Self-propelled road construction machine

• US 8,376,653 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2007
• Issued: 02/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH (Deere & Company)
• Original Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH (Deere & Company)
• Inventors: Mahlberg, Axel, Schwalbach, Lothar, Hhn, Gnter
• Primary Examiner(s): Addie, Raymond W
• Application Number:
  US12/596,051
• Publication Number:
  US 20100329784A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,129 Days
• Field of Search: 404/83, 404/87, 404/94, 404/96, 404/117, 404/133.2
• US Class Current: 404/83
• CPC Class Codes: E01C 23/088 Rotary tools, e.g. milling drums for forming recesses to receive marking materials E01C23/0946
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 15/1442 with a single mass

Abstract

In an automotive road construction machine (1), with a working drum (6) for working a ground surface or traffic surface (3) mounted at a machine frame (4), a combustion engine (10) for driving the working drum (6), and a drive train (8) between the combustion engine (10) and the working drum (6), it is provided that at least one vibration damper (5) and/or vibration absorber is arranged at the working drum (6) or in the drive train (8) downstream of the combustion engine (10), with the said vibration damper (5) and/or vibration absorber eliminating or reducing rotary vibrations generated by the combustion engine (10).

Claims

1. An automotive road construction machine, comprising;

a working drum mounted at a machine frame for working a ground surface or traffic surface;

a combustion engine for driving the working drum;

a drive train between the combustion engine and the working drum, the drive train including a clutch having an input side and an output side;

at least one vibration damper and/or vibration absorber coupled to the output side of the clutch, the at least one vibration damper and/or vibration absorber including;

a connecting device connected to the output side of the clutch;

a flywheel mass; and

an elastic element connecting the flywheel mass to the connecting device; and

wherein the said vibration damper and/or vibration absorber eliminates or reduces rotary vibrations generated by the combustion engine.

2. Road construction machine in accordance with claim 1, wherein the vibration damper and/or vibration absorber comprises an elastomer-metal composite element.

3. Road construction machine in accordance with claim 1, wherein the elastic element comprises an elastomer or metallic springs.

4. Road construction machine in accordance with claim 1, wherein the elastic element comprises an elastic ring.

5. Road construction machine in accordance with claim 1, wherein the elastic element has a rigidity of 1000 Nm/rad to 500000 Nm/rad.

6. Road construction machine in accordance with claim 1, wherein the elastic element of the vibration damper and/or vibration absorber has a rigidity of 35000 Nm/rad to 45000 Nm/rad.

7. Road construction machine in accordance with claim 1, wherein the elastic element has a relative damping value of 0.05 to 0.5.

8. Road construction machine in accordance with claim 1, wherein the elastic element of the vibration damper and/or vibration absorber is located at the clutch and has a relative damping value of 0.15 to 0.2.

9. An automotive road construction machine, comprising:

a machine frame;

a working drum supported from the machine frame for working a ground surface or traffic surface;

a combustion engine for driving the working drum;

a drive train between the combustion engine and the working drum, the drive train including a clutch having an input side and an output side; and

at least one vibration damper and/or vibration absorber coupled to the output side of the clutch, the at least one vibration damper and/or vibration absorber including an additional mass arranged coaxially to an axis of rotary vibration in which the rotary vibrations of the combustion engine are occurring, and radially towards the outside, with the said additional mass capable of being excited to rotary vibrations which counteract the rotary vibrations of the combustion engine, wherein the said vibration damper and/or vibration absorber eliminates or reduces rotary vibrations generated by the combustion engine.

10. An automotive road construction machine, comprising:

a machine frame;

a working drum supported from the machine frame for working a ground surface or traffic surface;

a combustion engine for driving the working drum;

a drive train between the combustion engine and the working drum, the drive train including a clutch having an input side and an output side; and

at least one vibration damper and/or vibration absorber coupled to the output side of the clutch, the at least one vibration damper and/or vibration absorber including a first inner ring with a connecting device, as well as a flywheel mass arranged annularly coaxially to the first ring, the said flywheel mass being coupled to the first ring via an elastic element, wherein the said vibration damper and/or vibration absorber eliminates or reduces rotary vibrations generated by the combustion engine.

11. The road construction machine in accordance with claim 10, wherein the elastic element has a rigidity of 1000 Nm/rad to 500000 Nm/rad.

12. The road construction machine in accordance with claim 10, wherein the elastic element has a rigidity of 35000 Nm/rad to 45000 Nm/rad.

13. The road construction machine in accordance with claim 10, wherein the elastic element has a relative damping value of 0.05 to 0.5.

14. The road construction machine in accordance with claim 10, wherein the elastic element has a relative damping value of 0.15 to 0.2.

15. The road construction machine in accordance with claim 10, wherein the flywheel mass comprises a second ring concentric to the first ring, and the elastic element comprises at least one elastic element between the first ring and the second ring.