Patent Grant
8668043
This application is the U.S. National Stage of International Patent Application No. PCT/CN2009/075999 filed on Dec. 24, 2009, which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application Number 200910182389.5 filed on Jul. 13, 2009, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.
The invention relates to the field of electric mowers, in particular to an electric mower capable of realizing self-propelled function.
At present, mowers are used very widely, especially in the gardening and the greening of parks, etc. However, since the walking function of the traditional mower is realized by the driving of a mowing electric motor, the mower walks only when the mowing motor is started, and stops walking when the mowing motor stops, so the mower cannot walk in self-propelled manner. When not mowing, the mower is moved manually. If the walking function is activated when the mower is not in operation, great noise and vibration can be generated, and more energy is consumed, so that resource is wasted greatly.
The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is that: in order to solve the existing defects and deficiencies mentioned above, the invention provides a self-propelled electric mower.
In order to solve the technical problem, the technical solution the invention adopted is: the self-propelled electric mower comprises a machine body, a cutter arranged on the machine body, an electric motor for driving the cutter to operate, and road wheels connected to the machine body; a driving device for driving the machine body to walk is arranged on the machine body and comprises a transmission system for driving the road wheels to move and a power source for driving the transmission system to work. Since the transmission system is driven to work by the power source, the road wheels are driven to rotate by the transmission of the transmission system, and the purpose of walking can be achieved.
Further, in order to reduce noise, the power source is a low-power driving motor.
In order to reduce the output torque of the driving motor, the transmission system comprises belt transmission connected with the power source, external gear transmission connected with the belt transmissions, and internal gear transmission connected with the external gear transmissions and in meshing connection with the road wheels.
In order to improve the transmission ratio and decrease the volume and the cost of the driving motor, there are two sets of belt transmissions.
In order to improve the transmission ratio, there are two sets of external gear transmissions.
In order to improve the transmission ratio, there are two sets of internal gear transmissions.
In the invention, the transmission system can all adopt belt transmission or all adopt gear transmission, both achieving the same effect. Besides, the driving motor can be various DC or AC motors, which can achieve the same effect in use.
The invention has the benefits as follows: the self-propelled electric mower provided by the invention obtains higher transmission ratio by using multi-stage transmission, so that the output torque of the driving motor is reduced, the volume and the cost of the driving motor are decreased, the self-propelled walking function is realized, noise is lowered, and energy is saved.
Next, the invention is further explained in combination with the drawings and the embodiment.
In the drawings, 1_machine body, 2_road wheels, 3_driving device, 4_transmission system, 4-1_belt transmission, 4-2_external gear transmission, 4-3_internal gear transmission, 5_power source.
Now, the invention is further detailed in combination with the figures. The figures are all simplified schematic diagrams and only illustrate basic structure of the invention schematically, so that only the components relating to the invention are shown in the figures.
The self-propelled electric mower of the optimal implementation is shown in the drawings. As shown in
The diagram of the partial structure shown in
When implementing the invention, the driving motor is actuated first, which drives belt wheels to operate. The belt wheels, after being driven to operate, drive the gears to operate through a belt. Afterwards, the road wheels 2 are driven to rotate through meshing of the gears, so that the purpose of the self-propelled walking of the whole device is achieved. When the electric mower arrives at the position where mowing is required, the driving motor is stopped, and the electric motor is started for mowing and driving the whole device to move simultaneously.
Inspired by the ideal embodiment of the invention and based on the content of the above description, one skilled in the art can certainly make various alterations and modifications without diverging from the technical concepts of the invention. The protection scope of the invention must be defined according to the scope of the claims instead of being limited by the content of the specification.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 2009 1 0182389 | Jul 2009 | CN | national |
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind | 371c Date |
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| PCT/CN2009/075999 | 12/24/2009 | WO | 00 | 12/29/2011 |
| Publishing Document | Publishing Date | Country | Kind |
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| WO2011/006338 | 1/20/2011 | WO | A |
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