Device for compensating a torque produced by a gyrostatic effect

US7152503B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Forster · Ulm, DE
• Winfried Glück · Weisendorf, DE
• Jens Hamann · Bad Mergentheim, DE
• Uwe Ladra · Erlangen, DE
• Elmar Schäfers · Bad Mergentheim, DE
• Dietmar Stoiber · Grünwald, DE
• Hans-Peter Tröndle · Forchheim, DE
• Bernd Wedel · Koblenzer Straße, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 12, 2004
• Grant date: Dec 26, 2006
• Expiry date: Jun 9, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T74/19144
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for compensating a torque produced on a movable axle in a machine tool or production machine by a gyrostatic effect includes a rotating useful machine system attached to the movable axle and producing a useful angular momentum, and a rotating machine counter-system attached to the axle and producing a counter angular momentum. The magnitude of the counter angular momentum is substantially identical to the magnitude of the useful angular momentum. The useful torque produced by a movement of the rotating useful machine system through a temporal change of the useful angular momentum is at least partially compensated by a counter-torque produced by a temporal change of the counter angular momentum. This arrangement represents a simple device for compensating a torque produced by the gyrostatic effect on a movable axle of machine tolls and production machines.