Joint Also Includes Gear Element On Fixed Portion Engaging Gear Element On Axis Of Pivot And Vertically Offset From Gear Element On Pivotable Portion Patents (Class 180/262)
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Patent number: 12241444Abstract: The power generation device disclosed in the present specification includes a first rotating body, a second rotating body, a differential device, and a generator. The first rotating body and the second rotating body convert energy of the fluid into rotational motion. The differential device is connected to the first rotating body via a first transmission path, and is connected to the second rotating body via a second transmission path, and combines and outputs the rotational motion of the first rotating body and the rotational motion of the second rotating body. The generator converts rotational motion output from the differential device into electrical energy. The first rotating body and the second rotating body are arranged along the first direction. The differential device is disposed offset from the first rotating body and the second rotating body in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yukihiko Ideshio, Naoyuki Miyara, Akira Hanamaki, Kazuhiko Yuasa
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Patent number: 11396212Abstract: A vehicle having an axle assembly and a wheel end support housing. The axle assembly may have a differential assembly. The wheel end support housing may be mounted to a frame rail and may be spaced apart from the axle assembly. A linkage may operatively connect the differential assembly to a wheel end assembly may be mounted to the wheel end support housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLCInventor: Gregory D. Pavuk
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Patent number: 8857554Abstract: A transaxle assembly is provided which is configured to be mounted to a frame of a vehicle. The transaxle assembly includes a transmission that has two separately attached pivotable knuckle assemblies. Each pivotable knuckle assembly can be independently steered and includes an axle driven by the transmission. Each axle drives a wheel of the vehicle. In another configuration, the two pivotable knuckle assemblies are joined by an integrally formed crossmember.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Hydro-Gear Limited PartnershipInventor: Scott W. Keller
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Patent number: 6025783Abstract: A wireless switch detection system (10, 100) includes central transmitter (22, 109) for transmitting a transmitter signal. The system (10, 110) also includes a remote switch (28, 128) spaced apart from the central transmitter (22, 109) and having at least two states. A tag circuit (32, 136) is responsive to and powered by the transmitter signal. The tag circuit (32, 136) detects the state of the remote switch (28, 128) and, in response to the transmitter signal, provides a tag signal indicative of the state of the switch (28, 128). A central receiver (26, 111) receives the tag signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1998Date of Patent: February 15, 2000Assignee: TRW Vehicle Safety Systems Inc.Inventor: Charles E. Steffens, Jr.
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Patent number: 4714130Abstract: The invention provides an axle reduction apparatus for a tractor having a planetary reduction mechanism mounted between an axle and an axle drive shaft. The axle carries an integrated gear consisting of an input gear to receive drive from the drive shaft and a sun gear of the planetary reduction mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1987Date of Patent: December 22, 1987Assignee: Kubota, Ltd.Inventors: Tsugunobu Ujita, Seiichi Takahashi
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Patent number: 4613011Abstract: A vehicle such as an agricultural tractor comprises drivable ground wheels, each front wheel steerable about its king pin's axis. A drive shaft assembly in each king pin comprises two parts axially relatively displaceable so that loads supported by the wheel are transmitted not through the drive shaft assembly but through its housing. The housing is supported on a thrust bearing for steering movement. The thrust bearing has a greater diameter than bearings which support the shaft assembly and comprises a disc surrounded, above and below, by two flat rings, one of which is a two-part ring. In one embodiment, bevel gears under the wheel shaft turn the wheel shaft and the king pin is inclined to the underlying surface and largely contained within the wheel's rim. In the other embodiment the king pin is substantially vertical and received between a pair of wheels, an axle for such wheel pair driven by meshed bevel gears, one on the axle and the other above the axle.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1983Date of Patent: September 23, 1986Inventor: Cornelis van der Lely
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Patent number: 4553624Abstract: A front-wheel driving apparatus for use in tractors and the like has bevel-gear cases one each of which a front-wheel case is fitted for free rotation about a kingpin axis, the front-wheel case being adapted to support a front wheel and accommodate therein a bevel-gear train which is for incorporating the kingpin and the front wheel. Both upper and lower end portions of the kingpin are supported on the bevel-gear case via the respective bearings, and are provided with the respective bevel pinions as mounted thereon so as to exert axial thrusts on the kingpin in directions opposite to each other, and further with the respective thrust retainers as secured thereon for taking up any possible overall balance thrust. A hub base is consolidatedly incorporated in the front-wheel case, and on the hub base there is fitted, for free rotation, through a bevel gear fixture base a bevel gear which meshes with the lower bevel pinion on the kingpin.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1983Date of Patent: November 19, 1985Assignee: Kubota, Ltd.Inventor: Takashi Yoshii