This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202311512742.8, filed on Nov. 14, 2023, the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
The disclosure belongs to the technical field of line contact lubrication characteristic test measurement, and in particular to a roller lubrication performance measuring and testing device, especially being capable of being used to explore the lubrication characteristics under the conditions, such as contact between a cylindrical roller and a bearing flange, roller skew and modification.
Cylindrical roller bearings may bear large radial load and are suitable for high-speed and heavy-load operation occasions, such as high-speed machine tool spindles, wind turbines, high-speed train gear boxes, aero-engines, shield tunneling machines and so on.
Because the outer cylindrical surface of cylindrical roller is the main working surface of rolling bearing, the shape accuracy, surface quality and consistency of the outer cylindrical surface will have a great impact on the motion accuracy and working life of the bearing. On the other hand, the lubrication problem between the cylindrical roller and the inner ring guide surface has been puzzling bearing engineers, and people have been optimizing lubrication by means of roller modification, but the actual working state between roller end surface and inner ring/outer ring guide surface after modification has not been directly observed. In addition, the cylindrical roller bearing is separated bearing, and includes an inner ring, an outer ring, a cage and a cylindrical roller. Usually, both the inner ring and the outer ring are designed with flanges to play a role of axial bearing. However, the contact between flange and roller is a difficult problem in the field of tribology. At present, there is a lack of technology to measure the friction force at the contact position between roller and flange, so it is urgent to develop a roller lubrication performance measuring and testing device to solve the above problems.
An objective of the disclosure is to provide a roller lubrication performance measuring and testing device to solve the above problems and measure the film thickness and the friction torque of line contact of a roller under different conditions.
In order to achieve the above objective, the disclosure provides a following scheme: a roller lubrication performance measuring and testing device, including:
In an embodiment, a clamping groove is formed in the bottom one of the arc-shaped guide rails at bottom, and the roller is rotatably connected in the clamping groove.
In an embodiment, the device also includes a positioning shaft group, and an inner wall of the clamping groove is provided with two shaft holes corresponding to the positioning shaft group, where the positioning shaft group includes a positioning shaft penetrating between the two shaft holes, and the roller is rotatably connected with the shaft holes through the positioning shaft, and micro bearings are arranged in the shaft holes corresponding to the positioning shaft, and the micro bearings are used for adjusting an inclination angle of the positioning shaft.
In an embodiment, the contact ring has a transparent structure, and the image acquisition device is arranged in a central hole of the contact ring, and an image acquisition end of the image acquisition device faces the roller.
In an embodiment, the image acquisition device includes an imager for acquiring the oil film images on the surface of the roller.
In an embodiment, the first driving mechanism includes a driving motor, a pair of belt pulleys, a belt sleeved between the pair of belt pulleys, and a transmission shaft arranged on the contact ring, where the transmission shaft coincides with an axis of the contact ring, and one of the pair of belt pulleys is connected with the driving motor, and an other of the pair of belt pulleys is connected with the transmission shaft.
In an embodiment, the first driving mechanism also includes a transmission shaft seat connected with the transmission shaft, and the transmission shaft seat is connected with the other of the pair of belt pulleys through couplings.
In an embodiment, the second driving mechanism includes an oil cylinder, and a driving end of the oil cylinder penetrates through the frame and abuts against the bottom one of arc-shaped guide rails.
In an embodiment, the device also includes a mounting seat fixedly connected to the workbench, and the image acquisition device is movably connected to the mounting seat.
In an embodiment, the workbench includes an upper platform and a lower platform, where the upper platform and the lower platform are fixedly connected through brackets, and a top surface of the upper platform is slidably connected with a mounting plate, and the supporting mechanism is arranged on the mounting plate.
Compared with the prior art, the disclosure has following advantages and technical effects.
According to the disclosure, the inner arc surfaces of the two arc-shaped guide rails are matched with each other to form a test hole duct for supporting the contact ring to extend into the two arc-shaped guide rails and contact with the roller. The roller is rotatably connected on the one of the arc-shaped guide rails at bottom, and the contact ring is driven to rotate in combination with the first driving mechanism, and the contact ring abuts against an outer surface of the roller, thereby simulating a friction situation of the outer surface of the roller in an actual environment. Moreover, the second driving mechanism is connected with the arc-shaped guide rails slidably connected in the frame to control the sliding connection of the arc-shaped guide rails and the frame, driving the roller to move and adjust contact pressure between the roller and a contact surface of the contact ring. According to a film thickness change between an oil film on the surface of the roller and the contact ring under an action of friction force, a friction force change of the roller under different pressures can be known. Finally, the image acquisition device arranged on the workbench obtains the oil film images between the roller and the contact surface, which facilitates the realization of film thicknesses and friction torques of the roller in line contact under different conditions. Moreover, the retaining ring integrally formed at the front end of the contact ring contacts with the side wall of the roller, so that friction occurs between the roller and the retaining ring on the contact ring. The retaining ring is used to simulate a friction situation caused by the contact between the roller and a bearing flange in actual use. By collecting the oil film images generated by the outer surface of the contact ring and the surface of the roller when the roller contacts the retaining ring, the measurement of a contact friction force between the roller and the flange is realized.
In order to explain embodiments of the disclosure or technical schemes in the prior art more clearly, drawings needed in embodiments are briefly introduced below. Obviously, the drawings in a following description are only some embodiments of the disclosure. For ordinary people in the field, other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without making creative efforts.
In the following, technical schemes in embodiments of the disclosure may be clearly and completely described in combination with attached drawings in embodiments of the disclosure. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the disclosure, but not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in the field without creative efforts belong to a scope of protection of the disclosure.
In order to make above objects, features and advantages of the disclosure more obvious and easier to understand, the disclosure may be further described in detail in combination with the attached drawings and specific embodiments.
In the prior art, for example, in literature [1] (Design and preliminary experimental study of roller ring contact type photoelastic flow test device), the influence of roller modification is indirectly measured through the contact between a roller and an outer ring. An outer ring driving mode is adopted, resulting in problems such as vibration and eccentricity of roller movement under high speed and light load. Literature [2] (Analysis of friction characteristics of textured inner ring flange of cylindrical roller bearing) and others improve the friction design of flange by measuring the friction torque of the whole cylindrical roller bearing, but the influence of flange on roller lubrication may not be directly observed. Literature [3] (Research on isothermal elastohydrodynamic lubrication of skewed roller pair) mentioned a device for measuring a skew film thickness of a roller. In the scheme, four rollers are used to support a tested roller, leading to a large friction force, which will affect the positioning of the roller and the friction force. There is no friction force measuring part in this literature.
Embodiment: with reference to
According to the disclosure, the inner arc surfaces of the two arc-shaped guide rails 14 are matched with each other to form a test hole duct for supporting the contact ring 3 to extend into the two arc-shaped guide rails 14 and contact with the roller 2. The roller 2 is rotatably connected on the one of the arc-shaped guide rails 14 at bottom, and the contact ring 3 is driven to rotate in combination with the first driving mechanism, and the contact ring 3 abuts against an outer surface of the roller 2, thereby simulating a friction situation of the outer surface of the roller 2 in an actual environment. Moreover, the second driving mechanism is connected with one of the arc-shaped guide rails 14 slidably connected in the frame 13 to control the slidably connection of the arc-shaped guide rails 14 and the frame 13, driving the roller 2 to move and adjust contact pressure between the roller 2 and a contact surface of the contact ring 3. According to a film thickness change between an oil film on the surface of the roller 2 and the contact ring 3 under an action of friction force, a friction force change of the roller 2 under different pressures can be known. Finally, the image acquisition device arranged on the workbench 1 obtains the oil film images between the roller 2 and the contact surface, which facilitates the realization of film thicknesses and friction torques of the roller 2 in line contact under different conditions. Moreover, the retaining ring integrally formed at the front end of the contact ring 3 contacts with the side wall of the roller 2, so that friction occurs between the roller 2 and the retaining ring on the contact ring 3. The retaining ring is used to simulate a friction situation caused by the contact between the roller 2 and a bearing flange in actual use. By collecting the oil film images generated when the outer surface of the contact ring 3 abuts against the surface of the roller 2 when the roller 2 contacts the retaining ring, the measurement of a contact friction force between the roller 2 and the flange is realized.
With reference to
In an embodiment, a clamping groove is formed in the bottom arc-shaped guide rail 14 at bottom, and the roller 2 is rotatably connected in the clamping groove.
In an embodiment, the device also includes a positioning shaft group, and an inner wall of the clamping groove is provided with two shaft holes 17 corresponding to the positioning shaft group, where the positioning shaft group includes a positioning shaft 16 penetrating between the two shaft holes 17, and the roller 2 is rotatably connected with the shaft holes 17 through the positioning shaft 16, and micro bearings 28 are arranged in the shaft holes 17 corresponding to the positioning shaft 16, and the micro bearings 28 are used for adjusting an inclination angle of the positioning shaft 16.
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In one embodiment of the disclosure, gap is arranged correspondingly between two sides of the roller 2 and the clamping groove. When the contact ring 3 is in contact friction with the roller 2 in the clamping groove, the retaining ring fixedly connected on a peripheral side of an outer port of the contact ring 3 extends into the gap between the roller 2 and the clamping groove. Spring washers 29 and fastening nuts 30 are correspondingly arranged on the other side, away from the retaining ring, of the roller 2, so that a position of the roller 2 on the positioning shaft 16 may be adjusted, and the contact friction force between the roller 2 and the retaining ring on the contact ring 3 may be further adjusted, and various friction situations generated when the roller 2 contacts with the bearing flange in an actual use process may be simulated. By collecting the images of the line contact surface of the oil film when the roller 2 contacts with the retaining ring and does not contact with the retaining ring (that is, the friction force is 0), the data of the friction influence of the retaining ring on the roller 2 under different conditions (different inclination angles of the roller 2 and different contact friction forces between the roller 2 and the retaining ring) are calculated, a range of the simulation experiment of the measuring device is enhanced and the accuracy of the measurement test data is improved.
In an embodiment, the contact ring 3 has a transparent structure, and the image acquisition device is arranged in a central hole of the contact ring 3, and an image acquisition end of the image acquisition device faces the roller 2.
In an embodiment, the image acquisition device includes an imager 4 for acquiring the oil film images on the surface of the roller 2.
With reference to
In an embodiment, the first driving mechanism includes a driving motor 6, a pair of belt pulleys 27, a belt 8 sleeved between the pair of belt pulleys 27, and a transmission shaft 9 arranged on the contact ring 3, where the transmission shaft 9 coincides with an axis of the contact ring 3, and one of the pair of belt pulleys 27 is connected with the driving motor 6, and another of the pair of belt pulleys is connected with the transmission shaft 9.
In an embodiment, the first driving mechanism also includes a transmission shaft seat 10 connected with the transmission shaft 9, and the transmission shaft seat 10 is connected with the other of the pair of belt pulleys 27 through the couplings 7.
With reference to
By arranging the couplings 7 on the transmission shaft 9 and on both sides of a torque sensor 12 respectively, the couplings 7 are used to buffer and drive the transmission shaft 9 to rotate, so that the contact ring 3 runs stably under the action of the transmission shaft 9 and makes frictional contact with the roller 2, simulating a normal working state of the roller 2. By recording the line contact imaging generated by the contact ring 3 and the roller 2, the friction force acting on the roller 2 during operation is obtained. By recording optical interference measurement results of the line contact surface at a certain speed, and recording changes of optical interference fringes, changes of lubricating oil film thickness and speed may be calculated.
In an embodiment, the second driving mechanism includes an oil cylinder 15, and a driving end of the oil cylinder 15 penetrates through the frame 13 and abuts against the bottom arc-shaped guide rails 14 adjacent to the cylinder 15.
In this technical scheme, with reference to
In this technical scheme, a pressure sensor 21 is arranged between the output shaft of the oil cylinder 15 and the ejector rod 22 for detecting a hydraulic acting force provided by the oil cylinder 15 to the roller 2.
In an embodiment, the device also includes a mounting seat 20 fixedly connected to the workbench 1, and the image acquisition device is movably connected to the mounting seat 20.
With reference to
In an embodiment, the workbench 1 includes an upper platform 101 and a lower platform 102, where the upper platform 101 and the lower platform 102 are fixedly connected through brackets 103, and a top surface of the upper platform 101 is slidably connected with a mounting plate 26, and the supporting mechanism is arranged on the mounting plate 26.
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In a description of the disclosure, it should be understood that terms “longitudinal”, “transversal”, “up”, “down”, “front”, “back”, “left”, “right”, “vertical”, “horizontal”, “top”, “bottom”, “inside”, “outside”, and orientation or positional relationships indicated are based on orientation or positional relationships shown in accompanying drawings, solely for a convenience of describing the disclosure, rather than indicating or implying that a device or an element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, therefore it may not be understood as a limitation of the disclosure.
The above-mentioned embodiments only describe preferred modes of the disclosure, and do not limit a scope of the disclosure. Under a premise of not departing from a design spirit of the disclosure, various variations and modifications made by ordinary technicians in the field to the technical scheme of the disclosure shall fall within a protection scope determined by claims of the disclosure.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 202311512742.8 | Nov 2023 | CN | national |