Patents Examined by Brian McGovern
  • Patent number: 9157479
    Abstract: A synthetic resin-made cage plate to retain rollers lies between guideway members. The smaller pitch between the adjacent rollers in a cage results in the greater number of the rollers lying in a preselected length of the cage to get heavier load-carrying capacity. A holder to receive a pinion is molded integrally with the cage plate. The rollers are retained in openings in the cage plate at a tilt such that their rotating axes are perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the raceway surfaces and also tilting at 45 degrees relative to major surfaces of the cage plate. The openings on their contour edges have bearing lips to retain end surfaces of the rollers. The cage plate has flanges extending lengthwise on its' widthwise opposite edges and bulging sidewise out over the major surfaces of the cage plate to render the cage plate tougher to warp or bend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: NIPPON THOMPSON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Kano, Tsuguyoshi Nara
  • Patent number: 9121449
    Abstract: A slide bearing has an oil supply passage formed in a lower bearing portion, that supplies lubricating oil into clearance between an outer peripheral surface of a rotating shaft and lower and upper slide surfaces, and an oil discharge passage formed in the lower half bearing portion and discharges the lubricating oil from the clearance. The oil supply passage has a downstream portion and the oil discharge passage has an upstream portion which is provided at positions on opposite sides of the rotating shaft. The oil supply passage has an upstream portion extending toward the upstream portion of the oil discharge passage, and the oil discharge passage has a downstream portion extending toward the downstream portion of the oil supply passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kenichi Shimano, Kazunori Ikeda, Yoshiaki Takada, Hiroshi Yagisawa, Takayuki Shimmyo
  • Patent number: 9080601
    Abstract: Bearing assemblies, apparatuses, and motor assemblies using the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a bearing assembly may include a plurality of superhard bearing elements distributed circumferentially about an axis. Each of the superhard bearing elements may have a bearing surface. The bearing assembly may further include a support ring that carries the plurality of superhard bearing elements. A plurality of mixing features may also be distributed circumferentially about the axis. The mixing features may be configured and/or arranged to at least partially influence flow of lubricating fluid onto the bearing surfaces and/or periphery of the plurality of superhard bearing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: US SYNTHETIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: S. Barrett Peterson
  • Patent number: 9046084
    Abstract: A swashplate-type pivot bearing, or an axial piston machine that has the swashplate-type pivot bearing, which ensure reliable operation. The swashplate-type pivot bearing for a hydraulic axial piston machine has a housing section, a swashplate section and a multiplicity of rolling bodies. The swashplate section is pivotably mounted in the housing section by the rolling bodies and the rolling bodies are arranged in a full-roller configuration and/or without a cage in at least one rolling body row. The swashplate-type pivot bearing also has at least one follow-up device for follow-up adjustment and/or synchronization of the rolling bodies, which is arranged and/or formed at an end of the rolling body row. The follow-up device is controlled by a slotted guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Becker, Thomas Winkler, Harald Vornehm, Peter Decker
  • Patent number: 8943924
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an adjustable lever assembly with a lever having an adjustment section and a grip section, where the adjustment section includes a slide passage in communication with an adjuster passage, and an adjuster positioned at least partially inside the adjuster passage, the adjuster having a threaded inner passage extending therethrough. The adjustable lever assembly further includes a slide positioned substantially inside the slide passage, the slide including an outer wall surface that is keyed to the slide passage and a threaded outer portion for rotatably engaging the threaded inner passage of the adjuster, wherein rotation of the adjuster translates the slide about the adjuster passage, and wherein the slide includes a bottom portion configured for securing pivotally to a pushrod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: HB Performance Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: John Larry Thomas
  • Patent number: 8888377
    Abstract: In a bearing mounting arrangement for a drive train of a motor vehicle including a shaft having a drive part non-rotatably connected to the shaft and at least an outer bearing ring and an inner bearing ring which can be biased by means of a bracing device in axial direction of the shaft toward the outer bearing ring due to a relative rotation of the drive part with respect to the bearing ring with a bearing tensioning force which depends on a torque transmitted by the shaft so that the bearing tensioning force is relatively low during low-torque operation of the drive train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Matthias Claus, Mohd Azwan Aziz
  • Patent number: 8875595
    Abstract: An operating mechanism for a parking brake. The operating mechanism includes a manual brake lever pivotably coupled to a bearing block by a tubular holder. The manual brake lever is fixed to the tubular holder. The mechanism also includes a locking device adapted to fix the manual brake lever in a predetermined pivoting position, an activation rod guided inside the manual brake lever and operatively connected to the locking device, and a transfer element connected to the tubular holder. The transfer element is adapted to transmit movement of the manual lever to the parking brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Dietz-automotive GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Baris Barcin
  • Patent number: 8875597
    Abstract: A steering wheel has a rim with an armature substantially encapsulated by foam. The foam includes a major foam member and a separate minor foam member. The major foam member has a cross-sectional profile effective to cover a major cross-sectional extent of the armature and define a gap in the foam member adjacent the armature. The gap has a maximum cross-sectional width which is equal to or less than the cross-sectional width of the armature, and is substantially filled by said minor foam member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Laurent Groleau, Olivier Bertrand
  • Patent number: 8844403
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shaft-hub connection, in particular of assembled camshafts (10) for combustion engines, at which at least two functional parts (14, 16, 18) are shrunk or pressed onto corresponding rotationally symmetric shaft sections (24, 26, 28) with the hub thereof, wherein in an assembly direction (30) of the functional parts (14, 16, 18), the first section (24) is designed with a larger exterior circumference than the second section (26).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: Hans Bernd Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8840311
    Abstract: This rolling bearing (1) comprises an inner ring (12), an outer ring (14), rolling bodies (16) between said inner and outer rings, an encoder washer (32) fast in rotation with said inner ring and a support member (18) having an internal surface (26) in the form of a section of a sphere, the internal surface being adapted to be in sliding contact with a corresponding external surface (28) of the outer ring (14) which is also in the form of a section of a sphere. The support member (18) is provided with means (100; 200; 300; 400) to hold a sensor (50) with respect to the encoder washer (32), in a position where the sensor can detect a rotation of the encoder washer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventor: Franck Landrieve
  • Patent number: 8834035
    Abstract: A roller bearing retainer (13) includes a pair of annular ring parts (14) and a plurality of column parts (15) each including a column center part (16) provided in an axial center region so as to be positioned relatively on the radial inner side, a pair of column end parts (17) provided in axial end regions so as to be positioned relatively on the radial outer side, and a pair of column sloped parts (18) positioned between the column center part (16) and the pair of column end parts (17), and connecting the pair of ring parts to each other. A thickness of each part of the column center part, the pair of column end parts, and the pair of column sloped parts is smaller than a thickness of a boundary part between the adjacent parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Oishi, Yugo Yoshimura, Katsufumi Abe
  • Patent number: 8814439
    Abstract: A bearing for engaging an associated shaft and an associated body for axial movement on the associated shaft which includes a housing; a first set of a plurality of mounting shafts carried by said housing, each mounting shaft in said first set of a plurality of mounting shafts having a center line; and a first set of a plurality of rollers, each roller being carried a respective one of said plurality of mounting shafts and mounted for rotation about the centerline of the respective mounting shaft, each roller being dimensioned and configured for abutting relationship with the associated shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Inventors: David P. Sebelius, Michael F. Marvonek
  • Patent number: 8770852
    Abstract: A wheel bearing device includes an inner shaft and an inner ring member fitted onto an outer periphery of an axially-inner end portion of the inner shaft. A shaft portion coupled to the inner shaft so as to be rotatable together with the inner shaft is inserted in a center hole of the inner shaft. Spline grooves spline-fitted to spline teeth formed on an outer periphery of the shaft portion are formed in an inner periphery of the inner shaft, which defines the center hole. An annular clearance that suppresses reduction in a diameter of the inner shaft due to fitting of the inner ring member onto the inner shaft is formed between the inner ring member and the axially-inner end portion of the inner shaft, within a range where an axial range in which the spline teeth are formed overlaps with an axial range of the inner ring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Masao Takimoto
  • Patent number: 8726760
    Abstract: An adjustable pendant and organ type accelerator pedal device can vary the position of a pedal assembly including a pedal pad forwards and backwards according to driver's will to thereby allow a driver to operate pedal pad in a convenient state, such that convenience is remarkably improved and merchantability is significantly improved by greatly decreasing a sense of fatigue due to operating pedal pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Donghee Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eunsik Kim, Yangrae Cho, Hojong Oh
  • Patent number: 8721185
    Abstract: Constructive arrangement added to a support for assembling agricultural tilting bearings with new constructive form applied to the assembly support, which comprises the arrangement of multiple and contiguous openings practiced on its upper portion, so as to allow the use, in different diameters and different inter centers, of fastening elements. Alternatively, the multiple openings can be of analogous conformation and not contiguous, so as to allow the desirable interchangeability among different brands and models of agricultural equipment. The new constructive form of the support foresees the arrangement of hollow ears at opposite side ends, and also the arrangement of openings practiced on its lower ends, preferably with recesses tied in one of the ends of the fastening methods for their retention at the tilting bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Inventor: Joao Carlos Marchesan
  • Patent number: 8708563
    Abstract: A connector plate makes it possible to join together carriages with high rigidity and much load rating no matter lengthwise dimensions of the carriages. The carriage has at leading and trailing ends thereof the connector plates identical in structure. The connector plate on a front surface thereof has a tenon or projection and a mortise which are spaced widthwise from each others. The adjoining carriages are joined together after the connector plates have been placed each other in a relation the their front surfaces have made direct engagement face-to-face with each other with the tenon having fit into the mortise to make the tenon-and-mortise joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Nippon Thompson Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8701522
    Abstract: A pendant type adjustment pedal apparatus includes an adjustment accelerator pedal that adjust a pedal clearance by the rotation of a motor, and an adjustment brake pedal that receives the rotation of motor through a rotary drive cable. Accordingly, convenience in adjusting a pedal clearance is provided, and particularly, adjustment accelerator pedal achieves a vibration mode in addition to a foot effort mode, which is an eco mode, by an electric mode generating device, such as a solenoid or a linear motor. Therefore, it is possible to improve fuel efficiency and to provide a danger recognition function using an accelerator pedal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Donghee Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eunsik Kim, Yangrae Cho, Jongsang Noh, Jonggeun Cha, Hojong Oh, Donghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 8690452
    Abstract: A cage for roller bodies, for example axial bearings or flat guides, which is approximately W-shaped in the longitudinal cross-section, having side walls forming W-shaped limbs and webs connecting them, between which the roller bodies are accommodated. The profile of the webs is suitable for limiting the freedom of movement of the roller bodies to at least two degrees of freedom. Furthermore, the profile of the webs is designed such that the freedom of movement of the roller bodies can be limited in at least one additional degree of freedom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co., KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fugel, Alexander Reimchen
  • Patent number: 8690451
    Abstract: A cage for a rolling bearing which has pocket-shaped recesses for receiving rolling bodies and at least one guiding means for guiding the cage. The at least one guiding means is detachably connected to the cage. Thus, by design, the structure designed for the guiding of the cage is simple, economical and flexible, and suitable for all kinds of different cage shapes and dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Rainer Gebauer
  • Patent number: 8661932
    Abstract: A speed control device, which is adapted to be used in connection with a derailleur type bicycle or an internal gear hub type bicycle, has one operation mode for up-shifting the speed and another operation mode for down-shifting the speed. The two operation modes can be affected by an operation lever, with the operation lever pivoted in a second rotation direction for the up-shifting operation and in a first rotation direction for the down-shifting operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Tien Hsin Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chia-Wei Liao