Gearing Patents (Class 310/83)
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Patent number: 10953913Abstract: An electromechanical power steering system having an electric servo motor having a motor shaft. The electric servo motor drives a shaft which meshes with a helical wheel. The shaft is rotatably supported in a gear mechanism housing. The motor shaft is coupled to the shaft in a rotationally secure manner by a coupling which compensates for an axial offset. The shaft at the end thereof close to the motor is supported in a bearing in the gear mechanism housing so as to be able to be rotated about a rotation axis and is pivotably supported about a pivot axis which is perpendicular to the rotation axis in such a manner that the pivot axis is arranged in the region of the coupling.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignees: thyssenkrupp Presta AG, thyssenkrupp AGInventors: Felix Vonier, Christian Kohler, Eugen Lass
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Patent number: 10951097Abstract: A rotor, which includes a rotor main body and a fan. The rotor main body includes a rotor core, a rotary shaft extending through the rotor core, and a permanent magnet mounted in the rotor core. The fan includes a plurality of fixing portions embedded in the rotor main body and configured to fix the permanent magnet. The rotor has a simple structure, can be easily assembled, and has a low cost.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Johnson Electric International AGInventors: Chi Ho Fung, Kar Wai Lam, Yung Fai Tsui, Wei Liang Huang, Yi Li, Deng Zhi Huang
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Patent number: 10950218Abstract: A drive system includes an actuator including an electric motor, a microphone, and a sound generator emitting a sound in response to a signal derived from sound caught by the microphone. The microphone is attached to the actuator. This drive system makes it easy to establish an optimal positional relationship between the microphone and the noise source in the actuator, thereby properly reducing noise arising from the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Keiji Togawa, Osamu Ota, Takeshi Yamagishi
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Patent number: 10919161Abstract: A clutched joint module comprising an output member and an input member rotatable relative to each other about an axis of rotation; a primary actuator operable to apply a primary torque to rotate the output member about the axis of rotation; and a clutch mechanism operable between an engaged state and a disengaged state to facilitate application of the primary torque. The clutch mechanism can comprise a plurality of plates and an actuator operable to compress the plurality of plates to cause the clutch mechanism to function in the engaged state. The actuator can be a ball-ramp clutch device. A quasi-passive elastic actuator can be coupled to the input member and can be operable, via the clutch mechanism, to release stored energy to apply an augmented torque to assist rotation of the output member. Associated methods and systems are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Sarcos Corp.Inventors: Fraser M. Smith, Marc X. Olivier
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Patent number: 10886818Abstract: An input shaft structure for connecting a motor (4) and a gearbox (1) is provided, wherein the input shaft structure comprises a main shaft (5), an input end of the main shaft is located within the motor, and is connected to a rotor of the motor, an output end of the main shaft is located within the gearbox, and is connected to a driving gear (2) of the gearbox, and all of the two ends and an middle portion of the main shaft are provided with a bearing (6, 9, 14) to perform axial positioning, wherein a hub (2-1) of the driving gear extend toward two sides, and an inner bore of the hub matches with a shaft diameter of the main shaft to perform radial positioning, to ensure a concentricity of the driving gear and the main shaft. The motor shaft and the input shaft of the gearbox are designed as an integral input shaft, which reduces the entire axial size of the power section, facilitates the layout of the entire vehicle, and has a smaller weight.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Jing-Jin Electric Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yongwu Wang, Ping Yu, Jianwen Li, Tianjiao Liu, Xixian Yang
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Patent number: 10844944Abstract: An inverted harmonic gear actuator is provided and includes a motor stator and a motor rotor radially disposed within the motor stator. The inverted harmonic gear actuator also includes a wave generator radially disposed within the motor rotor, where the wave generator has a radially inner surface with a cammed shape. An actuator output shaft is radially disposed within the wave generator. A flex spline is radially interposable between the radially inner surface of the wave generator and the actuator output shaft. The flex spline is deformable to conform to the radially inner surface of the wave generator and drive rotation of the actuator output shaft slower than rotation of the motor rotor.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: HAMILTON SUNSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Keith Bloxham, Derick S. Balsiger
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Patent number: 10840758Abstract: A robot drive unit is provided with: a first member and a second member rotated about a axis; a housing fixed to the first member; an output shaft member supported by the housing so as to rotate about the axis and fixed to the second member; a hollow shaft fixed to the output shaft member, and supported by the housing so as to rotate about the axis; and rotating-body sealing members seal a gap between the housing and the output shaft member and a gap between the housing and the hollow shaft, respectively. The hollow shaft is provided with: a shaft body made of a non-ferrous material; and a contact-surface member made of a material having a higher surface hardness than the shaft body and forms a contact surface to be in contact with the corresponding rotating-body sealing member.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: FANUC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoaki Mizukoshi, Kazutaka Nakayama
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Patent number: 10826367Abstract: An electrical machine includes a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted in the stator. A spindle is guided through the electrical machine. At least one magnetic flux-conductive assembly which can be introduced into the electrical machine is provided. The magnetic flux-conductive assembly is disposed on the spindle in a linearly displaceable manner in order to vary a motor constant of the electrical machine as a result of a displacement into the electrical machine.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KGInventor: Lars Gehrke
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Patent number: 10808067Abstract: Disclosed is a polyoxymethylene resin composition that includes a filler in an amount of about 5 to 30 wt %, a formaldehyde reducing agent in an amount of about 0.01 to 1 wt %, and a polyoxymethylene resin constituting the remaining balance of the polyoxymethylene resin composition, all the wt % based on the total weight of the polyoxymethylene resin composition. In particular, per 1 g of the polyoxymethylene resin may include an amount of 30 to 40 ?mol of formate at terminal ends of the polyoxymethylene resin.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventors: Joon Yong Song, Shin Tae Bae, KieYoun Jeong, Soon Young Cha, Hong Won Chae, Hyeon Cheol Kim
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Patent number: 10759515Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: HAMILTON SUNSTRAND CORPORATIONInventors: Nicholas R. Van De Veire, Derick S. Balsiger
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Patent number: 10758679Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: WEST PHARMA. SERVICES IL, LTD.Inventors: Yossi Bar-El, Gil Yigal, Reuven Y. Filman
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Patent number: 10760664Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akira Yajima
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Patent number: 10753427Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Daisuke Yaguchi
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Patent number: 10683940Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Peter Quade, Torsten Hauk, Carsten Heldberg, Florian Clausing, Rainer Gramss
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Patent number: 10670134Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: SEIKO PRECISION INC.Inventors: Koichi Masuzawa, Kenichi Kudo
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Patent number: 10673304Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 1, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.Inventors: Ching-Hsiung Tsai, Chi-Wen Chung, En-Yi Chu
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Patent number: 10632627Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORPInventors: Youjun Xiong, Youpeng Li, Jing Shi, Hongyu Ding
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Patent number: 10576644Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: KINOVA INC.Inventors: Philippe Fauteux, Louis Joseph Caron L'ecuyer
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Patent number: 10581298Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: 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
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Patent number: 10518762Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 8, 2018Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jong Sung Kim
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Patent number: 10500734Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORPInventors: Youjun Xiong, Youpeng Li, Hongyu Ding, Wenhua Fan, Jianxin Pang
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Patent number: 10451163Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventors: Derek R. Hochstetler, Ted A. Martin, Duane C. Johnson, Glenn C. Lemmers, Jessica M. Friedberg
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Patent number: 10418927Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 11, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Magnomatics LimitedInventors: Stuart Calverley, Jeff Birchall
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Patent number: 10398439Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Ramiro Cabrera, Stephen Paul
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Patent number: 10396626Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: AUDI AGInventor: Stefan Maiwald
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Patent number: 10393199Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Juergen Tandler, Matthias Mayr, Andreas Weh
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Patent number: 10348142Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Mike Fippl, Uwe Riemenschneider, Michael Schnier
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Patent number: 10263481Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: PROTEAN ELECTRIC LIMITEDInventor: Gareth Roberts
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Patent number: 10250008Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Gigaphoton Inc.Inventors: Akihiko Kurosu, Fumio Kawamata
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Patent number: 10149943Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 29, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.Inventors: Yossi Bar-El, Gil Yigal, Reuven Y. Filman
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Patent number: 10150534Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: PRODRIVES & MOTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chia-Sheng Liang, Chu-Hsiang Tseng
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Patent number: 10149590Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae Youl Jeong, Sung Jin Park, Heum Yong Park, Dong Hun Lee, Min Jae Kim
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Patent number: 10144137Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Korea Institute of Science and TechnologyInventors: Keehoon Kim, Donghyun Hwang, Sang Rok Oh
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Patent number: 10113762Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 9, 2011Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Cory Grabinger, Adrienne Thomle, Torrey William McNallan, Daniel Waseen
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Patent number: 10056811Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLCInventor: Brad P. Pohl
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Patent number: 10042343Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, NABTESCO CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoshi Ohishi, Yuki Yokokura, Yosei Hirano, Koji Nakamura, Masataka Sato
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Patent number: 10011026Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKIInventors: Takuya Okada, Yasuyuki Ishibe, Takeyuki Ninomiya, Yoshitaka Fukudome, Kyoko Sotobayashi
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Patent number: 9991763Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.Inventors: James P Downs, Robert L Memmen
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Patent number: 9895148Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, LLCInventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jerome R. Morgan, Jason L. Harris
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Patent number: 9856966Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventor: Ian David Wilson
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Patent number: 9812924Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: STEERING SOLUTIONS IP HOLDING CORPORATIONInventor: Katsunori Terauchi
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Patent number: 9765791Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Masanao Kagami, Ryo Umeyama, Ryosuke Fukuyama
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Patent number: 9759306Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Gerold Schorpp, Robert Heitz, Peter Steuer, Siegfried Reichmann
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Patent number: 9716415Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: MAN TRUCK & BUS AGInventor: Markus Golka
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Patent number: 9680347Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 1, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: MAXON MOTOR AGInventors: Daniel Sherwin, Albert Hugo Fritschy, Franzxaver Fölmli, Jens Oliver Schulze, Raniero Pittini, Dirk Zimmermann
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Patent number: 9638307Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Arata Kikuchi, Hirotsugu Kusano, Yasutaka Fukumoto
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Patent number: 9630647Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATIONInventors: Arata Kikuchi, Yoshitomo Nagai
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Patent number: 9599192Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Inventor: Manfred Bottcher
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Patent number: 9570956Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Inventors: Shalom Levin, Asaf Levin
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Patent number: 9561548Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: HITACHI KOKI CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Kishima, Takeshi Takeda