Tensioning device having a transport securing concept

• US 10,452,094 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2015
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co.KG (INA-Holding Schaeffler GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co.KG (INA-Holding Schaeffler GmbH & Co. KG)
• Inventors: Ullein, Thomas, Goeb, Matthias
• Primary Examiner(s): Liu, Henry Y
• Application Number:
  US15/507,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20170255222A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,604 Days
• Field of Search: 474110
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2007/0806 Compression coil springs
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2007/0812 Fluid pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2007/0859 Check valves
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2007/0878 Disabling during transport
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2007/0891 Linear path
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2057/0093 Means or measures for transport, shipping or packaging
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 7/08 Means for varying tension of belts, ropes, or chains pulleys of adjustable construction F16H55/52 ; gearings with endless belts F16H7/02; tensioning for chains or belts specially adapted for cycles B62M9/16; belt or chain tensioning arrangements for endless conveyors B65G23/44
• CPC Class Codes: G05G 5/06 for holding members in one or a limited number of definite positions only G05G5/005, G05G5/03, G05G5/05, G05G5/28 take precedence

Abstract

A tensioning device (1) for tensioning a traction mechanism of a traction mechanism drive, including a housing (2), a piston (3) that is mounted such that the piston can be displaced in an axial direction inside the housing (2), and a transport securing element (4), which in at least one transport position of the tensioning device (1) is arranged in the housing (2) transversely to the piston (3) and in abutment with the piston (3) such that a displacement of the piston (3) in at least one first axial direction is blocked. The transport securing element (4) is provided with a support portion (5), wherein in the transport position at least one first web area (6) of the support portion (5) is in abutment with one end face (7) of the piston (3), and an additional web area (8) of the support portion (5) extending in an axial direction away from the first web area (6) is supported in the housing (2), at least in a radial direction.

Claims

1. A tensioning device for tensioning a traction mechanism of a traction mechanism drive, the tensioning device comprising:

a housing;

a piston axially displaceably supported within this housing; and

a transport securing element, the transport securing element, in at least one transport position of the tensioning device, being situated transversely to the piston and in abutment with the piston in the housing in such a way that a displacement of the piston in at least one first axial direction is blocked,

the transport securing element including a supporting section, a first web area of the supporting section being in abutment with an end face of the piston in the transport position, and a second web area of the supporting section, the second web area extending axially away from the first web area and axially into a recess of the housing, being supported on the housing at least in a radial direction.

2. The tensioning device as recited in claim 1 wherein the transport securing element has an L-shaped, double L-shaped, S-shaped or Z-shaped cross section, at least in the area of the supporting section, viewed in cross section, the first web area being designed as a first leg of the cross section and the second web area being designed as a second leg of the cross section, or another, third web area of the supporting section being designed as a third leg of the cross section.

3. The tensioning device as recited in claim 1 wherein the transport securing element is designed as a pin-shaped component, or the second web area is longer than the first web area, viewed in the axial direction of the piston.

4. The tensioning device as recited in claim 1 wherein an inner side of the first web area abuts the end face of the piston in the transport position.

5. The tensioning device as recited in claim 4 wherein an outer side of the first web area facing away from the inner side of the first web area abuts a hook-shaped projection of the housing in the transport position.

6. The tensioning device as recited in claim 1 wherein an inner side of the second web area faces an outer shell side of the piston in the transport position.

7. The tensioning device as recited in claim 6 wherein an outer side of the second web area facing away from the inner side of the second web area is supported on the housing in the radial direction in the transport position.

8. The tensioning device as recited in claim 1 wherein the transport securing element is manufactured from a metal material or from a plastic material.

9. The tensioning device as recited in claim 1 wherein the transport securing element is manufactured from a profiled wire.

10. The tensioning device as recited in claim 1 wherein the second web area of the transport securing element is positioned radially between the housing and the piston in the recess of the housing in the transport position.

11. A tensioning device for tensioning a traction mechanism of a traction mechanism drive, the tensioning device comprising:

a housing;

a piston axially displaceably supported within this housing; and

a transport securing element, the transport securing element, in at least one transport position of the tensioning device, being situated transversely to the piston and in abutment with the piston in the housing in such a way that a displacement of the piston in at least one first axial direction is blocked,

the transport securing element including a supporting section, a first web area of the supporting section being in abutment with an end face of the piston in the transport position, and a second web area of the supporting section, the second web area extending axially from the first web area, being supported on the housing at least in a radial direction, and

wherein an inner side of the first web area abuts the end face of the piston in the transport position and an outer side of the first web area facing away from the inner side of the first web area abuts a hook-shaped projection of the housing in the transport position.

12. A tensioning device for tensioning a traction mechanism of a traction mechanism drive, the tensioning device comprising:

a housing;

a piston axially displaceably supported within this housing; and

a transport securing element, the transport securing element, in at least one transport position of the tensioning device, being situated transversely to the piston and in abutment with the piston in the housing in such a way that a displacement of the piston in at least one first axial direction is blocked,

the transport securing element including a supporting section, a first web area of the supporting section being in abutment with an end face of the piston in the transport position, and a second web area of the supporting section, the second web area extending axially from the first web area, being supported on the housing at least in a radial direction, and

wherein an inner side of the second web area faces an outer shell side of the piston in the transport position and an outer side of the second web area faces away from the inner side of the second web area is supported on the housing in the radial direction in the transport position.