Abstract: An electromotive servo drive includes a drive motor, a drive train, which is fitted with an output member and includes at least one gear stage for reducing the rotation speed of the motor, and a rotatable hand-operated adjusting shaft for adjusting the output member of the drive train such that at least the drive train, arranged between the adjusting shaft and the output member, is self-locking. One of the gear stages is fitted with a brake element such that the part of the drive train leading from the gear stage to the output member is prevented from returning, while the hand-operated adjusting shaft can freely rotate in both directions of rotation. The brake element is a wrap spring which is rotatably supported in a bushing, and an inner control part engages the wrap spring to couple both angled ends of the wrap spring such that the wrap spring can be expanded in order to obtain a braking effect in a rotation direction.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 12, 2004
Date of Patent:
December 5, 2006
Assignee:
Elodrive GmbH Stellantriebstechnik
Inventors:
Kurt Schunke, Bernd Buchholz, Dieter Palm, Gerhard Bruns