Patents Assigned to PRODRIVES & MOTIONS CO., LTD.
  • Patent number: 10288504
    Abstract: The present invention provides an axial rotary type torque sensor comprising a planetary gear set disposed along a central axis between an input shaft and an output shaft. The input shaft drives the sun gear which meshes with planetary gears, and the planetary gears mesh with the ring gear of the planetary gear set to rotate along the circumference of the central axis. The ring gear is connected with a plurality of strip-like beams. At least one strain gauge is attached to the beams. One ending portion of the beam is fixed and the other ending portion is used for bearing a tangential force applied on the ring gear to generate a deformation at a rotation direction of a circumference. A strain gauge which senses the strain of the deformation used as a torque sensing value between the input shaft and the output shaft, thereby improving the poor sensing accuracy and sensitivity of the conventional torque sensors and solving the problem that the radial volume cannot be effectively reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: PRODRIVES & MOTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yueh-Yang Hu, Chih-Cheng Chou, Meng-Jen Chiu
  • Patent number: 10267403
    Abstract: A method for designing a spline surface contour of a roller-type wave-motion includes of the steps of slicing radial movement track of a roller between a cam and a spline aperture and circumference rotation track at equal proportion at equal time intervals to sequentially obtain circle centers and points of tangency of the track circles during movement of the roller; connecting the points of tangency to form a unit cam circumference segment of a cam periphery in order to draw and form a single-sided tooth flank contour; and forming a correspondent side tooth flank contour by mirroring and projecting the single-sided tooth flank contour. A method of forming a spline wheel contour and a method of forming a cam periphery are obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: PRODRIVES & MOTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Sheng Liang, Hung-Tai Cheng, Szu-Ming Huang
  • Patent number: 10150534
    Abstract: A motorized gear reducer is provided with a hollow motor in the housing and including an annular rotor having a through hole, and a shaft passing through the through hole; and a planetary gear train in the through hole and placed on the shaft, the planetary gear train including a sun gear assembly having a first sun gear in the housing, and a second sun gear on the shaft; planet gear assemblies equally spaced apart around the sun gear assembly, each including a first planet gear meshing with the first sun gear, and a second planet gear coaxially disposed with the first planet gear and meshing with the second sun gear; and a ring gear on an inner surface of the rotor. A speed reduction ratio of a first stage and a speed reduction ratio of a second stage are rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: PRODRIVES & MOTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Sheng Liang, Chu-Hsiang Tseng
  • Patent number: 10058983
    Abstract: A torque sensing device includes an idle wheel disposed between a force input shaft and a force output shaft, the idle wheel receives a tangential force from the force input shaft and the force output shaft to generate a counterforce as a loading, the center of the idle wheel is pivotally disposed on a positioning beam or a basis nearby, the positioning beam has a beam central line where a strain gauge installed. The positioning beam transforms the loading of the idle wheel along the beam central line to a normal force on the cross section of the positioning beam along the beam central line, the positioning beam generates a strain due to the normal force on the cross section of the positioning beam, the strain gauge detects the strain as the torsion sensing value of the output shaft on the region between the force input shaft and the force output shaft. A rotational driving tool is combined with the torque sensing device to improve the detecting precision of the torsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: PRODRIVES & MOTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Sheng Liang, Yuen-Yang Hu, Meng-Jen Chiu, Chu-Hsiang Tseng
  • Patent number: 9897189
    Abstract: The invention provides a wave speed reducer having a self-locking function comprising a structure for outputting driving rotation of a bearing member or a spline wheel at a specific reduction ratio which drives rollers to rotate by a cam. A designed convex arc of the cam has self-locking function of restricting the rollers to reversely rotate so as to form a compound type reducer device having a multi-reducer function by mutually combining the wave speed reducer and a planetary gear set. To solve conventional problems, poor driving accuracy at tiny rotation angle and scarcity of self-locking function for conventional reducers are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: PRODRIVES & MOTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Sheng Liang, Hung-Tai Cheng, Szu-Ming Huang
  • Patent number: 9897499
    Abstract: A planet gear train based torque detector is provided with idler gears between an input shaft and an output shaft wherein a rotation of the input shaft rotates the idler gears which rotate the output shaft, and a force is applied to a tangent line between each idler gear and the input shaft; peripheral resilient members, each having a fixed first end and a second end for receiving force applied thereon by the revolution of idler gears; and at least one strain gauge, each attached on one resilient member for measuring a deformation at the resilient member due to the revolution of the idler gears. A torque between the input shaft and the output shaft is obtained by calculating the deformation. The resilient members parallel the input shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: PRODRIVES & MOTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Sheng Liang, Yuen-Yang Hu, Meng-Jen Chiu