The embodiments disclosed herein relate to a special thread structure, a male threaded body and a female threaded body in the special thread structure, and a design method of a special thread and a threaded body having the special thread.
As one type of fastening structures, a so-called male threaded body such as a bolt and a so-called female threaded body such as a nut may be used. In a fastening structure by such a threaded body, two types of spiral grooves (e.g., a male threaded portion by a right spiral groove and a male threaded portion by a left spiral groove) having different lead angles and/or lead directions are formed with respect to a single male threaded body. Two types of female threaded bodies (e.g., a right female threaded body and a left female threaded body), such as a double nut, are separately screwed to the two types of spiral grooves. When a relative rotation of the two types of female threaded bodies is suppressed using an engagement method, it is possible to prevent mechanical loosening between a male screw and a female screw by an axial interference operation or an axial separation operation that occurs due to different lead angles and/or lead directions (Japanese Patent Registration No. 5406168).
In general, an angle of a thread is 60° in the case of a metric coarse thread/metric fine thread, 60° in the case of a unified coarse thread/unified fine thread, 55° in the case of a Whitworth coarse thread, and 60° in the case of a miniature screw thread. However, a theoretical basis for such an angle is not necessarily clear.
Based on the knowledge obtained by an enormous amount of experimentation unknown before this disclosure, for example, when screwing metric coarse male screw and female screw and thereby separating both in an axial direction, many results show that a fracture does not occur in a shaft portion and fastening is released by deforming or shearing of a thread of the male screw (herein, defined as “thread collapse form”). That is, a state in which the shaft portion of the male screw is broken (herein, defined as “shaft fracture form”) may not be obtained. In other words, in a conventional design concept, tensile strength of the shaft portion of the male screw may be regarded to be excessive. Alternatively, strength of the thread may be regarded to be low compared to that of the shaft portion of the male screw. As described, specifications of a conventional threaded body or screw design concept may not meet the requirements for securing a high fastening force.
In particular, in the case of a male threaded body in which two types of spiral grooves are formed to overlap in an axial direction, disclosed in Japanese Patent Registration No. 5406168, load density may easily increase when applying a load to a thread of a male screw and strength of a thread side is insufficient accordingly. In this state, if the conventional screw design concept is applied as is, the strength of the thread side may be insufficient.
Embodiments are conceived based on the sharp research of the present inventor. For example, an aspect is to provide the technical spirit of maintaining a high fastening force in a threaded body having two types of thread structures having different lead angles and/or lead directions.
According to one aspect, there is provided a male threaded body including a shaft portion, a first spiral groove formed on a circumferential surface of the shaft portion and set to be an appropriate lead angle and/or lead direction; and a second spiral groove formed on the circumferential surface of the shaft portion and set to be a lead angle and/or lead direction that is different from the lead angle and/or lead direction of the first spiral groove. The first spiral groove and the second spiral groove have a threaded portion formed by overlapping on the same region in an axial direction of the shaft portion. When a cross-section of the threaded portion cut along the axial direction is viewed in an axial-orthogonal direction, a thread angle formed by a single pair of inclined surfaces extending from an apex to a valley of the thread is set to 61° or more or 75° or less.
The thread angle may be set to 73° or less.
The thread angle may be set to 65° or more.
The thread angle may be set within the range of 70°±3°.
There is provided a female threaded body including a female threaded portion. When a cross-section of a female threaded portion constituting the female threaded portion and cut along an axial direction is viewed in an axial-orthogonal direction, a thread angle formed by a single pair of inclined surfaces extending from an apex to a valley of a thread of the female threaded portion is set to 61° or more or 75° or less.
The female threaded body may be configured to screw with the male threaded body of any of the above descriptions.
There is provided a threaded body design method including a boundary root diameter extracting process of, in the case of implementing a fastening strength test of performing a relative separation in an axial direction by screwing a female threaded body for verification into a male threaded body for verification using a plurality of male threaded bodies for verification having a constant nominal diameter and different thread angles and root diameters and a plurality of female threaded bodies for verification configured to screw with the male threaded bodies for verification, extracting a degree of variation caused by the thread angle variate from the root diameter (hereinafter, referred to as boundary root diameter) around a boundary of a shaft fracture form and a thread collapse form by causing breakage of both the shaft fracture form in which a fastening state is released by separating the male threaded body for verification from a shaft portion and the thread collapse form in which the fastening state is released by deforming or shearing of a thread of the male threaded body for verification, a shaft fracture predominant thread angle selecting process of selecting the specific thread angle (hereinafter, shaft fracture predominant thread angle) based on the degree of variation of the boundary root diameter and at which the boundary root diameter is maximized, and a thread angle determining process of applying a thread angle close to the shaft fracture predominant thread angle to the actual male threaded body and/or the female threaded body in the nominal diameter.
The boundary root diameter extracting process may include an individual boundary root diameter extracting process of, in the case of implementing the fastening strength test of performing the relative separation in the axial direction by screwing a female threaded body for verification with a male threaded body for verification using a plurality of male threaded bodies for verification having the constant thread angle and nominal diameter and different root diameters and a plurality of female threaded bodies for verification configured to screw with the male threaded bodies for verification, extracting the specific root diameter (hereinafter, boundary root diameter) around the boundary of the shaft fracture form and the thread collapse form by causing breakage of both the shaft fracture form in which fastening is released by separating the male threaded body for verification from the shaft portion and the thread collapse form in which fastening is released by deforming or shearing of the thread of the male threaded body for verification, and a process of extracting the degree of variation of the boundary root diameter caused by the thread angle variate by selecting the different plurality of thread angles and by repeatedly implement the individual boundary root diameter extracting process based on each thread angle.
There is provided a male threaded body designed based on the threaded body design method.
There is provided a female threaded body designed based on the threaded body design method as described herein.
There is provided a thread structure applied to a male threaded body and/or a female threaded body. A thread angle formed by a single pair of inclined surfaces extending from an apex to a valley of a thread in the thread structure is set to 61° or more or 75° or less.
According to some embodiments, it is possible to maintain a high fastening force over a long period of time by enhancing a fastening strength with a female threaded body corresponding to a male threaded body in the single male threaded body having a male screw structure that includes two types of spiral grooves having different lead angles and/or lead directions.
Hereinafter, embodiments will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
<Male Threaded Body and Female Threaded Body>
Referring to
Referring to
The first spiral groove 14 may screw with a female screw-shaped spiral strip including a corresponding right screw of the female threaded body 100, and the second spiral groove 15 may screw with a female screw-shaped spiral strip including a corresponding left screw of the female threaded body 100) (including a body separate from the female threaded body including the right screw).
Referring to
In the present embodiment, in this manner, the two types of male threaded spiral grooves of the first spiral groove 14 and the second spiral groove 15 are superimposed on the male threaded portion 13. Accordingly, the male threaded portion 13 may screw with any female threaded body of the right screw and the left screw. Also, the details of the male threaded portion 13 in which two types of male threaded spiral grooves are formed may refer to Japanese Patent Registration No. 4663813 of Michiwaki, the inventor of the present application.
Referring to
Also, referring to
Hereinafter, a shape of a cross-section of the thread G formed in the male threaded portion 13 of the male threaded body 10 and cut along an axial direction and viewed in an axial-orthogonal direction will be described with reference to
Also, referring to
Also, in the present embodiment, N may be assigned as an initial letter with respect to a nominal diameter of the male threaded body 10. For example, the male threaded body 10 of N16 indicates that a diameter F is 16 mm from an apex Gt of the thread G. The female threaded body 100 of N16 indicates that a root diameter of the thread is 16 mm.
A thread angle T of the thread G (in which the thread angle indicates an angle formed by a single pair of inclined surfaces extending from the apex to a valley of the thread G) may be set to 61° or more or 75° or less, and desirably, may be set to 63° or more or 73° or less. More desirably, the thread angle T may be set to 65° or more or 73° or less, and more specifically, 70°. A root diameter D of the thread G (i.e., an outer diameter in a case in which the thread G is absent in the shaft portion 12 of the male threaded body 10) may be set to 13.5 mm or more or 14.3 mm or less in the case of N16. In the case of N16, the root diameter D may be set to 13.5 mm or more or 14.3 mm or less. In the case of N24, the root diameter D may be set to 19.6 mm or more or 20.5 mm or less. In the case of N30, the root diameter D may be set to 25.8 mm or more or 26.7 mm or less. The term “root diameter” used herein corresponds to a diameter of a bottom portion of the valley, not an effective diameter used in the conventional metric thread.
Accordingly, referring to
<Design Method and Design Basis>
Hereinafter, a design method and design basis of the male threaded body 10 and the female threaded body 100 will be described. Also, an example of designing the male threaded body 10 with nominal diameter N16 is introduced.
<Preparation of Series of the Male Threaded Body 10 and the Female Threaded Body 100>
Referring to
Also, the same number of female threaded bodies 100 for verification as the number of the plurality of male threaded bodies 10 for verification (Tn, Dn) are prepared to correspond thereto and screw therewith, respectively. That is, referring to
Also, an axial length W (referred to as a length W associated with the axial direction in
Referring to
The coefficient a1 or a2 may differ for each base material. According to review of the present inventor, in the present embodiment, when selecting a general-purpose steel material, for example, S45C or SCM435, as a base material and setting W as above, the tensile strength H and the shear strength S may be considerably close to each other. Accordingly, in terms of fastening strength of the female threaded body 100 for verification (Qn, En) and the male threaded body 10 for verification (Tn, Dn), substantially, the shear strength S may slightly increase, or the tensile strength H may slightly increase as the thread angle T or the root diameter D varies. Which is predominant may be verified based on the fastening strength test and a boundary between a shear strength S predominant state and a tensile strength H predominant state may be found through the test.
For convenience of description, a case in which the root diameter D or the thread angle T varies using the matrix of
<Boundary Root Diameter Extracting Process>
The fastening strength test is implemented by screwing the male threaded body 10 for verification (Tn, Dn) and the female threaded body 100 for verification (Qn, En) each constituting a single pair (hereinafter, referred to as a bolt and nut set for verification). Herein, referring to
For example, a design concept of setting the thread angle T to 68° and setting the root diameter D of the shaft portion to 14.1 mm or more belongs to the thread collapse region X. Therefore, it may be difficult to obtain the shaft fracture form when the fastening is released by the tensile test and there is a high probability that the thread collapse form may occur, and strength of the shaft portion may be useless accordingly. In the meantime, a design concept of setting the thread angle T to 68° and setting the root diameter D of the shaft portion to 13.6 mm may easily obtain the shaft fracture form when the fastening is released. However, the boundary root diameter Dk may be about 14.05 mm and, within this range, the root diameter D of the shaft portion may be set to be further great, which makes it possible to increase the tensile strength. In this aspect, the design is inefficient.
That is, in response to a change in the boundary root diameter Dk, a range of the boundary thread angle Tk (referred to as a boundary thread angle region Ts) that allows the male threaded body to be the shaft fracture form may be determined at the boundary line K.
<Shaft Fracture Predominant Thread Angle Selecting Process>
When the boundary root diameter extracting process is completed, a thread angle (hereinafter, shaft fracture predominant thread angle Tp) at which the boundary root diameter Dk may reach a maximum value is selected within the boundary line K. Referring to the graph of
<Thread Angle Determining Process>
Accordingly, a design is implemented by applying the thread angle approximate to the determined shaft fracture predominant thread angle Tp to the actual male threaded body 10 and/or female threaded body 100 at the nominal diameter N16. For example, if the actual thread angle T is set to 70°, the root diameter D may be set to be large. In detail, the root diameter D may be set to, for example, about 14.25 mm.
Also, although the design method in the case of the nominal diameter N16 is described with reference to
Also, in the male threaded body 10 and the female threaded body 100, a pair of the first spiral groove 14 and the female threaded spiral strip 114 and a pair of the second spiral groove 15 and the second female threaded spiral strip 115 are in inverse relationship (having the same lead angle and opposite lead directions. However, embodiments are not limited thereto. For example, referring to
Although the embodiments are described based on an example in which the male threaded body 10 is in a double helical structure, the embodiments are not limited thereto. Although the design procedure is applied even to the male threaded body 10 in a single helical structure, an optimal thread angle may be clarified theoretically and/or experimentally.
Also, the embodiments are not limited to the above-described embodiments and various modifications may be made thereto without departing from the spirit of the embodiment.
1 fastening structure
10 male threaded body
12 shaft portion
13 male threaded portion
100 female threaded body
106 cylindrical member
G, P thread
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2016-082801 | Apr 2016 | JP | national |
This application is a national phase entry under 35 U.S.C. § 371 of International Patent Application PCT/JP2017/015372, filed Apr. 14, 2017, designating the United States of America and published as International Patent Publication WO 2017/183593 A1 on Oct. 26, 2017, which claims the benefit under Article 8 of the Patent Cooperation Treaty to Japanese Patent Application Serial No. 2016-082801, filed Apr. 18, 2016.
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PCT/JP2017/015372 | 4/14/2017 | WO | 00 |