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US 10,895,227 B2Granted
Assembly for receiving a fluid subjected to fluctuating pressure, in particular in the intake manifold of an internal combustion engine
AssigneeMann+Hummel GmbH
InventorsHans-Peter Hielscher, Helmut Neuschwander, Alexander Korn
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Abstract
An assembly for receiving a fluid subjected to fluctuating pressure has a housing with at least two housing parts. A tensioning bolt connects the at least two housing parts to each other. The tensioning bolt has at least two spaced-apart threaded sections, wherein the at least two threaded sections each are screwed into a respective counter thread in the at least two housing parts. The assembly can be a suction pipe or an air filter device of an internal combustion engine.
Claims11
An assembly for receiving a fluid subjected to fluctuating pressure, the assembly comprising:
- a housing comprising:
- a first housing wall;
- a second housing wall oppositely positioned from the first housing wall,
- wherein the first housing wall is spaced apart from the second housing wall, forming a receiving space therebetween, the receiving space subject to fluctuating pressure and vacuum forces directed at pushing apart the oppositely positioned housing walls, as well as vacuum forces, which are directed at compressing together the oppositely positioned housing walls;
- a double tensioning bolt comprising:
- a first threaded section having:
- a first thread pitch;
- and
- a first outer diameter;
- a second threaded section spaced axially away from the first threaded section, the second threaded section having:
- a second thread pitch;
- and
- a second outer diameter;
- wherein the first thread pitch matches the second thread pitch;
- wherein the first outer diameter is greater the second outer diameter;
- wherein the first threaded section is threadably engaged into a first counter thread in the first housing wall;
- wherein the second threaded section is threadably engaged into a second counter thread in the second housing wall;
- wherein the first threaded section and the second threaded section have a same thread handedness such that rotating the double tensioning bolt in a first screwing direction advances the first threaded section axially into the first counter thread of the first housing wall and advances the second thread section axially in the second counter thread of the second housing wall;
- wherein the matching first and second thread pitches maintains a fix axial spacing along the double tensioning bolt between the first housing wall and the second housing wall, the spacing fixed as the double tensioning bolt is advanced in the counter threads of the first and second housing walls;
- wherein the fluctuating pressure or vacuum forces acting on the spaced apart first and second housing walls are absorbed by the double tensioning bolt in case of increasing as well as decreasing pressure by means of the first and second threaded sections so that the axial spacing of the first housing wall to the second housing wall is held to a fixed spacing by the double tensioning bolt.
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