Abstract: The present invention relates to a screw-in element having a changing thread profile, in particular an artificial hip joint socket which may be screwed in, and a method for producing screw-in elements of this type. For the purpose of implementing a specific curve of the thread tooth height along the thread extension, it is suggested that the flank of the thread tooth pointing in the screw-in direction be implemented having a constant angle, and the other flank of the thread tooth be implemented having a changing angle. In addition, it is suggested that a type of staircase function made of ramps and steps be superimposed on the thread course to implement a clearance angle and an exposed position of the thread tooth in this way. The practical implementation of the method requires a CNC machine, preferably a CNC lathe, having a so-called B axis and a specific procedure in regard to the programming.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a self-cutting screw-in element, e.g., an artificial hip joint socket, having a lateral surface which is at least partially curved or buckled in the threaded area, and a thread interrupted by at least one flute having a thread tooth profile tilted in the feed direction, in which the cutting edge formed between flute and thread tooth is displaced on the side of the thread tooth opposite to the feed direction, and/or in which the inclination or twist direction of the flute runs opposite to the twist direction of the thread and the inclination or twist angle of the flute is larger than the pitch angle of the thread. A design of this type is advantageous for specific applications because the forces necessary for screwing-in may thus be significantly reduced without disadvantageous effect on the other properties.

Abstract: A process for hobble lathing, and preferred process applications, for the cutting of workpieces with non-circular or discontinuous contours on programmable lathes. The use and combination of a special program e.g. of thread cycles and hobble values for the diameter and/or the longitudinal axis or the pitch, the angle of the spindle, in option of a reciprocal-step technique and interleaved machining sequences opens up virtually infinite possibilities. The preferred applications of the process allow special threads to be cut on screw-in bodies, e.g. screw-in artificial hip joint sockets and bone screws for example with neutral or virtually any angle of pitch or relief of the thread blade as well as e.g. internal and external contours on workpieces for circular wedge connections. A particularly beneficial hip joint socket is presented comprising so-called screw or threaded surfaces.

Abstract: A process for hobble lathing, and preferred process applications, for the cutting of workpieces with non-circular or discontinuous contours on programmable lathes. The use and combination of a special program e.g. of thread cycles and hobble values for the diameter and/or the longitudinal axis or the pitch, the angle of the spindle, in option of a reciprocal-step technique and interleaved machining sequences opens up virtually infinite possibilities. The preferred applications of the process allow special threads to be cut on screw-in bodies, e.g. screw-in artificial hip joint sockets and bone screws for example with neutral or virtually any angle of pitch or relief of the thread blade as well as e.g. internal and external contours on workpieces for circular wedge connections. A particularly beneficial hip joint socket is presented comprising so-called screw or threaded surfaces.

Abstract: A process for hobble lathing, and preferred process applications, for the cutting of workpieces with non-circular or discontinuous contours on programmable lathes. The use and combination of a special program e.g. of thread cycles and hobble values for the diameter and/or the longitudinal axis or the pitch, the angle of the spindle, in option of a reciprocal-step technique and interleaved machining sequences opens up virtually infinite possibilities. The preferred applications of the process allow special threads to be cut on screw-in bodies, e.g. screw-in artificial hip joint sockets and bone screws for example with neutral or virtually any angle of pitch or relief of the thread blade as well as e.g. internal and external contours on workpieces for circular wedge connections. A particularly beneficial hip joint socket is presented comprising so-called screw or threaded surfaces.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a special device for the production, preferably by machining, of workpieces with noncircular outer and inner contours such as squares, hexagons, ellipses, polygons and the like, or eccentric circular bores and/or journals. The work tool housing is provided with an uneven transmitting gear unit, with which, by an appropriate change of the path speed of the work tool and its cutting edge, the necessary movement relative to the workpiece can be generated. A gear unit of this type is relatively easily realizable, for example by employment of two unround complementary gearwheels. The unround complimentary gearwheels are constructed or designed as so-called double screw drive gears. Double screw gears with unround wheels have hitherto not been known. They have the advantage that they, with respect to the rolling path, make possible the realization of curves with substantial discontinuities.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a special process and devices for the production preferably by machining of workpieces with non-circular outer and inner contours such as squares, hexagons, ellipses, polygons and the like, or eccentric circular bores and/or tappets. In the claimed process, the workpiece is rotated at constant angular velocity while a tool (e.g. the blade of a lathe tool) set eccentrically in relation to the workpieces if moved without rotating about is own axis at controllable speed in a circular path, workpiece and tool being moved towards one another in cycles with the appropriate advance. This ensures that apart from a small cuttings volume far each advance, very narrow tolerances can be set.

Abstract: The invention concerns a screw-in type artificial hip joint socket with a special thread for implantation in human beings. Hip joint sockets of this type usually have a flat thread with parallel teeth flanks or a triangular thread with a neutral teeth position, the axial pitch being conventionally constant. However, such embodiments are unfavourable because they do not take sufficiently into account the forces which arise during implantation as well as during the intended use, or they cause an unnecessarily extensive bone bed destruction during an eventually required explantation. With the invention a purposefully optimization of the hip joint socket thread is provided, wherein the thread profile, the angular orientation of the thread teeth and a non-linear thread pitch is utilized, in order to ensure an effortless screwing, a stable seat in the long term and an unproblematic explantation (FIG. 3).

Abstract: The invention concerns a linear actuator for the conversion of a rapid rotational movement with low moment into a slow linear movement with high force. The concept of a special roller drive of planet gears and two ring wheels makes possible purely theoretically infinitely large reductions with relatively high efficiency. As preferred application of this linear actuator device there is suggested an integration in an electric driven brake system for example for automobiles. The inventive linear actuator is realizable with comparatively small constructional expenditure and in very small construction sizes.