Patents Examined by Adam D Rogers
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Patent number: 11726520Abstract: A modular input interface device having multi-axial functionality in a housing having an input interface that is capable of up to seven directions of movement. The modular interface device provides input to at least one processor associated with one or more vehicle systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Harman International Industries, IncorporatedInventor: Daren Harris
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Patent number: 11724767Abstract: The invention relates to a handlebar stem, which permits simple and quick loosening and twisting, as well as simple and safe resetting and fastening of said stem with the handlebar attached thereto. The problem of the invention is to provide a particularly simple, theft-proof and versatile alternative involving low manufacturing costs, and which can also easily be retrofitted. A stem set according to the invention comprises a stem and at least one locking device, which can be fixedly clamped to the steerer tube. According to the invention, the stem set is arranged, such that when mounted on the steerer tube, the locking device fixedly connected to the steerer tube prevents the stem from being pulled off the steerer tube. However, this can also be achieved, for example, by the stem engaging around and/or behind the locking device and/or the locking device engaging around and/or behind the stem.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Inventor: Horst Wedemann
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Patent number: 11713803Abstract: An electric motor drive unit including an electric motor having an output shaft and a plurality of gears in driving engagement with the output shaft. The plurality of gears being supported by a plurality of laterally spaced bearings. A composite housing member includes a structural support skeleton supporting multiple ones of the plurality of laterally spaced bearings and a composite shell molded to the structural support skeleton.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Anthony Michael Coppola, Derek Frei Lahr, Alireza Fatemi, Alan G. Holmes, Bradley Allen Newcomb
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Patent number: 11703078Abstract: The invention relates to a strut, such as fiber composite struts used in aircraft or spacecraft, which has a largest possible outer diameter within a cylindrical installation space of the strut. The invention concerns an insert connected to a fiber composite hollow structure, such as a fiber plastic composite hollow structure, where the hollow structure engages an undercut of the insert, wherein the outer region of the fiber composite hollow structure likewise has an undercut and this undercut is filled with a fiber composite jacket, such as a fiber plastic composite jacket, and the inner region of the fiber composite hollow structure has, at least in one subregion, a core connected thereto.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Funck, Martin Welsch
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Patent number: 11698126Abstract: A driving source assembly includes: a prime mover including a driving shaft; a continuously variable transmission including a CVT case; a first gear that is between the prime mover and the CVT case and rotates together with the driving shaft; a second gear that is meshable with the first gear; an energy converter including a rotating shaft that rotates in association with the second gear; and a plate which is fixed to the prime mover and to which the energy converter is fixed. The first gear is between the plate and the CVT case. The CVT case includes a recess that defines an auxiliary accommodating space accommodating the first gear. The seal is between the recess and the plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.Inventor: Ayumi Hamada
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Patent number: 11686382Abstract: A drive transmission device includes an intermediate gear, a housing portion, and a support portion. The intermediate gear meshes with a first gear and a second gear to transmit a rotational driving force from the first gear to the second gear. The housing portion is formed from resin and includes a pair of cover portions, covering both sides of a gear train including the intermediate gear, to house the gear train. The support portion is formed from metal and supports the rotation shaft of the intermediate gear at a position outside the housing portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Hiroki Morishita
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Patent number: 11679788Abstract: A traction transmission for purposes of transmitting the rotation of an input drive shaft to a rail wheel which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to an output drive shaft, has at least two transmission stages, in each case having at least one small gear or pinion, and at least one large gear, and has a transmission housing with bearings for the input drive shaft and the output drive shaft, and has transmission oil arranged in the transmission housing, wherein in the position of use the input drive shaft is arranged below the output drive shaft. The transmission housing has an attachment element for purposes of a pivotable arrangement about an axis parallel to the axis of rotation of the input drive shaft and output drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: TRAKTIONSSYSTEME AUSTRIA GMBHInventors: Pavel Fiala, Julia Goetz, Michael Stockmayer
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Patent number: 11680623Abstract: A pendulum damping device incorporated into a drive train of a motor vehicle, notably into a clutch, includes a support capable of rotational movement about an axis of rotation, a pendulum assembly of which the movement with respect to the support is guided by at least one rolling member, and an end-stop damping system borne directly by the pendulum assembly and able at least to damp the coming of said pendulum assembly into a position of abutment against the support of said pendulum assembly during the radial fall and/or saturation of this said pendulum assembly. The pendulum assembly also includes at least one radial protuberance designed to pass at least partially through an opening made in the end-stop damping system.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: VALEO EMBRAYAGESInventors: Adrien Nerriere, Didier Couvillers, Olivier Fafet, Antoine Vigreux, Matthieu Malley
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Patent number: 11673625Abstract: There is provided a shift device for a straddle-type vehicle that is configured to cause a transmission device to perform a shift change in accordance with rotation of a shift shaft. The shift device includes: a shift lever provided with an operation portion that is configured to receive a shift operation; a shift sensor provided on the shift shaft so as to be integrally rotatable with the shift shaft; and a shift rod that couples the shift lever and the shift sensor. The shift sensor is configured to detect the shift operation on the shift lever in accordance with a movement of the shift rod. The operation portion and the shift sensor are positioned at the same side in a manner of sandwiching the shift rod in a vehicle side view.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Kato, Takatoshi Maemori, Tatsushi Uchiyama, Hiroyasu Inohara
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Patent number: 11674560Abstract: A flywheel assembly 10 comprising: at least one flywheel mass support 14, the or each said support having a shaft 19 that extends along a rotational axis 18 about which the support 14 can rotate in use, the or each said support 14 comprising a plurality of openings 24 that are each offset from said rotational axis 18, a flywheel mass 12 comprising a plurality of openings 16 that are each arranged to align with a corresponding opening in said support; and means 23 for coupling said flywheel mass 12 to the or each said support 14 so that the mass 12 can rotate with the or each support 14 in use, said coupling means 23 being configured to extend through the aligned openings in the or each support 14 and said flywheel mass 12; wherein said flywheel mass 12 comprises a plurality of generally planar flywheel mass elements sandwiched together to form a stack of elements, each said element including a plurality of openings 16 that align with the openings 24 in the or each said support 14 and with openings in neighbouType: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: CITY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDONInventor: Keith Robert Pullen
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Patent number: 11668339Abstract: A joining structure according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a first member and a second member, the first member having a hole extending along an axis direction, the second member including a shaft member, the shaft member being formed of a fiber-containing composite material and having a shape to fit in the hole, the second member being joined to the first member via the shaft member so that movement thereof in the axis direction is restricted.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Nabtesco CorporationInventor: Tsutomu Yasui
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Patent number: 11666961Abstract: A cam follower assembly for a can bodymaker includes a slider structured to be coupled to the proximal end of a ram body of the can bodymaker; and a plurality of cam follower members rotatably coupled to the slider. The cam follower members are structured to be operatively coupled to a cam of a ram drive assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLCInventors: Karl S. Fleischer, Ian Kenneth Scholey, Leonardo Antonio Butolo Ribeiro, Sylvan Mario Praturlon
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Patent number: 11667317Abstract: A steering device includes a rotation central portion having a rotation axis Ax of the steering device and a steering unit connected to the rotation central portion. The direction in which the rotation axis of the rotation central portion extends is an axial direction. One of directions perpendicular to the axial direction is a radial direction. A direction perpendicular to the axial direction and the radial direction is a width direction. The steering unit protrudes from the rotation central portion in the radial direction in plan view of the steering device in the axial direction. A maximum width of the steering unit in the width direction is less than or equal to a maximum width of the rotation central portion in the width direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKIInventor: Tadayuki Yakushi
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Patent number: 11668254Abstract: A throttle operating device includes a fixing member, a throttle lever, and a detection sensor. A drive source of the transport is configured to be controlled based on the rotational operation angle of the throttle lever detected by the detection sensor. The throttle lever is configured to be rotated in a forward direction and a reverse direction. When the throttle lever is rotated in the forward direction, the drive source of the transport can be controlled. When the throttle lever is rotated in the reverse direction, a predetermined device mounted on the transport can be operated or an operation of the predetermined device can be stopped.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: ASAHI DENSO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio Oshiro, Keisuke Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 11662014Abstract: A gear unit includes a housing, a trough for guiding oil and reducing losses due to splashing surrounding a circumferential section of a toothing part, particularly a gear wheel, especially in the radial and axial direction, the trough including at least three parts, e.g., at least one bottom plate and two side walls, the bottom plate being screw-connected to the two side walls, the trough being fastened to the housing, the trough having an opening, particularly a channel, especially at its lowest surface area, e.g., particularly at the surface area having the greatest radial distance, in particular, during rotational movement of the gear wheel, oil being conveyed from the oil pan of the gear unit through the opening between the trough and gear wheel, especially to a position higher than the level of the oil pan, the bottom plate and the side walls being stamped bent parts.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Zili Wu
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Patent number: 11648915Abstract: The invention relates to a gear motor (1) for a motor vehicle wiper system including an electric motor (2) including a rotor (20) and a rotation shaft (22) fixed to the rotor, a reduction gear mechanism (3) including a worm/worm wheel system, a device for generating an axial load configured to offset axial play of the rotation shaft (22), including a retaining wedge (6) mounted in a sliding manner in a radial direction of said rotation shaft (22), said retaining wedge (6) exerting an axial load on the outer race of a ball bearing (5) configured to guide the rotation shaft. According to the invention, said retaining wedge (6) is arranged in an intermediate position between the seat (40) of the bearing support (4) and the worm (30) directly adjacent to the worm wheel (31), said axial load (Fa) exerted by the retaining wedge (6) on the outer race (51) of the ball bearing (5) being in the direction away from the worm (30).Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Valeo Systèmes d'EssuyageInventor: Jose-Luis Herrada
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Patent number: 11649017Abstract: A gyroscopic roll stabilizer comprises a gimbal having a support frame and enclosure configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure, a flywheel assembly including a flywheel and flywheel shaft, one or more bearings for rotatably mounting the flywheel inside the enclosure, a motor for rotating the flywheel, and bearing cooling system for cooling the bearings supporting the flywheel. For smaller units, the bearing cooling system is effective to enable a flywheel with a moment of inertia less than 11.7 kg.m2 (40000 lbm in2) to be accelerated at a rate of 5 rpm/s or greater. For larger units, the bearing cooling system is effective to enable a flywheel with a moment of inertia greater than 11.7 kg.m2 (40000 lbm in2) to be accelerated at a rate of 2.5 rpm/s or greater.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: WAVETAMER LLCInventors: Grady F. Smith, David Holden, Jeffrey Peterson
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Patent number: 11649850Abstract: The present invention achieves a high mechanical load capacity of a rod end by means of a component loop that passes around a bearing, where the component may be made of continuous-fiber reinforced composite material with thermoplastic matrix and where the continuous-fiber reinforced composite material with thermoplastic matrix may extend into a threaded stem of the rod end, and the component made of continuous-fiber reinforced composite material with thermoplastic matrix may be enclosed by short-fiber reinforced, long-fiber reinforced, or unreinforced thermoplastic. The threaded stem can be implemented with an external or an internal thread.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.Inventors: Ralph Funck, Volker Schimmelpfennig
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Patent number: 11649890Abstract: A drive apparatus includes a motor; a reduction gear connected to the motor; a differential connected to the reduction gear, for rotating an axle about a differential axis; a housing including a gear housing portion housing the reduction gear and the differential; and an oil housed in the gear housing portion. The differential includes a gear for rotating about the differential axis. An end portion of the gear is lower than the reduction gear, and is configured to soak in the oil. The housing includes an oil drain hole and an oil feed hole for joining an interior of the housing and a space outside of the housing, a first stopper member removably in the oil drain hole, and a second stopper member removably in the oil feed hole. Each of the oil drain hole and the oil feed hole is in a portion of the gear housing portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Ishikawa, Shuhei Nakamatsu
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Patent number: 11644092Abstract: A dynamic damper for suppressing vibration generated by a gear attached to a rotation shaft, the dynamic damper, includes: a mass body that is disposed inside a rotation shaft having a hollow shape and extends along a shaft center of the rotation shaft; and an elastic body that couples the mass body to the rotation shaft. Further, a flow path for lubricating liquid to flow is provided between an inner peripheral surface of the rotation shaft and the mass body, and the flow path is formed by the inner peripheral surface of the rotation shaft at an axial position where the elastic body is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tomoyuki Ono