JP4589100B2 - Connecting structure with knock pin - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a coupling structure provided with a knock pin, and more particularly to a coupling structure that uses a knock pin to determine the position of a second member relative to a first member.

Conventionally, knock pins are disclosed in, for example, JP-A-7-98007 (Patent Document 1) and JP-A-7-1517 (Patent Document 2).
Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 7-98007 JP-A-7-1517

  In the prior art, there is a problem that high-precision positioning between two parts cannot be performed with a knock pin. Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a coupling structure including a knock pin that can be positioned with high accuracy.

A coupling structure provided with a knock pin according to one aspect of the present invention is a coupling structure provided with a positioning knock pin, wherein the knock pins have different cross-sectional shapes from each other at a certain longitudinal direction. A second part, and a position of the second member relative to the first member, wherein the first part is pressed into the first member and pressed from the first member, and the second part is the second member The pressing force by which the second member presses the second portion by being half-pressed into the second member is smaller than the pressing force by which the first member presses the first portion.
In this case, it is possible to reliably position the member that matches the first portion and the second portion. Further, in the coupling structure including the knock pin configured as described above, the first portion is press-fitted into the first member, and the second portion is half-pressed into the second member. Therefore, only by inserting the second part into the second member, the second part comes into close contact with the second member as compared with a case where a large gap is formed between the second part and the second member. As a result, the second member can be reliably positioned at the second portion.
Preferably, the outermost portion of the second portion is in contact with the second member and has a predetermined height and width, and is configured on the same plane as the outermost portion of the first portion.
Preferably, the second portion has three or more outermost portions.
A coupling structure with a knock pin according to another aspect of the present invention is a coupling structure with a positioning knock pin for determining the position of the second member with respect to the first member, wherein the knock pin has a longitudinal direction. It has a first part and a second part having different cross-sectional shapes from each other as a boundary, the first part has a cylindrical body that is press-fitted into the first member, and the second part is half-fitted into the second member. The pressing force by which the second member presses the non-cylindrical body is smaller than the pressing force by which the first member presses the cylindrical body. The outermost portion is a plurality of surfaces having a predetermined height and width, and the plurality of surfaces are circular arc sections having the same outer diameter as the cylindrical body. It is formed at equal intervals with respect to the center.

  According to this invention, the coupling structure provided with the knock pin that can position the two members with high accuracy can be provided.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In the following embodiments, the same or corresponding parts are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof will not be repeated.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a coupling structure using a knock pin according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. With reference to FIG. 1, the coupling structure 1 is used for positioning a crank cap 10, a cylinder block 20 disposed so as to be in contact with the crank cap 10, and positioning the crank cap 10 and the cylinder block 20. The knock pin 30 is provided. One end of the knock pin 30 is press-fitted into the crank cap 10.

  The crank cap 10 is a member for supporting the crankshaft, and is disposed at the lower part of the engine. The crank cap 10 is attached to the cylinder block 20 using bolts 40. At this time, in order to accurately position the crank cap 10 and the cylinder block 20, a hole is provided in the cylinder block 20, and the knock pin 30 attached to the crank cap 10 is half-pressed into the hole. The crank cap 10 and the cylinder block 20 are directly fixed by the bolt 40, and the knock pin 30 determines the relative position of the two parts.

  FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a bonded structure according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2, the coupling structure 1 includes a positioning knock pin 30, and the positioning knock pin 30 includes a first portion 31 and a second portion 32 having different cross-sectional shapes from each other at a certain position in the longitudinal direction. Have The knock pin 30 determines the position of the cylinder block 20 as the second member with respect to the crank cap 10 as the first member, the first portion 31 has a cylindrical body press-fitted into the crank cap 10, and the second portion 32 is the cylinder. The crank cap 10 has a non-cylindrical body that is half-pressed into the block 20 and the cylinder cap 20 presses the non-cylindrical body constituting the second portion 32 (the force indicated by the arrow 132). It is smaller than the pressing force (the force indicated by the arrow 131) that presses the cylindrical body constituting the.

  The crank cap 10 is provided with a hole 11, and the first portion 31 of the knock pin 30 is press-fitted into the hole 11. The outer diameter φf of the first portion 31 of the knock pin 30 is slightly larger than the outer diameter of the hole 11. Therefore, the first portion 31 is pushed into the hole 11 by applying a large force to the knock pin 30. Once the first portion 31 enters the hole 11, the knock pin 30 is not detached from the hole 11 unless the knock pin 30 is pulled out with a large force.

  The hole 11 has a cylindrical shape, and the first portion 31 having a substantially similar cylindrical shape fits into the cylindrical shape. The tip portion of the first portion 31 is tapered, and is easy to fit into the hole 11.

  A hole 21 is provided in the cylinder block 20, and the second portion 32 of the knock pin 30 is fitted into the hole 21. The second portion 32 of the knock pin 30 has a shape in which the outer peripheral surface is machined and partly cut away. Therefore, only a part of the outer peripheral portion comes into contact with the hole 21. The contact area between the second portion 32 and the hole 21 is smaller than the contact area between the first portion 31 and the hole 11. The outermost outer diameter of the second portion 32 is φf, which is the same as the outer diameter of the first portion 31. The length of the portion of the second portion 32 that contacts the hole 21 is d, and the pressing force indicated by the arrow 132 can be appropriately changed by changing the contact length d, the contact area, and the like.

  In this embodiment, both the first portion 31 and the second portion 32 are in contact with the holes 11 and 21, and the force (the magnitude of the force indicated by the arrow 131) with which the crank cap 10 presses the first portion 31 is It is larger than the force (the force indicated by the arrow 132) with which the cylinder block 20 presses the second portion 32. Since the hole 21 and the second portion 32 are in contact with each other, there is no play between the hole 21 and the second portion 32, and the second portion 32 can be securely half-pressed into the hole 21. As a result, the cylinder block 20 as the second member can be reliably positioned.

  That is, conventionally, when a knock pin is used, one side is press-fitted into the first member and the other side is only inserted into the second member. At this time, a gap is provided between the knock pin and the hole on the insertion side in consideration of a deviation in processing accuracy of the hole, an assembly load, and the like. This gap becomes a position shift between two parts for positioning, and accurate positioning cannot be performed.

  In the present invention, the half press-fitting between the second portion 32 and the cylinder block 20 has an intermediate fit or an interference fit relationship so that the gap between the hole 21 and the second portion 32 is substantially reduced. Can be eliminated. Thereby, the error at the time of positioning can be reduced.

  Further, in order to optimize the load at the time of assembly, the pressing force on the half press-fitting side is made smaller than the pressing force on the press-fitting side. For this reason, the second portion 32 can be easily inserted into the hole 21 of the cylinder block 20.

  In this embodiment, the example in which the first portion 31 is press-fitted into the crank cap 10 and the second portion 32 is half-pressed into the cylinder block 20 is shown, but the present invention is not limited to this, and is configured in reverse. May be. That is, the second portion 32 may be half press-fitted into the crank cap 10 and the first portion 31 may be press-fitted into the cylinder block 20.

  FIG. 3 is a front view of the knock pin from the direction indicated by the arrow III in FIG. Referring to FIG. 3, knock pin 30 has a plurality of protrusions 37. The three protrusions 37 are arranged at equal intervals so as to form an angle of 120 ° with each other. The outermost portion 33 of the first portion and the outermost portion 36 of the second portion are on the same plane, and the portion other than the outermost portion 36 is the bottom portion 35 in the second portion. The number of protrusions 37 is not limited to that shown in FIG. 3, and three or more protrusions 37 can be provided.

  That is, the outermost part 36 of the non-cylindrical body is in contact with the cylinder block as the second member, has a predetermined height and width, and is configured on the same plane as the outermost part 33 of the cylindrical body. The non-cylindrical body has three or more outermost portions 36.

  4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line IV-IV in FIG. Referring to FIG. 4, outermost portion 33 as the outermost surface of first portion 31 has a circular shape. The outermost part 33 of the first portion 31 may be elliptical or polygonal. In this case, the hole 11 for press-fitting the first portion 31 has the same shape as the outermost portion 33 of the first portion 31.

  FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along line VV in FIG. Referring to FIG. 5, the second portion 32 has an outermost part 36 and a bottom part 35 provided between the outermost parts 36, and the outermost part 36 is constituted by a protruding part 37. In FIG. 5, the protrusions 37 are arranged at equal intervals. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a plurality of protrusions 37 may be provided at random intervals.

  The knock pin 30 according to the present invention configured as described above is a knock pin 30 used in a portion that requires high-precision positioning between two parts, and has a shape that takes productivity into consideration. As a result, the accuracy can be improved as compared with the conventional case, and the assembling property can be maintained as before. That is, since the second portion 32 to be half-pressed contacts with the hole 21 at the outermost portion 36, the positioning accuracy of the cylinder block 20 as the second member is improved as compared with the case where the second portion 32 is not half-pressed. Further, since the positioning force of the knock pin 30 by the cylinder block 20 (the pressing force indicated by the arrow 132) is small on the half press-fitting side, it can be easily assembled with a small load, and the assembling property can be made as usual.

  In addition, since the outermost portion 33 of the first portion and the outermost portion 36 of the second portion have the same shape, the knockpin 30 according to the present invention is manufactured only by processing a part of the knockpin 30 to form the bottom portion 35. be able to. Further, by arranging a plurality of outermost portions 36 and providing three or more outermost portions 36, the second portion 32 can be held by the hole 21 in any phase.

  Furthermore, since the fitting of the second portion 32 on the deformed side and the hole 21 is an intermediate fit or an interference fit, the cylinder block 20 can be accurately positioned by the second portion 32.

(Embodiment 2)
FIG. 6 is a front view of a knock pin according to the second embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 6, in knock pin 30 according to the second embodiment of the present invention, the second portion has a triangular shape and the outer peripheral portion is the outermost portion 36. Different from the knock pin 30. In the second embodiment, the bottom 35 is formed by, for example, plane polishing.

  The knock pin 30 according to the second embodiment configured as described above has the same effect as the knock pin 30 according to the first embodiment.

  Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the embodiment shown here can be variously modified. First, the knock pin 30 according to the present invention may be used not only as a knock pin for positioning the crank cap 10 and the cylinder block 20, but also as a knock pin in other portions.

  Further, in this embodiment, an example in which the present invention is applied to an in-line engine is shown, but the present invention is not limited to this, and positioning is performed in various engines such as a parallel engine, a V engine, a W engine, and a horizontally opposed engine. Alternatively, a knock pin 30 according to the present invention may be used.

  The embodiment disclosed this time should be considered as illustrative in all points and not restrictive. The scope of the present invention is defined by the terms of the claims, rather than the description above, and is intended to include any modifications within the scope and meaning equivalent to the terms of the claims.

  The present invention can be used, for example, as a knock pin for positioning a part constituting a vehicle.

It is a disassembled perspective view of the joint structure using the knock pin according to Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is sectional drawing of the coupling structure according to this invention. FIG. 3 is a front view of the knock pin as viewed from the direction indicated by III in FIG. 2. It is sectional drawing along the IV-IV line in FIG. It is sectional drawing along the VV line in FIG. It is a front view of the knock pin according to Embodiment 2 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Connection structure, 10 Crank cap, 11 and 21 holes, 20 Cylinder block, 30 Knock pin, 31 1st part, 32 2nd part, 33,36 Outermost part, 35 Bottom part, 37 Protrusion part, 40 bolt.

Claims (4)

A coupling structure having a knock pin for positioning,
The knock pin has a first portion and a second portion having different cross-sectional shapes with respect to a certain longitudinal direction, and determines a position of the second member with respect to the first member,
The first portion is press-fitted into the first member and pressed from the first member, the second portion is half-pressed into the second member and pressed from the second member, and the second member is moved to the first member The combined structure provided with a knock pin , wherein the pressing force that presses the two portions is smaller than the pressing force that the first member presses the first portion . 2. The knock pin according to claim 1, wherein the outermost portion of the second portion is in contact with the second member and has a predetermined height and width and is configured on the same plane as the outermost portion of the first portion. Bonded structure. The coupling structure according to claim 2, wherein the second portion has three or more outermost portions. A coupling structure including a positioning knock pin for determining a position of the second member with respect to the first member,
  The knock pin has a first portion and a second portion having different cross-sectional shapes from each other at a certain longitudinal direction, and the first portion has a cylindrical body press-fitted into the first member. The two portions have a non-cylindrical body that is half-pressed into the second member, and the pressing force by which the second member presses the non-cylindrical body is greater than the pressing force by which the first member presses the cylindrical body. small,
  The non-cylindrical body is composed of an outermost part and a bottom formed on the center side of the cylindrical body from the outermost part, and the outermost part is a plurality of surfaces having a predetermined height and width, and the plurality of surfaces Is an arcuate cross-sectional shape having the same outer diameter as that of the cylindrical body, and is a coupling structure having knock pins formed at equal intervals with respect to the center of the cylindrical body.

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