Patents Examined by Erin D Bishop
  • Patent number: 11927260
    Abstract: Separate structural units for an inner gear and a housing of a planetary gear device include an inner gear with a first raised portion formed on the outer peripheral surface of the inner gear, where the first raised portion extends towards in a direction that is inclined with respect to the axial direction of the inner gear. A housing includes a second raised portion formed on an inner peripheral surface, where the second raised portion extends in a direction that is inclined in respect to the axial direction. The housing contains the inner gear such that there is a gap formed between the inner peripheral surface of the housing and the outer peripheral surface of the inner gear. Movement of the inner gear within the interior of the housing is limited through linear contact of the first raised portion and the second raised portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiki Kawada, Shohei Ishida, Takuya Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11873886
    Abstract: A transmission includes a drive element, a first output element, a primary transmission unit, a reversing unit, and an intermediate gearbox. At least three of the at least seven shifting elements of the primary transmission unit, at least one of the at least two shifting elements of the reversing unit, and at least one of the at least two shifting elements of the intermediate gearbox are activatable in combinations of at least five shifting elements so as to establish at least eighteen forward gears between the drive element and the first output element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Lubben, Pradip Shinde
  • Patent number: 11867269
    Abstract: A shift group for a power shift transmission includes a summation unit having a planetary stage and a branching coupling assigned to the planetary stage. The summation unit is designed such that a mechanical power is transmitted from a first shaft to a second shaft. A first power path and a second power path are provided. In a first shifting state, the power is transmitted via the first or the second power path, and in a second shifting state, the power is transmitted via both the first and the second power paths. The shift group also includes individually shiftable transmission units each comprising a different transmission ratio, where a first transmission unit is disposed in the first power path and a second and a third transmission unit are disposed in the second power path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventor: Stefan Raisch
  • Patent number: 11867259
    Abstract: A mechanical gearbox for turbomachine, in particular for aircraft. The gearbox includes a sun gear including an external toothing, a ring gear including an internal toothing, and planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the stationary ring gear. The planet gears are carried by a movable planet carrier and each having external toothings of different diameters. The movable planet carrier includes a movable ring gear which carries an internal toothing and which is independent of the stationary ring gear, each of the planet gears being meshed with the sun gear and the stationary and movable ring gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Guillaume Pierre Mouly, Adrien Louis Simon, Dhafer Ghribi
  • Patent number: 11859703
    Abstract: A transmission (21) as a power transmission device for a vehicle comprises an input shaft (22), an output shaft (23), and a planetary continuously variable transmission mechanism (31). The planetary continuously variable transmission mechanism (31) comprises a planetary gear mechanism (32), a pump side clutch (33), a hydraulic pump (36), a hydraulic motor (38), and a motor side clutch (40). The hydraulic pump (36) and the hydraulic motor (38) are connected via a pair of main lines (37A, 37B). When the transmission (21) is switched from a traveling state to a neutral state, at least one clutch (33, 40) of the pump side clutch (33) and the motor side clutch (40) is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ueno, Takuma Koinuma
  • Patent number: 11845330
    Abstract: A reducer for an electric vehicle includes an input shaft connected to a motor, a differential disposed coaxially with the input shaft and relatively rotatable, a planetary gear train configured to decelerate power of the input shaft and transmit the power to a differential casing of the differential, and a drive shaft configured to penetrate the input shaft and coupled to one side gear of the differential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Il Han Yoo, Se Hwan Cheon, Min Su Sun
  • Patent number: 11821494
    Abstract: A friction transmission device has a friction transmission mechanism that transmits power by contact between a take-out member from which output rotation is taken out and a plurality of friction rolling elements. The take-out member has a contact surface inclined with respect to an axial direction. The device includes an output member that is used to transmit the output rotation to a driven device, and a coupling that connects the take-out member and the output member to each other. The coupling is configured to be more easily deformed than the take-out member and the output member with respect to an axial load, and has a function of absorbing deviation of an axial center between the take-out member and the output member and a function of converting a torque acting on the output member into an axial force to transmit the axial force to a take-out member side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiya Nagumo
  • Patent number: 11808344
    Abstract: A planet carrier for a mechanical gearbox for a turbomachine includes a one-piece cage that extends about an axis of rotation defining an internal housing configured to receive a sun gear and planet gears of the gearbox. The planet carrier further includes a lubrication system with at least one bore formed in the cage and extending parallel to the axis over more than 30% of a maximum axial dimension (Lmax) of the cage. The lubrication system also includes for the at least one bore, at least two sprinklers which are fitted to the cage and which are each mounted in a recess of the cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Guillaume Pierre Mouly, Frederic Nicolas François Laisnez, Adrien Louis Simon
  • Patent number: 11796042
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission, provided with a continuously variable transmission provided with an outer housing, an intermediate housing is provided in the middle of the outer housing, a first end cover and a second end cover are respectively provided on both sides of the intermediate housing, the inside of the intermediate housing is a cavity structure, and the cavity inside the intermediate housing and insides of the first end cover and the second end cover form an inner cavity. The described continuously variable transmission may be widely used in the field of transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: WEIHAI TUANZHONG TRANSMISSION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongfeng Tang, Yuning Tang
  • Patent number: 11781630
    Abstract: A power split transmission for a work vehicle includes at least one drivable transmission input shaft, a power distribution module, a rotational speed variator having a variator output shaft, a transmission module operatively connected both to the transmission input shaft and the variator output shaft, and a transmission output shaft. The transmission module includes at least two transmission auxiliary shafts each of which includes at least one summation transmission for combining power introduced via the transmission input shaft and the variator output shaft. The transmission module includes at least one power shift stage via which the transmission auxiliary shafts are selectively connected to the transmission output shaft. A continuously variable transmission ratio is produced between the transmission input shaft and transmission output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventor: Manuel Billich
  • Patent number: 11738738
    Abstract: A system and a method for controlling shifting stage of a hybrid vehicle may include a speed detecting device that detects a vehicle speed, an automatic transmission that changes a shifting stage of the vehicle, and a shift controller connected to the speed detecting device and the automatic transmission. The shift controller is configured to determine a start of shift control based on a travel environment and a travel state of the vehicle, compares the vehicle speed with a target vehicle speed when the start of the shift control is determined, and performs the shift control based on a state of charge of a battery of the vehicle and a regenerative braking amount of the vehicle when the shift controller concludes that the vehicle speed exceeds the target vehicle speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
    Inventors: Yong Uk Shin, Byeong Wook Jeon, Dong Hoon Jeong, Min Jae Chai
  • Patent number: 11739829
    Abstract: A mechanical reduction gear for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, the reduction gear including a sun gear, a ring gear, planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear, hydrodynamic bearings for guiding the planet gears in rotation, these bearings being carried by a planet carrier and including cylindrical bodies which are engaged in the planet gears and which are configured so as to be supplied with oil and so as to form guiding oil films between the bodies and the planet gears, wherein each of the planet gears is guided by two hydrodynamic bearings independent of each other and disposed on either side of the plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Guillaume Julien Beck, Patrice Jocelyn Francis Gedin, Simon Loic Clement Lefebvre, Balint Pap, Quentin Pierre Henri Pigott, Adrien Louis Simon
  • Patent number: 11724795
    Abstract: An actuation assembly includes a drive mechanism that has an array of magnetic members moveable along an axis, and a gear train that has an input and an output. The drive mechanism causes the input to move in response to generating an electromagnetic field that interacts with at least one of the array of magnetic members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naison E. Mastrocola, Richard A. Poisson
  • Patent number: 11698129
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method of retaining a bearing assembly having a bore to a shaft received within the bore, the method comprising physically limiting the axial movement of the bearing assembly on the shaft by a retainer mounted to an end of the shaft and having a portion extending radially beyond the shaft and into an axial path of the bearing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: William Howard Hasting, Donald Albert Bradley, Randy Thomas Antelo
  • Patent number: 11691270
    Abstract: Mechanisms or apparatus convert a number of inputs via a number of input members into a number of output movements of an output structure, providing control in three degrees-of-freedom (DOF), for example control over roll, pitch and yaw of the output structure. Inputs may be rotations about a common axis of rotation, for example via a first ring, a second ring, and one or more plates, concentrically array. Rotation of the first ring may control a first DOF, rotation of the first ring may control a second DOF, and rotation of the plate may control all three DOF. Three concentrically arrayed tubular shafts may be employed, providing a through-passage or cable fluid conduit run to accommodate wires, optical fibers, fluid carrying conduits. Such may be particularly advantageous when employed as part of a robot, or other device with a tool or sensor or transducer located at or proximate a distal end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Connor Richard Shannon
  • Patent number: 11686209
    Abstract: An epicyclic gear assembly includes a carrier that includes a first plate axially spaced from a second plate. At least one epicyclic gear set is located between the first plate and the second plate. The first plate is configured to rotate with an output of the epicyclic gear assembly. A first bearing race is attached to the first plate for supporting a first bearing. A second bearing race is attached to the second plate for supporting a second bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: William G. Sheridan
  • Patent number: 11674567
    Abstract: An electric vehicle transmission system is disclosed. The electric vehicle transmission system is employing a planetary gear type speed reducer so as to implement first-gear shifting, second-gear shifting, or reverse shifting, thereby enabling reduced manufacturing costs of an electric vehicle while increasing the fuel efficiency of the electric vehicle, and also employing the planetary gear type speed reducer so as to implement forward and reverse shifting, thereby enabling reduced manufacturing costs of the electric vehicle while increasing the fuel efficiency of the electric vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: DRIVETECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yun Yong Choi
  • Patent number: 11668372
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for reducing planet gear misalignment of planet gears mounted on a planet-carrier in an epicyclic gearing. The apparatus and method of the present disclosure specifically provide for a stiffness-reducing feature, a pillar, and a side-plate, each with a respective stiffness. In several embodiments, the feature stiffness is less than the pillar stiffness which is at least 10% less than the side-plate stiffness. The stiffness-reducing feature and the pillar may make up a pylon which has an axis. The pylon axis may form an angle with the side plate which is less than 90° and greater than 20°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: GE AVIO S.R.L.
    Inventors: Juraj Hrubec, Michele Gravina, Leonardo Coviello
  • Patent number: 11654761
    Abstract: Methods and systems related to electric propulsion. An electric propulsion system, in one example, includes a first electric machine coupled to a first gear set with a first gear ratio, a second electric machine coupled to a second gear set with a second gear ratio different from the first gear ratio, and an axle including an axle interface. In the system, at least a first output gear of the first gear set and a second output gear of the second gear set are coupled in parallel to the axle interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC
    Inventors: Harry W. Trost, Steven G. Slesinski
  • Patent number: 11642950
    Abstract: A transmission (1) for an electric drive of a vehicle includes a first input shaft (10), a second input shaft (11), an output shaft (12), two shift elements (3, 4) for connecting the transmission (1) to an electric machine of the electric drive, and a planetary gear set (5) configured as a stepped planetary gear set. A first sun gear (5.1) of the planetary gear set (5) is rotationally fixed to the first input shaft (10). A second sun gear (5.2) of the planetary gear set (5) is rotationally fixed to the second input shaft (11). A ring gear (5.5) of the planetary gear set (5) is fixed at a rotationally fixed component (0) of the transmission (1). A planet carrier (5.6) of the planetary gear set (5) is rotationally fixed to the output shaft (12). A first shift element (3) is configured for connecting the first input shaft (10) to the electric machine of the electric drive. A second shift element (4) is configured for connecting the second input shaft (11) to the electric machine of the electric drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Thomas Martin, Michael Wechs, Fabian Kutter, Oliver Schaudt