Brake And Gearing At Axle End Patents (Class 192/221.1)
  • Patent number: 10259317
    Abstract: An in-wheel working device may include a motor part configured to generate power, a first speed reduction part including a sun gear connected to a driving shaft of the motor part and configured to rotate with the driving shaft, a planetary gear configured to rotate along a circumference of the sun gear, and a carrier configured to rotate with the planetary gear, a second speed reduction part installed in series to the first speed reduction part, and configured to perform speed reduction through a gear ratio while rotating with the carrier axially connected to the second speed reduction part, a hub part spline-coupled to the second speed reduction part, and configured to rotate with the second speed reduction part, and a wheel member connected to the hub part, and configured to rotate with the hub part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: KyeongHo Shin
  • Patent number: 8783434
    Abstract: A hydraulic piston is housed in a cylinder chamber that is provided in a cover plate of a transmission case and that opens toward a pressing arm so that the hydraulic piston is capable of rotating the pressing arm by abutting against a rearward arm portion of the pressing arm, and a hydraulic pipe supplying pressure oil to the cylinder chamber is connected to the cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Nichiyu Forklift Co., Ltd., Okamura Corporation
    Inventors: Fujito Aikawa, Akihiko Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 8662277
    Abstract: A brake mechanism includes a fixed housing in which the brake mechanism substantially resides. A plate closes the fixed housing and includes a cylindrical portion extending partially within the fixed housing. A parking piston and a service piston are employed to act against a brake stack which includes a plurality of stators and rotors interleaved together. A wear adjuster is press-fit onto the cylindrical portion of the plate and engages the service piston during actuation of the service piston and compensates for wear of friction material from the rotors or stators such that the distance between the service piston and the brake stack is substantially the same during the life of the brake mechanism. If neither the service piston nor the parking piston engage the brake stack prohibiting rotation of the input drive, the planetary gear set drives the rotating output drive with respect to the fixed housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Fairfield Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin Warren Schoon
  • Patent number: 8340880
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling torque and/or speed of wheels of a vehicle. The system and method receive one or more vehicle operating signals. Based on the received vehicle operating signals, the system and method determine whether one or more of a vehicle's wheels require torque or speed modification. If it is determined that one or more of the vehicle's wheels requires torque or speed modification, the system and method modifies the torque to drive, or speed of, a wheel or wheels based on the received vehicle operating signals. The modification is automatic and/or independent for each wheel. Some or all wheels can be coupled to respective wheel hubs having incorporated therewith an engagement/disengagement mechanism. The system and method can control the engagement/disengagement mechanism to modify the torque at, or speed of, the associated wheel based on the received vehicle operating signal or signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: William C. Craig, Richard S. Stevens
  • Patent number: 7530433
    Abstract: An annular member (20?) intended for a braking device (16?) in the form of a multiple disk brake. The annular member includes a first portion which forms a part of a brake housing of the braking device and a second portion which forms a pressure surface for the disks in the braking device. The invention also relates to an arrangement for driving a wheel of a vehicle including the annular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Volvo Construction Equipment Components AB
    Inventors: Timothy Kingston, Mats â„«kerblom
  • Patent number: 7090608
    Abstract: A wheel transmission for a heavy construction vehicle, which can be applied to specially-equipped vehicles as well as heavy construction vehicles such as a forklift truck and a mechanical shovel. The wheel transmission (200) is intended to drive a pair of right and left wheels independently, and includes a planetary gear assembly (210), a change clutch part (230), a one-way clutch part (300), and a brake part (270) housed in an axle hub at which opposite ends of a drive axle shaft are located, turning force from an engine of a heavy construction vehicle being transferred to the drive axle shaft through a torque converter, a driving shaft, a final reduction gear and a differential gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Wooyoung Hydraulics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Seung-Woo Han
  • Patent number: 7044883
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for driving a wheel of a vehicle. The device includes a hub for carrying the wheel in a rotationally fixed manner, a planetary gear connected between a driving axle and the hub, which planetary gear includes a planet carrier which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the hub, and an arrangement for fixing the hub and the planet carrier in the intended position relative to one another in the axial direction. Both the hub and the planet carrier include a hole which extends in the axial direction. At least one of the holes forms at least a part of a continuous opening through the hub and the planet carrier in the axial direction. The fixing arrangement comprises an elongate element arranged in the continuous opening and an arrangement for fixing the hub and the planet carrier relative to one another in the axial direction via the elongate element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Volvo Construction Equipment Holding Sweden AB
    Inventors: Thomas Andersson, Lars Larsson, Mats Akerblom
  • Patent number: 6904987
    Abstract: An electric drive for an electric or hybrid vehicle has an electric motor, with which a vehicle wheel is drivable, for instance via an articulated shaft. The the electric drive is embodied additionally with a mechanically actuatable wheel brake, which is actuatable by the electric motor selectively for driving the vehicle wheel via a shiftable distributor gear. The invention has the advantage that the electric motor provided for driving the vehicle wheel is simultaneously used for actuating the wheel brake (24) as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hardy Haas, Ian Faye, Herbert Vollert
  • Patent number: 6582339
    Abstract: In order to achieve a repair-friendly and maintenance-friendly arrangement with improved conduction away of heat to the outside in a wheel drive, in particular for mobile machines, having a carrying axle (2) which is mounted fixed in terms of rotation to the vehicle frame (1) and which is rotatably connected as a wheel hub to a ring gear (4) via a roller bearing arrangement (3a, 3b), the ring gear (4) being driven via at least one planetary gear mechanism (24) with drive-end sun wheel (16), and an integrated dynamic service brake (24) being provided between the ring gear (4) and the carrying axle (2), it is proposed that the service brake (24) be arranged within the ring gear (4) at the end directly behind a detachable gear mechanism cover (11) and at the outer radius on a hollow-cylinder-shaped brake carrier (10) which forms the end piece of the carrying axle (2) which is fixed in terms of rotation, and that the planetary gear mechanism (34) be arranged behind the service brake (24), viewed from the end, wit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Lohmann & Stolterfoht GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Damm, Wolfgang Dornhege
  • Patent number: 6443290
    Abstract: A hydrostatic hub drive with an integrated axial piston machine utilizing a swashplate design, in particular a wheel hub drive, has a stationary hub carrier in the form of a machine housing of the axial piston machine, a hub formed by a machine shaft and mounted inside the hub carrier so that it can rotate, and a hub bearing in the form of a shaft bearing. The axial piston machine is configured as an individual drive unit and has an individual cylinder block on the machine shaft that extends out of the machine housing through an outlet opening. A swashplate is located in an area near the outlet opening and a control base receptacle is located in an area farther from the outlet opening. The axial piston motor is preferably a fixed displacement motor and has a swashplate that is shaped into the machine housing, which swashplate is oriented so that the radial components of the propulsion forces, under operating conditions, are effectively directed opposite to the external forces acting on the hub bearing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Franz Forster
  • Patent number: 6290048
    Abstract: A wheel hub with integral planetary gear mechanism and multidisk brake, in which the outer plates of the brake are actively connected directly to the wheel hub and the inner plates are connected to the axle body via a brake carrier, is to be of simple design and easy to install and to be of small structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: O&K Orenstein & Koppel Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dietmar Kohlmeier, Andreas Meise, Friedrich Wolff
  • Patent number: RE41285
    Abstract: A planetary transmission for a vehicle, comprising a planet carrier, on which at least one planet wheel is mounted, a hub arranged for a vehicle wheel and connected to the planet carrier, and a static housing which is connected to the vehicle and in which the hub is mounted. A friction brake is arranged at an outer periphery of the planet carrier and is intended to brake the rotation of the planet carrier in relation to the static housing. The hub and the planet carrier are interconnected by a splined connection. According to an embodiment, an outer gear ring is arranged so as to interact with the at least one planet wheel, which outer gear ring is connected to the static housing by a second splined connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Volvo Construction Equipment AB
    Inventor: Tim Kingston