Shifter Actuated By Screw Or Gear Drive Patents (Class 474/126)
  • Patent number: 10668984
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides an electromechanical rear derailleur for a bicycle including a base member that is configured to be coupled to a frame member of a bicycle. The derailleur includes a movable member and a link mechanism that movably couples the movable member to the base member. A motor is positioned at the movable member to move the movable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SRAM, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Shipman, Brian Jordan
  • Patent number: 9273758
    Abstract: A power transmission device has two roller members which are rotatable on their own axes and the outer peripheral portions of which are pressed against a wire member tightly stretched between two pulley members, a rotary gear which is rotatable around a revolution axial center of the roller members integrally with a supporting member which supports the roller members, a spring worm meshed with the rotary gear, and an actuator which controls the rotation amount of the spring worm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsuo Orita
  • Publication number: 20120035011
    Abstract: An electro mechanical bicycle derailleur actuator system, retrofittable to a bicycle having gearing and at least one derailleur, the derailleur having a cable, the system comprising: at least one derailleur actuator module (DAM) connectable to the bicycle and to the cable; a cyclist interface module (CIM) connectable to the bicycle for cyclist interface with the system; and a control and power module (CPM) connectable to the bicycle serving to control and power the system, wherein the bicycle gearing is shiftable by the system without derailleur cable modification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventors: Haim MENACHEM, Guy PERETZ
  • Patent number: 4403454
    Abstract: A stationary or bench mounted belt sander is described constructed of a die cast bed or frame rotatably supporting a drive roll or pulley at one end thereof and provided at the other end portion thereof with generally longitudinal ways for slidably supporting a pair of generally parallel spaced apart outwardly extending generally elongated U-shaped stamped metal yoke or support bracket members provided at their inner or proximal end portions with camming surfaces. The distal ends of the yokes carry pins generally perpendicular thereto supporting a shaft for an idler roll or pulley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1983
    Assignee: The Singer Company
    Inventors: Thomas G. Glore, Randy G. Koon