arrangement, the peace of the lubricating oil pump Full valve and flow control valve can only be in a very long and narrow spaces, as well known to a person skilled in the art oil pump capacity is adjusted Section is primarily to solve the problems, such as that oil pressure is too high in engine main oil gallery(On the one hand hypertonia in engine main oil gallery needs More engine powers are consumed to circulate, some sealing positions is on the other hand also easily caused and is sent out beyond pressure allowable value Raw seepage), thus flow control valve uses the feedback oil pressure of main oil gallery, safety valve is then to solve pumping out for lubricating oil pump The problem of hypertonia of mouth, also the pressure of pump discharge is in general higher than the allowable pressure of main oil gallery, therefore in practice The Opening pressure of safety valve and flow control valve is also different, and this just considerably increases the difficulty of combination valve design.In addition, just Referred to Ru foregoing, because the space that the combination valve can take is an elongated shape, the function, again of two valve independence should be realized Needing to take into account requirement of two valves for releasing and adjusting flow, this devises a combination valve with just courageously breaking through to inventor, The combination valve shares a valve body, and plunger uses the design of combined plunger, and plunger spring has then used same spring, significantly The occupancy for reducing volume.
As Figure 1-5, a kind of lubricating oil pump combination valve, including valve body 1, the hollow formation valve pocket of valve body 1, the valve body 1 is provided with oil inlet 2 and drain pan 3, and the oil inlet 2 connects with the pump discharge of lubricating oil pump, the drain pan 3 and engine Oil sump or the external world are connected, and pilot plunger 4, safe valve element 5 and spring 6, the tune are sequentially provided with from left to right in the valve pocket The front portion of segmented column plug 4 is additionally provided with the feedback oil pocket 7 of connection engine main oil gallery, and the afterbody of pilot plunger 4 is provided with drain path 8, The drain path 8 connects oil inlet 2 and its right end face of pilot plunger 4, can be done directly on the oil liquid pressure in oil inlet 2 On safe valve element 5;
When it is described feedback 7 inner fluid hypertonia of oil pocket when, the pilot plunger 4 feedback the inner fluid of oil pocket 7 promotion under to Move right, the oil inlet 2 connects with drain pan 3, so that the fluid of pump discharge releases to oil sump or the external world;
When the feedback oil pocket 7 inner fluid pressure is normal and pump discharge pressure is too high, the safe valve element 5 is in pump discharge fluid Individually moved right in the presence of pressure, the oil inlet 2 connects through drain path 8 with drain pan 3, so that the oil of pump discharge Liquid releases to oil sump or the external world.
As in Figure 2-4, the pilot plunger of combinations thereof valve and safe valve element can have various shapes, and its designing points exists In the safe sealing surface corresponding with necessarily be formed between valve body or pilot plunger of valve element 5, the sealing surface is ensured in normal condition Lower drain path is directly truncated with oil leak hole.
Preferably, the middle part of the pilot plunger 4 is annular recess, the annular recess phase of the oil inlet 2 and plunger Logical, the afterbody of pilot plunger 4 is provided with the safe valve pocket 9 for accommodating safe valve element 5, and the drain path 8 connects annular recess With safe valve pocket 9, the side wall of the safe valve pocket 9 is provided with some oil leak holes 10 communicated with drain pan 3.
Certainly, can also be not provided with turning into middle part in the middle part of pilot plunger has a structure of annular recess, such as can be with The inclined oil hole of air shown in Fig. 6 is opened up in pilot plunger 4, after pilot plunger 4 is pushed to ad-hoc location by feedback oil pocket inner fluid, The oil inlet is turned on oil leak hole by inclined oil hole of air, so as to realize the effect released.
Preferably, the safe valve element is spherical the anterior arc being provided with the cooperation of safe spool face of the safe valve pocket Shape sealing surface, the safe valve element be able to can move forward and backward in the presence of pressure oil in safety valve intracavitary, so as to control described let out The break-make of oily passage and drain pan.
Preferably, the safe valve element is cylinder, and the safe valve pocket is also cylindrical cavity, and the safe valve element exists It is able to can be moved forward and backward in safety valve intracavitary in the presence of pressure oil, so as to control the break-make of the drain path and drain pan.
Further, the both ends of plunger spring 4 are equipped with pad.Pad is set to keep away at the both ends of plunger spring 4 Exempt from due to the problem of pilot plunger frequent movement causes the contact surface abrasion of plunger spring 4 and valve body, practical experience shows, this connects Contacting surface abrasion easily causes spring breakage, thus can avoid directly wearing valve body to a certain extent using pad, reduces the later stage The cost of maintenance.
Preferably, the angle position of the annular recess of the pilot plunger 3 is arc transition.
As shown in Figure 2, Figure 3 and Figure 4, when pilot plunger 3 is in frequent movement in the presence of main oil gallery feedback oil pressure, release Lubricating oil in oil pocket also can frequently shake in oil pocket 6 of releasing, and CFD analog results show that the concussion can cause pump discharge Oil pressure is unstable, and by the annular recess of pilot plunger 3 be changed to arc transition then can reply reduce its pressure oscillation.
Above-described embodiment is the preferable implementation of the present invention, and in addition, the present invention can be realized with other manner, Any obviously replaced on the premise of not departing from the technical program design within protection scope of the present invention.
In order to allow those of ordinary skill in the art more easily to understand improvements of the present invention relative to prior art, this Some accompanying drawings of invention and description have been simplified, and for the sake of clarity, present specification is omitted some other members Element, those of ordinary skill in the art should be aware that these elements omitted also may make up present disclosure.

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1. a kind of lubricating oil pump combination valve, including valve body(1), the valve body(1)Hollow formation valve pocket, it is characterised in that:It is described Valve body(1)It is provided with oil inlet(2)And drain pan(3), the oil inlet(2)Connected with the pump discharge of lubricating oil pump, the draining Groove(3)Connected with the oil sump of engine or the external world, pilot plunger is sequentially provided with from left to right in the valve pocket(4), safety valve Core(5)And spring(6), the pilot plunger(4)Front portion is additionally provided with the feedback oil pocket of connection engine main oil gallery(7), the tune Segmented column plug(4)Afterbody is provided with drain path(8), the drain path(8)Connect oil inlet(2)And pilot plunger(4)Right-hand end Face, make oil inlet(2)Interior oil liquid pressure can be done directly on safe valve element(5)On;
When the feedback oil pocket(7)During inner fluid hypertonia, the pilot plunger(4)In feedback oil pocket(7)Inner fluid pushes away Moved right under dynamic, the oil inlet(2)With drain pan(3)Connection, so that the fluid of pump discharge is to oil sump or the external world Release;
When the feedback oil pocket(7)Inner fluid pressure is normal and when pump discharge pressure is too high, the safe valve element(5)In pump discharge Individually moved right in the presence of oil liquid pressure, the oil inlet(2)Through drain path(8)With drain pan(3)Connection, so that The fluid of pump discharge releases to oil sump or the external world.
A kind of 2. lubricating oil pump combination valve according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:The pilot plunger(4)Middle part is Annular recess, the oil inlet(2)Communicated with the annular recess of plunger, the pilot plunger(4)Afterbody, which is provided with to accommodate, pacifies Full valve core(5)Safe valve pocket(9), the drain path(8)Connect annular recess and safe valve pocket(9), the safety valve Chamber(9)Side wall be provided with some and drain pan(3)The oil leak hole communicated(10).
A kind of 3. lubricating oil pump combination valve according to claim 2, it is characterised in that:The safe valve element(5)To be spherical, The safe valve pocket(9)Front portion is provided with and safe valve element(5)The arc sealing surface of surface engagement, the safe valve element(5)Pressing Can be in safe valve pocket in the presence of power oil(9)It is interior to move forward and backward, so as to control the drain path(8)With drain pan(3)'s Break-make.
A kind of 4. lubricating oil pump combination valve according to claim 2, it is characterised in that:The safe valve element(5)For cylinder Shape, the safe valve pocket(9)Also it is cylindrical cavity, the safe valve element(5)Can be in safe valve pocket in the presence of pressure oil (9)It is interior to move forward and backward, so as to control the drain path(8)With drain pan(3)Break-make.
A kind of 5. lubricating oil pump combination valve according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:The spring(6)Both ends are equipped with Pad.
A kind of 6. lubricating oil pump combination valve according to claim 1, it is characterised in that:Corner in the annular recess Position uses circular arc chamfering.
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