Patent Application
20110174118
(a) Field of the Invention
(b) Description of the Prior Art
The object of the present invention is to provide a gear unit, molding method of the same and applied ratchet wheel wrench, wherein the material of the gear unit is chose high-density steel through heat processing for enhancing hardness, such as medium carbon steel, high carbon steel, or alloyed steel, and made through continuous multiple cold forging and punching and heat processing, so as to make the internal structure of the unit to be dense compaction, and further to improve the mechanical properties, such as structural intensity, rubbing fastness coefficient, anti-pull intensity, and resist compression intensity, thus the ratchet wheel wrench will have excellent operating performance and long service life.
For achieving the above purpose, the present invention discloses a gear unit applied to engaging a ratchet wheel for co-operation, wherein a ratchet is installed around the ratchet wheel; the gear unit includes a gear body composed of high-density steel, in which the steel is chose from one of a group consisted of medium carbon steel, high carbon steel, and alloyed steel; the gear body is made through multiple cold forging and punching and heat processing, and has a junction matching a part profile of the ratchet wheel; the junction forms an external tooth through cold forging and punching, and the tooth shape matches the ratchet tooth to engage the ratchet of the ratchet wheel.
For a specific embodiment, the steel is chose the steel through heat processing for enhancing hardness.
For a specific embodiment, the alloyed steel is composed of chromoly steel.
The present invention further discloses a ratchet wheel wrench including the gear unit and the ratchet wheel; the ratchet wheel wrench further includes a wrench body installed with a ratchet hole and a holding groove, in which the ratchet hole is used for holding the ratchet wheel; and the holding groove is installed around the ratchet hole for holding the gear unit.
The present invention further discloses a molding method applied to making a ratchet unit, wherein the ratchet unit coordinates with engaging a ratchet wheel for co-operation; and a ratchet is installed around the ratchet wheel; the molding method includes the following steps: first, providing an initial billet, in which the material of the initial billet is high-density steel chose from one of a group consisted of medium carbon steel, high carbon steel, and alloyed steel; next, cutting the initial billet into plural metal plates; then, picking one of such metal plates for cold forging and punching to form a junction matching a part profile of the ratchet wheel; then, cold forging and punching the junction to form an external tooth matching the tooth shape of the ratchet for engaging the ratchet of the ratchet wheel; then, removing the raw edge of the metal plate; and then, performing heat processing on the metal plate; and last, performing surface processing on the metal plate for forming the gear unit.
The above description and the following detailed explanation and drawings are for further explaining the way, means, and effectiveness adopted for achieving the intended purpose, according to the present invention; and the other objects and advantages of the present invention are described in the following explanation and drawings.
The present invention provides a gear unit, molding method of the same and applied ratchet wheel wrench, and the main feature is that the material of the gear unit is chose high-density steel through heat processing for enhancing hardness, such as medium carbon steel, high carbon steel, or alloyed steel, and made through continuous multiple cold forging and punching and heat processing, so as to improve the internal structure density, optimize the mechanical property, and make a substantial leap forward in quality than in the past, thus the ratchet wheel wrench has excellent operation performance.
First, referring to
The molding method of the gear unit is described as follow, referring to
first, providing an initial billet 400 (as showing in
next, cutting the initial billet 400 into plural metal plates with defined size through continuously stamping and cutting construction method (Step S22);
then, picking a metal plate 401 (as showing in
then, performing the second cold forging and punching, in which the junction 41 of the metal plate 401 forms an external tooth 42 through stamping by the tooth-shaped mold, to make the metal plate 401 to be close to the finished structure (as showing in
then, performing the third cold forging and punching, to remove the remaining raw edge produced by continuous stamping, and to make the whole structure more dense compaction, in which the metal plate 401 becomes the gear body 45 with the exterior structure of the final gear (as showing in
then, performing heat processing on the semi-finished product of the gear, to eliminate the internal remaining shear stress, and to increase the hardness, anti-pull intensity, and resist compression intensity of the semi-finished product (Step S26); and
last, performing surface processing on the semi-finished product of the gear, for which the heat processing is complete, such as sandblasting and anti-rust, in which the finished product of the gear unit 40 is formed after the step is complete (Step S27).
For a preferred embodiment, chromoly steel metal plate is used to be the initial billet 400 in Step S21. The hardness of the chromoly steel is further dramatically enhanced after the heat processing in S26. Furthermore, because the cold forging and punching makes small shaping change, the organization of metal crystal particles within the metal plate 401 is gradually and slowly produced local flow and distortion, so as to effectively keep the consecutive, uniform and streamline natures of the structural organization, and to achieve homogenization and fine particles to be dense compaction. The gear unit 40 made by the molding method can prevent damaged structural organization and hardening produced by dramatically shaping change or over-forging, and hold well mechanical properties, such as high density, high structural intensity, high rubbing fastness coefficient, and excellent anti-pull intensity and resist compression intensity, thus the ratchet wheel wrench 20 will have excellent operating performance and long service life.
The inventor makes three gear units according to the above molding method to test and verify the feasibility of the present invention, in which each gear unit is installed at the ratchet wheel wrench to perform torque test through torque test machine with maximum torque value set at 5493 kg-cm, the test data is shown as table 1, and the samples 1, 2, and 3 represent the three ratchet wheel wrenches applied to the present invention.
The maximum torque value of the ratchet wheel wrench equipped with the conventional 19MM gear unit made by powder metallurgy is 3226 Kg-cm, the present invention indeed elevates the mechanical feature of the ratchet wheel wrench to unprecedented high level through the data in the above table. The gear unit is an important component of the ratchet wheel wrench and the key factor of the performance, the present invention improves the manufacturing quality and the mechanical feature, thus the performance and the service life of the ratchet wheel wrench is together improved.
What needs to be stressed is that, the above molding method of the gear unit applies to the gear unit with any exterior structure. Except for the curved arc shape in the embodiment, the exterior shape coordinating with the design of the ratchet wheel wrench can be strip, rectangular, triangular, ladder-shaped, and any other irregular shape.
Then, the internal component structure of the ratchet wheel wrench is further described through another embodiment of the gear unit. Referring to
One end of the wench body 61 is installed with a through ratchet hole 62, and another end is made to be a grip. A spacing ring rib 63 is installed around one end of the ratchet hole 62, a wedging ring groove 64 is installed around another end, and a wedging groove slot 65 is installed around within the wedging ring groove 64. In the wrench body 61, an arc-shaped holding groove 66 is buried at the position where the ratchet hole 62 is adjacent to the grip.
For the ratchet wheel 70, a ratchet 71 is installed around outside, a detent hole 72 is installed inside, and the top and the bottom are installed with a spacing ring groove 73, respectively. The detent hole 72 is used for fitting locking components including screws and nuts, the spacing ring groove 73 is used for assisting the ratchet wheel 70 to combine with the ratchet hole 62, and an assembly groove 91 is installed around outside of the spacing ring 90.
The gear unit 80 has a gear body 800, whose material is chose high-density steel through heat processing for enhancing hardness, such as medium carbon steel, high carbon steel, or alloyed steel, adopting cold forging and punching to form exterior structure, and then to be final product through heat processing and surface processing. The structure of the gear body 800 is roughly curved arc-shaped, and has a concave arc junction 81 roughly matching the exterior of the ratchet wheel 70, so as to fit a part profile of the ratchet wheel 70. The opposite surface of the junction 81 is convex arc. A region of the junction 81 is installed with an external tooth 82, whose tooth shape coordinating with that of the ratchet 71, thus the gear unit 80 engages the ratchet wheel 70; the region adjacent to the external tooth 82 is installed with a lower and smooth sliding part 83. A junction groove 84 is installed at the gear unit 80 relative to the convex arc surface of the junction 81, where is the corresponding region of the sliding part 83.
The ratchet wheel wrench 60 further has a spring 85 put into the junction groove 84 when assembling, to be held together with the gear unit 80 within the holding groove 66, thus the gear unit 80 accepts the outward elastic force of the spring 85. The ratchet wheel 70 is assembled within the ratchet hole 62 of the wench body 61, with the spacing by the spacing ring groove 73 coordinating with the spacing ring rib 63. The elastic buckle 95 first buckles into the assembly groove 91, and is positioned together with the spacing ring 90 at the wedging ring groove 64, also through the elastic buckle 95 buckling into the wedging groove slot 65, for assisting the spacing ring 90 assembled at the wrench body 61. The two ends of the ratchet wheel 70 respectively have the spacing by the spacing ring rib 63 and the spacing ring 90, and the ratchet hole 62 can rotate in the ratchet hole 62.
Referring to
From the above, in the gear unit, molding method of the same and applied ratchet wheel wrench of the present invention, the material of the gear unit is chose high-density steel through heat processing for enhancing hardness, such as medium carbon steel, high carbon steel, or alloyed steel, and multiple cold forging and punching and heat processing are continuously performed to form the exterior of the gear, thus the internal organization of the product will be dense compaction, and the mechanical features are improved, such as the whole structural intensity, rubbing fastness coefficient, anti-pull intensity, and resist compression intensity, to avoid damage because of long-term or improper use, and to improve the operating performance and long service life of the ratchet wheel wrench. In summary, the present invention indeed has the uniqueness, and the unobviousness and usefulness for the industry, and is applied for patent application as related regulations; the inventor earnestly requests your reviewer for awarding legal patent rights.
The above descriptions and drawings is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but not for any limitation; the scope of the present invention is based on the following claims, and it is obvious to the skilled in the art to conceive that the variations and modifications of the embodiments fall in the scope of the present invention.
