EP0482343A2 - Procédé et appareil pour la rectification d'anneaux, en particulier de bagues de paliers de roulements - Google Patents

Procédé et appareil pour la rectification d'anneaux, en particulier de bagues de paliers de roulements Download PDF

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EP0482343A2
EP0482343A2 EP91115615A EP91115615A EP0482343A2 EP 0482343 A2 EP0482343 A2 EP 0482343A2 EP 91115615 A EP91115615 A EP 91115615A EP 91115615 A EP91115615 A EP 91115615A EP 0482343 A2 EP0482343 A2 EP 0482343A2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24B—MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B33/00—Honing machines or devices; Accessories therefor
    • B24B33/06—Honing machines or devices; Accessories therefor with controlling or gauging equipment
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24B—MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B19/00—Single-purpose machines or devices for particular grinding operations not covered by any other main group
    • B24B19/02—Single-purpose machines or devices for particular grinding operations not covered by any other main group for grinding grooves, e.g. on shafts, in casings, in tubes, homokinetic joint elements
    • B24B19/06—Single-purpose machines or devices for particular grinding operations not covered by any other main group for grinding grooves, e.g. on shafts, in casings, in tubes, homokinetic joint elements for grinding races, e.g. roller races
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B24—GRINDING; POLISHING
    • B24B—MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS
    • B24B49/00—Measuring or gauging equipment for controlling the feed movement of the grinding tool or work; Arrangements of indicating or measuring equipment, e.g. for indicating the start of the grinding operation
    • B24B49/08—Measuring or gauging equipment for controlling the feed movement of the grinding tool or work; Arrangements of indicating or measuring equipment, e.g. for indicating the start of the grinding operation involving liquid or pneumatic means

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  • the invention relates to a method for fine grinding rings on the outer ring surface or on the inner ring surface, in particular for fine grinding roller bearing races, a ring to be machined being picked up by a workpiece holder with centering via a hydraulic centering means and being driven in rotation by a driver, the one to be machined Ring surface is subjected to a measurement during a grinding process and the grinding process is controlled and / or regulated in accordance with the measurement values of the measurement.
  • the invention also relates to devices for performing such a method. It goes without saying that the measurement values of the measurement are recorded and evaluated electrically by means of suitable aids, for which purpose the modern, in particular electronic aids of measurement and control technology offer a multitude of possibilities, and also with computer support.
  • the measured values define the actual value as it were.
  • the control or regulation takes place z. B. in accordance with a predetermined material removal as a setpoint. Particularly in the case of rolling bearing rings for high-speed rolling bearings, high demands are placed on the accuracy of the material removal. It must also be ensured that the roundness of the rings does not suffer during machining. Centering by means of a hydraulic centering means is also referred to as hydro-centering (cf. DE 18 05 307).
  • the hydro-centering can take place with circumferentially closed workpiece holders, but also with shoe-like hydro-centric elements. It allows the rings to be machined to be accommodated in such a way that clamping deformations or clamping deformations, such as those e.g. B. with mechanical clamping or clamping with a three-jaw chuck must not be accepted. In this respect, the hydro-centering allows fine grinding with high accuracy. It is understood that the rings to be machined with suitable tools, for. B. over pressure rollers, are pressed against the driver.
  • the measurement is carried out with the aid of mechanical sensors which are placed with little pressure on the ring surface to be machined and which, for. B. are equipped with a fine diamond tip. It cannot be excluded that the tips of the feelers leave marks on the machined ring surface. The unavoidable slight out-of-roundness that the rings to be machined bring with them from the prefabrication can also lead to disturbing vibrations in the measuring system.
  • the measurement is a non-contact measurement.
  • a flow of measuring air which emerges in a free jet from a nozzle, is directed onto the surface to be machined, so that a throttle gap is created between the nozzle and the surface to be machined.
  • Changes in the gap width of this throttle gap, at different distances from the surface to be machined from the nozzle are based, cause pressure fluctuations in the air flow which is supplied to the nozzle via a line, which pressure fluctuations are recorded and evaluated in the manner described.
  • the measurement accuracy is not sufficient for high requirements and disturbing vibrations cannot be excluded here either.
  • a liquid jet namely an oil jet
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method for fine grinding rings on the outer ring surface or on the inner ring surface, in particular for fine grinding rolling bearing races, with which the measurement can be carried out with great accuracy and without interference from vibrations.
  • the invention teaches that a non-contact measurement is carried out with at least two identical measuring heads, from which a hydraulic measuring means which corresponds to the centering means emerges from at least one nozzle opening in each case, that the measuring heads compensate for measuring force in an equidistant manner over the
  • the circumference of the ring surface to be machined can be arranged so that the hydraulic measuring means is introduced free of radiation into the measuring and centering layer, which takes along the ring surface to be machined and which forms between the measuring head and the ring surface.
  • the invention is based on the knowledge that it is not feasible to work with a free jet of measuring air or with a free jet of a measuring liquid when fine-grinding rings and in particular roller bearing races.
  • the disturbances described above can be avoided when working with measuring heads from which the measuring medium enters the measuring medium and centering medium layer free of radiation, which necessarily occurs when rings are machined on the inner or outer ring surface if the centering takes place via a hydraulic centering medium . Without disturbing the centering, it is possible to work with relatively high pressures of the measuring means and thus also the centering means, if care is taken in the manner described that the measuring heads are equidistantly distributed over the circumference of the ring surface to be machined in order to compensate for measuring forces. Measuring force compensating means that the forces which arise as a result of the measuring means being supported, as it were, with considerable pressure on the ring surface to be machined.
  • the measuring means is a hydraulic measuring means, the viscosity can be adjusted so that the vibrations described above can no longer occur. It goes without saying that the flow cross sections for the supply of the measuring means to the measuring heads are not too large and the lines themselves are set up to be sufficiently elastically deformable. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, a hydraulic flushing agent which is customary in fine grinding is used as the measuring and centering means.
  • the centering means and the measuring means can be used simultaneously as coolants, so that the rings to be machined do not experience disturbing thermal expansions which result from the heat of machining.
  • the invention teaches in particular that a quantity of measuring medium which is effective at the same time is used.
  • the measuring medium quantity and the centering medium quantity can be taken from the same pressure medium system. It is within the scope of the invention to cool the centering means or the measuring means, using suitable heat exchangers.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention is characterized in that three measuring heads are arranged which are offset by 120 ° over the circumference of the ring surface to be machined. It is expedient to work with identically identical measuring heads.
  • the invention also relates to a device for carrying out the described method.
  • the device is mainly characterized in that the measuring heads are adjustable in the radial direction with respect to the surface to be machined, back and forth.
  • the measuring heads can have a nozzle tube arranged in the radial direction, so that they mainly consist of this nozzle tube.
  • the measuring heads have a measuring shoe, the measuring surface of which is matched in curvature to the ring surface to be machined, and that the nozzle opening opens into the measuring surface.
  • the nozzle openings of all measuring heads expediently have the same diameter; they should be set up to deliver the same flow of measuring medium.
  • the measured values can be taken from the individual measuring heads or from the measuring medium flows supplied to the individual measuring heads and evaluated individually or in an integrated manner.
  • the device shown in the figures is intended for fine grinding rings 1 on the inner ring surface (FIGS. 1 and 2) or on the outer ring surface (FIG. 3).
  • a machine-fixed, non-rotating workpiece holder 2 for the rings 1 to be machined can first be seen, the centering being carried out via a hydraulic centering means 3, which is supplied via special bores and channels, which has not been drawn. If FIG. 2 is added, it can be seen that a ring 1 to be machined, which is received by the workpiece holder 2, is rotatably carried along by a driver 4, which consists of a shaft and a disk connected to it. This also requires a pressure device that presses the ring to be machined against the driver. The pressure device was not drawn.
  • measuring heads 5 are provided which are adjustable in the radial direction with respect to the surface to be machined. This setting can be made now and then in the radial direction, which was indicated by a double arrow.
  • a very fine gap can be set between the ring surface to be machined and the measuring head 5. 1 and 3, this gap was shown enlarged with considerable exaggeration.
  • the gap width is in general in the ⁇ range.
  • the measuring heads 5 are equidistantly distributed over the circumference of the ring surface to be machined. they each have at least one nozzle opening 6, from which emerges a hydraulic measuring means which corresponds to the centering means. It enters the measuring and centering layer 7, which has been drawn in an exaggerated thickness, without any free radiation. It forms between the ring surface to be machined and each of the measuring heads 5.
  • the measuring heads 5 are designed as measuring shoes, the measuring surface of which is adapted in terms of curvature to the ring surface to be machined. As shown in FIG. 2, the nozzle openings 6 open into the measuring surface. In the exemplary embodiment and according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the nozzle openings 6 of all measuring heads 5 have the same diameter. They are also set up to deliver the same flow of measuring medium. In Fig. 3 it was indicated that the measuring heads can also have a nozzle tube 8 extending in the radial direction. - The procedure described above can be implemented very easily with such devices. If it is a matter of machining roller bearing races, the measuring heads 5 can be inserted into the grooves of the rings by a radial adjustment and brought into the working position.

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  • Grinding And Polishing Of Tertiary Curved Surfaces And Surfaces With Complex Shapes (AREA)
EP91115615A 1990-10-24 1991-09-14 Procédé et appareil pour la rectification d'anneaux, en particulier de bagues de paliers de roulements Expired - Lifetime EP0482343B1 (fr)

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EP0482343B1 (fr) 1994-08-31
DE4033727C1 (fr) 1992-02-20
JP2530958B2 (ja) 1996-09-04
JPH05131352A (ja) 1993-05-28
DE9017792U1 (de) 1992-01-16
CS322291A3 (en) 1992-05-13

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