Plural Output Loads Patents (Class 474/86)
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Patent number: 10246282Abstract: A drive transmission device (6) includes a first drive train (62) and a second drive train (63). The first drive train (62) includes a first gear (621), a second gear (622), a rotary shaft (623), and one-way clutches (624). The second drive train (63) includes a third gear (631), a fourth gear (632), a rotary shaft (633), and an electromagnetic clutch (634). The third gear (631) engages the first gear (621) and the fourth gear (632) engages the second gear (622). A rotational speed of a pickup roller (12) is switched by switching on/off the electromagnetic clutch (634) to change a transmission path of driving force.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Masafumi Miki
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Patent number: 10041577Abstract: A device for transmitting a rotation movement includes first and second force transmission sections, each with a drive input and a drive output, and with a first chain guide. The chain guide is arranged between the drive input and output and accommodates an endless chain, which circulates between the drive input and drive output. A middle force transmission section with a middle drive input and a middle drive output, and with a conduit that is arranged between these. The conduit accommodates a hydraulic fluid and transmits forces between the first and the second force transmission section. The hydraulic fluid circulates between the middle drive input and the middle drive output and transmits push forces between the middle drive input and the middle drive output. The first drive output is coupled to the middle drive input, and the middle drive output is coupled to the second drive input.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: WRH WALTER REIST HOLDING AGInventor: Walter Reist
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Patent number: 9017194Abstract: A distributed drive includes a frame, a main sprocket, and a plurality of drive assemblies mounted therearound for rotation of the main sprocket. The main sprocket has a circumferential drive rim around which the drive assemblies are mounted in driving engagement with the drive rim so as to selectively rotate the main sprocket relative to the frame. Each drive assembly includes at least two auxiliary sprockets lying substantially in the plane of the main sprocket. An endless belt is mounted around the auxiliary sprockets so that a span of the endless belt spans between a pair of the auxiliary sprockets in an arc-of-contact with the drive rim. At least one of the two auxiliary sprockets is a selectively driven drive sprocket for selective rotation of the main sprocket.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Warrior Rig Ltd.Inventor: Allan Stewart Richardson
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Publication number: 20140335984Abstract: A distribution gearbox for distributing a drive torque of a drive unit of a motor vehicle to a first axle and a second axle of the motor vehicle, and including a housing, an input shaft, a clutch unit which is seated coaxially with respect to the input shaft, and a chain sprocket which can be driven by the clutch unit and by way of which a drive moment of the input shaft can be transmitted to an output shaft, wherein the chain sprocket is mounted on a neck-shaped reduced portion of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: MAGNA Powertrain AG & Co KGInventors: Johannes Quehenberger, Herbert Steinwender
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Patent number: 8808124Abstract: A belt alternator starter (BAS) system for a hybrid vehicle may include a first pulley, a first belt, a motor generator unit (MGU), a second pulley, a second belt, and a first clutch. The first belt encircles the first pulley and a crankshaft pulley of an internal combustion engine. The MGU includes the second pulley and functions as an electric motor when the engine is started and as a generator for charging a battery when the engine is running. The second belt encircles the second pulley and at least one drive pulley of an accessory unit. The first clutch couples/decouples the crankshaft pulley to/from the second pulley depending on operation of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Inventors: Gregory A. Major, Steven A. Tarnowsky
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Publication number: 20130337951Abstract: A power transfer device for a four-wheel drive vehicle includes a first shaft for transferring torque to a first driveline, a second shaft for transferring torque to a second driveline, and a transfer mechanism driving the second shaft. A mode clutch assembly drivingly connects the first shaft to the transfer mechanism and includes a clutch gear driven by the transfer mechanism and a mode sleeve. A sprocket hub associated with the transfer mechanism has external drive teeth meshed with internal drive teeth on the clutch gear with a predetermined amount of backlash therebetween. A ball cam mechanism centers the backlash and permits relative rotation between the transfer mechanism and the mode sleeve to circumvent a blocked mode shift.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventors: Wolfram Hasewend, Thomas E. Braford, Matthew Girlando
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Patent number: 8573165Abstract: Actuating device for a recirculation pump of a cooling circuit of an internal combustion engine comprising a pulley suitable for being rotationally driven by the engine, a driven shaft for driving the pump and an electromagnetically controlled coupling interposed between the pulley and the driven shaft, in which the electromagnetic coupling comprises an electromagnet, coupling mechanism controlled by the electromagnet and mobile between an engagement position in which the pulley is connected to the driven shaft and a disengagement position, and an elastic member for maintaining an engagement member in the engaged position when the electromagnet is not energized.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2012Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Dayco Europe S.r.L.Inventors: Andrea Guala, Gianluca Cariccia, Riccardo Seren Rosso
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Patent number: 8182380Abstract: A power transmission device is capable of switching the rotation direction of a drive shaft between positive rotation and negative rotation as power is transmitted to the drive shaft from a drive source via the power transmission device. To cause positive rotation of the drive shaft, only the positive rotation belt is tensed by the belt switching means, and rotation from the positive rotation drive pulley is transmitted to the drive shaft via the positive rotation shaft. To cause negative rotation of the drive shaft, only the negative rotation belt is tensed by the belt switching means, and rotation from the negative rotation drive pulley is transmitted to the drive shaft via the negative rotation shaft.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2009Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenta Kohigashi, Tomoaki Ishikawa, Keiji Iino, Tomokazu Kimura, Nobuyuki Hirose
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Publication number: 20120052995Abstract: Electric vehicle powertrains, highway vehicles, and methods of manufacturing vehicles have dual belts driving wheels from two electric motors. Embodiments have a centrally-located transmission housing containing two belts and pulleys, and motors are mounted outside of the housing. A battery may power the motors and an internal combustion engine may power wheels on the other end of the vehicle through a separate transmission. Each belt may have a tensioner and drive shafts may have universal joints and decouplers. The transmission may have a central wall or supports which may support the pulleys and adjacent pulleys may have a common centerline and be supported by a common pin through the central wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicant: American Challenge Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph N. Scarbo, Derk Hartland, Russel L. Wicks, Neil E. Hannemann
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Patent number: 7918315Abstract: A limited slip differential transmission of the closed type in which a pressurized lubricant is fed to the rotating gears and a series of limited slip clutch plates. The clutch plates are engaged by pressurized control fluid. A valve assembly having a spool valve is responsive to engagement pressure to permit discharge of a portion of pressurized fluid from the clutch plates to a sump chamber and the transmission to purge debris that may have accumulated in the clutch plates. The spool valve is arranged so that fluid is passed only during an intermediate movement of the valve to minimize any pressure loss from the lubricating fluid for the transmission and limited slip clutches.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2008Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventor: Thomas Hung Vu
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Patent number: 7909716Abstract: A dual-ratchet wheel transmission apparatus includes: a drive wheel set, having a first drive wheel and a second drive wheel coaxially integrated with a drive shaft; a driven wheel set, being coaxially set with a driven shaft in which the driven shaft is connected to an output for transmission, the driven wheel set including: a first driven wheel being centrally integrated with a unidirectional ratchet wheel, in which the first driven wheel engages with the first drive wheel for transmission, a second driven wheel being centrally integrated with another unidirectional ratchet wheel, in which the second driven wheel is connected to the second drive wheel via a transmission element. By the aforementioned configuration, whether the drive wheel set rotates forward or backward, the transmission set rotates in only one direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2008Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Inventor: Junghsen Lieh
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Publication number: 20100167855Abstract: A chain or synchronous belt drive having at least one chain or synchronous belt wheel (3) is provided which is integrated into the drive, whereon the chain or synchronous belt (2) is guided. The chain or synchronous belt includes an over-jump protection element which overlaps, at least partially, the chain or synchronous belt (2) on an side opposite the wheel (3). The over-jump protection element (13) is arranged on a guiding or tensioning element (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2010Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: SCHAEFFLER KGInventor: Thomas Ullein
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Publication number: 20090233743Abstract: A motor to accessory drive system wherein an electric or gasoline motor, having a housing with a drive shaft end protruding from the motor housing, is mounted with respect to the accessory to be driven, such as a pump or a generator, which also has a housing with a drive shaft protruding from the accessory housing, with a mounting plate secured at one end to the motor housing, and secured at another end to the accessory housing whereby the accessory is supported from the motor. The mounting plate is provided with spaced apertures with the drive shaft ends of the motor and accessory respectively protruding through the apertures in parallel alignment. A drive pulley is mounted on each of the protruding drive shaft ends in alignment in a common plane and an endless belt is in driving engagement with the pulleys.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: September 17, 2009Inventor: Daniel Leiss
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Patent number: 7534181Abstract: A chain drive, especially to a camshaft/camshaft drive for a motor vehicle engine, comprising at least two chain wheels and one drive chain. The gear rims of the at least two chain wheels are arranged to be laterally offset to each other in the axial direction. The chain drive is performed as a multiple chain, wherein each of the offset gear rims of the chain wheels have their own track of the multiple chain due to the lateral displacement of the gear rims. The tip diameters of the offset gear rims and the chain wheels are overlapping. At least one support wheel is provided laterally next to a gear rim of an associated chain wheel, which engages into the empty track of the multiple chain not engaged with the gear rim of the associated chain wheel and is driven together with the associated chain wheel.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2005Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Joh. Winklhofer & Söhne GmbH und Co. KGInventor: Renzo Perissinotto
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Patent number: 7086975Abstract: A serpentine accessory-belt, aggregate, drive arrangement wherein an intake side of an engine block is placed toward the frontal side of a vehicle, and engine accessories are mounted at the right side of the engine in a forward direction of the vehicle, enabling to minimize thermal damage to a serpentine belt and facilitate accessibility and maintenance of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2003Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Sung-Baek Joo
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Patent number: 6652400Abstract: A chain drive for driving two adjacent parallel shafts, such as two overhead camshafts in an internal combustion engine, includes a drive chain guided by a drive mechanism and chain wheels mounted on the shafts. The chain wheels are axially offset and overlap each other. At least one support wheel on one shaft is associated with the chain wheel on the other shaft. An edge area of the part of the chain which does not engage a chain wheel is guided and supported on the shaft by the support wheel.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2001Date of Patent: November 25, 2003Assignee: FEV Motorentechnik GmbHInventors: Markus Duesmann, Lukas Wagener, Rainer Lach, Jürgen Buck
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Patent number: 6557444Abstract: A wood lathe includes a driving pulley unit disposed around a rotating inner rod, a driven pulley unit disposed around an output shaft that is used to rotate a workpiece, a V-belt unit trained on the driving and driven pulley units, and a speed-adjusting unit. When a rotary knob is rotated, amovable inner half of the driven pulley unit moves toward or away from a fixed outer half of the driven pulley unit so that the V-belt unit moves a movable outer half of the driving pulley unit away from or toward a fixed inner half of the driving pulley unit. As such, the position of the V-belt unit can be adjusted relative to the driving and driven pulley units to change the rotational speed of the output shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2002Date of Patent: May 6, 2003Inventor: Juei-Seng Liao
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Patent number: 6113509Abstract: A media advance system is driven using a fixed-differential, planetary belt drive system. Planetary pulleys, mounted to a mounting structure, orbit a motor shaft as the mounting rotates about the motor shaft. A first planetary pulley is coupled by a drive belt to a fixed pulley. The fixed pulley does not rotate and is aligned to the motor shaft, so the planetary pulley is forced to rotate while orbiting. A second planetary pulley rotates and orbits with the first. An output pulley is coupled to the second planetary pulley by another drive belt. An output shaft is coupled to the output pulley. Drive ratio of the output shaft to the motor shaft is based upon the diameters of the fixed pulley, first planetary pulley, second planetary pulley, and output pulley. Noise is low by using belts rather than meshing gears. Variable differentiation is achieved in another embodiment.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1999Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventor: Steven P. Downing
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Patent number: 6082513Abstract: A clutch device has a shaft rod, a hollow torsion sleeve, a trip device, an outer toothed gear, an inner toothed gear, and a first belt pulley. The outer toothed gear is disposed on the trip device. The hollow torsion sleeve has a plurality of grooves. The trip device has a center hole to receive the hollow torsion sleeve, and a plurality of radiated thread holes. The inner toothed gear is disposed on the first belt pulley. The outer toothed gear engages with the inner toothed gear. Each radiated thread hole receives a ball, a spring, and a stud. Each groove receives the respective ball. The shaft rod is inserted through the hollow torsion sleeve, the first belt pulley, and a second belt pulley.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1998Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Inventor: Kuo-Hao Li
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Patent number: 6068566Abstract: A device for reciprocating a bed or cradle on supporting rods has a driving pulley (1) on a rotational first axle (50) of a driving motor (M) and a first decelerating pulley (2) on a second axle (23). The first decelerating pulley is connected to the driving pulley (1) by a first belt (7A). A first small pulley (3) on the second axle (9A) is connected to a second decelerating pulley (4) on a third axle (9B) by a second belt (7B). A second small pulley (5) on the third axle (9B) is connected to a third decelerating pulley (6) on a driving axle (8) by a third belt (7C). A disk (11) axially on the driving axle (8) has an eccentric axle (12) thereon. An idle cap (13) on the eccentric axle (12) for rotation has springs (14 and 14a) on opposite sides thereof. Supporting rods (16) are respectively connected to the springs (14 and 14a) for being moved back and forth or from side to side by tension of the springs (14 and 14a) as the rotational disk (11) is rotating.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1998Date of Patent: May 30, 2000Inventor: Do Hyong Kim
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Patent number: 6022285Abstract: A wheel drive system using an enlarged flywheel shaft to form an integral drive pulley for a wheel drive.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1996Date of Patent: February 8, 2000Assignee: MTD Products, IncInventor: Usman Firdaus
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Patent number: 5909075Abstract: A crankshaft-mounted, multiple-speed electromagnetic clutch for driving multiple rotary devices of an engine, the engine having a crankshaft, the clutch comprising: a clutch support plate mounted to the crankshaft; a spring connected to the clutch support plate; a pair of clutch plates connected to the spring with the spring biasing the pair of clutch plates toward the clutch support plate; a pair of rotors rotating about the crankshaft on bearings; an electromagnet fixedly engaging each of the rotors and adapted to attract one of the clutch plates against the rotor, thereby transferring the rotational force of the crankshaft to the rotor; and a transmission device connecting each of the rotors to the rotary device.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1998Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Inventor: Charles L. Heimark
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Patent number: 5846149Abstract: A chain and sprocket system includes a plurality of chains and phased or offset sprockets. The transmission system includes a random or hybrid chain with the offset sprockets. The timing system can include single or dual overhead camshafts, with phasing of the crankshaft sprockets and camshaft sprockets.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1997Date of Patent: December 8, 1998Assignee: Borg-Warner Automotive, Inc.Inventors: Timothy J. Ledvina, Philip J. Mott
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Patent number: 5827143Abstract: A variable speed drive device for mounting to a rotatable shaft and being driven by first and second belts. The device includes a first pulley of a first diameter and a second pulley of a second diameter, each engaging one of the belts. The first pulley mounts directly to the shaft via a mounting hub extending laterally therefrom. The second pulley is positioned radially outward of the hub and a bearing is located between the two. Also located between the two is a clutch mechanism that engages when the second pulley tries to rotates faster than the first pulley. In this manner, the first pulley drives the shaft at a first speed when the first pulley is rotating faster than the second pulley and the second pulley drives the shaft at a second speed when the second pulley is trying to rotate faster than the first pulley.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1997Date of Patent: October 27, 1998Assignee: NTN CorporationInventors: Russell E. Monahan, Jonathan M. Adler, Randall King, Scott A. Wojan
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Patent number: 5690568Abstract: A chain and sprocket system includes a plurality of chains and sprockets. The system includes a crankshaft, an idler shaft and two overhead camshafts. The two sprockets on the idler shaft that connect by chain to drive the camshafts are phased or offset with respect to each other to alter the impact and chordal action generated noise. These idler camshaft sprockets and the idler sprocket of the crankshaft are all manufactured separately and then placed together on a spline or hub. In this way, the idler sprocket assembly consists of four parts, which eases manufacture and assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1996Date of Patent: November 25, 1997Assignee: Borg-Warner Automotive, Inc.Inventor: Stephen P. Watson
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Patent number: 5683320Abstract: In an engine assembly including an engine block carried by flexible mounting members on an assembly frame, the engine accessory such as the alternator and compressor are carried on the frame rather than on the engine block itself. The accessories are belt driven from a main drive pulley of the engine. In order to accommodate rotational movement of the engine on the flexible mountings, the accessories are pivotally mounted on the frame and are connected to the engine block by a tensioning assembly which lies generally parallel to a line joining the rotational axes of the drive pulley of the engine and the driven pulley of the accessory. The pivot mounting of the accessory is located underneath the accessory to one side of the line joining the axes and such that the weight of the accessory is communicated through the pivot mounting to the frame rather than to the engine.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1996Date of Patent: November 4, 1997Assignee: Motor Coach Industries Ltd.Inventors: Bruce R. Friesen, Edward G. Hohenberg
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Patent number: 5502875Abstract: The combing machine has a row of combing heads which are allocated with a drive shaft extending parallel to the longitudinal direction of the row. The combing heads are provided downstream with a drafting arrangement whose cylinders are arranged horizontally and at a right angle to the drive shaft. A funnel wheel and a can plate are rotatable about vertical axes. The transmission for driving the cylinders of the drafting arrangement, the funnel wheel and the can plate has two V-drives with a crossed toothed belt each. The first V-drive connects the drive shaft to a drafting arrangement drive shaft which is parallel to the cylinders of the drafting arrangement. The second V-drive connects a shaft which is parallel to the drafting arrangement drive shaft to a vertical drive shaft for the funnel wheel and the can plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1994Date of Patent: April 2, 1996Assignee: Rieter Machine Works, Ltd.Inventors: Thomas Stolz, Viktor Pietrini, Oliver Wuest
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Patent number: 5163882Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of retrofitting a Bridgeport Series One vertical milling machine with a variable speed drive unit. The method generally comprises the removal of a drive motor and stepped pulley attached thereto from the pulley housing of the Series One milling machine. The drive motor and stepped pulley are replaced with a variable speed drive unit comprising a drive housing which is attached to the pulley housing via a flange member formed on the bottom surface thereof. The flange member is specifically configured to be easily retrofittable to the existing aperture defined within the pulley housing by the removal of the drive motor therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 1991Date of Patent: November 17, 1992Assignee: Sterling Electric, Inc.Inventor: Danny L. Aldinger
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Patent number: 5129863Abstract: A transmission for a vehicle allows independent forward, reverse and neutral operation of two independent drive wheels. The transmission includes a gearbox with a pair of output shafts. A transfer wheel with a cylindrical friction surface and a belt pulley is mounted on each output shaft. A drive pulley is associated with each drive wheel. Each drive pulley is rotatable and pivotally mounted relative to the gearbox and has a cylindrical surface and a coaxial belt pulley thereon. A belt is reeved over each of the belt pulleys. Each drive pulley is swingable between alternative configurations where the surfaces engage and the belt is loose so as to drive the drive pulley in one direction, where the belt is taut to drive the drive pulley in an opposite direction and where the surfaces do not engage and the belt is loose so as to be in neutral. Each drive pulley is operably connected to a respective drive wheel.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1991Date of Patent: July 14, 1992Assignee: Quinstar CorporationInventors: James A. Boone, Thomas J. Snavely
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Patent number: 5061224Abstract: A fully automatic torque converter transmission is presented that uses a "V" belt with inner teeth that engage mating teeth on a variable pitch pulley core in a low speed high torque state transformable into an infinitely variable higher speed shift mechanism. The bicycle pedal sprocket drives a pivoted cluster of three small sprockets with a drive chain loop interconnect driving a first sprocket as a driven member, and the other two serving as idlers in maintaining the chain at constant length. A speed ratio of approximately 1:6 from the pedal sprocket to the driven sprocket optimizes torque transmission capacity of the system with the driven sprocket attached to a self-centering, spring loaded, variable pitch pulley. This pulley has a core shaped like a timing belt pulley with grooves (or teeth) at its surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1990Date of Patent: October 29, 1991Inventor: William B. Stuhler
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Patent number: 4993997Abstract: A two axis drive lugged belt and lugged pulley drive system driving a driven member independently in two, mutually perpendicular areas with the drive in each direction operational alone or simultaneously for vector movement of the driven member. Both X-Y axis are directly belt-driven by respective motors and with the axis considered "Y" the primary hysteresis minimizing drive is directed primarily to the lugged belt of substantial length in the "Y" axis. This is with the "Y" drive lugged belt routed around six pulleys to move the "X" axis carriage mounting and guide structure, with the belt attached at two points, at opposite sides of one end of the "X" axis carriage mounting and guide structure. The drive motor for the "Y" drive lugged belt is directly coupled to one of the six pulleys that is gear meshed to another of the six pulleys assuring precise synchronous counter-rotation of the paired set of pulleys at one corner of the "Y" drive.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1990Date of Patent: February 19, 1991Inventor: William B. Stuhler
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Patent number: 4941863Abstract: A stepless speed change mechanism in a belt transmission device comprising a first belt passed through a groove in a drive pulley and a first groove in an intermediate pulley, and a second belt passed through a second groove in the intermediate pulley and a groove in a driven pulley for transmitting rotation from the drive pulley to the driven pulley via the intermediate pulley. The first groove and the second groove of the intermediate pulley have an axial width gradually decreasing radially inwardly of the pulley. A partition provided between and defining the first and second grooves of the intermediate pulley is movable axially of the pulley to thereby vary the pitch diameter of each of the first and second grooves and steplessly change the speed of rotation to be transmitted from the drive pulley to the driven pulley.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1989Date of Patent: July 17, 1990Assignee: Kubota Ltd.Inventors: Keiichi Sampei, Masami Kawasaki, Yosihito Dei, Katsumi Fukumoto, Kazuo Furukawa
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Patent number: 4919598Abstract: In an oil free mechanical pump of the type in which two shafts support at least one pair of intermeshing rotors for rotation in opposite angular directions, a flexible drive means in the form of the belt or chain is provided for engaging pulleys or sprockets on the shafts.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1988Date of Patent: April 24, 1990Assignee: The BOC Group, Inc.Inventor: Henryk Wycliffe
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Patent number: 4846768Abstract: A variable-speed driving device particularly adapted for an automotive internal combustion engine and associated AC generator. The device includes a driver shaft, such as the crankshaft, a constant-speed-ratio driven shaft, a variable-speed-ratio driven shaft, such as the AC generator shaft, two driver pulleys of different diameters mounted on the driver shaft, a single constant-speed-ratio driven pulley mounted on the constant-speed-ratio driven shaft, and two speed-changing pulleys mounted on the variable-speed-ratio driven shaft. One driving belt is trained over a drive pulley, single constant-speed-ratio driven pulley, and one pulley and an additional belt is trained around the second drive pulley, the second speed-changing pulley, and, if desired, over another constant-speed-ratio pulley on another shaft. There is a changeover mechanism for selectively coupling the speed-changing pulleys to the variable-speed-ratio driven shaft at the desired speed ratio depending on the speed of the driver shaft.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1988Date of Patent: July 11, 1989Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuo Kitami, Hidenori Tezuka, Syuji Watanabe
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Patent number: 4841789Abstract: A driving system for driving valves and an auxiliary machine has a gear train for transmitting power of an engine from a crankshaft to a drive shaft, a first belt drive device for transmitting the power from the drive shaft to a camshaft of the engine, and a second belt drive device for transmitting the power from the crankshaft to a shaft of an auxiliary machine. The first belt drive device and the second drive device are disposed on a same plane with respect to the crankshaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1988Date of Patent: June 27, 1989Assignee: Fuji Jikogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Katsumi Ochiai
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Patent number: 4828447Abstract: A transmission assembly is provided for rotating a driver pulley connected to a belt by a driven pulley such that the two pulleys define an action plane. The assembly includes a rotatable output shaft having one end adapted to be connected to the driven pulley and extending in a direction perpendicular to the action plane. The output shaft is mounted on a pivotal axis parallel to the action plane for pivotal movement in a plane perpendicular to the action plane. A rotatable input shaft is provided which is adapted to have a torque applied thereto. Finally, a mechanical coupling is provided for coupling the input shaft to the other end of the output shaft such that the two shafts angularly intersect. As a consequence of this arrangement, the torque applied to the input shaft is resolvable into a couple, one force of which passes through the pivot axis and the other of which passes through the driver pulley for applying tension to the belt.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 1987Date of Patent: May 9, 1989Assignee: Societe Rousseau S.A.Inventor: Claude Rousseau
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Patent number: 4758206Abstract: In the case of a cam shaft drive structure in which a cogged belt is passed around a pair of cam shaft pulleys for two cylinder banks of an OHC V-type engine and a crank shaft pulley, it has been widely believed that the tension of the cogged belt resulting from the longitudinal vibration of the cogged belt can be minimized by reducing the masses of the cam shaft pulleys to a least possible value. However, it was discovered by the inventors that it is not necessarily the case and on the contrary a favorable result can be obtained by selecting the moment of inertia of the cam shaft pulley on the tight side to be greater than the moment of inertia of the cam shaft pulley on the slack side. The reverse surface of the cogged belt can be conveniently utilized for driving accessory equipment and for engaging an idler pulley thereto.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1986Date of Patent: July 19, 1988Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koichi Fukuo, Michio Sato
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Patent number: 4718197Abstract: A heavy duty modular blade strip grinding and honing machine is disclosed. The modular machine is constructed with a required number of grind and hone/strop stations, each having an A-frame base anchored to an underlying concrete mass having a coolant drainage system common to the several stations of the machine. Right and left hand grind stations and each hone/strop station include the same precision infeed mechanisms for the grinding wheels and the spiral interlocked honing wheels. Each grind station also includes a reciprocating diamond dressing wheel for the face of the grinding wheel at such station. Each hone station also includes a self compensating belt drive which eliminates all backlash and chatter in the honing wheels.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1986Date of Patent: January 12, 1988Inventor: Hans M. Rath
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Patent number: 4712789Abstract: A cycle exerciser having a wheel rotatably mounted on a frame and arranged to absorb energy applied to the wheel through a pair of foot pedals and/or a pair of handlebar levers. A pedal-driven main drive shaft is connected to a countershaft through a first speed-increasing chain and sprocket mechanism, and the countershaft is connected through a second speed-increasing chain and sprocket mechanism to the energy-absorbing wheel. The main drive shaft is connected through a one-to-one chain and sprocket mechanism to another countershaft enabling the main drive shaft and the other countershaft to rotate at the same speed. The handlebar levers are connected to a pair of drive crank arms which are secured to opposite end portions of the other countershaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1987Date of Patent: December 15, 1987Assignee: Schwinn Bicycle CompanyInventor: Frank P. Brilando
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Patent number: 4666015Abstract: A front and rear wheel drive vehicle having straddle-type seating. A power train is located beneath the seat and between the footpegs of the vehicle. The engine employs parallel output shafts located on either side of the crankshaft to drive power transmission means to the front and rear axles. A speed change mechanism is contained within the engine case along with the output shafts and includes a first transmission shaft between the crankshaft and one of the output shafts. In one embodiment, the cylinder block of the engine is illustrated as being inclined toward the speed change transmission such that the cylinder block, cylinder head and head cover do not extend laterally outwardly beyond the engine case. To employ both output shafts, sprockets are arranged on each shaft with a coupling chain. The orientation of the output shafts provides for a narrower engine profile.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1983Date of Patent: May 19, 1987Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Minoru Matsuda, Takashi Shinozaki
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Patent number: 4662861Abstract: A two speed accessory drive (10) comprising an input unit (20) and a remotely positioned output unit (100) connected by a plurality of belts (108,100). The input unit is adapted to be driven by a remotely positioned driving member (102). The output unit, which is connected to the engine accessories by a serpentine belt (106), includes a linear actuator (280) for engaging and disengaging same.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1985Date of Patent: May 5, 1987Assignee: Canadian Fram LimitedInventors: Michael B. Seung, Ramalingam Sivalingham, David A. Bullen, Andrew G. Anderson, Donald A. McCharles
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Patent number: 4573583Abstract: A fruit sizer employs an in-feed chute which divides fruit among a plurality of sizing runs evenly. This is accomplished by locating the apices of the dividers with respect to a grade table, or other feed mechanism, so that the fruit is divided evenly. A conveyor system uses slanted rollers which are arranged with respect to a drive roller so that each side of the conveyor belt is placed in tension equal to that of the other side of the conveyor belt. This arrangement prevents undue stress on the conveyor belt and prevents the tendency to walk off the rollers. The sizing rollers are driven by a drive train which employs a single flexible belt and may be raised or lowered with the sizing rollers, without affecting the driving belt. Several embodiments of the drive train are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 1984Date of Patent: March 4, 1986Inventor: Gary O. Niemann
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Patent number: 4457086Abstract: A snowblower is disclosed having an engine, a friction disc rotatably driven by the engine, the friction disc including a friction surface and being rotatable about a first axis, a driven disc rotatable about an axis transverse to said first axis, the driven disc including a peripheral edge engageable with the friction surface, and being drivingly connected to the snowblower wheels for driving the wheels when the driven disc is driven by the friction disc. The snowblower also includes controls for controlling driving connection of the engine and an auger and for controlling driving connection of the engine and the wheels, the controls causing engagement of the auger drive before engagement of the traction drive and disengagement of the traction drive before disengagement of the auger drive.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1980Date of Patent: July 3, 1984Assignee: Gilson Brothers CompanyInventor: Roger J. Bacon
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Patent number: 4377260Abstract: A roller mill has two pairs of parallel rolls, each pair comprising fast and slow rolls driven in opposite directions. In a flour mill, wheat is ground between each pair of rolls to produce flour. A drive motor drives a first one of the fast rolls through a V-belt drive. The driven fast roll drives the second fast roll through a 1:1 endless chain drive. The slow rolls are driven in an opposite direction and at a slower speed than the fast rolls by a serpentine chain drive engaged with a slow roll, a fast roll, and the other slow roll, in that order. Both chain drives are arranged next to each other at one end of the roller mill and are housed in a common oil bath housing containing oil for lubricating the drive chains. The chain drive eliminates the need for a lineshaft and drive pulleys, as well as a jackshaft and idler pulleys, and associated bearings and guarding that are normally used with a prior art belt-driven roller mill.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 1980Date of Patent: March 22, 1983Inventor: Jon W. Huffman
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Patent number: 4296717Abstract: A drive arrangement for auxiliary aggregates of an internal combustion engine, especially for motor vehicles is constructed as a two-speed drive, that is at operation of the internal combustion engine at low speeds the auxiliary aggregates are driven from the drive shaft of the engine, whereas at operation of the internal combustion engine at high speeds the auxiliary aggregates are driven from the cam shaft of the engine over an intermediate pulley provided with a free wheel clutch. During low speed of the engine the auxiliary aggregates are driven from a pulley freely rotatably mounted on the drive shaft of the engine but connectable thereto by a centrifugal clutch, which at high speed of the drive shaft disconnects the drive of the pulley by the drive shaft of the engine while the free wheel clutch engages. The auxiliary aggregates, respectively the pulleys thereof, are located in one plane with the pulley on the drive shaft and the intermediate pulley.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 1979Date of Patent: October 27, 1981Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Walter Schlagmuller
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Patent number: 4259810Abstract: There is disclosed a door motion control apparatus for the passenger entry and exit doors of a mass transit vehicle, which passenger entry and exit doors are opened by a drive motor when the vehicle is stopped at a desired location for passenger entry and exit within a station.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 1979Date of Patent: April 7, 1981Assignee: Westinghouse Electric Corp.Inventor: Harold E. West
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Patent number: 4255879Abstract: A mechanical dead-man type control for the snow blower auger and wheels but without killing the engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1979Date of Patent: March 17, 1981Assignee: AMF IncorporatedInventor: Charles A. Greider
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Patent number: 4240368Abstract: A module including a frame which supports a motor, reduction gearing and a belt driving pulley is mounted in a sewing machine for position adjusting movements in one direction effective to set tension in a shaft timing belt, and position adjusting movements in another direction effective to set tension in a hook shaft timing belt.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1980Date of Patent: December 23, 1980Assignee: The Singer CompanyInventor: Kenneth D. Adams
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Patent number: RE35932Abstract: A vibration damper assembly operatively connecting a driving pulley with an automotive engine output shaft which drives a serpentine belt system with an automatic belt tensioner. The vibration damper assembly serves to dampen torsional, bending, and transitional vibrations transmitted from the output shaft through the poly-V belt and engine frame to the belt tensioner. The vibration damper assembly .?.comprises.!. .Iadd.includes .Iaddend.a mounting element, fixed to the output shaft, in torsional transmitting relation therewith, bearing member operatively disposed between the driving pulley and the mounting element to restrict relative movement therebetween to torsional relative movement, and a resilient member operatively connected between the driving pulley and the mounting element in resilient torsional transmitting relation therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1996Date of Patent: October 20, 1998Assignee: Tesma International, Inc.Inventors: Zdenek Cerny, Michael Clark