Abstract: Composed element including at least two panel-shaped elements, which each have an edge zone in which coupling means are present in the form of a profiled part respectively extending in the longitudinal direction of the respective edge zone, as well as each including an end face extending transversely to the respective edge zone, wherein said profiled parts allow coupling the panel-shaped elements together in an interlocking manner, wherein at least one of the panel-shaped elements includes an arrangement which hides from view at least a portion of the profiled part formed at the pertaining edge zone at the location of the end face.

Abstract: A floating fastener mounting structure includes a metal panel member defining a convex wall portion and a mounting through hole at the convex wall portion, a mounting socket including an axially extended center hole, an annular step and a stop flange extended around the periphery at different elevations and an annular locating groove defined between the annular step and the stop flange. The mounting socket is riveted to the metal panel member to force the annular locating groove into engagement with the convex wall portion, enabling the convex wall portion to be tightly stopped between the annular step and the stop flange. The annular step defines a downwardly and outwardly sloping top surface for guiding the convex wall portion of the metal panel member into engagement with the annular locating groove of the mounting socket in the rivet operation.

Abstract: An extendable pole mechanism may be used with a pair of poles that are longitudinally movable to adjust the overall length of both poles. The mechanism may include a housing that receives the poles and a trigger that is moveable with respect to the housing to adjust the mechanism between a use condition, where the poles are held in a longitudinally relative fixed position, and an adjustment condition, where the poles are longitudinally moveable with respect to each other.

Abstract: An apparatus for joining a first member and a second member includes fasteners for joining the first member and the second member, a shear transfer layer for transferring shear loads between the first member and the second member separate from the fasteners for joining the first member and the second member. An assembly includes a first member, a second member, and fasteners for joining the first member and the second member. The assembly further includes a shear transfer layer for transferring shear loads between the first member and the second member separate from the fasteners for joining the first member and the second.

Abstract: A clip for attaching a mounting component to a base component, and the clip comprises: a pin including a head portion for engaging the mounting component, and a shaft portion which is contiguous to the head portion, and a lock pins which extends downward from the head portion; and a grommet including a flange and a shank contiguous to the flange and partially defining an aperture operable to receive the pin in one of a temporary fitted position and a permanent fitted position; and wherein the temporary fitted position, the lock pin abuts a recessed portion in the grommet for maintaining the temporary fitted position, and wherein in the permanent fitted position, the lock pin collapses on the inside, and is contained on the inside of the shank portion of the grommet.

Abstract: Fasteners are generally described. In some examples, a fastener may include at least one latch. The at least one latch may include an arcuate portion and a linking portion. The arcuate portion may be connected by the linking portion to a pivot point. The pivot point may be located with respect to the first member so that, as the linking portion pivots around the pivot point, the arcuate portion moves along an arcuate path between a non-fastening position and a fastening position. In the fastening position the arcuate portion may extend beyond the first member to engage with the second member to secure it to the first member.

Abstract: An air transport duct, and sections of such duct, capable of connection to a support by support members and attachment members formed from two mating members. Each section has two terminal open ends and a flange disposed around each open end for connection to a flange of an adjacent section. Each flange includes two relatively transverse receiving channels adjacent to a corner of the flange, and an insertable corner member positioned into the channels. The corner member is attached to the flange by a load-bearing connection, and can support a predetermined portion of a weight of the duct by connection of the corner member to a first mating member connectable to a second mating member secured to a corresponding support member. A method of connecting a duct to a support by forming a load-bearing connection between a corner member and a flange.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reusable fastener designed to secure material such as promotional posters, displays, and brackets to slatwall or peg board or other backing in a retail environment. The fastener has a head designed to receive display material without removal, and includes brackets and other items as part thereof.

Abstract: A wear plate assembly for mounting on a substrate to be protected includes a support plate having a first surface and an opposing second surface and a wear plate having a wear surface and an opposing attachment surface affixed to the first surface of the support plate, wherein the wear surface is a continuous, uninterrupted surface. The assembly also includes a shaft having a base portion attached to the second surface of the support plate, a head portion distal from the base portion and a groove formed between the base portion and the head portion. The assembly also includes a retainer spring adapted to be received in the groove on the shaft, wherein the retainer spring includes a plurality of compressible tabs configured for cooperating with the substrate to releasably attach the wear plate assembly to the substrate.

Abstract: A method for integrally forming a drilling tip on a wire nail, in particular in order to produce a screw with the aid of a pair of pinching jaws, provides for the bulge formed by the displaced material during the integral forming of the drilling tip to be sheared off the drilling tip along the entire length of the cutting edges of the drilling tip produced and to be left connected to the drilling tip only along the longitudinal side edges of the latter by a predetermined breaking point.

Abstract: A nut in the form of a mounting element made in a single piece and having a first branch and a second branch connected by a web, the first branch and the second branch each including a proximal portion connected to the web and a distal portion extending the proximal portion. The nut includes a screwing element supported by the distal portion of the first branch, with a bore extending inside the screwing element along a screwing axis and emerging inside the mounting element through the distal portion of the first branch. The second branch includes an opening passing through the distal portion of the second branch opposite the bore. The proximal portion of at least one of the first and second branches is deformable so as to allow the distal portions of the first branch and the second branch to be positioned parallel to one another with different spacings.

Abstract: A method of attaching a nut to a panel includes forming an aperture in a sheet metal panel by lancing a tab from the sheet metal panel. A root of the tab remains attached to the panel. The method further includes pressing a self-attaching nut into the aperture to attach the self-attaching nut to the sheet metal panel. The tab is bent to substantially prevent material from entering a bore of the nut from a blind side of the panel.

Abstract: A method of tensioning a park brake system of a vehicle includes providing an adjustment mechanism having a nut in threaded engagement with a rod that defines a signal to noise ratio therebetween. The nut is advanced on the rod to remove slack until torque applied to the nut indicates that the park cables include a tension equal to an offset tension level. The nut is then retracted on the rod to introduce slack into the park cables and reduce the tension in the park cables to a target slack tension level. A signal to noise ratio between the nut and the rod is improved so that the cable tension may be predicted by the torque required to turn the nut on the rod, thereby allowing a torque indicating tool to measure the tension in the park cables my measuring the torque required to turn the nut on the rod.

Abstract: A fall-off preventing structure of a propeller shaft does not allow a companion flange to be completely pulled off and dropped from a spline shaft when a nut loosens and comes off. In the propeller shaft, a round shaft part is provided on a front end of the spline shaft, a length of a threaded part of the spline shaft front end side on which the nut is screwed and the round shaft part is set longer than a length from a front end portion of the companion flange to a seat surface of the nut, and a total length of the length of the threaded part and the round shaft part and a length from the front end portion of the companion flange to the seat surface of the nut is set longer than the tolerable slide amount.

Abstract: Bearing assemblies and apparatuses are disclosed. Such bearing assemblies may be employed in bearing apparatuses for use in downhole motors of a subterranean drilling system or other mechanical systems. In an embodiment of the present invention, a bearing apparatus includes a first bearing assembly including a first substantially continuous polycrystalline diamond bearing surface defining an annular surface, and a second bearing assembly including a second substantially continuous polycrystalline diamond bearing surface defining an annular surface. The second substantially continuous polycrystalline diamond bearing surface generally opposes the first substantially continuous polycrystalline diamond bearing surface.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a device for rotatably coupling two coaxial connecting elements, at least one of which is configured as a circular ring, and each of which has at least one annular surface that faces the corresponding surface of the respective other connecting element but is spaced apart therefrom by a gap, such that they are rotatable in opposite directions about an imaginary axis (axis of rotation) at the center of the annular connecting element and approximately perpendicular to the ring plane, wherein disposed in the gap between the two connecting elements is a rotary joint, configured as a single- or multi-row rolling bearing, for absorbing axial and radial loads and tilting moments, wherein at least one annular connecting element comprises, on its surface facing the gap, a continuously circumferential, planar shoulder having an oblong or elongated cross section and extending away from the gap to a freely terminating, peripheral circumferential edge.

Abstract: The bearing unit includes a bearing 1 and bearing unit forming component parts such as, for example, a housing 11 in which the bearing is incorporated, a shaft 19, covers 3 and 4 and a sealing member 10 for the housing. In this bearing unit, at least one of the bearing unit forming component parts is fitted with an IC tag 15 and an IC tag 16 is also fitted to the bearing 1. The IC tag 16 fitted to the bearing unit forming component part is of a read/write type whereas the IC tag 16 fitted to the bearing 1 is of a read-only type. The read-only IC tag 16 fitted to the bearing 1 is recorded with information necessary to correlate the bearing unit forming component part, to which the IC tag 15 is fitted, with the bearing unit 1.

Abstract: On example of a rotorcraft bearing system includes a bearing housing attached to an elastomeric bearing on a longitudinal axis, an end surface of the elastomeric bearing attached to an end surface of the bearing housing. The rotorcraft bearing system also includes a sliding contact bearing having an end surface. The rotorcraft bearing system also includes an intermediate sliding contact bearing material layer. Under load on the longitudinal axis, the end surface of the sliding contact bearing is configured to contact an opposing end surface of the bearing housing through the intermediate sliding contact bearing material layer to form a rotational slip joint.

Abstract: A seal-bearing assembly to be inserted into the seal cavity of a mechanical device to provide a seal and a bearing surface to eliminate whip in a rotating and/or reciprocal cylindrical member. The seal-bearing assembly is particularly well suited for use in a reciprocal pump or a piston-driven valve, or between the steam lance and fixed steam tube in a sootblower. The assembly includes at least a pair of outer substantially rigid cylindrical bearings having an inner bore to be positioned over the cylindrical member and at least one complimentary flexible textile packing ring substantially comprised of carbon disposed between the two outer bearing members. In assemblies including an additional bearing, the additional bearing is surrounded by at least one flexible packing on each side. The inner bore of the bearing members provides a bearing surface for eliminating whip of the moving elements in the device.

Abstract: A predetermined timing is a timing at which the sampling timing is in a vicinity of a maximum peak position of the carrier wave signal and a timing at which the sampling timing is in a vicinity of a minimum peak position. The demodulation arithmetic section outputs, as the demodulation calculated result, a value d3 calculated with d3=(d1?d2)/2 when a data value of the digital signal sampled in the vicinity of the maximum peak position is denoted by d1 and a data value of the digital signal sampled in the vicinity of the minimum peak position is denoted by d2.

Abstract: A roller bearing cage includes the following features: The cage comprises an annular circumferential element, from which bridge elements branch off, roller bodies of the roller bearing being disposable between the bridge elements, the circumferential element comprises a plurality of uniform section elements, and the initially-loose section elements and bridge elements are connected with each other to form the cage.

Abstract: The present invention provides a hard film which has high wear resistance and excellent peeling resistance and can be prevented from peeling off a base material over a long period of time and a hard film formed body on which the hard film is formed. A hard film (8) has a structure composed of a first mixed layer (8a), consisting mainly of Cr and WC, which is formed directly on a raceway surface (2a) of an inner ring (2) (base material) of a rolling bearing, a second mixed layer (8b), consisting mainly of WC and DLC, which is formed on the first mixed layer (8a), and a surface layer (8c), consisting mainly of DLC, which is formed on the second mixed layer (8b). In the first mixed layer (8a), a content rate of the Cr becomes continuously or stepwise lower and that of the DLC becomes continuously or stepwise higher from a side of the base material toward a side of the second mixed layer (8b).

Abstract: A retainer cap for a rolling element shaft assembly includes a yoke, a solid shaft, and a tubular shaft. The retainer cap includes a body having a first end, a second end, an outer surface, and an inner surface defining an internal cavity to receive the tubular shaft, an axial end surface disposed at the first end and defining a first opening to receive the solid shaft, and a second opening defined in the body second end to receive the tubular shaft after insertion through the first opening. The retainer cap further includes a first tab extending from the axial end surface into the internal cavity, and a second tab extending from the axial end surface into the internal cavity.

Abstract: A bearing assembly is provided. The assembly includes a plurality of tapered rollers and a plurality of spherical rolling elements. A first inner ring defines a first inner raceway on which the plurality of tapered rollers run, and a second inner ring defines a second inner raceway on which the plurality of spherical rolling elements run. A unitary outer ring includes a first portion defining a first outer raceway on which the plurality of tapered rollers run, and a second portion defining a second outer raceway on which the plurality of spherical rolling elements run.

Abstract: Provided is a washdown bearing for an actuator, comprising: a housing having an annular wall surface extending in a longitudinal direction; a bore extending through an interior of the housing in the longitudinal direction; a plurality of irrigation channels in the housing extending through the annular wall surface of the housing to the bore that provide a fluid path between the wall surface to the bore; first and second cylindrical plane bearings positioned at ends of the housing, each having a low-friction surface permitting the absence of an externally applied lubricant; and an opening extending along a longitudinal axis through the plane bearings and the housing for receiving a rotatable or translatable shaft element.

Abstract: A bearing assembly having an RFID (radio frequency identification) function, which can implement a communication and has a capability of accomplishing information communication on a non-contact basis. This bearing assembly includes an inlet, including an IC chip and an antenna connected with such IC chip, and a magnetic sheet, both of which are embedded in overlapped relation to each other in a bearing seal for sealing a bearing space.

Abstract: A coupling (30, 49, 61; 40, 60) with a coupling ring (1) on two coupling parts (8, 9), wherein the coupling parts (8, 9) each constitutes a star (2, 3) with star arms (26, 27) and star arm end regions (4, 5) situated thereon, wherein the two stars (2, 3) are arranged opposite and axialy relative to one another with an angular offset, and the star arm end regions (4, 5) are provided with in each case at least one threaded bore (14) for screw connections (20), wherein the coupling ring (1) includes plurality of fastening elements (10, 11).

Abstract: A clutched device that includes a driving member, a driven member and a clutch assembly that is disposed between the driving and driven members. The clutch assembly includes a carrier, a wrap spring and a spacer. The carrier is configured to coupled the wrap spring to one of the driving and driven members to permit the transmission of rotary power there between. The spacer is configured to limit elongation of the wrap spring in an axial direction.

Abstract: A shift device has lever members arranged between a sleeve, a hub, and synchronizer rings to amplify and transmit pressing force of the sleeve to one of the synchronizer ring. The lever members include a top portion and arm portions at the both sides of the top portion. The lever members are provided with a torque receiving surface capable of receiving friction torque from projections of the synchronizer rings on an intermediate portion of each arm portion between the top portion and a second slide surface provided on each end of the arm portions.

Abstract: A first clutch CL1 is disposed between engine Eng and left and right rear wheels RL, RR, and control of disengaging first clutch CL1 is performed by setting line pressure PL as an original pressure and executing F/B control of a piston stroke position. In this FR hybrid vehicle, when disengaging first clutch CL1, line pressure increase control to increase line pressure PL to a value higher than a reference line pressure in advance is started at least before a piston pressure reaches the reference line pressure, and line pressure PL is returned to the reference line pressure when the piston pressure is reduced during this disengagement operation.

Abstract: A drive power transmission system includes-a clutch hub, a clutch drum and a dry clutch. The dry clutch includes-first and second clutch plates, a friction facing and a cover member. The first clutch plate is joined to the clutch hub. The second clutch plate is joined to the clutch drum. The cover member has an external air intake hole and an external air discharge hole. These holes of the cover member are positioned such that, due to rotation of at least one of the clutch hub and the clutch drum, an air flow is generated that draws external air is through the external air intake hole and along the clutch hub to a radially inward location of reduced air pressure, then passes radially outward to a radially outward location of increased air pressure, and then passes along the clutch drum and out the external air discharge hole.

Abstract: A transmission comprising housing and an axially compliant hub having a central plate with an axial opening and an outer circumference. The central plate is attached to the attached to the circumference with at least one strap spring. A method of managing axial stack up in a transmission is also disclosed where the transmission has a plurality of planetary gear sets aligned in series and at least one torque transmitting device. The planetary gear has gear members. The method includes providing a an axially compliant hub having a central plate with an axial opening and an outer circumference, wherein the central plate is attached to the attached to the circumference with at least one strap spring and wherein the outer circumference is connected to the torque transmitting device and wherein the central plate is connected to a gear member of a planetary gear set.

Abstract: An actuator with an indexing guide, first and second indexing rings, an actuator output, a spring and a motor. The indexing guide has a first cam. The first indexing ring is slidably mounted to the indexing guide and includes a second cam. The second indexing ring is slidably and rotatably disposed on the indexing guide and has spline teeth, which engage the first cam, and a third cam that engages the second cam. The spring exerts a force onto the second indexing ring that drives the second indexing ring toward the first indexing ring. The motor is configured to reciprocate the first indexing ring so that cooperation between the second and third cams and between the spline teeth and the first cam causes axial and rotational movement of the second indexing ring about an actuation axis.

Abstract: A vehicle driveline torque managing process provides a motor driven actuator that manages clamping forces exerted on a clutch pack and regulates a coupling of power between a driveshaft and one of the axles of a vehicle, based on clutch positions. The process derives coupling torque values by stepping a motor from a maximum clutch separation position through a series of clutch positions while recording a motor driven commanded torque value at each step, up to a maximum clutch compression position having a maximum commanded motor torque value. Then, each motor driven commanded torque value is converted into respective clutch force values as a function of clutch position, thereby relating each clutch torque to a clutch position based on conversion tables stored in a controller that are associated with physical factors that influence clutch torque for each of the respective clutch actuator positions.

Abstract: A disc brake caliper comprises a caliper main-body. The caliper main-body includes a facing surface and an attachment structure. The facing surface is configured to face a mounting portion of a bicycle frame to which the disc brake caliper is attached. A connecting member is to be attached to the attachment structure. The connecting member is configured to be connected to a fluid hose. The attachment structure is provided on the facing surface.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a disc brake.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an electronic parking brake (EPB) system and a method of controlling the same. The EPB system including an EPB actuator which has a motor and provides disc brakes provided in wheels with parking brake power includes a parking switch configured to be turned on or off by a driver, a current detector configured to detect a motor current flowing through the motor of the EPB actuator, a motor driving unit configured to drive the motor of the EPB actuator, and an electronic control unit which applies a parking brake in which the motor of the EPB actuator is rotated by the motor driving unit in one direction to provide the disc brakes with the parking brake power when the parking switch is turned on, calculates an impedance of the motor when a motor current value detected by the current detector is higher than a preset value while applying the parking brake, and determines whether a motor stuck failure occurs based on the calculated impedance of the motor.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic disc brake. The electronic disc brake includes a caliper housing at which a piston is installed, a carrier coupled with the caliper housing, a pair of pad plates installed at the carrier to be slidable toward a disc, an adjuster to prevent the pad plates from moving away from the disc and maintain the pad plates at a certain distance from the disc, a push rod screw-coupled to the adjuster, a spindle unit coupled to the push rod and installed at a cylinder of the caliper housing, a spring case forming an accommodation space between the cylinder and the push rod, a low-pressure spring and a high-pressure spring arranged in parallel in the spring case, and a support plate slidably installed in the cylinder so that a gap is formed between the low-pressure spring and the high-pressure spring in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A vibration isolation system, including a housing and a first isolation member which further includes a receptacle to receive an outer body of a motor, a first plurality of compliant arms, and a second plurality of compliant arms. Each compliant arm of the first isolation member has a first end and a second end. The first end of each of the compliant arms is coupled to the receptacle, and the second end of each of the compliant arms is coupled to the housing.

Abstract: A piston rod housing assembly for a gas spring includes a piston rod housing having an interior end, an exterior end axially spaced from the interior end, and an overtravel pressure relief passage extending axially through the piston rod housing and intersecting the exterior end. The assembly also includes an overtravel pressure relief member carried in the overtravel pressure relief passage and having an exterior end that projects axially beyond the piston rod housing.

Abstract: Provided is a continuous damping control shock absorber of a dual solenoid valve structure. The continuous damping control shock absorber of the dual solenoid valve structure includes a rebound solenoid valve and a compression solenoid valve. In the continuous damping control shock absorber, a separator tube for interworking prevention is installed to form a connection chamber at a position where the rebound separator tube and the compression separator tube are connected, thereby preventing interworking of the rebound solenoid valve and the compression solenoid valve 40. A communication hole is formed in the compression separator tube to communicate with the connection chamber.

Abstract: A damping valve includes a valve disk, a retainer, an inner peripheral side flow passage configured to include a valve disk through hole formed in an inner peripheral side of the valve disk and a retainer through hole formed in the retainer and allowing communication between one and other chambers, an outer peripheral side flow passage formed in an outer peripheral side of the valve disk and allowing communication between the one and the other chambers, and a leaf valve in the form of an annular plate arranged on a side of the retainer opposite to the valve disk and configured to openably close the inner peripheral side flow passage by an outer peripheral part. A flow passage area of the retainer through hole is not smaller than that of the valve disk through hole.

Abstract: A hydraulic damper for an electrical switching apparatus includes a damper enclosure including an inner wall. Also included is a chamber defined by the inner wall, the chamber having a first end, a second end. Further included is a tapered portion of the chamber extending from a tapered portion initial end to a tapered portion terminal end, the tapered portion angled inwardly in a direction from the first end toward the second end of the chamber. Yet further included is a press rod at least partially disposed within the chamber. Also included is a piston having a piston outer surface and disposed within the chamber and having an initial position adjustable in a longitudinal direction of the chamber. Further included is a gap defined by the piston outer surface and the inner wall, wherein adjustment of the piston in the longitudinal direction adjusts the gap.

Abstract: A magnetic viscous fluid damper includes: a cylinder; a piston that is slidably interposed within the cylinder; two fluid chambers that are partitioned by the piston; a hollow rod that is coupled to the piston; an electromagnetic coil that is formed with a magnet wire wound around the piston; two lead wires that extend from both ends of the magnet wire; and a coil assembly in which the electromagnetic coil and the two lead wires are embedded in a mold resin. The piston includes a hollow first core coupled to the rod and a second core that sandwiches the coil assembly with the first core. The two lead wires are passed through the inside of the first core and are electrically continuous with an electric wire passed through the inside of the rod.

Abstract: A reduced noise decoupler has a perimeter with a wavy form. This provides a significant reduction in the initial contact noise. Hydraulic pressure deforms the wavy edges, pressing the wavy edge flat and creating the necessary seal. The edge geometry is created such that pressure will flatten the decoupler perimeter without creasing, ensuring a proper seal without losses. This is achieved by drawing the wavy detail from the perimeter to an interior of the decoupler body in alternating fashion to create a pattern of peaks and troughs bounded by thicker sections, allowing the edges to easily deform without creasing.

Abstract: A relief valve is provided in a central part of an elastic diaphragm. A relief hole is provided in the central part of the relief valve. The relief valve is formed thinner than a main body section on an outer circumferential side thereof. Pressing projections protrude from the relief valve upper surface at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction. The pressing projections contact a projection support section, and a central opening of a central section is located above the relief hole. During excessive deformation on a negative pressure side, the hydraulic liquid of a secondary liquid chamber allows an inner peripheral portion of the relief valve to cause such a preceding deformation as to be lifted up, and the relief valve is rapidly brought out of contact with the seal section, so that the hydraulic liquid leaks rapidly from the central opening to a primary liquid chamber.

Abstract: Provided is a torque rod which has a first annular part of resin adapted to connect to a power unit; a second annular part of resin adapted to connect to a vehicle body; a connecting portion of resin that connects the first and second annular parts while arranging these parts at mutually twisted positions, the connecting portion having, at a surface including an outer cylindrical surface of the first annular part, a recess; a first elastic member provided in an inner cylindrical surface of the first annular part; a first metal collar member of which outer peripheral portion is supported by the first elastic member; a second elastic member provided in an inner cylindrical surface of the second annular part; a second metal collar member of which outer peripheral portion is supported by the second elastic member; a first rib structure formed on the surface including the outer cylindrical surface of the first annular part, the first rib structure having an end portion placed in the recess of the connecting portio

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a vibration-isolating bracket assembly includes an elastic donut including a main aperture, a first bracket including a tongue with at least a portion thereof being received within the main aperture, the tongue including a first through-aperture, a first portion of the elastic donut being received within the first through-aperture, and a second bracket to support the elastic donut.

Abstract: A pendulum damper fixed to a rotating element of an engine comprises a pendulum anchor, a pendulum, and a flexible metal strap attaching the pendulum and pendulum anchor. The strap is wound around the pendulum and pendulum anchor to define a bifilar pendulum. A pendulum clamp is attached to the pendulum such that part of the strap is captured between the pendulum clamp and the pendulum. A pendulum anchor clamp is attached to the pendulum anchor such that a portion of the strap is captured between the pendulum anchor clamp and the pendulum anchor. The pendulum includes a pendulum anchor-facing, flexible strap-supporting cam surface. The pendulum anchor includes a pendulum-facing, flexible strap-supporting cam surface. The surfaces of the pendulum and the pendulum anchor that face each other are mutually conjugant so that at all positions of normal pendulum motion there is only a small running clearance between the two surfaces.

Abstract: A belt clamping system including an open-ended, flat belt with an end portion having a number of teeth projecting therefrom and a clamping plate with matching tooth profile for use in connecting the belt end to another structure. The flat belt may be reinforced with longitudinally extending cords. The toothed profile may be a standard timing belt profile and may be unreinforced. A length of timing belt profile material may be welded to the flat surface of the open-ended flat belt at or near an end. The length of timing belt profile may include at least 7 tooth pitches. The end portion may be clamped between a flat surface of a flat plate and a grooved surface of a grooved plate having grooves complementary to the timing belt teeth.