EP4219942B1 - Pompe à piston à double effet et système d'application pour appliquer un fluide sur un substrat - Google Patents

Pompe à piston à double effet et système d'application pour appliquer un fluide sur un substrat Download PDF

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EP4219942B1
EP4219942B1 EP23168193.3A EP23168193A EP4219942B1 EP 4219942 B1 EP4219942 B1 EP 4219942B1 EP 23168193 A EP23168193 A EP 23168193A EP 4219942 B1 EP4219942 B1 EP 4219942B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F04B9/00—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members
    • F04B9/08—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being fluid
    • F04B9/12—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being fluid the fluid being elastic, e.g. steam or air
    • F04B9/129—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being fluid the fluid being elastic, e.g. steam or air having plural pumping chambers
    • F04B9/131—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being fluid the fluid being elastic, e.g. steam or air having plural pumping chambers with two mechanically connected pumping members
    • F04B9/133—Piston machines or pumps characterised by the driving or driven means to or from their working members the means being fluid the fluid being elastic, e.g. steam or air having plural pumping chambers with two mechanically connected pumping members reciprocating movement of the pumping members being obtained by a double-acting elastic-fluid motor
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B05C11/1042—Storage, supply or control of liquid or other fluent material; Recovery of excess liquid or other fluent material provided with means for heating or cooling the liquid or other fluent material in the supplying means upstream of the applying apparatus
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B2201/00—Pump parameters
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    • F04B2201/0201—Position of the piston
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
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  • the invention relates to a double-acting piston pump for conveying a flowable medium to a dispensing device. Furthermore, the invention relates to an application system for applying a flowable medium to a substrate.
  • a piston pump for pumping a flowable medium is known, for example, from the EP 2 732 884 A2 known.
  • the EP 2 732 884 A2 discloses a piston pump having the features of the preamble of patent claim 1.
  • the pressure drop and its temporal progression are strongly dependent on the design and the execution of some components of the piston pump.
  • the reversal of the stroke direction of a pneumatically driven piston pump with a pneumatic piston takes place via an electrically operated pneumatic changeover valve.
  • the switching process of this valve takes a certain amount of time.
  • the reduction of the air pressure on one side of the pneumatic piston and the build-up of air pressure on the other side of the pneumatic piston also take a certain amount of time.
  • Double-acting piston pumps often have two check valves, which usually do not have identical designs.
  • the two check valves are usually designed in the form of movable balls which, when the piston is operating vertically, alternately seal the top and bottom against the flow of the fluid medium to be pumped.
  • the ball of one check valve moves from a sealing position to a passage position and the ball of the other check valve moves from a passage position to a sealing position and vice versa.
  • This movement of the balls also takes some time.
  • a slight loss of volume flow of the fluid medium occurs. This loss or pressure drop is typically different at the two reversal points.
  • the output of fluid medium is reduced at the reversal points of the piston pump, which has a negative effect on the application pattern.
  • the flowable medium is continuously dispensed in the form of a strip, also known as an application bead or bead
  • the so-called application pattern then shows clear, regular constrictions.
  • a piston pump is provided, wherein the piston pump has at least two piston-cylinder units for conveying the flowable medium.
  • the two pumps are operated in such a way that a pressure drop when conveying the fluid from one pump is compensated by the other pump.
  • the prior art ES 2 064 183 A2 The use of a pressure accumulator is known, whereby when the direction of movement of the piston of the piston pump is reversed, the pressure accumulator largely compensates for the falling pressure.
  • the disadvantage of this solution is that a pressure accumulator can only be optimally designed for one operating state The compensation of the falling pressure is only satisfactory for a certain pressure setting and only for a certain viscosity of the flowable medium. The greater the deviation from the optimal operating point, the worse the compensation of the pressure drop by the pressure accumulator is.
  • the object of the present invention is to further develop a double-acting piston pump for conveying a flowable medium to a dispensing device, which has the features of the preamble of patent claim 1, in such a way that constrictions in the application of the flowable medium can be avoided. Furthermore, the object of the present invention is to specify an application system for applying a flowable medium, which makes it possible to avoid or at least reduce constrictions in the application of the flowable medium.
  • the flowable medium is in particular a heated adhesive and/or a viscous hot melt adhesive.
  • the piston pump is a double-acting piston pump, i.e. a piston pump that conveys the flowable medium in both stroke directions of the piston.
  • the application system is used to apply the flowable medium to a substrate, whereby the substrate can be, for example, a sheet of paper, cardboard or film.
  • a substrate can certainly consist of a large number of separate structures, for example the substrate can be a large number of strip-like elements, e.g. paper strips, cardboard strips or film strips, which are arranged at a distance from one another and are guided one after the other past an application head that is used to dispense the medium.
  • the piston pump has a piston that can be moved between a first reversal point and a second reversal point for conveying the flowable medium, wherein the direction of movement of the piston is reversed when the respective reversal point is reached.
  • the application system also has a dispensing device, for example one or more spray heads, for intermittently dispensing the flowable medium conveyed to the dispensing device by means of the piston pump.
  • the method provides that during at least one interruption period of the interruption periods, the direction of movement of the piston is reversed, wherein the piston is in an intermediate position between the first reversal point and the second reversal point when the direction of movement is reversed during the at least one interruption period.
  • the reversal of the direction of movement of the piston takes place during the at least one interruption period of the interruption periods in such a way that the time until the dispensing period following the at least one interruption period is sufficient to rebuild a target value of the pressure until the start of the subsequent dispensing period, insofar as by the beginning of the subsequent issue period, the reversal-related, time-limited pressure drop is over.
  • the direction of movement of the piston is only reversed when the respective reversal point is reached.
  • the direction of movement of the piston of the piston pump changes during at least one of the interruption periods in an intermediate position, thus before the reversal point in the direction of movement is reached.
  • the intermittent dispensing of the flowable medium is carried out in such a way that the intermittent dispensing results in a temporally recurring pattern of dispensed flowable medium, in particular when a large number of similar substrates are provided with the flowable medium.
  • the piston pump preferably has a delivery area and a drive area.
  • the piston is arranged in the delivery area and serves to convey the flowable medium.
  • the components that drive the movement of the piston are arranged at least partially, preferably completely, in the drive area.
  • the piston pump is preferably a pneumatically driven piston pump.
  • the piston pump preferably has a pneumatic piston that is operatively connected to the piston that is used to convey the flowable medium and that serves to drive the movement of the piston.
  • a corresponding side of the pneumatic piston is pressurized with compressed air and the other side is vented.
  • the reversal of the direction of movement of the piston preferably takes place via an electrically or magnetically actuated pneumatic changeover valve.
  • the piston pump has a pneumatic part, also referred to as a pneumatic area, and a conveying area, wherein the pneumatic piston is arranged in the pneumatic part and the piston which serves to convey the flowable medium is arranged in the conveying area.
  • a hydraulic drive in particular with a hydraulic piston
  • an electric drive in particular in the form of a linear motor.
  • the first reversal point and the second reversal point are not variable, so that the first reversal point and the second reversal point are fixed when the double-acting piston pump is operated.
  • the two reversal points are unchangeable, in particular due to the design.
  • the first reversal point and the second reversal point are respectively a bottom and top dead center of the piston.
  • the direction of movement of the piston is reversed exclusively or at least mostly during the interruption periods. This means that the negative influences of the respective reversal of the direction of movement on the application pattern are particularly low. However, the direction of movement of the piston does not necessarily have to be reversed during every interruption period.
  • an output quantity of the flowable medium output by means of the output device during the respective output period is smaller than a delivery quantity of the medium delivered by means of the piston pump during a piston stroke of the piston pump from the first reversal point to the second reversal point and/or vice versa to the output device.
  • the flowable medium can be output during the output periods without reversing the direction of movement of the piston. This has a particularly advantageous effect on the quality of the application of the flowable medium to the substrate.
  • the output quantity of the flowable medium output by the output device during one of the output periods is greater than the medium delivered to the output device during a complete stroke length of the piston pump or when one of the reversal points is reached during one of the output periods
  • a spring accumulator or a pressure accumulator based on the principle of a single-acting pneumatically operated piston pump can be used as the pressure accumulator.
  • a number of reversals of the direction of movement that occur in intermediate positions of the piston between the first reversal point and the second reversal point is preferably greater than a number of reversals of the direction of movement that occur in the reversal points.
  • the reversal of the direction of movement occurs predominantly in intermediate positions of the piston between the first reversal point and the second reversal point.
  • piston speed is understood to be the amount of the piston speed
  • piston speed during the interruption periods is zero. Accordingly, the temporal development of the piston speed is correlated with the dispensing periods and the interruption periods. Accordingly, by recording the piston speed it can be determined whether an dispensing period or an interruption period is present.
  • the recurring application pattern can be recognized by measuring the piston speed. This makes it possible to determine the expected stroke of the piston at the beginning of an interruption period until the beginning of the next interruption period.
  • the programmed or predetermined application pattern of a higher-level application control is used to determine the temporal progression of the interruption periods in order to determine the expected piston positions with respect to the interruption periods. This can improve the operational reliability of the invention, since unexpected changes in the application pattern can be taken into account.
  • the piston pump is subject to leakage with regard to the flowable medium to be pumped, so that during the interruption periods the piston speed of the piston is reduced compared to the piston speed during the dispensing periods.
  • a leaky piston pump is also considered advantageous in terms of minimizing wear, avoiding maintenance work and ensuring the piston pump has the longest possible service life. It is considered particularly advantageous if the leakage occurs between the piston and the cylinder. This leakage depends primarily on the viscosity and flow behavior of the flowable medium, the size of a gap around the piston and the pressure that the piston pump builds up.
  • the piston speed of the piston is reduced during the interruption periods compared to the piston speed during the dispensing periods, because during the interruption periods the resistance of the piston movement is increased compared to the resistance of the piston movement when the flowable medium is dispensed.
  • the piston of the piston pump is not designed to be sealed with respect to a cylinder and/or the piston pump has a piston rod that is not designed to be sealed with respect to a guide.
  • the piston pump preferably has two check valves, whereby one check valve is open and the other check valve is closed depending on the direction of movement of the piston.
  • the two check valves are usually designed in the form of movable balls which, when the piston is operating vertically, seal alternately at the top and bottom against the flow of the fluid medium to be pumped.
  • the ball of one check valve moves from a sealing position to a passage position and the ball of the other check valve moves from a passage position to a sealing position and vice versa during a subsequent switching process.
  • the piston speed is measured and a reversal of the direction of movement of the piston outside the reversal points occurs when the piston speed is equal to a certain value, in particular the certain value corresponds to the piston speed of the piston during the interruption periods.
  • the aforementioned condition namely that the piston speed is less than or equal to a certain value, is to be understood as a necessary condition but not necessarily a sufficient condition for the reversal of the direction of movement of the piston. However, it is certainly conceivable that it is a sufficient condition for the reversal of the direction of movement of the piston.
  • a distance of the piston from the reversal point in the direction of movement of the piston is determined, wherein a reversal of the direction of movement of the piston takes place during the respective interruption period before reaching the reversal point in the direction of movement of the piston if the distance of the piston from the reversal point in the direction of movement of the piston falls below a certain value, and/or wherein a distance of the piston from the reversal point opposite to the direction of movement of the piston is determined, wherein a reversal of the direction of movement of the piston takes place during the respective interruption period before reaching the reversal point in the direction of movement of the piston
  • the reversal point occurs when the distance of the piston from the reversal point opposite to the direction of movement of the piston exceeds a certain value.
  • the distance of the piston from the respective reversal point used for comparison with the determined value is preferably determined at the beginning of the respective interruption period.
  • the determined value with respect to the reversal point in the direction of movement of the piston preferably corresponds to an expected stroke of the piston in the direction of movement of the piston until the beginning of the next interruption period.
  • the determined value with respect to the reversal point opposite to the direction of movement of the piston preferably corresponds to an expected stroke of the piston opposite to the direction of movement of the piston until the beginning of the next interruption period.
  • the piston speed is measured and a distance of the piston from the reversal point in the direction of movement of the piston is determined, wherein a reversal of the direction of movement of the piston occurs when the piston speed falls below a certain value and the distance of the piston from the reversal point in the direction of movement of the piston falls below a certain value, and/or if the piston speed is measured and a distance of the piston from the reversal point opposite to the direction of movement of the piston is determined, wherein a reversal of the direction of movement of the movable piston occurs when the piston speed falls below a certain value and the distance of the piston from the reversal point opposite to the direction of movement of the piston exceeds a certain value.
  • the piston speed is a criterion for whether an interruption period is present. Since the direction of movement of the piston should be reversed during an interruption period, the direction of movement of the piston should only be reversed during a period with reduced piston speed. Therefore, the reduced piston speed is a first criterion for switching. The distance of the piston from the respective reversal point is used as a further criterion to decide whether the direction of movement should be reversed.
  • the piston position is used to determine the distance value of the piston from the respective reversal point or that the distance value of the piston from the respective reversal point is determined when the piston speed falls below a certain value.
  • it is first checked whether the first criterion, namely the falling below a certain speed value of the piston speed, is present. Only when the first criterion is present is the second criterion, namely the distance, checked. This reduces the measurement and evaluation effort.
  • the piston pump has sensors for measuring a piston position and/or a distance of the piston from the first reversal point or the second reversal point and/or for measuring the direction of movement of the piston and/or for measuring the speed of the piston. It is considered particularly advantageous if the sensor is designed as a Hall sensor. In connection with a Hall sensor, it is considered particularly advantageous if the piston pump has a magnet, preferably a ring magnet, wherein the magnet is connected together with the Piston is movable. It is entirely conceivable that the piston pump has several Hall sensors, preferably at least four Hall sensors, in particular exactly four Hall sensors.
  • distance is to be understood broadly in the above contexts.
  • distance then being understood to mean the section in which the piston is located.
  • the distance can be divided into a first section and a second section, with the first section containing the first reversal point and the second section containing the second reversal point.
  • the section in which the piston is currently located can then be used as a distance criterion or distance.
  • the distance of the piston from the first reversal point is therefore smaller when the piston is in the first section than when the piston is in the second section. Knowing which section the piston is in can therefore be used as a criterion for falling below or exceeding a distance value.
  • the double-acting piston pump serves to convey a flowable medium to a dispensing device.
  • the double-acting piston pump serves to convey a heated adhesive, in particular a viscous hot melt adhesive, to a dispensing device.
  • the dispensing device can in particular be a spray head.
  • the piston pump has a reversal point between a first and a second
  • the piston pump also has a piston that can be moved to a reversal point and that serves to convey the flowable medium.
  • the piston pump also has a control device for controlling the direction of movement of the piston, the control device being designed to reverse the direction of movement of the piston when the respective reversal point is reached.
  • the piston pump also has a measuring device for measuring a piston speed, the control device being designed to reverse the direction of movement of the piston when the measured piston speed falls below a certain speed value.
  • the piston speed is a measure of whether flowable medium is being dispensed by the dispensing device or whether the dispensing of flowable medium by means of the dispensing device is interrupted.
  • the double-acting piston pump is thus suitable for carrying out the method according to the invention with the corresponding advantages.
  • the piston pump is subject to leakage with respect to the flowable medium to be pumped.
  • the piston is not designed to seal with respect to a cylinder and/or the piston pump has a piston rod that is not designed to seal in a guide.
  • a piston pump subject to leakage has the advantage that wear on the piston pump is reduced and, in terms of the process, the advantage that the speed of the piston during the interruption periods is reduced compared to the speed of the piston during the dispensing periods.
  • the piston pump preferably has two check valves, whereby one check valve is open and the other is closed depending on the direction of movement of the piston, in particular the check valves are designed differently.
  • the two check valves are assigned to the part of the piston pump in which the flowable medium is conveyed, thus the conveying area.
  • the double-acting piston pump is preferably designed as a pneumatically driven piston pump.
  • the piston pump has a pneumatic part, also referred to as the pneumatic area, and a delivery area, wherein the pneumatic piston is arranged in the pneumatic part and the piston which serves to convey the flowable medium is arranged in the delivery area.
  • the piston pump has a measuring device for measuring a distance of the piston position of the piston from the reversal point lying in the direction of movement of the piston, wherein the control device is set up to reverse the direction of movement of the piston when a certain speed value of the measured piston speed is undershot and a certain distance value of the measured distance is undershot, and/or the piston pump has a measuring device for measuring a distance of the piston position of the piston from the reversal point lying opposite to the direction of movement of the piston, wherein the control device is set up to reverse the direction of movement of the piston when a certain speed value of the measured piston speed is undershot and a certain distance value of the measured distance is overshot.
  • the piston pump preferably has one or more magnets, preferably one or more ring magnets, wherein the magnet can be moved together with the piston or the magnets can be moved together with the piston, wherein the measuring device for measuring the piston speed has at least one Hall sensor and/or the measuring device for measuring the distance has at least one Hall sensor.
  • the measuring device for measuring the distance of the piston position of the piston from the reversal point in the direction of movement of the piston has at least one Hall sensor and/or the measuring device for measuring the distance of the piston position of the piston from the reversal point opposite to the direction of movement of the piston has at least one Hall sensor.
  • the piston pump preferably has at least three Hall sensors, in particular at least four Hall sensors.
  • the piston pump preferably also has several magnets.
  • a magnet is assigned to each Hall sensor.
  • the control device has an evaluation device for evaluating the magnetic flux density measured by means of the one or more Hall sensors, wherein the evaluation device is in particular designed to calculate the first and second derivatives of the measured magnetic From the measured magnetic flux density, the first derivative of the flux density and the second derivative of the flux density, conclusions can be drawn about the piston position, the piston speed and the piston acceleration.
  • the piston pump preferably has at least two Hall sensors, preferably four Hall sensors, wherein a path of the piston from one reversal point to the other reversal point with respect to the measurement of the piston speed and/or a measurement of the piston position is divided into at least two sections, wherein one of the at least two sensors can be assigned to the respective section.
  • the division of the path and the assignment of the Hall sensors is such that for the Hall sensor assignable to the respective section, there is an almost linear relationship between the magnetic flux density detected by this Hall sensor and the piston position of the piston when the piston is in the section assigned to this Hall sensor.
  • the adjustment process also makes it possible to determine the polarity of the magnet during the adjustment process.
  • the reference values can be adjusted automatically, in particular digital electronics for evaluating the Hall sensors can be programmed according to the installation position of the magnet. This means that it is not necessary to maintain a specific orientation of the magnet during installation. Disassembly to correct an incorrect installation position of the magnet is therefore not necessary.
  • the piston pump is designed as a pneumatically driven piston pump with a pneumatic piston that is operatively connected to the piston, wherein the control device has an actuatable valve or an actuatable valve arrangement, wherein when the valve or the valve arrangement is actuated, a direction of pressure application to the pneumatic piston changes.
  • the valve or the valve arrangement By actuating the valve or the valve arrangement, the direction of movement of the piston can thus be reversed in a simple manner.
  • the application system according to the invention for applying a flowable medium, in particular a heated adhesive, to a substrate has the above-described double-acting piston pump or one of the above-described embodiments of the double-acting piston pump and a dispensing device for intermittently dispensing the flowable medium conveyed to the dispensing device by means of the double-acting piston pump.
  • the Fig. 1 shows an application system 2 for applying a flowable medium, in this case a heated adhesive, to a substrate 3.
  • the substrate 3 can be, for example, sheets of paper or cardboard.
  • the application system 2 has a double-acting piston pump 1. Since it is a double-acting piston pump 1, the piston pump 1 is in both Stroke directions of the piston 4 are effective.
  • the flowable medium is conveyed from a storage container (not shown) that can be connected to the piston pump 1 to a dispensing device 5.
  • the dispensing device 5 is fluidly connected to the piston pump 1, namely a cylinder bore 12 of the piston pump, by means of a heating hose 11.
  • the adhesive passes from the storage container into a suction chamber 13 for adhesive. From there, the adhesive is sucked into the cylinder bore 12 and conveyed under pressure to the dispensing device 5 via a pressure connection 14 to which the heating hose 11 is connected.
  • the dispensing device 5 is suitable in the present case for intermittently dispensing the adhesive conveyed to the dispensing device 5, so that during dispensing periods the adhesive is dispensed by means of the dispensing device 5 and during interruption periods the adhesive is dispensed by means of the dispensing device 5.
  • the adhesive is to be applied to substrates 3 which are arranged at a distance from one another on a conveyor belt 15 and are moved past the dispensing device 5, in particular continuously, in the direction of the arrow 16 by means of this conveyor belt 15, wherein the dispensing device 5 applies a bead of adhesive 17 to the respective substrate 3.
  • the piston 4 of the piston pump 1 can be moved between a first reversal point 24 and a second reversal point 25.
  • the direction of movement of the piston 4 is reversed.
  • the pressure of the adhesive being delivered drops for a limited period of time. If adhesive is dispensed by means of the dispensing device 5 during this limited period of time, this pressure drop has a negative effect on the amount of adhesive dispensed and thus on the so-called application pattern.
  • a significantly smaller amount of adhesive is applied than during a continuous movement of the piston 4 of the piston pump 1.
  • a clear constriction 18 is then visible in the applied adhesive bead 17.
  • the effects of the switching processes of the piston pump 4 on the amount of adhesive dispensed per unit of time 23 and the adhesive pattern or the adhesive beads 17 can be seen from the Fig. 5 visible.
  • the Activation of the switching process i.e. reversal of the direction of movement of the piston 4 is carried out purely mechanically or by actuating an electrical or electronic switch. There is no temporal coordination between the switching process of the direction of movement of the piston 4 of the piston pump 1 and the dispensing periods and interruption periods of the adhesive application.
  • an output quantity of the adhesive dispensed by means of the dispensing device 5 during the respective dispensing period is smaller than a delivery quantity of the medium conveyed by means of the piston pump 1 during one piston stroke of the piston 4 from the one reversal point 24, 25 to the other reversal point 24, 25 to the dispensing device 5.
  • the piston pump 1 shown is a piston pump 1 which is subject to leakage with regard to the adhesive to be pumped, so that during the interruption periods a piston speed of the piston 4 is reduced compared to a piston speed during the dispensing periods. This is also evident from the temporal development of the piston position 26 of the piston 4, as shown in the Fig. 5 and 6
  • the leakage is realized in that the piston 4 is not designed to be sealing with respect to a cylinder bore 12, wherein the cylinder bore 12 is introduced into a housing 19 of the piston pump 1.
  • the piston pump 1 has an upper pneumatic part with a pneumatic piston 20 for the drive.
  • the pneumatic piston 20 is firmly connected to a piston rod 6, which in turn is connected to the piston 4, which serves to convey the adhesive.
  • a ring magnet 9 is also connected to the pneumatic piston 20 and thus to the piston rod 6.
  • An electronic print 21 is also formed adjacent to the pneumatic piston 20 or the ring magnet 9, with three Hall sensors 10 connected to the electronic print 21.
  • the Hall sensors 10 are designed in such a way that they measure the magnetic flux density in the horizontal direction.
  • the ring magnet 9 moves in accordance with the movement of the piston rod 6, so that the magnetic flux density detected by the respective Hall sensor 10 changes due to the change in the position of the ring magnet 9.
  • the piston position 26 and the piston speed can then be determined using the output signals of the Hall sensors 10. Furthermore, the direction of movement of the piston 4 or the pneumatic piston 20 can also be determined.
  • both the piston position 26, the piston speed and the direction of movement of the piston 4 can be determined by means of a single Hall sensor 10.
  • a single Hall sensor 10 Preferably, however, at least three Hall sensors 10 are used, since this increases the accuracy on the one hand and the redundancy on the other hand, thereby increasing the failure, functional and operational reliability of the piston pump 1.
  • the piston 4 is provided with an axial passage in the area of which a check valve 7 with associated valve seat is arranged.
  • the piston 4 is guided in a non-sealing manner in the cylinder bore 12 formed in the housing 19.
  • a second check valve 8 is formed in the cylinder bore 12.
  • the check valve 8 is assigned to the suction chamber 13 so that adhesive can enter the adhesive feed chamber of the piston pump 1 from the suction chamber 13 when the check valve 8 is in a defined position. If the check valve 7 is in a defined position, adhesive can reach the pressure connection 14 and from there via the heating hose 11 to the dispensing device 5.
  • a dynamic seal 22 without differential pressure is provided between the pneumatic part and the adhesive-feeding part of the piston pump 1.
  • the piston pump 1 further comprises a control device (not shown) for controlling the direction of movement of the piston 4, wherein the control device is designed to reverse the direction of movement of the piston 4 when the respective reversal point 24, 25 is reached.
  • the piston pump 1 further comprises a measuring device for measuring the piston speed, wherein the control device is designed to reverse the direction of movement of the piston 4 when the measured piston speed falls below a certain speed value.
  • the piston pump 1 further comprises a measuring device for measuring a distance of the piston position 26 of the piston 4 from the reversal point located in the direction of movement of the piston 4.
  • the Hall sensors 10 form components of the measuring device for measuring the piston speed, the piston position 26 or the distance and the direction of movement of the piston 4.
  • the control device is set up to reverse the direction of movement of the piston 4 if the measured piston speed falls below a certain speed value and the measured distance falls below a certain distance value.
  • Such a design of the piston pump 1 has the advantage that the switching process of the direction of movement of the piston 4 takes place solely on the basis of knowledge of internal measurement data or measured variables of the piston pump 1. It is therefore not necessary to record data on the state of the dispensing device 5 and to transmit it to the control device of the piston pump 1.
  • the piston pump 1 can therefore be used completely independently of the specific dispensing device 5 used and can carry out the previously described process.
  • the piston pump 1 can therefore be used universally.
  • existing application systems 2 can be converted by replacing the piston pump 1 in such a way that these application systems 2 can carry out the previously described process.

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  1. Pompe à piston à double effet pour le transport d'un milieu coulant vers un dispositif de distribution (5), la pompe à piston (1) présentant un piston (4) mobile entre un premier point d'inversion (24) et un deuxième point d'inversion (25), pour le transport du milieu coulant, la pompe à piston (1) présentant un dispositif de commande pour commander le sens de mouvement du piston (4), le dispositif de commande étant conçu pour inverser le sens de mouvement du piston (4) lorsque le point d'inversion respectif (24, 25) est atteint, caractérisé en ce que la pompe à piston (1) présente un dispositif de mesure pour mesurer une vitesse de piston, le dispositif de commande étant conçu pour inverser le sens de mouvement du piston (4) lorsque la vitesse de piston mesurée tombe en dessous d'une valeur de vitesse déterminée.
  2. Pompe à piston à double effet selon la revendication 1, la pompe à piston (1) étant sujette à des fuites par rapport au milieu coulant à transporter, de préférence le piston (4) étant réalisé de manière non étanche par rapport à un cylindre, et/ou la pompe à piston (1) présentant une tige de piston (6) réalisée de manière non étanche par rapport à un guidage.
  3. Pompe à piston à double effet selon la revendication 1 ou la revendication 2, la pompe à piston (1) présentant deux clapets anti-retour (7, 8), l'un des clapets anti-retour des clapets anti-retour (7, 8) étant ouvert et l'autre clapet anti-retour des clapets anti-retour (7, 8) étant fermé selon le sens de mouvement du piston (4), les clapets anti-retour (7, 8) étant en particulier de conceptions différentes.
  4. Pompe à piston à double effet selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, la pompe à piston (1) comportant un dispositif de mesure pour mesurer une distance entre la position (26) du piston (4) et le point d'inversion (24, 25) situé dans le sens de mouvement du piston (4), le dispositif de commande étant agencé pour inverser le sens de mouvement du piston (4) lorsque la vitesse du piston mesurée tombe en-dessous d'une certaine valeur de vitesse et que la distance mesurée tombe en-dessous d'une certaine valeur de distance,
    et/ou
    la pompe à piston (1) présentant un dispositif de mesure pour mesurer une distance de la position (26) du piston (4) par rapport au point d'inversion (24, 25) situé à l'opposé du sens de mouvement du piston (4), le dispositif de commande étant conçu pour inverser le sens de mouvement du piston (4) lorsqu'une valeur de vitesse déterminée de la vitesse du piston mesurée est inférieure à la vitesse de piston mesurée et lors d'un dépassement d'une valeur de distance déterminée de la distance mesurée.
  5. Pompe à piston à double effet selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, dans laquelle la pompe à piston (1) présente un aimant ou plusieurs aimants, de préférence un ou plusieurs aimants annulaires (9), l'aimant ou les aimants étant déplaçables conjointement avec le piston (4), le dispositif de mesure pour mesurer la vitesse du piston présentant au moins un capteur à effet Hall (10) et/ou le dispositif de mesure pour mesurer la distance entre la position (26) du piston (4) et le point d'inversion (24, 25) situé dans le sens de mouvement du piston (4) présentant au moins un capteur à effet Hall (10) et/ou le dispositif de mesure pour mesurer la distance entre la position (26) du piston (4) et le point d'inversion (24, 25) situé de façon opposé au sens de mouvement du piston (4) présentant au moins un capteur à effet Hall (10).
  6. Pompe à piston à double effet selon la revendication 5, dans laquelle la pompe à piston (1) présente au moins deux capteurs à effet Hall (10), de préférence quatre capteurs à effet Hall (10), un trajet du piston (4) d'un point d'inversion (24, 25) à l'autre point d'inversion (24, 25) étant divisé en au moins deux sections en ce qui concerne la mesure de la vitesse du piston et/ou une mesure de la position du piston (26), l'un des au moins deux capteurs (10) pouvant être affecté à la section respective, en particulier pour le capteur à effet Hall (10) pouvant être affecté à la section respective, il existe une relation presque linéaire entre la densité de flux magnétique détectée par ce capteur à effet Hall (10) et la position de piston (26) du piston (4) lorsque le piston (4) se trouve dans la section affectée à ce capteur à effet Hall (10).
  7. Pompe à piston à double effet selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, la pompe à piston (1) étant conçue comme une pompe à piston (1) à entraînement pneumatique, le dispositif de commande présentant une soupape actionnable ou un agencement de soupape actionnable, une direction d'une sollicitation en pression d'un piston pneumatique (20) changeant lors de l'actionnement de la soupape ou de l'agencement de soupape, le piston pneumatique (20) étant en liaison active avec le piston (4) .
  8. Système d'application pour appliquer un milieu coulant, en particulier un adhésif chauffé, sur un substrat (3), présentant une pompe à piston à double effet (1) selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7 et présentant un dispositif de distribution (5) pour distribuer de manière intermittente le milieu coulant transporté au moyen de la pompe à piston à double effet (1) vers le dispositif de distribution (5).
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