# US 9,520,756 B2 · Linear electromechanical actuator

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- Number: US 9,520,756 B2
- Document ID: US9520756B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 14/724,144
- Filed: 2015-05-28
- Published: 2015-09-17
- Granted: 2016-12-13
- Earliest claimed: 2015-05-08
- Assignees: Joint stock company Diakont
- Applicants: Joint stock company “Diakont”
- Inventors: Mikhail Evgenievich Fedosovsky; Vadim Igorevich Dunaev; Evgeny Valerievich Mysov
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9520756B2

## CPC

- H02K 7/06: Means for converting reciprocating motion into rotary motion or vice versa
- F16H 57/0497: {Screw mechanisms}
- H02K 7/083: {radially supporting the rotary shaft at both ends of the rotor (H02K7/086, H02K7/09 take precedence)}
- H02K 11/21: Devices for sensing speed or position, or actuated thereby (specially adapted for machines having non-mechanical commutating devices H02K29/06, H02K29/14)
- H02K 33/16: with polarised armatures moving in alternate directions by reversal or energisation of a single coil system
- F16H 25/2015: {Means specially adapted for stopping actuators in the end position; Position sensing means}
- F16H 25/2252: {Planetary rollers between nut and screw}
- F16H 57/0408: {Exchange, draining or filling of transmission lubricant}
- F16H 2025/204: {Axial sliding means, i.e. for rotary support and axial guiding of nut or screw shaft}
- F16H 2025/2075: {Coaxial drive motors}
- F16H 2025/2078: {the rotor being integrated with the nut or screw body}
- H02K 15/50: Disassembling, repairing or modifying dynamo-electric machines (repairing of cooling fluid boxes H02K15/38)
- H02K: DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power {H03K3/53})
- F16H: GEARING

## Abstract

The present invention relates to an electromechanical actuator comprising a housing, an electric motor, a roller drive and a rotor rotation angle sensing unit received in said housing. The rotor of the electromechanical actuator is mounted within the housing and configured to rotate in bearing supports. Openings for supplying and removing lubricant are arranged in the housing in the vicinity of the bearing supports, the opening allowing to replace lubricant without disassembling the actuator, thus simplifying maintenance and operation.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A linear electromechanical actuator comprising:
a housing,
an electric motor comprising a stator fixed to an inner surface of the housing, and a rotor, the rotor being rotatably mounted within the housing on at least one bearing support;
a roller drive comprising
an internally threaded cylinder having an inner space,
an output shaft comprising a threaded portion and slidably mounted within said cylinder, and
threaded rollers mounted within said cylinder to engage between the inner thread of the cylinder and the threaded portion of the output shaft, wherein
the rotor of the electric motor is formed by fixing magnets to the outer surface of the roller drive cylinder, and
wherein the housing is provided with
at least one closeable opening for supplying lubricant into the internal space of said internally threaded cylinder and to said at least one bearing support, and
at least one closeable opening for draining the lubricant from said at least one bearing support and from the internal space of said internally threaded cylinder,
and threaded sealing plugs configured to be mounted in said closeable openings in order to close them.

### Claim 2

A linear electromechanical actuator comprising:
a housing,
an electric motor comprising a stator fixed to an inner surface of the housing, and a rotor, the rotor being rotatably mounted within the housing on first bearing support and second bearing support;
a roller drive comprising
an internally threaded cylinder having an inner space,
an output shaft comprising a threaded portion and slidably mounted within said cylinder, and
threaded rollers mounted within said cylinder to engage between the inner thread of the cylinder and the threaded portion of the output shaft, wherein
the rotor of the electric motor is formed by fixing magnets to the outer surface of the roller drive cylinder,
wherein the actuator housing is provided with
a closeable opening for supplying lubricant into the internal space of said threaded cylinder,
a closable opening for supplying lubricant to said second bearing support, and
a closeable opening for draining the lubricant from said second bearing supports and from the internal space of said threaded cylinder,
wherein said first bearing support comprises a sealed radial bearing,
wherein an enclosure of the housing receiving the electric motor is sealed by a lip seal mounted on the internally threaded cylinder and by a sealing ring mounted on the sealed radial bearing, and
the actuator further comprising a rotor rotation angle sensing unit mounted within the housing and comprising a shaft of the sensing unit, the shaft being hollow cylindrical shaft and having at least one through radial channel, wherein the at least one through radial channel is adapted to communicate with the closeable opening for supplying lubricant into the internal space of said threaded cylinder and to said first bearing support.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The actuator according to claim 2, wherein said second bearing support comprises two adjacent radial-thrust bearings.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The actuator according to claim 2, wherein the rotor of the electric motor is formed by the internally threaded cylinder fixedly connected to the shaft of the sensing unit so that the inner space of the shaft communicates with the inner space of the threaded cylinder.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The actuator according to claim 4, wherein the first bearing support of the rotor is mounted on the shaft of the sensing unit, while the second bearing support of the rotor is mounted on the internally threaded cylinder.

### Claim 6 (depends on 2)

The actuator according to claim 2, further comprising a lip seal mounted on the shaft of the sensing unit to seal an enclosure of the housing receiving the sensing unit.

### Claim 7 (depends on 2)

The actuator according to claim 2, wherein said closeable openings are provided with thread.

### Claim 8 (depends on 2)

The actuator according to claim 2, further comprising threaded sealing plugs configured to be mounted in said closeable openings in order to close them.