Spring Patents (Class 188/166)
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Patent number: 10989261Abstract: A power-off emergency braking system, or parking brake system is presented in which, at each power-up, energy is stored in the structure of the brake so as to ensure the power-off application of the brake and the holding of same in the event of an interruption to the power supply of the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Inventors: Jean-Marc Loriot, Christian Salesse
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Patent number: 10875553Abstract: Disclosed is a brake system for a railroad vehicle, including a parking brake provided with a piston and having a first configuration in which the piston is in a working position in which it acts on a lining support and applies a predetermined force to a brake disc; a second configuration in which the piston is in a rest position in which it does not act on the support and does not apply any force to the disc; and a third configuration in which, when the vehicle is not at a standstill and the ambient temperature in the environment of the disc is greater than a threshold value, it forces the piston to move towards a trip position different from its working and rest positions, in order to limit or cancel the force applied to the disc.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: FAIVELEY TRANSPORT AMIENSInventors: Claudino Goncalves, Damien Beauvois
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Patent number: 10463882Abstract: A medical radiation device, including a main frame, and a radiation assembly and an imaging assembly respectively located at an end of the main frame. After an imaging scan is completed and diseased tissue positioning images are taken, a patient is directly moved to the other end of the main frame to allow the radiation assembly to perform a radiation treatment to improve the efficiency of the radiation treatment after the completion of diseased tissue positioning, and effectively reduce movement of the patient when the patient is being moved for radiation treatment after the imaging assembly completes diseased tissue positioning, thus reducing a positioning error of the diseased tissue caused by too much movement.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2014Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Jian Liu, Jian Zhang, Yuelin Shao
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Patent number: 10377608Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a winch for vehicles comprising a motor, a motor casing covering at least a part of the motor, a driving shaft drivably connected to the motor, a gear reduction drivably connected to the driving shaft, a first support frame detachably connected to the motor casing, a second support frame detachably connected to the gear reduction unit, and a winding drum arranged between the first support frame and the second support frame. The first support frame comprises a plurality of gripping components which extend from the first support frame to the motor casing and surround an outer surface of the motor casing. The winch as disclosed facilitates mounting and dismounting, and provides improved waterproofness.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Ningbo Lianda Winch Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xiaojun Cui
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Patent number: 10322916Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a winch comprising a motor having a rotator, a brush holder assembly electrically coupled to the rotator, and a coil assembly surrounding the rotator, a motor casing covering at least a part of the motor which comprises a plurality of conducting columns electrically coupled to the coil assembly and the brush holder assembly, a driving shaft drivably connected to the motor, a gear reduction unit drivably connected to the driving shaft, a first support frame detachably connected to the motor casing, a second support frame detachably connected to the gear reduction unit, and a winding drum located between the first support frame and the second support frame. The winch as disclosed facilitates mounting and dismounting, and provides improved waterproofness.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Ningbo Lianda Winch Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xiaojun Cui
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Patent number: 10190724Abstract: A supporting frame is disclosed, which comprises a base, a shaft, a cantilever arm, an elastic body, a mounting unit and at least one cam. The shaft is disposed on the base. The cantilever arm has a first end and a second end. The cam is formed on the first end. The first end of the cantilever arm is pivoted on the shaft, and the elastic body is sleeved on the shaft for providing an elastic force to the cam. The mounting unit holds the display device. The cantilever arm rotates toward the base around a pivot point where the shaft is pivoted on the cantilever arm to cause the cam deforming the elastic body so that elastic force of the elastic body is increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: SYNCMOLD ENTERPRISE CORP.Inventors: Ching-Hui Yen, Chien-Cheng Yeh, Chin-Chuan Lu, Yi-Xin Lee
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Patent number: 9945351Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for rotating and/or displacing a rotor blade of a wind power installation. The apparatus has at least one main body for at least partially embracing the rotor blade with a longitudinal, at least one contact portion for bearing against the rotor blade and at least one main frame for receiving the main body for rotation of the main body about the longitudinal axis and/or for displacement of the main body. The main body has at least one pivotably mounted pivotal portion for engagement at at least one side of the rotor blade.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Wobben Properties GmbHInventors: Frank Lulker, Albrecht Brenner
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Patent number: 9732813Abstract: An electrically actuated brake assembly includes a brake disc, a brake pad, and an electric motor having a rotatable output shaft. A service brake transmission in operative rotational communication with the output shaft causes service braking of the vehicle in response to rotation of the output shaft, and an adjuster mechanism is operable to adjust a distance between the brake pad and the brake disc. An adjuster transmission operatively connected between the output shaft and the adjuster mechanism causes operative rotational communication between the output shaft and the adjuster mechanism when the adjuster transmission is engaged so as to transmit rotational movement of the output shaft to the adjuster mechanism, and causes there to be no operative rotational communication between the output shaft and the adjuster mechanism when the adjuster transmission is disengaged so as to not transmit rotational movement of the output shaft to the adjuster mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2006Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Haldex Brake Products ABInventors: Lars Severinsson, Anders Lindqvist
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Patent number: 9347457Abstract: A liquid pump, in particular a water pump, comprises a pump housing, which has a thrust bearing seat, a bearing bolt and a bearing mounted on the bearing bolt. In this case, a thrust washer is arranged between the thrust bearing seat of the pump housing and the bearing. Furthermore, a flexible washer is arranged between the thrust bearing seat and the thrust washer.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Dietmar Ahrens, Christoph Heier, Claudius Muschelknautz
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Patent number: 9272885Abstract: This assembly includes a security apparatus equipping a lifting device, in particular a winch, and a system for actuating the apparatus The security apparatus includes a toothed wheel, wedged on the shaft of the lifting device, and a worm meshing with the toothed wheel. The assembly also includes: a splined shaft secured to one end of the worm; a pocketed wheel with inner and outer splines, engaged on the splined shaft; an elastic member between the pocketed wheel and a stop piece; a drive wheel with a splined hub, with which the pocketed wheel is capable of engaging rotationally; and a back-up motor, capable of rotating the drive wheel.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: SIGUREN INGENIERIEInventors: Yavor Pachov, Yunus Alici, Rizki Kaced
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Patent number: 9163680Abstract: A motor brake includes an actuator fixed to a motor shaft and including spaced peripheral ears including a member therethrough. A fixed plate includes spaced detents and an output about the actuator has spaced ball releasably urged into the fixed plate detents by the actuator ear members. The output has channels for the actuator ears for driving the output with the actuator when the actuator ear members release the output spaced balls from the fixed plate detents.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Foster-Miller, Inc.Inventor: Thomas C. Swihart, III
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Patent number: 9098255Abstract: A stopping mechanism is disposed on a machine body and a removable device. The stopping mechanism includes a rectilinearly moving action member, a rotationally moving clipping member, and a stopping member fixedly disposed on the machine body, in which the action member pushes and presses against the clipping member so that the clipping member rotates to a holder position. The action member presses against the stopping member fixedly disposed on the machine body through a tilt angle relation at the holder position, so that an accelerating force generated by the removable device under impact is transferred to the machine body, thus dispersing the impact force.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Getac Technology CorporationInventor: Po-Hsuan Peng
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Publication number: 20150090542Abstract: The invention relates to a locking device to radially lock a rotatable cylindrical element, where the locking device (1) comprises a roller element (2) and at least a first inclined surface (3). The locking device is arranged to be positioned in relation to a cylindrical surface (13) around the cylindrical element (12) in such a way that the distance between a starting point (10) of the first inclined surface (3) and the cylindrical surface (13) is larger than the diameter of the roller element (2) and that the distance between an end point (11) of the first inclined surface (3) and the cylindrical surface (13) is smaller than the diameter of the roller element (2). The locking device further comprises means (6) to selectively enable the roller element (2) to be distanced from the cylindrical surface (13). The advantage of the invention is that a locking device can be obtained in an easy and cost-effective way.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2014Publication date: April 2, 2015Inventors: Johannes Andrianus Maria Duits, Thomas Jehle
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Patent number: 8905204Abstract: What is presented is a mechanical arm assembly with a novel roller thrust bearing. The mechanical arm assembly comprises a first arm having a first end and a second end. A first roller thrust bearing is mounted to the first end and to a ceiling. A second roller thrust bearing mounted to the second end. Each roller thrust bearing comprises a first bearing body and a second bearing body able to rotate relative to each other. Each roller thrust bearing has a solenoid powered brake comprising two brake shoes each with a high friction brake pad mounted to a hinge body affixed to the first bearing body, a brake drum mounted to the second bearing body, a tension spring pushing the brake shoes against the brake drum, and a mechanism for disengaging the brake shoes from the brake drum. The mechanism comprises a slider body with space for two pins, two ball bearings, and a plunger with sloped surfaces on one end and a mounting provision on the other. A solenoid is attached to the mounting provision.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Amico Clinical SolutionsInventors: Raj K. Chandan, Varun Chandan, Wayne M. Benson
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Patent number: 8739942Abstract: A controlled-friction device comprising a first element having a second element mounted thereon to slide in a sliding direction, and friction retaining means arranged to exert between the two elements an opposing force against relative movement of the two elements. The friction retaining mechanism comprises a friction member mounted securely to the first element to rub against the second element via a friction surface extending parallel to the sliding direction, a presser member for exerting a thrust force on the friction member, urging the friction member against the second element in a direction normal to the relative movement of the elements, and a linkage linking the friction member to the first element causing the friction member to separate from the second element during movement in either direction of the second element relative to the first element.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2010Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Messier-Bugatti-DowtyInventors: Arnaud Lafitte, Sabien Verlyck
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Publication number: 20140023543Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a combined hydraulic motor and brake including a hydraulic motor having a hydraulic motor housing, a drive shaft assembly that is driven by the hydraulic motor, a stationary housing that is fixed relative to the hydraulic motor housing, and a rotatable housing that is rotatably driven by the drive shaft assembly. The combined hydraulic motor and brake also includes a brake for resisting relative rotation between the rotatable housing and the stationary housing, and a piston that is hydraulically actuated to release the brake. The piston is carried with the rotatable housing such that the piston, the rotatable housing and at least a portion of the drive shaft assembly are configured to rotate as a unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Inventors: Trimbak S. ATTARDE, Hrishikesh N. THAKUR, Jay Paul LUCAS
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Patent number: 8596427Abstract: An output shaft of a motor is divided into a front shaft (first or second front shaft) and a rear shaft. The first front shaft is to be rotatably supported by a first shaft support plate connected directly to a motor housing. The second front shaft is to be rotatably supported by a second shaft support plate connected to the motor housing with a spacer provided between the second shaft support plate and the motor housing. A braking mechanism including a flange plate, a braking member and a biasing member is mounted to the second shaft support plate and the second front shaft. The first front shaft is used with the first shaft support plate to realize a power tool without the braking mechanism. The second front shaft is used with the second shaft support plate and the spacer to realize a power tool without the braking mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2011Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Makita CorporationInventor: Fumitoshi Numata
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Patent number: 8590985Abstract: A system, apparatus and method of controlling a braking system of a vehicle having a plurality of rotating wheels and a plurality of brakes, each brake corresponding to one of the plurality of wheels, is provided. In controlling the brakes, an operational status of the braking system is determined. Based on the determined operational status, different feedback regulation schemes are selectively implemented to control the brake force applied by the brakes.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Goodrich CorporationInventor: Eric D. Cahill
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Patent number: 8535007Abstract: A hydraulic lock system includes a spring pack defined between a female spring support and a male spring support, the spring pack includes a multiple of serrated washers, each of which defines an inner diameter which is greater than a diameter of the actuator rod and an outer diameter greater than an inner diameter of the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2010Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventor: Robert H. Perkinson
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Patent number: 8452552Abstract: A method for checking a vibration damper of a motor vehicle in the installed state includes setting start values of the damping constant kA, the spring rate cA, and the body mass mA for a wheel of a motor vehicle; inducing a vertical vibration of the motor vehicle with the aid of a defined excitation sRreal; determining the theoretical body vibration excursion sAmodel; optically detecting the positions of the wheel and the body shell of the motor vehicle at a plurality of detection instants during the vibration; minimizing the error function formed from the deviations between the theoretical body vibration excursion sAmodel and the observed body vibration excursion sAreal at the detection instants, and determining the damping constant kA, the spring rate cA, and the body mass mA therefrom; and determining the damping measure ? of the vibration damper.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2009Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Guenter Nobis, Daniel Wegener, Steffen Abraham
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Patent number: 8381885Abstract: A brake system and powered implement, such as a lawn mower, incorporating the same. In one aspect the invention is a system for stopping an electrically grounded rotating member of an engine powered by an ignition circuit, the system comprising: a conductive member operably coupled to the ignition circuit that renders the engine inoperative when electrically grounded, the conductive member mounted adjacent the rotating member; and the conductive member normally biased into a brake position in which the conductive member contacts the rotating member and is electrically grounded as a result of the contact with the rotating member.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Inventors: Mark Huibregtse, Nathaniel J. Vlietstra
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Publication number: 20120279131Abstract: A safety device is provided for an upward acting door supported by a support cable, the door being movable along a pair of parallel tracks between an open position and a closed position. The safety device includes a brake pad mechanism disposed within at least one of the parallel tracks and coupleable to the door, the brake pad mechanism operable between a released position, to enable movement of the door as the door is positioned between the open and closed positions, and a braking position, to resist movement of the door. The support cable is coupled to the release mechanism such that in the event of a loss of tension of the support cable, the release mechanism actuates from the released position to the braking position to resist movement of the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2011Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: Overhead Door CorporationInventors: Charles A. Haba, Shawn P. Leech
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Publication number: 20120152665Abstract: A brake device for an exercise bicycle has a main tube, a resilient assembly and a driving assembly mounted axially in the main tube, a end cap mounted on an open end of the main tube, and a button attached to the driving assembly. The resilient assembly has a first resilient element and a second resilient element having a second coefficient of elasticity less than a first coefficient of elasticity of the first resilient element. The driving assembly presses against the first resilient element and is able to obviously and quickly adjust a pressure of the resilient element. The second resilient element quickly pushes the resilient assembly back and a resistance force applied to a wheel of the exercise bicycle is released.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventor: Mu-Chuan Wu
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Patent number: 8182250Abstract: A hydraulic device includes a gerotor assembly, a wobble stick, an output shaft, a housing assembly, first and second ports, first and second brake disks, a piston, and a biasing member. The gerotor assembly includes a rotor and a stator. The housing assembly receives the gerotor assembly, the wobble stick and the output shaft. The first and second ports are in communication with the gerotor assembly. The piston is disposed in the housing assembly adjacent at least one of the brake disks. The piston cooperates with the housing assembly to define a brake pressure chamber. The housing assembly and the first and second ports are configured such that pressurization of either port results in pressurization of the brake pressure chamber. The biasing member is disposed in the housing and contacts the piston. The biasing member urges the piston toward at least one of the brake disks.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: White Drive Products, Inc.Inventor: Hollis N. White, Jr.
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Patent number: 8157061Abstract: An elevator installation has braking equipment for braking and holding an elevator car which moves in vertical direction within guide tracks or rails. The braking equipment consists of at least two brake units each comprising a normal force regulation device that sets a normal force (FN) in correspondence with a normal force value determined by a brake control unit and/or a locking device that locks the brake unit in a set braking position and which preferably maintains the set braking position in the case of an interrupted energy supply. The braking equipment provides a gentle braking or holding of the elevator car, which corresponds with the operational state of the elevator installation, with a low energy requirement.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Inventio AGInventors: Nicolas Gremaud, Steffen Grundmann, Hans Kocher
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Patent number: 8127897Abstract: A caliper brake system includes a housing, a bore within the housing, and a piston slidably positioned within the bore. The brake system also includes a spring assembly, a fluid chamber defined by the bore and the piston, and a hydraulic fluid supply network. The spring assembly provides a biasing force to maintain the piston in an actuated position engaging a stator which engages the rotor of a vehicle. The hydraulic fluid supply network provides pressurized fluid to the fluid chamber to selectively overcome the biasing force of the spring assembly and move the piston to an unactuated position to release the rotor. Thus, the caliper brake is spring actuated and hydraulically released.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2008Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Ausco Products, Inc.Inventors: Howard H. Baldeosingh, Brian P. Dennis, Norman D. Crawford, Peter J. Pozivilko
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Publication number: 20120019050Abstract: A braking mechanism is provided for a hydraulic motor driven wheel utilizing a two-piece design of a hub that rotates by means of a drive shaft. A hydraulic chamber is created on the hub in which a piston resides. The piston is grounded (i.e., non-rotatable relative to the motor housing) in the sealed chamber. The piston face inside of the chamber has a radial set of face teeth. These face teeth are similar to the face teeth inside of the hydraulic chamber. When the chamber is pressurized, the piston face teeth are pushed away from the hub face teeth allowing the hub to freely rotate. When pressure is released from the chamber, a spring, or a number of springs, push the piston into the hub causing it to stop rotating relative to the piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: WARN INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventor: Craig Feusse
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Patent number: 8025130Abstract: A power device includes a motor, a drive shaft, and a roller brake system including a cam mechanism. The motor may put out a driving torque in a first and a second rotary direction. The cam mechanism includes first and second cam members. The first cam member may be in a driven engagement with the motor and the second cam member may be slidably engaged with the first cam member and coupled to the drive shaft. The first cam member includes a circumferentially disposed ramped surface having a stop member at a first end thereof. The said second cam member is axially and rotatably fixed with the drive shaft and includes an axially extending protrusion disposed about a circumference thereof and slidably engaged with the ramped surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2007Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.Inventor: Ronald L. Elliott
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Publication number: 20110226560Abstract: An elevator brake can comprise a brake shoe with a substantially curved shape, the brake shoe being rotatable in a brake shoe support. The brake shoe support is mounted in a brake housing and can be linearly displaced between a readiness setting and an engagement setting. The brake can be actuated by an actuator. The actuator can comprise a brake store for acting on the brake through a connecting point to bring the brake into its engaged setting. A force store in the actuator can be held electromagnetically, and a resetting device enables resetting of the force store and of the actuator into the operating position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Inventor: Josef Husmann
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Patent number: 7971690Abstract: A coned disc spring is arranged between a second component and a third component provided inside a tubular first component and movable in an axial direction. The coned disc spring comprises a body having a circular dish shape, teeth closely fitting into spline grooves formed on an inner peripheral surface of the first component and projecting to a radial outer side on an outer periphery of the body, and a stress relaxation portion formed in a flat shape or a curved shape at an edge portion of a circular arc portion at the base of the tooth in a direction at least one of a circumferential direction and a radial direction of the body.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2006Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hironobu Imaizumi
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Publication number: 20110114272Abstract: A retractable screen for extending across an architectural opening is disclosed. The retractable screen includes a fixed side having a fixed screen post; a displaceable handle post having an upper region and a lower region, the displaceable handle post is displaceable away from the fixed side towards a closed position, and is displaceable towards the fixed side back into an open position; at least one of an upper guide track and a lower guide track which is operatively engaged with the upper or lower region of the handle post and guides movement of the handle post between the open and closed positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: FREEDOM SCREENS OF AUSTRALIA PTY LTDInventor: Anthony Gerard Roberts
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Publication number: 20110073421Abstract: A no-back arrangement is disclosed for use in applying a braking load to a rotary actuator member, the no-back arrangement comprising a no-back device operable to apply a braking load to the rotary actuator member when the rotary actuator member is subject to a tensile loading, and limit means operable to limit the magnitude of the applied braking load.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: Goodrich Actuation Systems LimitedInventors: Tony Jones, Michael Paul Somerfield, Edward George Hill
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Publication number: 20110031342Abstract: A pawl assembly comprising a pawl held in a floating engagement with a support structure and being operable to engage a ratchet, the support structure having an abutment portion, wherein in a first phase, on initial contact with the ratchet, the pawl remains in the floating engagement and is operable to move into a second phase, in which the pawl is operable to contact the abutment portion, to rotate the pawl towards full engagement with the ratchet.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2009Publication date: February 10, 2011Applicant: Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. Ltd.Inventors: Stephen A. Ruff, Navdeep S. Riarh
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Publication number: 20100258391Abstract: The seat adjustment mechanism has a housing with an outer ring and an inner ring. The rings are arranged concentrically. Clamping bodies interact with double clamping ramps on the rings and are arranged in an annular space between the rings. Spring supports pivot in relation to each other, interact with a stop on the housing, are arranged concentrically with the rings, and engage in each case both in the annular space and in an inner space arranged radially within the inner ring. The spring supports are braced in relation to each other by a spring, which is arranged in the inner space to secure the clamping bodies in the center of the double clamping ramps. Stop surfaces of the spring supports are acted upon by a force in the direction in which they are minimally spaced apart.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2007Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KGInventor: Harald Hochmuth
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Publication number: 20100122594Abstract: An actuator with self-locking assist device comprises an actuator and a self-locking assist device, wherein the self-locking assist device is disposed at one end of the actuator, and the friction force between the self-locking assist device and the actuator is used to improve the self-locking capability of the actuator, thus preventing the uncontrollable movement of the actuator caused by the influence of the load carried.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2008Publication date: May 20, 2010Inventor: Fu-Yuan Cheng
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Spring device with capability of intermittent random energy accumulator and kinetics release trigger
Patent number: 7708123Abstract: A spring device includes an intermittent accumulator and kinetics release trigger that gradually winds up to accumulate kinetic energy (kinetics) as driven by manual or other random intermittent kinetics, and drives a kinetics release control to trigger the spring to release kinetics to drive a load once the kinetics supplied to the spring is accumulated to a preset value.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2006Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Inventor: Tai-Her Yang -
Patent number: 7686141Abstract: A brake-equipped retracting device (3) returns a liquid crystal display device (1) from a deployed position (1B) to a stored position (1A) using an elastic returning force of a spiral spring (18) that is wound up when the liquid crystal display device (1) is opened by the rotational force of a motor. A braking force for preventing the liquid crystal display device (1) from returning with too much force is applied to an input shaft (17a) of a reducer by having a rope (21) whose tensile force increases and decreases in relation to the opening and closing of the liquid crystal display device (1) be wound around a slip clutch (15) that is connected to the input shaft (17a). In emergency situations such as when the rope (21) breaks, a centrifugal grip (53) of a rotation-restraining mechanism (50) strikes an engagement notch surface (56b) on a fixed side, and the rotation of the input shaft (17a) is forcibly halted.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2006Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignees: Harmonic Ad, Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Norio Shirokoshi, Satoru Kimura
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Publication number: 20100038193Abstract: A device (20) has an electrically-operated brake (37) and a manually-operated auxiliary brake (27). The electrically-operated brake includes a coil (70), a core (68), an armature (69), and an alternating series of friction pads (74) and brake disks (75), that are arranged to be compressed between the housing and the armature. The shaft brake (27) includes a collar (22) mounted on en the housing for combined axial and rotative movement relative thereto, a first interlock portion (106,110) mounted on the shaft (24), an annular member (84) surrounding the shaft and having a second interlock portion (85) and a spring (124) urging the member to move toward the shaft. The collar (22) is adapted to be selectively moved relative to the housing between a first portion at which the first (106,110) and second (85) interlock portions are physically engaged with one another, and a second position at which the first (106,110) and second (85) interlock portions are physically separated from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2007Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventors: Marco D. D'Amore, Patrick K. Griffin
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Publication number: 20100018813Abstract: The present invention is predicated upon improved vehicle brake assemblies, parking brake assemblies, parking brake actuating mechanisms, or combinations thereof, having simplified attachment features and for assembling a brake cable within the parking assembly with substantially limited or no visual access therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2008Publication date: January 28, 2010Applicant: Akebono Corporation (North America)Inventor: Lakshmi Narayanan V.
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Publication number: 20090321196Abstract: An asymmetric adjustment mechanism, a head piece (e.g., stethoscope head piece or audio headset) including such an adjustment mechanism coupled to an ear tip subassembly, and a stethoscope including such a head piece. In typical embodiments, the adjustment mechanism can be closed (e.g., to reduce separation between ear tips) by exertion of closing force on the ear tip subassembly, or opened by exertion of opening force on the ear tip subassembly. In some embodiments, it automatically locks (e.g., with a desired separation between ear tips) upon cessation of user-exerted adjustment force in a locked state in which it exerts no more than an acceptably small (e.g. zero) bias force on the ear tip subassembly. The bias force has magnitude less than that of the opening force required to separate the ear tips to remove them from the user's ears.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: SILUTIONS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Frank Albert Bilan
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Publication number: 20090247345Abstract: A drive for a working machine, in particular a press drive, includes an electric motor, a transmission, and a brake. The brake is disposed between the transmission and the electric motor. A forming device, such as a forming press, includes a press housing, a press shaft, and a drive for the press shaft. The drive is configured as outline above.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: DESCH ANTRIEBSTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Alexander P. Desch, Bernhard Plattfaut, Uwe Geilker
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Patent number: 7584828Abstract: The invention concerns a clamping and/or braking device with a housing, in which at least one plate-like element is held, supported at a first end opposite a stop area of the housing. A second end transfers clamping and/or braking forces to an object, or acts on a pressurizable element, which transfers clamping and/or braking forces to an object. The plate-like element has at least one bending area which is convex in the starting state, which is constructed pressure-resistant and nevertheless elastically deformable so that the bending area forms an elastic element between the stop area of the housing and a pressurizing end of the plate-like element. A pressure space is formed between the convex side of the bending area and the housing. Some embodiments include multiple plate-like elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Inventor: Klaus Hofmann
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Publication number: 20090107268Abstract: An actuator having a frame which is fixed to an electric motor; a gear drive for transmitting motion from the motor to a drive shaft between two predetermined positions, and a brake consisting of a coil spring, having, when relaxed, an inside diameter that is smaller than the outside diameter of a support shaft that is fixed relative to the gear drive, and around which the spring is coiled, each of the two free ends of the spring being arranged in a respective slot, formed in the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2008Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: AREVA T&D AGInventor: Ernst SUTER
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Patent number: 7510057Abstract: A parking brake for a commercial vehicle equipped with an air-operated service brake is configured in such a way that the actuating energy for the brake is reduced in comparison to a configuration with a spring brake cylinder, while the installation space in the wheel area is minimized. Primary functional parts of the parking brake include an inner race and an outer race, which delimit an annular gap. Displaceable tapered-roller bearings are located in the annular gap. To adopt a release position in opposition to the action of a compression spring, the tapered roller bearings are disengaged from the conical surfaces of the inner race and the outer race.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Kiener, Stephan Lange, Johann Baumgartner, Eduard Gerum, Michael Herges, Dirk Ganzhorn, Bence Csàk, Nicolas Savagner, Uwe Neumann, Matthias Gradl, Matthias Schaefer
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Publication number: 20090038895Abstract: A brake hub assembly including a hub defining a central axis, a plurality of guide pins, each of the plurality of guide pins extending from the hub and being generally aligned with the central axis, and a disc having at least two friction surfaces, the disc defining a plurality of guide pin receiving bores, wherein each of the plurality of guide pin receiving bores are positioned to receive an associated one of the plurality of guide pins therethrough such that the disc is moveable relative to the hub along the central axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2007Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventors: Marshall D. Snyder, Eunjoo C. Hopkins, Thomas V. Valvano
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Publication number: 20080110705Abstract: A braking device for a power winch includes a first driving block having one side fixed with two symmetrical posts having their outer ends respectively cut with a stepped notch and having two accommodating spaces formed between them. A second driving block has one side secured with two symmetrical posts respectively positioned in the accommodating spaces of the first driving block and respectively having their outer ends provided with a stepped notch. A braking spring is fitted around the outer circumference of the posts of the first and the second driving block, having the opposite end respectively formed with a hook end bent inward to be respectively moved in the notches of the first or the second driving block. When the motor is electrically disconnected, the elastic wires of the braking spring are forced by the driving block to expand outward and carry out braking.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2006Publication date: May 15, 2008Inventor: Shih Jyi Huang
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Patent number: 7334667Abstract: Selective actuation device (1) including an actuator (5) operating on an actuation mechanism (2). The mechanism (2) is equipped with at least one shaft (7) connected to a pusher element (8) to actuate a first operating group (12, 13) and with a rotating element (53) that moves between an activation mode, in which said element (53) acts on a second operating group (9, 10), and a rest mode where the activation of the first operating group (12, 13) is disengaged by the second operating group (9, 10).Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2005Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Piaggio & C. S.p.A.Inventor: Maurizio Marcacci
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Patent number: 7320392Abstract: A shaft coupling unit is disclosed, which comprises a coupling disk (1), a disk (2), a spring (3), a concave member (4), a convex member (5) and a draw lever (14). The concave member (4) is press fitted against the convex member to rotate circumferentially and to move axially with respect to one another. The concave member (4) is axially press fitted against the disk (2) to rotate circumferentially with respect to one another. An external coupling member (6) is disposed between the concave member (4) and a transmission member (7). The external coupling member (6) is radially press fitted against the concave member (4) to axially slide each other. The convex member (5) is mounted on the coupling disk (1). The spring (3joined to the disk (2) at an end, and joined to the draw lever (14) at the other end. The draw lever (14) is linked up with t coupling member (1) through the disk (2).Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2003Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Inventor: Xingyun Xie
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Patent number: 7306078Abstract: A composite material and framework structure adapted to be utilized as a piston and cylinder apparatus. A cylindrical tube composed of a composite material is compressed between two end caps at the axial ends of the cylindrical composite tube. Beam elements extend between the end caps and maintain the compression force on the cylindrical composite tube. The cylindrical composite tube comprises a continuous glass fiber reinforced structure embedded in a resin matrix. The resin matrix provides a self contained lubricant system in a resin rich layer, the lubricant system migrating to the inner surface of the cylindrical composite tube.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2005Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Polygon CompanyInventor: Elson Fish
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Patent number: 7222700Abstract: A brake mechanism having a motor output shaft outputting a driving torque in a power-in and a power-out direction. A camming device operably couples the output shaft to a drive shaft for fixed rotation. A one-way clutch operably couples the drive shaft and a brake device. The brake device is normally in an engaged position that prevents rotation of the clutch device. During a holding maneuver, the one-way clutch, camming device, and brake device cooperate to prevent uncommanded movement. However, the nature of the one-way clutch permits free rotation during a power-in direction and the nature of the camming device permits free rotation during a power-out direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.Inventor: Ronald L Elliott