Patents Examined by Huan Le
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Patent number: 11873882Abstract: A transmission structure of a coreless tubular motor includes a motor main body, a motor connecting seat, a primary gear ring, a primary planetary gear assembly, a brake outer sleeve, a secondary planetary gear assembly and a tertiary planetary gear assembly; the motor main body is a coreless motor; a brake driving member and a brake driven member which are coaxially provided are provided in and pass through the brake outer sleeve; the brake driving member is connected to an output end of the primary planetary gear assembly, the brake driven member is connected to an input end of the secondary planetary gear assembly, the brake driving member is in transmission connection with the brake driven member, and a braking assembly connected to the brake driving member and the brake driven member is provided on the inner side of the brake outer sleeve in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: HANGZHOU WISTAR MECHANICAL & ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Xudong Sun, Cailong Zhu
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Patent number: 11873887Abstract: In a power transmission device in which a hub portion of a ring gear is fixed by a weld portion to a flange portion on an outer periphery of a transmission member, a positioning outer peripheral part of an outer periphery of the flange portion has a radial direction positioning face that positions the hub portion in a radial direction with respect to the flange portion, and an axial direction positioning face that positions in an axial direction, a first annular recess part is provided in the positioning outer peripheral part, the first annular recess part alleviating stress caused by a pushing load via which the positioning projecting part pushes the radial direction positioning face due to the hub portion receiving a tensile force inward in the radial direction accompanying thermal shrinkage of the weld portion between a first outer peripheral part and the hub portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Uchida, Akuto Sekiguchi, Tetsuya Okabe
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Patent number: 11867241Abstract: The invention relates to a freewheeling element comprising a cage, a plurality of clamping bodies, each of the clamping bodies being received in an associated clamping body pocket formed in the cage, and a plurality of rolling bodies, each of the rolling bodies being received in an associated rolling body pocket formed in the cage, the cage having a higher resilience than the clamping bodies and the rolling bodies.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: PAUL MULLER GMBH & CO. KG UNTERNEHMENSBETEILIGUNGENInventors: Manfred Elbacher, Andreas Radke
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Patent number: 11846329Abstract: To provide a simple-structured cam clutch that does not require precise control, uses a smaller drive force, provides improved clutch operation stability and high responsiveness, and offers more mode switch options. The cam clutch includes a plurality of cams circumferentially arranged between an inner race and an outer race. The cams are arranged in a plurality of rows adjacent each other in a direction of rotation axis. The cam clutch has a selector that allows a rotation angle thereof to be controlled relative to the inner race or the outer race. The selector has a cam orientation control surface capable of changing the orientation of at least one row of cams by making contact with a cam surface. The cam orientation control surface includes a cam release portion radially protruded toward the cams more than a cam actuator portion and moving the cams to a non-operating orientation.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN CO.Inventors: Yuji Kurematsu, Tsubasa Sugiya, Eiichi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11845336Abstract: Disclosed is a powertrain for a hybrid vehicle including a first motor provided to be selectively connected to an engine, a second motor provided to be selectively connected to the first motor, and an output shaft provided to transfer the rotational force of the second motor to drive wheels of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Yeong Il Choi, Ho Rim Yang, Buhm Joo Suh, Hyuk Joon Kwon, Seung Wook Lee, Seok Joon Kim, Tal Chol Kim, Woul Sun Choi
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Patent number: 11841055Abstract: A hydraulic cylinder is provided which has a body forming a hydraulic chamber, in which a tubular piston made of thermoplastic material slides. An insert is locked in an internal cavity of the piston and has a spherical seat configured to receive and retain a spherical head of a rod connectable to a control pedal. The insert is made of thermoplastic material and forms a plurality of flexible fins adjacent to the spherical seat. The flexible fins have retaining elements protruding in a radially internal direction to hold the spherical head of the rod. A tensile force exerted by the rod away from the insert is transferred to a body of the piston by a stop ring.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Raicam Driveline S.r.l.Inventor: Alessio Prato
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Patent number: 11835095Abstract: A fluid connector for coupling an associated slave cylinder to a mating connector of an associated high-pressure pipe. The fluid connector includes a unitary one-piece connector body having a male end and a female end, the male end adapted to be received in a port of the associated slave cylinder, the female end adapted to receive a male end of the mating connector of the associated high-pressure pipe.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2023Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Schaeffler Techologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Felipe Gimenes Camargo, Bruno Corsi Alabarse
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Patent number: 11828352Abstract: A transmission mechanism includes an input reduction stage having an input member and an output member rotating about axes that are parallel to a reference axis of the mechanism, an output differential, two output half-shafts which are driven by the differential, at least a first plantetary geartrain kinematically connecting the input reduction stage to the output differential. A switchover mechanism switches the first plantetary geartrain between at least a first speed ratio and a second speed ratio. The first plantetary geartrain and the output member of the input reduction stage are coaxial with the reference axis and with one reference half-shaft of the output half-shafts and surround the reference half-shaft, the first plantetary geartrain being positioned, along the reference axis, between the output member of the input reduction stage and the output differential.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: VALEO EMBRAYAGESInventor: Herve Maurel
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Patent number: 11820377Abstract: A number of illustrative variations may include a system including brake-to-steer algorithms may achieve lateral control of a vehicle without longitudinal compensation but may also force a vehicle to slow down too rapidly before appropriate lateral movement can be achieved and may deliver an unnatural driving experience for vehicle occupants. A more natural feeling deceleration may be achieved by optimally selecting appropriate transmission shifts to allow for optimal engine speed or electric motor speed and torque based on current vehicle speed thereby reducing undesirably longitudinal disturbance.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignees: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc., Steering Solutions IP Holding CorporationInventors: Joseph A. LaBarbera, Michael S. Wyciechowski, Clinton L. Schumann, Emmanuel Garcia, Scott T. Sanford, Gregory J. Katch
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Patent number: 11808332Abstract: A rotary actuator has a stop module configured to mechanically link two gear stages travelling at different rotational speeds when an end-of-stroke travel limit is reached, thereby causing the rotary actuator to bind because relative motion between the gear stages is impeded.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Moog Inc.Inventor: Arturo M. Arce
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Patent number: 11808312Abstract: A cage freewheel for installing in the clamping gap between a shaft and a hub, in particular in the drive of an e-bike, having a sprag cage which, in one embodiment, is fitted continuously in the circumferential direction with sprags arranged pivotably in the sprag cage, with the sprags being loaded resiliently in the engagement direction. Here, a bearing disk is arranged axially adjacent to the sprag cage. In a further embodiment, the cage ring is fitted consecutively in the circumferential direction both with bearing rollers and with sprags. In addition, a shaft and hub arrangement and to an e-bike drive having a cage freewheel with the abovementioned features is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: RINGSPANN GmbHInventor: Thomas Heubach
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Patent number: 11808335Abstract: A hydrodynamic torque converter is provided with a converter housing and a converter torus with a pump impeller, a turbine wheel which is driven hydrodynamically by the pump impeller by a converter fluid. In order to bridge the hydrodynamic drive, a converter lock-up clutch which is connected between the pump impeller and the turbine wheel by pressure loading of the converter fluid is arranged radially between an outer circumference of the converter housing and the converter torus. In order to provide the converter lock-up clutch with an increased transmission capacity, the turbine wheel is assigned at least one friction disc which can be prestressed axially between a pressure-loaded annular piston, which is hooked in an axially movable manner into the converter housing, and a mating friction surface of a converter housing section radially outside the converter torus.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: Toros Güllük
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Patent number: 11808347Abstract: An automatic park lock for an off road or recreational utility vehicle includes a shift interlock solenoid with a spring biased plunger engaging and locking an operator shift lever in the park position. A cam surface on the operator shift lever slopes between a first end and a second end, and has a groove to lock the plunger to the park position. A controller energizes the shift interlock solenoid to retract the plunger when a plurality of operating parameters are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Stephan R. Hayden, Donald W. Ertmer, Nathan L. Yolitz
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Patent number: 11807099Abstract: A rotor carrier for a rotor of an electric machine and to a hybrid module with such a rotor carrier. The rotor carrier includes a pot-shaped base body. The base body overlaps only a portion of the axial extension of the rotor, in that the rotor carrier comprises a second supporting body that has elements on an outer circumferential surface for a positive engagement connection and/or frictional engagement connection between supporting body and rotor, in that the supporting body has a radially extending flange, and in that the bottom of the base body and the flange of the supporting body are connected to one another.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Wolfgang Großpietsch, Angelika Ebert, Monika Rößner, Christoph Margraf, Thomas Bauer
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Patent number: 11802610Abstract: Disclosed are a continuously variable transmission including a plurality of input links integrated into one input link, a plurality of coupler links integrated into one coupler disk, and at least four even-numbered output gears circumscribed about at least four even-numbered output links via a clutch, wherein, even if two output gears of the at least four even-numbered output gears are put into a slip state by the clutch, the other two output gears rotate in a direction of forcibly transmitting power.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignees: ESTBIKE CO., LTD.Inventors: Young Chul Shin, In Kyung Kang
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Patent number: 11796013Abstract: A monostable electromagnetic clutch is provided having a movable assembly and an electromagnetic assembly. The movable assembly is provided thereon with a return springs and can pass through the electromagnetic assembly. The electromagnetic assembly generates electromagnetic force when it is energized, and under a driving action of the electromagnetic force and an spring force of the return springs, the movable assembly can reciprocate in the electromagnetic assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Jing-Jin Electric Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yang Cao, Ping Yu, Jianwen Li, Guoshan Liu
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Patent number: 11796017Abstract: A method for operating a hydraulic actuator for a prime mover or a drive device of a vehicle includes determining that the hydraulic actuator is to be actuated via an actuating system and detecting an operating variable influenced by a filling state of the hydraulic actuator indicative of pressure conditions in the hydraulic actuator, with the operating variable being separate from actuator operating variables of the hydraulic actuator and the actuating system. The method further includes pressurizing the actuator during a fast fill phase to one or more pressures over a fast fill time period in response to determining that the hydraulic actuator is to be actuated. The fast fill time period and the one or more pressures are adjusted as a function of the operating variable under certain operating conditions. Additionally, the method includes pressurizing the actuator during a pressure build-up phase after the fast fill phase.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Markus Terwart, Lukas Spath, Andreas Fischer
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Patent number: 11796032Abstract: A torsional vibration damper and a hydrodynamic torque converter comprising same is disclosed. The torsional vibration damper has an input part which can be rotated about a rotational axis (d) and an output part. An intermediate flange is arranged against a respective spring device, which acts in a circumferential direction, between the input part and the output part, and the intermediate flange is made of two axially spaced interconnected lateral parts, axially between which the input part and the output part are received. In order to improve the loading of the spring devices, the loading of the spring devices by means of the intermediate flange is at least partly provided by loading means arranged between the lateral parts.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventor: David Schnädelbach
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Patent number: 11796016Abstract: A shaft lock includes a radially inner rotor part that is coaxially connected to a shaft having a rotational axis and a fixed stator part that at least partially encloses the rotor part. In a locking state and in a holding state, an interference-fit connection between the rotor part and the stator part is produced by a plurality of locking bodies, and the interference-fit connection is cancelable by a transition into an unlocking state. To produce the interference-fit connection, each of the plurality of locking bodies are partially engageable in an interference-fit manner in a respective receiving geometry of the rotor part by rotation of a substantially hollow-cylindrical locking ring that coaxially encloses the stator part in a partially radially outer-lying manner.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SKF MARINE GMBHInventor: Dirk Bargende
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Patent number: 11788588Abstract: Valve systems include a valve and a valve actuator assembly for operating the valve. The valve actuator assembly includes a drive device and a hand wheel assembly that can independently be used to cause movement of the valve. An anti-back drive component is coupled to the output of the drive device, the hand wheel assembly, or both. The anti-back drive component includes a locking device and an unlocking device, each with respective protrusions that cooperate to define cavities that house pairs of springs and rollers. The shape and orientation of the cavities allows for rotation of the rollers in the cavities and the anti-back drive component by rotating the unlocking device, while preventing rotation of the rollers and the anti-back drive component via rotation of the locking device to selectively prevent rotation of the output of the drive device, hand wheel assembly, or both.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: TRI-TEC MANUFACTURING, LLCInventors: Michael Douglas Williams, Mark Scott Soldan, Donald Hoban, Matt Todd Buss