Patents by Inventor Thomas L. Behnke

Thomas L. Behnke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of manufacturing an eccentric shaft
    Patent number: 4599922
    Abstract: An elongate eccentric shaft formed from a cylindrical billet has cylindrical bearing sections at its opposite ends, a cylindrical center section, and cylindrical coupling sections outboard of and eccentric to the center section. The cylindrical sections are of uniform diameter, the bearing and center sections have coincident longitudinal axes, and the longitudinal axes of the coupling sections are coincident with one another and offset from the axes of the other sections. Adjacent each coupling section is an elliptical section having a major axis the length of which is no greater than the diameter of the cylindrical sections and a minor axis the length of which is less than that of the major axis by an amount corresponding to one-half the offset of the aforementioned longitudinal axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1986
    Assignee: Lukens General Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas L. Behnke
  • Eccentric shaft and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 4460346
    Abstract: An elongate eccentric shaft formed from a cylindrical billet has cylindrical bearing sections at its opposite ends, a cylindrical center section, and cylindrical coupling sections outboard of and eccentric to the center section. The cylindrical sections are of uniform diameter, the bearing and center sections have coincident longitudinal axes, and the longitudinal axes of the coupling sections are coincident with one another and offset from the axes of the other sections. Adjacent each coupling section is an elliptical section having a major axis the length of which is no greater than the diameter of the cylindrical sections and a minor axis the length of which is less than that of the major axis by an amount corresponding to one-half the offset of the aforementioned longitudinal axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 17, 1984
    Assignee: General Steel Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas L. Behnke