Gearing Patents (Class 310/83)
  • Patent number: 10758679
    Abstract: A cartridge interface assembly drives a stopper in a drug reservoir or a drug delivery device. An anti-rotational guide optionally moves along an axis of a cavity of the reservoir. The anti-rotational guide is optionally slidably anti-rotationally coupled to a housing of the drug delivery device. A telescoping plunger driver may include a proximal shaft and distal shaft that telescope by relative rotation. The distal shaft is optionally slidably anti-rotationally coupled to the anti-rotational guide. The shafts are optionally oriented along said axis. In some embodiments, rotating the proximal shaft with respect to the anti-rotational guide moves the guide along said axis with respect to the housing and moves the distal shaft along the axis with respect to the anti-rotational guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: WEST PHARMA. SERVICES IL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yossi Bar-El, Gil Yigal, Reuven Y. Filman
  • Patent number: 10760664
    Abstract: A circular spline is secured to a housing. An output member is positioned relative to the circular spline, an outer race of a bearing is secured to the housing, and an inner race of the bearing is secured to the output member. A flex spline is positioned relative to the circular spline and secured to the output member. A wave generator is positioned relative to the circular spline, and a support member, by which the wave generator is rotatably supported, is secured to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Yajima
  • Patent number: 10759515
    Abstract: An electromechanical rotary actuator includes a drive member, a motor disposed inside and directly coupled to the drive member, and an output arm. The motor has a rotor configured toward an outside of the motor and directly coupled to an input of the drive member and a stator configured toward an inside of the motor and positioned inside the rotor. The output arm is disposed about the motor and is drivably connected to the drive member. The output arm defines an arcuate opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas R. Van De Veire, Derick S. Balsiger
  • Patent number: 10753427
    Abstract: A rotary actuator has: one motor, two strain wave reduction gears disposed symmetrically on both sides of the motor, and one output shaft. The output rotation of the motor is reduced in speed at the same reduction ratio by the two strain wave reduction gears and is outputted from the output shaft to a load side. The first and second externally toothed gears of the first and second strain wave reduction gears are flexed into ellipsoidal shapes with 90 degrees shifted in phase, and are meshed with first and second internally toothed gears. The angle transmission errors of the first and second strain wave reduction gears transmitted to the output shaft are reduced by cancelling each other out in the output shaft. Reduced-speed output rotation that has the reduced angle transmission errors is outputted to the load side from the output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Daisuke Yaguchi
  • Patent number: 10683940
    Abstract: A valve arrangement for a cooling system of a vehicle includes a housing having at least two cooling-liquid ports, and a valve element, which can be adjusted between an open position in which it opens up a connection between the cooling-liquid ports and a closed position in which it separates the connection between the cooling-liquid ports. A drive is provided for adjusting the valve element between the open position and the closed position, wherein the drive includes an electric motor, which motor drives an actuation element which actuates the valve element, wherein the actuation element moves along a circular path section in the course of an adjustment of the valve element between the open position and the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Peter Quade, Torsten Hauk, Carsten Heldberg, Florian Clausing, Rainer Gramss
  • Patent number: 10673304
    Abstract: A speed reducing device includes a motor and a speed reducing mechanism. The motor includes a stator portion and a rotor portion. The rotor portion includes a first eccentric ring and a second eccentric ring. The speed reducing mechanism is partially accommodated within the rotor portion. The speed reducing mechanism includes a first roller assembly, a second roller assembly, a third roller assembly, a first cycloid disc set and a second cycloid disc set. The first roller assembly includes at least one first roller. The second roller assembly includes at least one second roller. The third roller assembly includes an output shaft and at least one third roller. The first cycloid disc set is mounted around the output shaft and disposed within the first eccentric ring. The second cycloid disc set is mounted around the output shaft and disposed within the second eccentric ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Hsiung Tsai, Chi-Wen Chung, En-Yi Chu
  • Patent number: 10670134
    Abstract: A gear box includes a casing having a partition portion, a supporting shaft fixed to the partition portion, and an output shaft supported so as to be rotatable around the supporting shaft and to which a pinion gear is fixed. The casing has a division wall that is positioned in the ?Z direction with respect to the partition portion and is capable of abutting against the supporting shaft. The division wall constitutes a portion of a motor accommodation portion for accommodating a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SEIKO PRECISION INC.
    Inventors: Koichi Masuzawa, Kenichi Kudo
  • Patent number: 10632627
    Abstract: A servo assembly includes a first speed reducer, a first motor, a first connecting member, a first control circuit board, a second speed reducer, a second motor, a second connecting member and a second control circuit board. The first control circuit board is electrically coupled to the first motor, and the second control circuit board is electrically coupled to the second motor. The output component of the first speed reducer and the first connecting member are coaxial and arranged along a first direction, and the output component of the second speed reducer and the second connecting member are coaxial and arranged along a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. The output shaft of the first motor is connected to the input component of the first speed reducer, and the output shaft of the second motor is connected to the input component of the second speed reducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Youpeng Li, Jing Shi, Hongyu Ding
  • Patent number: 10576644
    Abstract: A motorized joint unit of a mechanism comprises a rotor assembly and a stator assembly operatively assembled and configured for being secured to respective links of the mechanism. The rotor assembly and the stator assembly respectively include a rotor and a stator concurrently operable to cause a rotation of a rotor of the rotor assembly relative to a stator of the stator assembly about a rotational axis, a receiving volume delimited by one of the rotor assembly and stator assembly, the rotational axis passing through the receiving volume. A brake assembly is located at least partially in the receiving volume and comprising a brake plunger having a brake surface for brakingly engaging with a corresponding surface of the rotor assembly, the brake plunger displaceable in translation in the brake assembly, and a solenoid coil actuatable to displace the brake plunger against the rotor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: KINOVA INC.
    Inventors: Philippe Fauteux, Louis Joseph Caron L'ecuyer
  • Patent number: 10581298
    Abstract: A robot arm apparatus includes a base structure, a first arm, a first actuator, and an assisting device. The first arm is pivotable relative to the base structure about a first pivot axis. The first actuator is configured to pivotally actuate the first arm relative to the base structure. The assisting device is configured to apply an assist rotational force to the first arm to assist the first actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Haniya, Hidenori Matsuura, Takashi Sanada, Osamu Harada, Shingo Tsutsumi, Hiroshi Saito, Daisuke Miyazaki, Ken Nakamura, Hirotaka Morita, Tomoharu Gyotoku, Kanji Takanishi, Takao Sumi, Shoji Kurihara
  • Patent number: 10518762
    Abstract: An electric booster may include: a motor part configured to be driven by power applied thereto; a body part mounted and fixed onto the motor part; a cylinder part coupled to the body part; a screw part connected to the motor part and rotated; a nut part embedded in the body part, and screwed to the screw part so as to linearly move; a first piston part constraining an end of the screw part, and moved to the cylinder part while being pressed by the nut part; a first elastic part supporting the first piston part; a second piston part supported by the first elastic part; and a second elastic part supporting the second piston part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jong Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 10500734
    Abstract: A servo includes a casing, a motor assembly arranged within the casing and including a hollow output shaft, a harmonic drive including a flex spline, a wave generator arranged and a circular spline that comprises, a first bearing to rotatably connect the flex spline to the circular spline so as to enable one of the flex spline and the circular spline to serve as an output member, and enable the other one to serve as a fixed member, a post fixed to the output member and received in the output shaft, a first source member arranged at one end of the post that is away from the output member; and a control circuit board having a first sensing member. The first sensing member and the first source member corporately constitute a rotation sensor to detect rotation of the output member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Youpeng Li, Hongyu Ding, Wenhua Fan, Jianxin Pang
  • Patent number: 10451163
    Abstract: A trim ring gear for use in an integrated drive generator has a ring gear body extending between a first end and a second end. Outer gear teeth are formed on an outer surface, and inner gear teeth are formed on an inner surface. The outer tooth roll angle at A is between 16.0 and 17.5°, at B is between 17.5 and 190°, at C is between 22.0 and 23.5°, and at D is between 23.0 and 24.5°. The inner tooth roll angle at A is between 31.5 and 33.0°, at B is between 30.0 and 31.5°, at C is between 25.5 and 27.0°, and at D is between 24.0 and 25.5°. An integrated drive generator, and a method of replacing the trim ring gear are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Derek R. Hochstetler, Ted A. Martin, Duane C. Johnson, Glenn C. Lemmers, Jessica M. Friedberg
  • Patent number: 10418927
    Abstract: A system comprises an input member, an output member, a magnetic gear connecting the input member to the output member and control means arranged to control the flow of power from the input member to the output member. The magnetic gear comprises a first set of magnetic poles, a second set of magnetic poles, and a set of pole pieces arranged to modulate the magnetic field between the first set of magnetic poles and the second set of magnetic poles. The control means comprises means for reducing the transmission of torque pulsation and/or oscillation from the input member to the output member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Magnomatics Limited
    Inventors: Stuart Calverley, Jeff Birchall
  • Patent number: 10398439
    Abstract: An adapter assembly for operably connecting an end effector to a surgical instrument. The adapter assembly includes a first proximal shaft, a second proximal shaft, a first distal shaft, and a second distal shaft. The first proximal shaft includes a first gear assembly. The second proximal shaft defines a longitudinal axis and includes a second gear assembly. The first distal shaft is disposed along the longitudinal axis and includes a third gear assembly. The first gear assembly is mechanically engaged with the third gear assembly. The second distal shaft includes a fourth gear assembly. The second gear assembly is mechanically engaged with the fourth gear assembly. A distal portion of the second distal shaft is disposed at least partially within an internal cavity of the third gear assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Ramiro Cabrera, Stephen Paul
  • Patent number: 10393199
    Abstract: A pressure generator for a hydraulic power braking system. The pressure generator is designed to have a ball thread drive and a planetary gear, a spindle nut of the ball thread drive forming a planetary carrier for planetary wheels of the planetary gear. A sun wheel is non-rotatably fixed to a hollow shaft of an electric hollow shaft motor and together with the hollow shaft rotatably supported. The electric hollow shaft motor surrounds the ball thread drive and the planetary gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Tandler, Matthias Mayr, Andreas Weh
  • Patent number: 10396626
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a housing, a shaft, which is rotatably supported in the housing, a stator, which is received in the housing, and a rotor, which is received in the housing and interacts with the stator. A planetary gear train, accommodated in the housing, connects the rotor and the shaft with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Stefan Maiwald
  • Patent number: 10348142
    Abstract: A stator of an electric machine has an annular stator body with a multiplicity of winding slots. The winding slots protrude into the stator body in the manner of a pocket from a ring interior. Respective windings are disposed in the winding slots and the slots are sealed toward the ring interior with slot-liner elements. The slot-liner elements of all the winding slots are combined to form a slot-liner cage. The slot-liner cage is formed with circumferential cage rings at the ends of the slot-liner elements. The cage rings have an interruption at a circumferential point. The circumferential point has a self-retaining lock geometry which prevents an autonomous opening of two intermeshing ring ends of the cage rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mike Fippl, Uwe Riemenschneider, Michael Schnier
  • Patent number: 10263481
    Abstract: An electric motor or generator having a stator with stator teeth for mounting electrical coils and a rotor, wherein the stator has a first surface that is substantially perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the rotor and the rotor has a second surface that is formed in substantially the same radial position as the stator's first surface, wherein upon the rotor being pivoted perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the rotor the first surface and the second surface are arranged to prevent the rotor coming into contact with the stator teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: PROTEAN ELECTRIC LIMITED
    Inventor: Gareth Roberts
  • Patent number: 10250008
    Abstract: A discharge excitation gas laser device may include a laser chamber in which a laser gas containing a halogen gas is encapsulated, a pair of discharge electrodes disposed to face each other inside the laser chamber, a fan disposed inside the laser chamber to make the laser gas flow between the pair of discharge electrodes, a motor for rotating the fan, a motor power supply for supplying power to the motor, a magnetic bearing configured to levitate the rotary shaft of the fan magnetically, a displacement sensor for detecting the position of the rotary shaft through a can, and a controller configured to measure the rotational speed of the fan on the basis of a detection signal from the displacement sensor and control the motor power supply in such a manner that the measured rotational speed becomes a target rotational speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Gigaphoton Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiko Kurosu, Fumio Kawamata
  • Patent number: 10149943
    Abstract: A cartridge interface assembly drives a stopper in a drug reservoir or a drug delivery device. An anti-rotational guide optionally moves along an axis of a cavity of the reservoir. The anti-rotational guide is optionally slidably anti-rotationally coupled to a housing of the drug delivery device. A telescoping plunger driver may include a proximal shaft and distal shaft that telescope by relative rotation. The distal shaft is optionally slidably anti-rotationally coupled to the anti-rotational guide. The shafts are optionally oriented along said axis. In some embodiments, rotating the proximal shaft with respect to the anti-rotational guide moves the guide along said axis with respect to the housing and moves the distal shaft along the axis with respect to the anti-rotational guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yossi Bar-El, Gil Yigal, Reuven Y. Filman
  • Patent number: 10149590
    Abstract: A robot cleaner includes a plurality of motors each of which transmits a driving force, a pad assembly which is connected to one of the plurality of motors to receive a rotational force from the motor, to rotate in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction, and thus to clean a floor surface, and a wire which is connected to the pad assembly and another one of the plurality of motors so that the pad assembly is tilted by the driving force of the motor, wherein the robot cleaner moves in a particular direction by a non-uniform frictional force between a bottom surface of the pad assembly and the floor surface. The robot cleaner uses wires to tilt the pad assembly and, thus, it is possible to miniaturize the robot cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Youl Jeong, Sung Jin Park, Heum Yong Park, Dong Hun Lee, Min Jae Kim
  • Patent number: 10150534
    Abstract: A motorized gear reducer is provided with a hollow motor in the housing and including an annular rotor having a through hole, and a shaft passing through the through hole; and a planetary gear train in the through hole and placed on the shaft, the planetary gear train including a sun gear assembly having a first sun gear in the housing, and a second sun gear on the shaft; planet gear assemblies equally spaced apart around the sun gear assembly, each including a first planet gear meshing with the first sun gear, and a second planet gear coaxially disposed with the first planet gear and meshing with the second sun gear; and a ring gear on an inner surface of the rotor. A speed reduction ratio of a first stage and a speed reduction ratio of a second stage are rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: PRODRIVES & MOTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chia-Sheng Liang, Chu-Hsiang Tseng
  • Patent number: 10144137
    Abstract: A movement conversion apparatus has a frame, a plurality of auxiliary moving bodies connected to the frame to allow linear movement, a plurality of actuators configured to move the plurality of auxiliary moving bodies with respect to the frame, a main moving body surrounded by the plurality of auxiliary moving bodies and connected to the plurality of auxiliary moving bodies to have a hollow formed therein, and a rotating body rotatable on the basis of a rotary shaft fixed through the hollow. The plurality of auxiliary moving bodies are selectively moved to adjust a location of the main moving body. The rotating body is inserted into the hollow to rotate by a movement of the main moving body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Keehoon Kim, Donghyun Hwang, Sang Rok Oh
  • Patent number: 10113762
    Abstract: An actuator system having an actuator with a rotatable shaft. The shaft may have a first running time to rotate from a first position to a second position in one direction. The shaft may have a second running time to rotate from a first position to a second position in another direction. The first and second running times may be separately adjustable. A motor may be connected through a gear train to the rotatable shaft. A processor may control a rotation of the motor and thus the running times of the shaft. The running times may be adjusted with signals to the processor from a remote controller connected to the processor via a communications bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Cory Grabinger, Adrienne Thomle, Torrey William McNallan, Daniel Waseen
  • Patent number: 10056811
    Abstract: Inventive embodiments are directed to components, subassemblies, systems, and/or methods for electric traction drives employing a continuously variable transmission (CVT) having a variator provided with a plurality of tilting traction planets and opposing traction rings. In one embodiment, an electric traction drive is provided with an electromotive device configured to transfer power to or from a traction sun of a CVT. In other embodiments, an electric traction drive is provided with an electromotive device that couples to certain components of a CVT such as a traction ring, a carrier assembly, and a main axle. Various inventive shifting assemblies having shift cams and shift cam cages can be used to facilitate adjusting the transmission speed ratio of a CVT. Various related devices include embodiments of, for example, a power input apparatus, a speed ratio shifter, a shift cam actuator, a shift nut, and a carrier assembly configured to support the tilting traction planets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC
    Inventor: Brad P. Pohl
  • Patent number: 10042343
    Abstract: This application discloses a control device for controlling a motor configured to drive an oscillatory cyclo-speed reducer including an oscillatory gear portion formed with at least one hole at an eccentric position. The control device includes an angle acquirer for acquiring input information about an input rotational angle indicating a rotational angle of the motor, an estimator for estimating an angular error between the input rotational angle and an output rotational angle indicating a rotational angle of the oscillatory cyclo-speed reducer based on a quantity of the hole(s) and a corrector for determining a compensation current value in correspondence to the angular error and setting a magnitude of a current to be supplied to the motor by correcting a command current value using the compensation current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Ohishi, Yuki Yokokura, Yosei Hirano, Koji Nakamura, Masataka Sato
  • Patent number: 10011026
    Abstract: A robot includes a joint and a drive mechanism disposed in the joint. A reducer includes an output shaft and a fixed portion. A first seal seals a gap between the output shaft and the fixed portion. A first cover is fixed to the fixed portion and covers an outer surface of the fixed portion. An intermediate portion is fixed to an output-side portion of the output shaft. A second cover is fixed to an output-side portion of the intermediate portion and covers an outer surface and an output-side edge of the first cover. A second seal seals a gap between the first cover and the intermediate portion. A groove extends approximately over a circumference of the outer surface of the first cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Takuya Okada, Yasuyuki Ishibe, Takeyuki Ninomiya, Yoshitaka Fukudome, Kyoko Sotobayashi
  • Patent number: 9991763
    Abstract: A power plant for a small aircraft with a gas turbine engine that drives a number of electric generators, where a gear box transmit power from the engine shaft to the number of generators, the gear box having a single input shaft that drives a number of driven gears with each driven gear having a generator drive shaft that extends out both sides, and an electric generator connected to each side of the drive shaft. A compact arrangement of generators are formed where each generator can be disengaged from the drive shaft to regulate total electrical output or to prevent a damaged generator from causing damage to other parts of the system or aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James P Downs, Robert L Memmen
  • Patent number: 9895148
    Abstract: Motor speed control systems are disclosed that include a motor having an output shaft, a motor speed control system, a sensor to detect the speed of the motor, and a controller to receive a signal from the sensor and to control the speed of the output shaft. A gear reduction assembly is operably coupled to the output shaft and a detectable element located in the gear reduction assembly. The sensor senses the detectable element. The sensor is placed in the radial path of the detectable element. Another system includes a brushless motor having a housing and an output shaft, the brushless motor comprising electromagnetic field coils arrayed radially around a central magnetic shaft, a gear reduction assembly operably coupled to the output shaft, and a sensor placed in proximity to the brushless motor. The sensor communicates with a controller to control the speed of the output shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLC
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jerome R. Morgan, Jason L. Harris
  • Patent number: 9856966
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a drivetrain assembly for a wind turbine. The drivetrain assembly includes a gearbox having a ring gear, an annular torque support, and at least one flexible component configured therebetween. More specifically, the ring gear includes opposing inner and outer circumferential surfaces separated by side circumferential edges. The side circumferential edges include a rotor-side edge and a generator-side edge. The rotor-side edge has a first set of circumferentially-spaced teeth. The torque support has a generator-side surface having a second set of circumferentially-spaced teeth. Thus, the first set of teeth of the ring gear are configured to engage the second set of teeth of the torque support so as to couple the ring gear to the torque support. In addition, the flexible component is configured between the first and second sets of teeth so as to control vibrations in the wind turbine, e.g. transmission of gearbox-generated vibrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Ian David Wilson
  • Patent number: 9812924
    Abstract: In one aspect of the invention, a motor assembly for an electric power steering assembly is provided. The motor assembly includes a motor housing, a stator, and a hollow rotor defining an inner cavity, the rotor configured for rotational movement within the motor housing. The motor assembly further includes a worm shaft having a first end and a second end, and a motor coupling positioned within the inner cavity and coupled to the rotor for rotational movement therewith. The worm shaft first end is coupled to the motor coupling for rotational movement therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: STEERING SOLUTIONS IP HOLDING CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsunori Terauchi
  • Patent number: 9765791
    Abstract: To provide a turbo compressor rotatable at high speed that is capable of being downsized, and of being suppressed in performance deterioration at low speed rotation. A turbo compressor includes a housing, a rotating shaft, a motor, a compressor mechanism, and a support section. The support section includes at least three rollers on the rotating shaft, roller shaft portions on the rollers, and a roller bearing portion for supporting the roller shaft portions. The rollers and the rotating shaft respectively have a drive transmission portion for drive transmission from the rotating shaft to each of the rollers, and the drive transmission portion of the rollers has a diameter larger than a diameter of the drive transmission portion of the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Masanao Kagami, Ryo Umeyama, Ryosuke Fukuyama
  • Patent number: 9759306
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transmission drive assembly (10) having a drive motor (11) the drive shaft (23) of which protrudes with a portion (25) thereof into a transmission housing (12), wherein the drive shaft (23) is arranged on the side facing the transmission housing (12) in a bearing (32) which is held in a form-fit or force-closed manner in a substantially sleeve-shaped holding element (35; 65) which is arranged in a holding fixture (27) of the transmission housing (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gerold Schorpp, Robert Heitz, Peter Steuer, Siegfried Reichmann
  • Patent number: 9716415
    Abstract: A housing for a crankshaft starter generator is designed so as to be divisible and/or a crankshaft starter generator without a housing and with a stator is designed so as to be divisible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS AG
    Inventor: Markus Golka
  • Patent number: 9680347
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor/gear mechanism unit including a housing, an iron-free rotor winding rotatably arranged in the interior of the housing, a collector connected to the rotor winding, a rotor shaft extending through the collector, and a gear mechanism which is connected to the rotor shaft and which has an output shaft. The present invention is so conceived that the gear mechanism is produced from a non-magnetic material and arranged in the interior of the rotor winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: MAXON MOTOR AG
    Inventors: Daniel Sherwin, Albert Hugo Fritschy, Franzxaver Fölmli, Jens Oliver Schulze, Raniero Pittini, Dirk Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 9638307
    Abstract: An electric power steering device includes a worm which is swingably connected to the rotation shaft of an electric motor through a joint. A first end portion and second end portion of the worm are supported by a first bearing and a second bearing, respectively. A pair of elastic members elastically urge the worm to an axial neutral position. An annular leaf spring which is held by a housing urges the second end portion toward a worm wheel through the second bearing. A synthetic resin member having a sliding contact surface which is in contact with the leaf spring is integrally disposed on the second bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arata Kikuchi, Hirotsugu Kusano, Yasutaka Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 9630647
    Abstract: An electric power steering system includes a joint that connects a rotary shaft of an electric motor with a worm shaft of a speed reducer. The joint includes a first rotational element that has a boss into which a first end portion of the worm shaft is press-fitted, and a flange extending radially from the boss. The first bearing is held by a housing and supports the first end portion so that the first end portion is rotatable and movable in an axial direction. A first elastic body, which urges the worm shaft in the axial direction toward the electric motor through the first rotational element, is provided between an inner ring of the first bearing and the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arata Kikuchi, Yoshitomo Nagai
  • Patent number: 9599192
    Abstract: A transmission system includes a first gear which has an outer toothing; a plurality of pinions which mesh with the outer toothing of the first gear, each pinion being connected to an electric machine which is designed as a motor or a generator; a second gear which is coaxially connected to the first gear and which has an outer toothing; a plurality of third gears which mesh with the second gear and which have an outer toothing, each of the third gears being coaxially connected to a fourth gear which has an outer toothing; and a fifth gear which meshes with the fourth gears, which is connected to a drive or output shaft, and which has an outer toothing, with the first gear and the drive or output shaft being coaxially arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Inventor: Manfred Bottcher
  • Patent number: 9570956
    Abstract: A planetary push-pull electric motor comprising a ring stator fixedly mounted on the central axis of the planetary push-pull electric motor; a planetary rotor arranged to be magnetically movable around an inner circumference of the ring stator, the planetary rotor rotatably mounted on an eccentric rotor axis in respect to the central axis of the ring stator; a series of electromagnets radially mounted about the ring stator for generating magnetic fields; and a means for transferring rotation of the eccentric planetary rotor axis to directly power an output shaft, wherein when the series of electromagnets are activated, the planetary rotor is magnetically impelled to pivot and roll from one temporary, moving contact line to an adjacent one, creating a rotary moment upon each of the temporary, moving contact lines, providing a power output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Inventors: Shalom Levin, Asaf Levin
  • Patent number: 9561548
    Abstract: An electric tool including: a motor; a housing including, a motor housing accommodating the motor, and a handle housing having one end connected to the motor housing and another other end configured to be provided with a detachable battery pack; an output part partially accommodated in the motor housing and configured to be driven by the motor; and a control board accommodated in the motor housing and configured to control the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Kishima, Takeshi Takeda
  • Patent number: 9556933
    Abstract: Provided is an eccentric oscillation gear device including: a crank shaft having eccentric portions; oscillation gears having insertion holes into which the eccentric portions are inserted; an outer cylinder; and a carrier. The outer cylinder and the carrier concentrically rotate relative to each other by the oscillation of the oscillation gears due to the rotation of the crank shaft. The eccentric oscillation gear device includes a storage unit which stores at least one type of information out of: information on a parameter that originates from a processing error and influences rotation angle characteristics; information on a parameter that changes depending on temperature and influences rotation angle characteristics; and information on a parameter that influences time-dependent change characteristics and influences rotation angle characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichi Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 9546716
    Abstract: An adjusting drive, in particular for a steering column adjuster or a vehicle seat of a motor vehicle, and a method for producing an adjusting drive, are provided in which an axial play of the output shaft is reliably and permanently compensated. The compensating element for ensuring the axial-play-free arrangement of the output shaft is connected, in its operating position, to the housing by ultrasound welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: C. Rob. Hammerstein GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Arndt, Manfred Strzodka, Tony Philip, Tamas Poczik
  • Patent number: 9528580
    Abstract: A linear actuator includes a housing (100), a base plate (200) disposed in the housing (100), and two actuating mechanisms (310, 320) disposed on the base plate (200) and received in the housing (100). Each actuating mechanism (310/320) comprises a motor (311/321), a transmission assembly (312/322), a screw rod (313/323), and a supporting block (314/324). Two motors (311, 321) and two transmission assemblies (312, 322) are disposed on the base plate (200). Two motors (311, 321) are kinetically connected to two assemblies (312, 322), respectively. One end of the screw rod (313/323) is connected to and rotated by the transmission assemblies (312/322). The other end of the screw rod (313/323) is screwed to the supporting block (314/324). Thus, two supporting blocks (314, 324) are driven to move in the housing (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: TIMOTION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chou-Hsin Wu
  • Patent number: 9525320
    Abstract: An electromechanical device having a mechanical interface structure for connecting to an external rotating element, an electrical machine, and one or more gear stages on a mechanical power transmission path between the mechanical interface structure and a rotor of the electrical machine. The electromechanical device also has bearings for connecting the rotor of the electrical machine rotatably to the structure of the electromechanical device. The bearings carry the axial and radial forces of the rotor, and at least partly the axial and radial forces of the driving shaft of the gear stage, directly connected to the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignees: MOVENTAS GEARS OY, THE SWITCH DRIVE SYSTEMS OY
    Inventors: Tuomas Vuolle-Apiala, Jorma Tirkkonen, Ville Pakarinen, Jari Toikkanen, Olli Liukkonen, Jorma Mustalahti, Ilkka Martikainen
  • Patent number: 9479036
    Abstract: A high torque, low inertia direct drive motor comprises a circular outer stator 21 and a circular inner stator 25 and a ring of magnets 23a, 23b, 23c. The ring of magnets 23a, 23b, 23c is held by a support structure 31, said ring of magnets 23a, 23b, 23c positioned between the circular outer stator 21 and the circular inner stator 25. The circular outer stator 21 and ring of magnets and circular inner stator and ring of magnets are separated by an air gap. The circular outer stator 21 and circular inner stator 25 each have a plurality of teeth with coils wound around the teeth. The teeth of the circular inner stator 44a, 44b, 44c are aligned in the same radial direction as the teeth of the circular outer stator 46a, 46b, 46c.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: AKRIBIS SYSTEMS PTE LTD
    Inventors: Howe Yuen Lim, Chai Meng Goh
  • Patent number: 9333843
    Abstract: A drive device for an electric vehicle in which, by improving a supporting structure of an input shaft of a speed reduction unit, the bearing stiffness of a hub bearing is improved, while the rotational accuracy and the durability of an input shaft of a speed reduction unit are improved and noise is suppressed. The drive device includes: a speed reduction unit including an input shaft driven by an electric motor; a hub unit rotationally driven by the speed reduction unit; and a housing. The input shaft of the speed reduction unit is supported by bearings provided at two locations in the axial direction. The bearings are both supported by the output member, and the PCD of the inboard-side hub bearing of the hub bearings disposed at the two locations in the axial direction of the hub unit is larger than the PCD of the outboard-side hub bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Suzuki, Yukiko Takekawa, Tomoaki Makino
  • Patent number: 9327697
    Abstract: A first slave piston and a second slave piston are disposed in tandem in series within a cylinder body, and the pistons are arranged so that part of the shaft section of the second slave piston overlaps with the inner periphery of an opening section provided in the backward side, in the displacement direction, of the first slave piston. A long hole extending along the axial direction of the second slave piston is provided in the shaft section, and a connection pin which regulates the initial position of the second slave piston is inserted into the long hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Murayama, Jiro Suzuki, Nobutake Hyodo, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Kouji Sakai
  • Patent number: 9312739
    Abstract: Hobby servo motor linear actuator systems are provided. In certain circumstances, a linear actuator system includes a lead screw attachment mechanism and a lead nut. The lead screw attachment mechanism is configured to be rotatably connected to an output shaft of a hobby servo motor assembly. The lead nut is configured to move linearly along the lead screw attachment mechanism as it is rotated. The system is optionally either open-looped or closed-loop. The lead screw attachment mechanism has an outer surface that can include multiple different types of threads such as, but not limited to, gear teeth and screw threads. The hobby servo motor assembly may include one hobby servo motor or multiple hobby servo motors that work together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: ROBOTZONE, LLC
    Inventor: Brian T. Pettey
  • Patent number: 9293962
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hollow driving module comprising a hollow driving module including a hollow motor including a stator, a rotor rotating with respect to the stator and having a perforated center portion, and a rotation shaft disposed at and coupled to the perforated center portion of the rotor; a decelerator connected with the rotation shaft positioned at an output side of the hollow motor to decelerate rotation of the rotation shaft; a torque transmission unit being connected to an output side of the decelerator to be driven by a decelerated rotation angle; a first encoder positioned at an input side opposite to a side connected with the decelerator of the hollow motor; a second encoder positioned at a side opposite to a side connected with the hollow motor of the first encoder; and a link connection means connecting the second encoder with the torque transmission unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF MACHINERY & MATERIALS
    Inventors: Chan Hun Park, Jin-Ho Kyung, Tae Yong Choi, Hyun Min Do, Dong Il Park