Belt Or Chain Carried Member Patents (Class 74/37)
  • Patent number: 11628807
    Abstract: A wiper system for use with a windshield includes a track guide, a wiper assembly, a drive mechanism and a wipe mechanism. The wiper assembly has a wiper arm attached at a first end thereof to a rotor rotatably disposed on a wiper carrier, wherein the wiper carrier is engaged with the track guide and is configured for translation therealong. The drive mechanism is connected with the wiper carrier and is configured for positioning the wiper carrier along the track guide. The wipe mechanism is connected with at least one of the rotor and the wiper carrier and is configured to cause the rotor to rotate, thereby causing the wiper arm to produce a wiping motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: James W. Wells, Jeff E. Nasca, Charles W. Wampler, Muhammad E. Abdallah, Nagarajan Sivashanmugam, Richard Nietz, Patrick Kroner, Bryan T. Campbell
  • Patent number: 11415409
    Abstract: Apparatuses for measuring parameters of an object may include an apparatus frame. A rotary table assembly may include a rotary table having a diameter or width and carried by the apparatus frame. The rotary table may be configured to support the object for rotation. A rotary table motor may operably engage the rotary table for rotation. A carriage rail may be carried by the apparatus frame. The carriage rail may be disposed in fixed position relative to the rotary table. A sensor carriage may be carried by and configured to traverse the carriage rail. A carriage drive motor may engage the sensor carriage. The carriage drive motor may be operable to displace the sensor carriage along the carriage rail. At least one displacement sensor may be carried by the sensor carriage. The displacement sensor may have a displacement sensor travel path which passes over and traverses the diameter or width of the rotary table as the sensor carriage traverses the carriage rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: Charles S. Powers
  • Patent number: 11104035
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a drum, a drum drive system, and a control system coupled to the engine and the drum drive system. The drum drive system includes a pump and a motor. The pump is mechanically coupled to the engine and configured to pump a fluid through a hydraulic system. The pump has a variable pump displacement. The motor is fluidly coupled to the pump by the hydraulic system and positioned to drive the drum to agitate the drum contents. The motor has a variable motor displacement. The control system is configured to receive pressure data indicative of a pressure of the fluid within the hydraulic system, reduce the variable motor displacement in response to the pressure of the fluid being less than a threshold system pressure, and reduce a speed of the engine based on the reduction of the variable motor displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Oshkosh Corporation
    Inventors: Yanming Hou, Loren G. DeVries, Rongjun Zhang, Jeremy Andringa
  • Patent number: 10781895
    Abstract: A device for tensioning, and facilitating removal and replacement of, the drive belt of an oilfield pumpjack. The device utilizes a regulated air supply, and includes an air driven actuator, namely an air bag, interposed between a base and a frame supporting an idler wheel and pivotally connected to the base, whereby providing air to the air actuator causes the frame to pivot relative to the base so as to the bring the idler wheel into belt-tensioning contact with the pumpjack belt. Evacuating air from the air actuator permits the idler wheel to move away from, and thus slacken, the belt, permitting removal and replacement of the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventor: Devon Brandon
  • Patent number: 10753524
    Abstract: Apparatus for moving one or more processing devices relative to an object to be processed, comprising: first and second mounting units configured to be secured in a fixed position relative to the object to be processed and between which one or more tension members are mounted under tension; one or more carriages respectively connected to the one or more tension members, each of the carriages configured to accommodate a respective processing device; and a drive unit configured to move the one or more tension members so as to move the one or more carriages relative to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce plc
    Inventor: Sebastiano D. Giudice
  • Patent number: 10408200
    Abstract: A vertical pumping unit for pumping oil from a well is disclosed including a vertically oriented frame, an electrically powered motor, a flexible beam connected on a first end to pumping machinery lowered into an oil well hole, a counterweight connected to a second end of the flexible beam and suspended by the frame, and a drum-type deceleration roller cone. The roller cone includes an input shaft receiving torque from the motor, internal reduction machinery, and an output drum translating the flexible beam back and forth to activate a pumping action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Inventors: Yanan Liu, Dawei Wang
  • Publication number: 20150020620
    Abstract: A platform is provided, which platform is adapted to engage a base through a multiplicity of pulley engaging cables. A first end of each cable is attached to a cam follower assembly located on the base and a second portion of the cable is attached to the platform. A motor driving the multiplicity of cams, cam followers, and cables will move the platform, the platform typically being suspended above the base on the cables or the cables and compression springs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: Brian A. Garner
  • Patent number: 8931125
    Abstract: A cradle drive mechanism is provided. The cradle drive mechanism includes a drive motor, an intermediate frame and a screw and nut transmission device driven by the drive motor so as to drive linear reciprocating motion of the intermediate frame. The cradle drive mechanism also includes a rotating, shaft having a first driving wheel and a gear, a transmission belt, and a rack meshed with the gear so that, during linear reciprocating motion of the intermediate frame, the rack forces the gear to rotate and drive rotation of the first driving wheel, wherein rotation of the first driving wheel drives rotation of the transmission belt. The cradle drive mechanism also includes a cradle connector fixed on the transmission belt and configured to connect a cradle and to drive linear reciprocating motion of the cradle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: Xianfa Fang, Gaoxian Zhang, Gang Hu, Xin Yang
  • Patent number: 8925405
    Abstract: A linear-motion telescopic mechanism according to the present invention includes a plurality of block members (22) by which an arbitrary arm length is achieved in such a manner that the plurality of block member (22) are rigidly connected to each other so as to elongate a linear-motion telescopic joint (J3). On the other hand, by separating the plurality of block members (22) one by one from a rigid alignment of the plurality of block members (22), the linear-motion telescopic joint (J3) is contracted. The block members (22) unfixed from the rigid alignment are still serially connected but not in a rigid manner. That is, the block members (22) thus unfixed can be flexed in any directions, and therefore can be housed inside a support member (1) in a compact manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignees: Kawabuchi Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Inc., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ichiro Kawabuchi, Woo-Keun Yoon, Tetsuo Kotoku
  • Patent number: 8840127
    Abstract: A pedal drive system for a bicycle includes a front spiral cone pulley and a rear pulley. The front spiral cone pulley is attached to a crank arm, and the rear pulley is attached to a rear wheel on a bicycle in some embodiments. A power cable, or tension linkage, extends between the front spiral cone pulley and the rear pulley. The front spiral cone pulley is angularly moveable relative to the first crank arm such that the radial position of the point of engagement between the power cable and the front spiral cone pulley may be selectively manipulated for controlling the gear ratio between the front spiral cone pulley and the rear pulley. In some embodiments, the rear pulley is also a spiral cone pulley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Inventor: Robert Musgrove
  • Publication number: 20140238162
    Abstract: This invention refers to a speed reducer made up of a chain carrying nuts and of a screw, i.e., a ball screw in the case of the first embodiment, a roller screw in the second embodiment. The ball screw or the roller screw drives the nuts when these are aligned on one of the straight stretches of the chain. The ball screw, or the roller screw, can be almost as long as the distance between the centers of the output sprockets on which the chain is mounted; given these features and because the nuts wrap the ball screw, or the roller screw in a great surface, the load capacity is high. Given that in both embodiments the contact is rolling, friction is therefore low and as a consequence, efficiency is high, so high indeed that it allows this invention also to serve as an amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico
    Inventors: Enrique Jaime Chicurel Y Uziel, Filiberto Gutierrez Martinez
  • Publication number: 20140190285
    Abstract: The invention discloses an oscillatingly driven power tool, having a motor shaft that can be driven rotationally by a motor and that is coupled via a toothed-belt drive and an eccentric coupling drive to a tool spindle, for the purpose of driving the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventor: Joachim Clabunde
  • Publication number: 20140165471
    Abstract: A drive apparatus for a vehicle includes a rotation member driven to rotate by a drive source, the rotation member around which a rope member connected to a drive object is wound, a support member including an accommodating portion rotatably accommodating the rotation member, the accommodating portion including a bottom wall portion that covers an end surface of the rotation member at one side in an axial direction of the rotation member and a peripheral wall portion formed to project from the bottom wall portion and covering a side surface of the rotation member, and a cover member attached to the support member and covering an opening edge of the accommodating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsumi CHONO, Hidefumi Katayama, Shigeyuki Suzuki, Takuya Kotani
  • Publication number: 20140123784
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stacking machine, which comprises a base, a body movably arranged on the base, and a translational mechanism for driving the body to make a translational motion on the base. The synchronous belt used in the present invention can effectively resolve the problem of slipping caused by wheel rolling, and thus enables the movement of the stacking machine to be more accurate, with the highest speed of the movement also increased significantly. Besides that, the synchronous belt mechanism is more accurate in positioning, which reduces the number of times of repeated adjustments and maintenance caused by bigger positioning errors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Guokun Yang, Zhiyou Shu, Chun hao Wu, Kun hsien Lin, Minghu Qi, Zhenhua Guo, Yongqiang Wang, Zenghong Chen, Chenyangzi Li, Weibing Yang
  • Patent number: 8657494
    Abstract: A swiveling device for a swiveling C-arm of an X-ray unit includes a motorized drive unit and an adapter removably attachable to the C-arm concentrically with a swiveling axis thereof. The adapter connects the C-arm to the drive unit in driving manner. The swiveling device also includes an angular position encoder for recording the swivel angle of the C-arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Richard Wolf GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Müller, Willi Weisert
  • Patent number: 8613235
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission includes: an input movement, a control system, a continuously variable reciprocating movement, a first holder, a second holder, a chain, an output sprocket, and a freely rotatable sprocket. The holders having the reciprocating movement. Each of the holders having a linearly movable teeth. The movable teeth are perpendicularly movable to the reciprocating movement. Each of the movable teeth having an internal end and an exposed end. The exposed end having a first slope and a second slope. The first slope having a greater slope than the second slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Inventor: Carlos Raul Espinosa-Montalvo
  • Publication number: 20130305852
    Abstract: A roller maintaining chain includes an elongate strip having multiple holes separated by separation blocks. Each hole has a hole face perpendicular to the elongate strip. Each separation block has a top separation block and a bottom separation block. Each of the top and bottom separation blocks has an accommodating surface which has a flat surface and an inclined stop surface. A part of each accommodating surface is perpendicular to planes on the axial direction of the elongate strip. The flat surfaces of the top and bottom separation blocks are smoothly connected to each other. The inclined stop surfaces are inclined toward the top direction of the holes to maintain the rollers in the holes. The method for making the roller maintaining chain uses a left mold and a right mold, the two molds are split inclinedly and laterally to obtain the roller maintaining chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventor: Ming-Che HSU
  • Publication number: 20130205928
    Abstract: A reciprocating pedal transmission for a pedal-powered vehicle. Two pedals are selectively connected to a driveshaft by one way clutches. A reversing gear mechanism forces the non-pushing pedal to travel in a direction which is opposite to the direction of the pushing pedal. The non-pushing pedal may also be used to input force (a pulling force) if desired. The arcuate range of motion is infinitely variable. The user may reverse the pedal travel at any time using only the forces applied by the feet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventor: Gordon Harold Hansen
  • Publication number: 20130168942
    Abstract: A pedal drive system for a bicycle includes a front spiral cone pulley and a rear pulley. The front spiral cone pulley is attached to a crank arm, and the rear pulley is attached to a rear wheel on a bicycle in some embodiments. A power cable, or tension linkage, extends between the front spiral cone pulley and the rear pulley. The front spiral cone pulley is angularly moveable relative to the first crank arm such that the radial position of the point of engagement between the power cable and the front spiral cone pulley may be selectively manipulated for controlling the gear ratio between the front spiral cone pulley and the rear pulley. In some embodiments, the rear pulley is also a spiral cone pulley.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventor: Robert Musgrove
  • Publication number: 20130152714
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a seal structure being capable of preventing rain water and the like from entering the inside of a vehicle through a clearance between an engagement portion and an engagement hole portion. The seal structure S is for fixing a window regulator WR to an inner panel 1. The inner panel 1 is provided with an engagement hole portion 1H, and the window regulator WR comprises an engagement portion 7 being slidable with respect to the inner panel 1 and engaging with the engagement hole portion 1H, a sealing member 8 provided around the engagement portion 7, and a seal supporting portion 9 holding the sealing member 7 between the seal supporting member 9 and the portion of the inner panel 1 surrounding the engagement hole portion 1H.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: HI-LEX CORPORATION
    Inventor: HI-LEX CORPORATION
  • Publication number: 20130139619
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission includes: an input movement, a control system, a continuously variable reciprocating movement, a first holder, a second holder, a chain, an output sprocket, and a freely rotatable sprocket. The holders having the reciprocating movement. Each of the holders having a linearly movable teeth. The movable teeth are perpendicularly movable to the reciprocating movement. Each of the movable teeth having an internal end and an exposed end. The exposed end having a first slope and a second slope. The first slope having a greater slope than the second slope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Inventor: Carlos Raul Espinosa-Montalvo
  • Publication number: 20130078073
    Abstract: A gantry assembly for use in an additive manufacturing system, the gantry assembly comprising a first bearing shaft, a carriage slidably engaged with the first bearing shaft, and a second bearing shaft operably supported by the carriage, the second linear bearing extending along a second axis. The gantry assembly also comprises a tool-head mount slidably engaged with the second linear bearing, a drive belt secured to the tool-head mount, a first motor having a first drive shaft engaged with the drive belt, and a second motor having a second drive shaft engaged with the drive belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: STRATASYS, INC.
    Inventors: James W. Comb, William J. Swanson, Jeffrey L. Crotty
  • Publication number: 20130036846
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a mobile electronic device is provided with a linkage mechanism that couples first and second members of the device such that the device may be moved between a first position and a second position. The linkage mechanism includes a linkage intermediate the first and second members, the linkage having a fixed length. The linkage mechanism further includes a motion constraint mechanism that constrains movement of the first member with respect to the second member to a controlled motion. The linkage mechanism described herein may further provide that the top member rotates without increasing the length or width of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Jason Tyler Griffin, Martin Riddiford, James William Reeves
  • Patent number: 8365971
    Abstract: One exemplary surgical apparatus may include: an anvil assembly to which a staple holder assembly detachably connected; feeder belts positioned at least partially within the staple holder assembly; staples separably attached to each feeder belt; a wedge assembly slidable within and along the staple holder assembly, the wedge assembly including an engagement feature; and a deployment handle. Upon closure of the anvil assembly and staple holder assembly relative to one another, the deployment handle engages the engagement feature. The deployment handle is movable along the anvil assembly to drive the wedge assembly relative to the staple holder assembly, feeder belts and staples in order to deform at least one staple to a closed state and separate at least one closed staple from the corresponding feeder belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Cardica, Inc.
    Inventor: Bryan D. Knodel
  • Patent number: 8251633
    Abstract: A container inverting device is capable of inverting containers that have a neck oriented in a first direction at the entrance of the device and then in a second direction at the exit of the device. The inverting device includes at least one clamp (45) for holding the neck of a container. The clamp (45) is mounted on a belt (49) by a fixing bracket (47), and in order to invert the container, the belt passes around at least one pulley (33) and moves the clamp from one side of the pulley (33) to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sidel Participations
    Inventor: Damien Cirette
  • Patent number: 8215654
    Abstract: A drive system for a bicycle includes first and second drive sprockets, with respective one-way clutches. The drive sprockets are mounted on opposite ends of the bike's drive shaft. First and second idler pulleys are mounted on an upper pulley shaft. The upper pulley shaft mounts on the bike's frame above the rotary drive shaft and at a right angle thereto. A chain is mounted on the drive sprockets and the idler pulleys. A first pedal is attached to the chain between the first drive sprocket and the first idler pulley. A second pedal is attached to the chain between the second linear drive sprocket and the first linear driven idler pulley. First and second linear chain guides are mounted on opposite sides of the frame and disposed next to the chain for guiding portions of the chain and the pedals as they are moved up and down on the bicycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Inventor: Walter P. Leser
  • Publication number: 20120036949
    Abstract: The invention concerns to the area of mechanical engineering, in particular, to the ways and devices for summation of reciprocal-linear motions and for transformation of the summarized motion into unilateral rotation. The essence of the invention is a planetary chain-drive in which the chain is a driving part (1), the chain is moved reciprocally by a carrier with mobile, satellite sprockets (2) and (3) separate parts of the chain move with different speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventor: Aleksandr Solomonovich Markon
  • Publication number: 20120024091
    Abstract: A linear-motion telescopic mechanism according to the present invention includes a plurality of block members (22) by which an arbitrary arm length is achieved in such a manner that the plurality of block member (22) are rigidly connected to each other so as to elongate a linear-motion telescopic joint (J3). On the other hand, by separating the plurality of block members (22) one by one from a rigid alignment of the plurality of block members (22), the linear-motion telescopic joint (J3) is contracted. The block members (22) unfixed from the rigid alignment are still serially connected but not in a rigid manner. That is, the block members (22) thus unfixed can be flexed in any directions, and therefore can be housed inside a support member (1) in a compact manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: KAWABUCHI MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventors: Ichiro Kawabuchi, Woo-Keun Yoon, Tetsuo Kotoku
  • Publication number: 20110309596
    Abstract: The proposed invention is a human powered cycle/vehicle which utilizes a reciprocating arcuate linear handlebar motion to operate a double acting asynchronous propulsion mechanism which imparts constantly proportional input versus output motion to its' surface engaging propulsion wheel(s). The propulsion mechanism contains a complex mechanism which causes both backward and forward motions of a set of handlebars to propel the machine forward. A drive-train clutch (52) may be included which enables the propulsion mechanism to be disengaged thus allowing the cycle/vehicle to be reversed and or moved (pushed) in either direction via its' surface engaging wheel(s) in isolation to the propulsion mechanism. A steering mechanism may also be attached to the handlebars (1) which are rotated clockwise to steer the machine to the right and anti-clockwise to steer the machine to the left.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: David William Holmes, Paul Leslie Bruce Wright
  • Patent number: 8033374
    Abstract: A drive arrangement for a shaft has a module carried by the shaft and including a motor, a driven wheel and a drive wheel. The motor, gearbox and drive wheel are carried on a slider plate which can slide transverse to the axis of the shaft. A front plate is fixed transverse to the axis of the shaft. A Bowden cable has its sheath attached to the front plate, and its inner cable attached to the slider plate, so that manipulation of the Bowden cable at a remote location allows force to be applied between the plates either tightening the belt to apply drive from the motor to the shaft, or releasing tension in the belt, to disengage the drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Inventor: Bruce Stanley Gunton
  • Publication number: 20110193312
    Abstract: A drive apparatus for converting a substantially linear drive force to a rotary propulsive force, the apparatus includes a track member and a pedal slidingly engaging the track member. The pedal is movable between first and second positions. The apparatus further includes an axle. A unidirectional clutch mechanism is coupled to the pedal and the axle. The clutch operably engages the power axle when a substantially linear force is applied in moving the pedal from the first position to the second position such that a rotary propulsive force is produced by the axle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventor: John Fabian
  • Publication number: 20110179895
    Abstract: A swiveling device for a swiveling C-arm of an X-ray unit includes a motorized drive unit and an adapter removably attachable to the C-arm concentrically with a swiveling axis thereof. The adapter connects the C-arm to the drive unit in driving manner. The swiveling device also includes an angular position encoder for recording the swivel angle of the C-arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: RICHARD WOLF GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus MUELLER, Willi WEISERT
  • Publication number: 20110100358
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, a parabolic trough system is disclosed to capture solar heat. It has low mass, high rigidity and precise robust rotational control. The trough does not require massive supports, since it use a “sandwich structure” where the core is lightweight urethane foam and the skin is made of aluminum sheet. The inside skin also functions as the parabolic reflector. The shape minimizes wind loads by centering the receiver in the parabola and by making the center of focus the center of rotation. The system can be rapidly built in the field since there are few parts. Assembly does not require heavy equipment. Support posts are used on both sides of the trough to minimize the anchoring requirements in wind loads. The trough bodies are rotated in a rotational control mechanism that uses circumscribing rings to support a continuous row of troughs that can sustain 120 mile per hour winds. Optical performance is improved with the drive ring design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventor: Randal Jerome Perisho
  • Publication number: 20100320718
    Abstract: A drive mechanism for a vehicle propellable by muscle power is provided, wherein the drive mechanism comprises a first actuating element (104) which is moveable by a stroke along a movement path, a first driving element (211), a first gearing comprising a driving shaft (107), and first returning element (212), wherein the first driving element (211) is coupled between the first actuating element (104) and the driving shaft (107) in such a way that actuating element stroke induces a movement of the driving shaft in a first direction, and wherein the returning element (212) is coupled between the first actuating element (104) and the driving shaft (107) in such a way that it induces a movement of the driving shaft in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventor: Martin Buchberger
  • Publication number: 20100176631
    Abstract: A rocker mechanism for a baby seat, having: a housing; a rotatable member in the housing; a drive mechanism for rotating the rotatable member; a power source for the drive mechanism; a projection on the rotatable member; a first line anchor on the housing; a second line anchor on the housing; and a line wrapped around the projection, the line having a fixed end connected to the first line anchor, a mid-portion connected to the second line anchor, and a free end, wherein the free end of the line repeatedly moves towards and away from the housing as the rotatable member rotates in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventor: Melanie A. Ogle
  • Publication number: 20090320463
    Abstract: Underspringing arrangements for mattresses are known, in particular for mattresses of furniture for sleeping on, which have resilient slats that act as support elements for the mattress and that at opposite ends are mounted with elastic bearing means on a frame. The bearing means and the resilient slats yield elastically when the mattresses are subjected to a load. Otherwise, however, the bearing means and the resilient slats are passive. The invention relates to stimulation actuators that exert any desired movements on the underspringing arrangement. The underspringing arrangement has lifting members (11) that are mounted elastically by means of elastic elements (14). The elastic elements (14) are arranged such that at least a main direction of work extends at an angle with respect to the direction of the movement of the lifting member. In this way, the lifting member (11) can have a particularly low overall height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: THOMAS HILFEN HILBEG GMBH & CO.KG
    Inventor: Klaus Jansen
  • Publication number: 20090301237
    Abstract: A positioner controllably to shift an object linearly, utilizing a pair of mutually engageable gear belts, one of which is static and the other is dynamic. The dynamic gear belt includes a bight engaged to and driven by a rotary pinion. The gear belts are mutually engaged except for that part of the dynamic belt which is in the bight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventor: Michael R. Everman
  • Patent number: 7549361
    Abstract: A vibration damping device is described that dampens vibration produced during the conversion of rotational motion into reciprocal motion. The damping is performed using a simple structure wherein first and second conversion mechanisms are symmetrically arranged with respect to a plane of symmetry, first and second rotating shafts rotate opposite to each other at a constant speed, and the rotational motion is converted into reciprocal motion. The total of mass acting on gravity centers of a first balancer and a second balancer is approximately equal to the total of mass reciprocally driven by a first driving shaft and a second driving shaft. Both gravity centers are positioned 180 degrees to the first driving shaft and second driving shaft across the axes of the first rotating shaft and second rotating shaft. As a consequence, the forces in the direction of an axis can be balanced suppressing vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Shima Seiki Manufacturing Limited
    Inventor: Kenji Ikoma
  • Publication number: 20080271551
    Abstract: A drive apparatus for converting a substantially linear driving force to a rotary propulsive force, the apparatus including a power assembly for accepting a substantially linear drive force and converting said substantially linear drive force to a rotary propulsive force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventor: Ohannes Meguerditchian
  • Publication number: 20080248907
    Abstract: An accessory drive tensioner system may include a bracket, a coupling mechanism, and a biasing member. The bracket may have an aperture therethrough and a tensioner hub coupled thereto. The coupling mechanism may extend through the aperture to rotatably couple the bracket to a mounting member that is fixed relative to an engine. The biasing member may be engaged with the coupling mechanism and the bracket to bias the bracket axially along the coupling mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel D. Cottrell
  • Publication number: 20080134813
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mechanism for converting a linear motion into an arcuate motion, which can be used in a scanning device. The inventive mechanism comprises: a structure (35) which can move along a linear path and which can be connected to a drive device (34), a support part (39) which is mounted to the mobile structure (35) such that it can slide perpendicularly to the aforementioned linear path, at least one connecting rod (48, 49) which is articulated to (i) a fixed structure around a first axis of rotation located in a plane that is perpendicular to the linear path and (ii) the mobile structure (35) around a second axis that is parallel to the first. The arcuate movement of the support part (39) results from the sliding thereof under the action of the connecting rod (48, 49?) and the translational movement produced by the mobile structure (35?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventor: Arnaud Petetin
  • Patent number: 6840898
    Abstract: Arrangement for the positioning and shifting of tools, specifically the tools of a machine designed for shaping sheet material while being advanced relative to the arrangement, the arrangement having fixed guides (16,19) for guiding the tools in transverse motion relative to the travel direction (X) of the material, the tools or holders (7,7?) for the tools comprising means (22,23) by which a continuous or intermittently running drive (Y) across the material travel direction (X) is used for shifting the tool holders, individually or in combination, by alternately connecting one or several tool holders (7,7?) to the running drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Emsize AB
    Inventor: Niklas Pettersson
  • Patent number: 6694564
    Abstract: A reciprocating linear sweeping wiping mechanism includes a guide and drive carriage bearing at least a wiper element slidingly mounted inside at least a rigid longitudinal guide rail produced in the form of a hollow extruded profile. The transverse positioning of the frame plate relative to the extruded profile includes a longitudinally oriented rigid rib borne by the extruded profile or by a frame plate, which is received longitudinally sliding in a vertically open matching longitudinal groove borne by the frame plate or the extruded profile, respectively, and each stabilizing element is a stabilizing pad which is longitudinally slidingly received inside the corresponding C-shaped slide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes d'Essuyage
    Inventor: Eric Hospital
  • Patent number: 6595728
    Abstract: A rigid and fragile material drilling machine is provided, its driving means for driving the upper and lower drilling bit approximating the rigid and fragile material includes a control handle; upper and lower rear gears and associated upper and lower first synchronizing wheels, said upper and lower rear gears being engaged with each other; upper and lower first timing chains being wound around said upper and lower first synchronizing wheels and upper and lower second synchronizing wheels, respectively; upper and lower second timing chains being wound around said upper and lower third synchronizing wheels and upper and lower fourth synchronizing wheels, respectively; and drilling rod guiding sleeves, the gear racks thereof being engaged with said the upper and lower front gears, respectively. The rigid and fragile material drilling machine of the present invention, which is simplified in structure with a compact design and low cost, can be conveniently used wherever a power supply is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Inventor: Zhenghua Miao
  • Patent number: 6279192
    Abstract: A windshield wiper assembly for use in a motor vehicle. An electric motor is operatively connected to and powered by an on-board electrical supply provided by the vehicle. The motor forms a part of a housing mounted within an engine compartment of the vehicle at a location remote from the vehicles windshield. A driving wheel and linkage member convert a rotary output of the motor into a translating and reciprocating driving force. A drive mechanism is mounted proximate a lower edge of the windshield, beneath a cowl portion, and with a first wiper arm pivotally securing to the drive mechanism at a first location and a second wiper arm likewise pivotally securing to the drive mechanism at a second location. An elongated and internally hollowed sleeve extends between the housing and the drive mechanism. The sleeve encloses a flexible and incompressible cable securing to the motor and drive housing at a first end and to the drive mechanism at a second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Norwood Enterprise, LLC
    Inventors: Marey C. Conflitti, Robert S. Shank
  • Patent number: 6266844
    Abstract: A windshield wiper assembly for use in a motor vehicle. An electric motor is operatively connected to and powered by an on-board electrical supply provided by the vehicle. The motor forms a part of a housing mounted within an engine compartment of the vehicle at a location remote from the vehicles windshield. A driving wheel and linkage member convert a rotary output of the motor into a translating and reciprocating driving force. A drive mechanism is mounted proximate a lower edge of the windshield with a first wiper arm pivotally securing to the drive mechanism at a first location and a second wiper arm likewise pivotally securing to the drive mechanism at a second location. The drive mechanism provides a gear and belt arrangement for actuating the first and second wiper arms in a synchronous manner. One or more elongated and internally hollowed sleeves extend between the housing and the drive mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Norwood Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Mary Conflitti, Robert Schank
  • Patent number: 6123473
    Abstract: A reciprocating belt drive arrangement for the printhead carriage of a printer comprises an endless belt looped around a toothed drive pulley, which engages a toothed part of the belt, and an idler pulley with circumferential grooves which are arranged to receive ribs on the remaining part of the belt to prevent transverse movements of the belt leading to wear. The ribs and grooves may be interchangeable. In an alternative embodiment the toothed and ribbed parts extend side-by-side along the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Roberto Guillen, Emilio Angulo
  • Patent number: 5971721
    Abstract: An energy efficient high pressure pump system includes a drive motor driving an eccentric transmission, which drives a reciprocation pump having a number of cylinders. The eccentric transmission transmits a torque demand from the reciprocating pump, which varies with time, to the drive motor such that the torque demand on the drive motor is substantially constant. The pump system includes an eccentric sprocket mounted on the output shaft of a drive motor and driving an eccentric sprocket on an idler which includes a concentric sprocket driving a concentric sprocket on the reciprocating pump with the eccentricity of the eccentric sprockets being proportional to the maximum and minimum torque demand characteristics of the reciprocating pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Thermo Fibertek Inc.
    Inventor: Peter T. Carstensen
  • Patent number: 5752811
    Abstract: A linear actuator and pump unit for precision displacement of fluids in which a positive displacement, piston pump is coupled to an actuator mechanism having a carriage on a guide that is displaced by a rotary drive connected to a take-up drum on an anchor structure that has a pulley line anchored to the anchor structure looped around a first idler pulley on the carriage, looped around an idler pulley on the anchor structure, looped around a second anchor structure on the carriage, and connected to the take-up drum, the positioning of the carriage being detected by a sensor and the rotary drive that controls the precision operation of the piston pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Inventor: John P. Petro
  • Patent number: 5713098
    Abstract: A system for cleaning light transmitting elements such as windscreens, window-panes or optical instruments, comprising a wiper arm supported by a carriage performing reciprocating movements, and a intermediate gear means for transforming rotary movements into oscillating movements, with the intermediate gear means cooperating with a driving means and actuating the carriage and, on the driven side, being in communication with a shaft performing oscillating movements. The shaft is the driving part of a transmission gear means for oscillating movements. The part of the transmission gear means performing movements on the driven side actuates the carriage through a tensile and/or thrust member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: ITT Automotive Europe GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Mayer, Wolfgang Scholl