Compressor Roller Stiffening Arrangement for Vibration Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Soil compactors with divided rollers experience unfavorable vibration behavior due to oscillating movements, leading to noise and potential damage to the rollers and suspension components.

Innovation Solution

A compacting roller design featuring a stiffening arrangement with a stiffening ring and assembly that connects to the roller disc, providing sufficient rigidity to prevent deformations and vibrations, including a thick roller disc and strategically positioned stiffening plates to enhance structural integrity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a divided roller design with oscillating movement is used, then compaction effectiveness is improved, but vibration and noise increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompaction effectivenessVSAvoidvibration and noise
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The roller is divided into multiple independent compressor rollers that can rotate in succession, allowing each roller to be independently controlled and reducing overall vibration through segmentation of the compaction function

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The roller system incorporates oscillating movement capability where compressor rollers can perform periodic back-and-forth movements in the circumferential direction, dynamically adjusting the compaction action to improve effectiveness while the stiffening arrangement controls the resulting vibrations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Strength

If roller disc thickness is increased to prevent deformation, then structural rigidity is improved, but interior space for system components is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural rigidityVSAvoidinterior space
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSVolume of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of uniformly increasing the entire roller disc thickness, stiffening arrangements are applied locally at specific positions where deformation occurs, providing necessary rigidity while preserving interior space in other regions for system components

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The stiffening arrangement extends in the axial direction perpendicular to the roller disc plane, providing structural support through a different dimensional approach rather than simply increasing disc thickness, thus maintaining interior space

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Stability of the object's composition

If a stiffening arrangement is added to prevent vibration, then structural stability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidstructural complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The stiffening arrangement utilizes a stiffening ring and plate structure that provides high structural stability with relatively simple geometry, avoiding complex mechanisms while effectively preventing roller deformation and vibration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Solution Approach 2:

The stiffening ring is integrated with the roller shell structure, and the stiffening plate connects the roller disc to the stiffening ring, merging multiple structural elements into a unified arrangement that provides comprehensive stiffening without excessive complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentEP3517684B1Compressor roller
Publication Date: 2020.06.17 HAMM AG
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AI summary

A compactor roller, in particular for a soil compactor with at least one roller divided in the direction of a roller rotation axis, comprises a roller shell (12) surrounding a roller rotation axis (A) and elongated in the direction of the roller rotation axis (A), and in the roller interior (14) surrounded by the roller shell (12) at least one roller disk (18) connected to the roller shell (12) at its inner circumferential surface (26), wherein - in association with the roller disk (18) a stiffening arrangement (28) is provided with a stiffening ring (30) arranged in the roller interior (14) at an axial distance from the roller disk (18) and connected to the roller shell (12) at its inner circumferential surface (26), and a stiffening assembly (44) connected to the roller disk (18) and the stiffening ring (30), and the stiffening assembly (44) has at least one The roller rotation axis (A) comprises an eccentrically arranged first stiffening plate (46),wherein the at least one first stiffening plate (46) is connected to the roller disk (18) in a first axial end region (48) and to the stiffening ring (30) in a second axial end region (54).