Patents Assigned to Mikuni Sogyo Company
  • Patent number: 6482121
    Abstract: A drive arrangement clamps an output disc such as a tire with two driving rollers so as to drive the output disc. The drive arrangement is compact, light-weight, low-noise and inexpensive, and can be used for a bicycle equipped with an electrical assist drive or various kinds of welfare-specific vehicles. The drive apparatus includes an input shaft and two output shafts extending in a single plane in parallel to each other. The input shaft has an input roller, and each of the output shafts has an output roller. A loading roller is located between the input roller and one of the output rollers, and an axis of the loading roller is slightly spaced from the plane of the two output shafts. An outer peripheral surface of each roller is a substantially cylindrical rolling surface. The loading roller is preloaded by a preload spring such that it squeezes between the input roller and one of the output rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignees: Hideo Okoshi, Mikuni Sogyo Company
    Inventor: Hideo Okoshi