Non-recirculating Rolling Elements Patents (Class 74/424.89)
  • Patent number: 11773637
    Abstract: A system for locking a platform screen door leaf, the leaf being capable of moving by a horizontal translational movement in a plane of the leaf between open and closed positions, including a bearing rail mounted on the leaf and having a reception recess, a motor body forming the stator of a drive motor of the leaf and mounted freely in rotation about a motor axis on a gear unit, a locking roller mounted projecting on the motor body and arranged so as to roll along the bearing rail during a movement of the leaf, and engage, by a rotation of the motor body, in the reception recess when the leaf reaches the closed position or the open position, in order to lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: FAIVELEY TRANSPORT TOURS
    Inventor: Sébastien Mareaux
  • Patent number: 11400483
    Abstract: An applicator for on demand incremental dispensing of dental compounds from interchangeable prefilled cartridges. A hand held applicator support body with a threaded drive rod, selectively advanced by a trigger activated indexing lever assembly for advancing engagement within the medication cartridge. A release and positional indicator allows for drive rod engagement and resetting therewithin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: NODK, LLC
    Inventor: Marcus Duffin
  • Patent number: 10267394
    Abstract: A method for producing a planetary screw drive and a kit for carrying out the method, in which a number of basic planetary roller sets composed of mutually dissimilar basic planetary rollers having different groove profiles are formed; wherein all planetary rollers belonging to a planetary roller set for lead screws with a same number of threads are taken from one particular basic planetary roller set; and wherein for each number of threads for a lead screw there is one particular basic planetary roller set, the basic planetary rollers of which are different from the basic planetary rollers of another particular basic planetary roller set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventor: Dietmar Rudy
  • Patent number: 8613683
    Abstract: A pneumato-mechanical regenerative power source converts mechanical rotational power at an input/output shaft to stored potential energy, and vice versa, by coupling the input/output shaft to a ball screw via a planetary gear system, which translates a ball nut in cooperation therewith, which in turn translates a piston that provides for either compressing or expanding an associated energy storage gas. A first roller-clutch mechanism provides for locking the carrier of the planetary gear system when storing energy, and releasing the carrier when releasing stored energy, wherein upon release, the ball screw is coupled to the input/output shaft via an overrunning clutch, and the carrier may be locked to limit the release of stored energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Inventor: Srinivas R. Bidare
  • Publication number: 20120192668
    Abstract: A deflector for use in a ball screw is composed of a main body and a junction member connected with the main body to form a channel having a first guide groove and two second guide grooves formed at two opposite sides of the first guide groove. Each of the second guide grooves has two walls extending outward from the first guide groove. Each two of the walls have a conjunction formed therebetween. The vertical section of the channel can define an extending axis passing through centers of the two conjunctions. At least one of the walls of each second guide groove is not parallel to the extending axis. In light of the above features, the roller chain can avoid wear and tear to prolong its service life thereof. Besides, the mold for forming the deflector can be designed to be structurally subject to mold release, such that the production efficiency can be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Po-Chuan Hsu, Yan-Yu Chen
  • Publication number: 20110197693
    Abstract: The inventions relate to mechanical engineering, in particular to screw-type gears with rolling elements. The technical result of the proposed device and method consists in reducing the mass and overall dimensions of a gear and increasing the operational reliability and service life thereof. The essence of the invention is that one of the gear parts, either a screw or a nut, is made of two coaxial sections with curved end faces, and that a part of a rolling path is formed on each of the curved end faces. The coaxial sections are disposed so that the curved end faces thereof are arranged opposite one another with a clearance and the rolling elements are encompassed by both parts of the rolling path. The clearance in the gear is selected by pressing one coaxial section against the other in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventor: Evgeny Nikolaevich Zakharov
  • Patent number: 7771307
    Abstract: A rolling element screw device is provided with a power transmission mechanism for moving a retainer ring 14 in an axial direction in accordance with lead angles of spiral grooves 11a, 12a while rotating the retainer ring 14 in a condition of maintaining a constant relationship with respect to a rotational phase of a rotating side member in accordance with the rotation of the rotating side member. The power transmission mechanism is provided with an external tooth 17 formed to a screw member 11, an internal tooth 18 formed to a nut member 12 and a plurality of planetary gears 19 held to be rotatable to circumferentially predetermined positions of the retainer ring 14 in a condition meshed with the external tooth 17 and the internal tooth 18, respectively, the external tooth 17 is formed so as not to overlap with the screw side spiral groove 11a formed to the screw member 11, and the internal tooth 18 is formed so as not to overlap with the nut side spiral groove 12a formed to the nut member 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Fujii
  • Publication number: 20100058885
    Abstract: A motion guide device is provided which comprises a chain of rollers in which retainers are interposed, in which the chain of rollers is given a degree of freedom of rotation. The motion guide device comprises a track member (5) on which a roller rolling part (5a) is formed which allows rollers (7) to roll on along the roller rolling part; a moving member (6) on which a loaded roller rolling part (6a) facing the roller rolling part (5a) is formed; a plurality of rollers (7) arranged on a roller circulation path containing a loaded roller rolling path (9) formed between the roller rolling part (5a) of the track member (5) and the roller rolling part (6a) of the moving member (6); and a plurality of retainers (8) respectively interposed between rollers of the plurality of rollers (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: THK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu Uesugi, Kentaro Nishimura, Satoshi Fujita, Akimasa Yoshida, Satoru Nagai, Hiroyuki Arai
  • Publication number: 20090114049
    Abstract: The invention is a device (1, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700) for converting a rotary motion into a linear motion, comprising a first threaded element (3) that defines a first axis (7), suited to be coupled with a second threaded element (4) defining a second axis (10), said axes (7, 10) being substantially parallel to each other but not coinciding with each other. The device (1) also comprises means (12) arranged between the first threaded element (3) and the second threaded element (4), suited to transmit the rotary motion imparted to one of the elements (3, 4) to the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventor: Giancarlo Brun
  • Publication number: 20090114048
    Abstract: A rotation/linear motion converting mechanism includes a shaft 1 having an external thread 1a on an outer circumferential surface, a nut 2 having an internal thread 2a on an inner circumferential surface, and a roller 3 arranged between the outer circumferential surface of the shaft 1 and the inner circumferential surface of the nut 2. The roller has a thread 3a threaded to the external thread 1a and the internal thread 2a. A spur gear 3b and a spur gear 3c are provided in portions of the roller 3. A spur gear 1b is provided in a portion of the shaft 1. The spur gear 1b is meshed with the spur gear 3b of the roller 3. Internal teeth 4a are provided in a portion of the nut 2. The internal teeth 4a are meshed with the spur gear 3 of the roller 3. This improves the lead accuracy of the shaft 1 when the nut 2 is rotated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuo Kinoshita, Toshiaki Hamaguri, Motohiro Tsuzuki, Koji Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20080196529
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to perform motion conversion between a rotary motion and a linear motion accurately, stably, and efficiently with a relatively simple structure through combination of aplanetary gear mechanism of helical gears and a planetary gear mechanism of screw gears. A sun shaft 14, planetary shafts 20, and a ring shaft 16 having respective axes of rotation in parallel with one another are provided. A helical sun gear 22, helical planetary gears 28, and a helical ring gear 42 are provided on the sun shaft 14, the planetary shafts 20, and the ring shaft 16, respectively, and cooperatively constitute a first planetary gear mechanism. A screw sun gear 26, screw planetary gears 30, and a screw ring gear 44 are provided on the sun shaft 14, the planetary shafts 20, and the ring shaft 16, respectively, and cooperatively constitute a second planetary gear mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Nobuyoshi Sugitani
  • Patent number: 7000495
    Abstract: Actuator device comprising a support (2); a longitudinal drive rod (8), part of the rear end (9) of which is mounted and rotates inside the support, and of which a front end section (17) has an external screw thread (18) and on its annular section, gear teeth (19); a longitudinal sheath (39) positioned around and coaxially to the drive rod has an internal screw thread; a series of rollers (28) positioned longitudinally between the drive rod and the sheath and having an external screw thread engaged with the external screw thread of the drive rod and with the internal screw thread of the sheath, and gear teeth engaged with the gear teeth of the drive rod. The helix angle of the screw thread of the rollers is equal to the screw thread helix angle of the screw thread of the drive rod, and different from the helix angle of the screw thread of the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Transrol
    Inventor: Laurent Benoit
  • Patent number: 6925901
    Abstract: A device for converting rotational movement into axial movement includes planetary rollers driven by a drive shaft projecting from a drive device and maintained peripherally at a same distance, in addition to a push body axially displaced by the planetary rollers. These planetary rollers are peripherally fixed on a support which is driven around the axis thereof, the rollers being rotationally mounted and provided with peripheral grooves or threaded grooves; the support is connected in a fixed manner to the drive shaft rotating around its axis; the planetary rollers engage in at least one thread-like groove of the push body that is displaced along the axis of the support by means of their peripheral grooves or threaded grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Wittenstein AG
    Inventors: Michael Butsch, Jörg Henle
  • Publication number: 20040250641
    Abstract: A travel multiplying device (1) has at least one outer pipe (2), one inner pipe (3) and one intermediate pipe (4) positioned between them, which can be moved relative to each other in the longitudinal direction (5) each by a particular distance of travel (16-36) with at least one cut-out formed (11-17) between facing surfaces (7, 8, 9, 10) of each pipe (2, 3, 4), which cut-outs show different gradients (18, 19) relative to a transverse plane (21) through the pipes (2, 3, 4), and which are coupled with each other by at least one movement linking element (22-26) to link the movements of the pipes. By such a travel multiplying device, a small movement of one element is transformed into a magnifying movement of another element in a simply designed and reliable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Inventors: Klaus Biester, Gerald S. Baker
  • Patent number: 6370978
    Abstract: An apparatus for converting a rotary motion into an axial motion, is used as overload protection; the force transmitting elements of the conversion apparatus, in the form of a threaded spindle, a nut and/or the intervening planetary rollers and roller bodies, are made with different contours of deformable, preferably elastically deformable material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Dietrich, Bernd Gombert