ELECTROMOTIVE ACTUATING DRIVE

• US 20100039003A1
• Filed: 09/06/2006
• Published: 02/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Elodrive GmbH Stellantriebstechnik
• Original Assignee: Elodrive GmbH
• Inventors: Palm, Dieter, Buchholz, Bernd
• Application Number:
  US12/440,111
• Publication Number:
  US 20100039003A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/68.A
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/102 with friction brakes
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/116 with gears

Abstract

An electric motor actuating drive for actuating elements designed such that the drive train, which is formed from spur gears, is not self-locking, and such that a braking spring is operatively connected to a gearbox stage upstream of the output-drive element of the drive train, such that, when the drive motor is disconnected, the actuating element is effectively prevented from being moved even when attempts are made to move it by external force or by extreme force. Furthermore, the actuating drive is in the form of a spring return and is equipped with a drive spring which is arranged such that the load on it is removed in the event of electrical power failure, and it therefore acts as a drive element. Furthermore, the electrical components are arranged in an end-face housing wall for a compact design.

Claims

1. An electromotive actuating drive, for actuating elements, comprising:

a housing in which an electric motor is connected by a drive train with an output drive element;

the drive train being a non-self-locking drive train and having a plurality of gear stages;

a manual adjusting shaft for adjusting the output drive element;

with one of the gear stages being operatively connected with a brake element in such a way that at least that part of the drive train which leads from this gear stage to the output drive element is blocked from returning; and

force storage means for driving the output drive element to a predetermined position in the event of a power failure.

2. An electromotive actuating drive according to claim 1, wherein the brake element is an expandable brake spring, which has a plurality of turns, and is operatively connected to a gear stage which is situated between the manual adjusting shaft and the output drive element of the drive train.

3. An electromotive actuating drive according to claim 1, wherein the brake element includes a brake spring coupled to the associated gear stage.

4. An electromotive actuating drive according to claim 3, wherein the brake spring has an associated non-rotatable sleeve with which it engages in a braking condition.

5. An electromotive actuating drive according to claim 3, wherein the brake spring surrounds a control part in such a way that the brake spring can be expanded after the electric motor is switched off.

6. An electromotive actuating drive according to claim 5, wherein the control part comprises a control inner part and a control outer part which surrounds the control inner part in an interlocking manner, and in that the brake spring surrounds the control outer part.

7. An electromotive actuating drive according to claim 3, wherein a diameter of the brake spring corresponds to a diameter of the gear wheel with the largest diameter of a gear stage.

8. An electromotive actuating drive according to claim 1, wherein the output drive element of the drive train has an associated potentiometer of flat construction.

9. An electromotive actuating drive according to claim 8, wherein the potentiometer of flat construction is a film potentiometer or a magnet potentiometer.

10. An eletromotive actuating drive according to claim 1, including electrical components are mounted to an end-face housing wall.

11. An eletromotive actuating drive according to claim 1, including electrical components mounted in an end-face housing wall which adjoins the electric motor and is situated opposite the output drive element.

12. An eletromotive actuating drive according to claim 10 wherein the end-face housing wall is a cover which is detachably fixed to the remaining housing.

13. An eletromotive actuating drive according to claim 12 including an intermediate piece arranged between the cover and the facing end faces of the housing parts.

14. An eletromotive actuating drive according to claim 10 wherein the electrical components include one or more of cable terminals, actuating devices, functional switches and ventilation stoppers.

15. An eletromotive actuating drive according to claim 1, wherein the housing includes a pair of housing parts that are of shell-like configuration.

16. An eletromotive actuating drive according to claim 15, wherein at least one housing part includes a projection of a shorter height extending in the direction of separating plane of the housing parts in the region of the output drive element of the drive train.

17. An eletromotive actuating drive according to claim 16, wherein the two housing parts project in the direction of the separating plane to the same extent.

18. An eletromotive actuating drive according to claim 16 including a centering and clamping apparatus, which is connected to the output drive element of the drive train in an interlocking manner, is arranged in the region of the housing part projections.