NUT ROTARY BALL SCREW WITH A PREDETERMINED PRESSURE STRUCTURE

• US 20120103115A1
• Filed: 10/28/2010
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: HIWIN Technologies Corp.
• Original Assignee: HIWIN Technologies Corp.
• Inventors: Wu, Wen-Chia, Chen, Xin-He
• Application Number:
  US12/914,943
• Publication Number:
  US 20120103115A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 74/89.23
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 25/2204 with balls
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 25/24 Elements essential to such mechanisms, e.g. screws, nuts F16H25/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/18576 including screw and nut

Abstract

A nut rotary ball screw with a predetermined pressure structure is disclosed. In the nut rotary ball screw of the present invention, we may rotate the predetermined pressure adjusting device to adjust the magnitude of the predetermined pressure by generating a predetermined pressure between the first inner slot and the outer slot as well as the first rolling pieces and between the second inner slot and the outer slot as well as the first rolling pieces. The present invention can greatly simplify the complicated adjustment process of the predetermined pressure in the prior art and can eliminate the time-consuming grinding step and the steps to disassemble or assemble a bolt. Accordingly, the present may simplify the adjustment process of the predetermined pressure and may lower the production cost.

Claims

1. A nut rotary ball screw, comprising:

a shaft portion, which is cylindrical, wherein an inner spiral thread is provided on the outer surface of the shaft portion;

a nut portion, having a central hole, which allows the passage of the shaft portion, wherein an outer spiral thread, which matches the inner spiral thread, is provided on the wall of the central hole, and wherein the inner spiral thread and the outer spiral thread form a path, and wherein an outer slot and an outer thread are provided on the outer surface of the nut portion;

a backflow element, fitted to the nut portion;

a bearing sleeve portion, which is circular, wherein a first inner slot and a second inner slot are provided on the inner surface of the bearing sleeve portion, and wherein the first inner slot and the outer slot forms a path, which can hold a plurality of first rolling pieces; and

a predetermined pressure adjusting device, which is circular, wherein an outer slot is provided on the outer surface of the predetermined pressure adjusting device, and wherein the outer slot and the second inner slot forms a path, which can hold a plurality of first rolling pieces, and an inner thread is provided on the inner surface of the predetermined pressure adjusting device, and wherein the inner thread may engage with the outer thread so that the predetermined pressure adjusting device may be fitted to the nut portion, and wherein rotating the outer thread relative to the inner thread may prompt the predetermined pressure adjusting device to move in the axial direction, and wherein as the predetermined pressure adjusting device moves towards the first rolling pieces, such movement would generate a predetermined pressure (Z) between the first inner slot and the outer slot as well as the first rolling pieces and between the second inner slot and the outer slot as well as the first rolling pieces.

3. The nut rotary ball screw as in claim 1, wherein two backflow holes, which extend axially through the nut portion, are provided on the nut portion.

4. The nut rotary ball screw as in claim 3, wherein the backflow element has several backflow slots, which connect with the load path and the backflow holes, and wherein a circulatory path is formed by the load path, backflow holes and backflow slots and the circulatory path has a plurality of second rolling pieces.

5. The nut rotary ball screw as in claim 1, wherein two holes, which are radially opposing each other, are provided on the predetermined pressure adjusting device and a positioning piece may be held in each of the two holes and friction would be generated by the contact between the positioning pieces and the outer thread.

2. A nut rotary ball screw, comprising:

a shaft portion, which is cylindrical, wherein an inner spiral thread is provided on the outer surface of the shaft portion;

a nut portion, having a central hole, which allows the passage of the shaft portion, wherein an outer spiral thread, which matches the inner spiral thread, is provided on the wall of the central hole, and wherein the inner spiral thread and the outer spiral thread form a path, and wherein an outer slot and an outer thread are provided on the outer surface of the nut portion;

a backflow element, fitted to the nut portion;

a bearing sleeve portion, which is circular, wherein a first inner slot and a second inner slot are provided on the inner surface of the bearing sleeve portion, and wherein the first inner slot and the outer slot forms a path, which can hold a plurality of first rolling pieces; and

a predetermined pressure adjusting device, comprising a main body and an adjusting portion, wherein an outer slot is provided on the outer surface of the main body, and wherein the outer slot and the second inner slot forms a path, which can hold the first rolling pieces, and wherein the main body may be fitted to the nut portion and may be moved in the axial direction, and wherein an inner thread is provided on the inner surface of the adjusting portion and may engage with the outer thread, and wherein rotating the outer thread may prompt the adjusting portion to move in the axial (H) direction, and wherein as the predetermined pressure adjusting device moves towards the first rolling pieces, such movement would generate a predetermined pressure (Z) between the first inner slot and the outer slot as well as the first rolling pieces and between the second inner slot and the outer slot as well as the first rolling pieces.

6. The nut rotary ball screw as in claim 2, wherein two holes, which are radially opposing each other, are provided on the adjusting portion and a positioning piece may be held in each of the two holes and friction would be generated by the contact between the positioning pieces and the outer thread.

7. The nut rotary ball screw as in claim 2, wherein two backflow holes, which extend axially through the nut portion, are provided on the nut portion.

8. The nut rotary ball screw as in claim 7, wherein the backflow element has several backflow slots, which connect with the load path and the backflow holes, and wherein a circulatory path is formed by the load path, backflow holes and backflow slots and the circulatory path has a plurality of second rolling pieces.