ACTUATOR DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY ACTIVATING THE VEHICLE DOOR OF A MOTOR VEHICLE

• US 20140224045A1
• Filed: 07/03/2012
• Published: 08/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: U-Shin Deutschland Zugangssysteme Gmbh (Minebea Mitsumi, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Valeo Sicherheitssysteme GmbH (MinebeaMitsumi Inc.)
• Inventors: Kummer, Frank
• Application Number:
  US14/130,687
• Publication Number:
  US 20140224045A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 74/60
• CPC Class Codes: B60J 5/101 for non-load transporting vehicles, i.e. family cars including vans
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/622 using screw-and-nut mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/618 Transmission ratio variation
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/716 Pinions
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/72 Planetary gearing
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/546 Tailboards, tailgates or sideboards opening upwards
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 19/02 for interconverting rotary or oscillating motion and reciprocating motion
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2025/2075 Coaxial drive motors
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2025/2087 using planetary gears
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/18336 Wabbler type

Abstract

The invention relates to an actuator device for automatically activating the vehicle door (2) of a motor vehicle (1), in particular the tailgate (2), which comprises an electromotive drive (9) and an arrangement of tubular housing parts (7, 8) which can be extended and retracted telescopically by said electromotive drive (9), said electromotive drive comprising an electrical motor (14) and a gearbox (20) driven by the motor (14), characterized in that, the gearbox (20) comprises a wobble mechanism (34, 46, 68, 72).

Claims

1. An actuator device for automatically activating the vehicle door of a motor vehicle comprising:

an electromotive drive; and

an arrangement of tubular housing parts configured to be extended and retracted telescopically by said electromotive drive,

said electromotive drive comprising an electrical motor and a gearbox driven by the motor,

wherein the gearbox comprises a wobble mechanism.

2. The actuator device according to claim 1, wherein the wobble mechanism comprises an excenter shaft rotationally driven by the electrical motor and supporting an oscillating front wheel having outer teeth and a fixed planetary wheel having inner teeth meshing with the outer teeth of the front wheel, the front wheel having less teeth than the planetary wheel.

3. The actuator device according to claim 2, wherein the front wheel is coupled to an output shaft disc via an Oldham coupling.

4. The actuator device according to claim 3, wherein the Oldham coupling comprises an Oldham disc having first diametrically opposed recesses and second diametrically opposed second recesses, shifted by 90°

with respect to said first recesses, said first recesses engage with two diametrical projections of said front wheel and said second recesses engage with projections carried by said output shaft disc.

5. The actuator device according to claim 4, wherein said excenter shaft supports rotationally the front wheel, the Oldham disc and the output shaft disc.

6. The actuator device according to claim 2, wherein said excenter shaft carries in addition an excenter mass for compensation of vibrations generated by the oscillating front wheel.

7. The actuator device according to claim 2, wherein the gearbox comprises a gear box pipe in which the planetary wheel is fixed.

8. The actuator device according to claim 1, further comprising a brake device located between the electrical motor and the gearbox.

9. The actuator device according to claim 8, wherein the brake device is a permanent-magnet-excited hysteresis brake.

10. The actuator device according to claim 8, wherein the gearbox and the brake device are assembled in said gear box pipe.

11. The actuator device according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle door is a tailgate of the vehicle.