Rotary Bodies Patents (Class 74/434)
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Patent number: 11761526Abstract: A gear rim carrier part for a two- or multi-component gearwheel includes an annular section which revolves around an axis of rotation in the circumferential direction, a gear rim arranged radially on the outside of the annular section, and a projection which extends radially inwards from the annular section and has a radially inner free end, or the gear rim carrier part includes an annular section which revolves around an axis of rotation in the circumferential direction, a gear rim arranged radially on the inside of the annular section, and a projection which extends radially outwards from the annular section and has a radially outer free end. The projection has a first width at the radially inner free end thereof or at the radially outer free end thereof and has a second width at the opposite end thereof at the transition to the annular section.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: IMS GEAR SE & CO. KGAAInventors: Gregor Mauerlechner, Stefan Hoch, Stefan Scherer, Eugen Stoppel, Markus Bernhard
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Patent number: 11543011Abstract: A multi-piece gearwheel comprising an inner core section and an external toothed ring with external teething is presented. The core section has intermeshing teeth extending radially outwards, which have an undercut in cross-section in the radial direction. The toothed ring has recesses that originate from an inner side of the tooth ring and extend radially outwards, wherein the recesses are at least partially complementary to the intermeshing teeth, and wherein the intermeshing teeth are received in the recesses. Furthermore, a gearbox for an electromechanically-assisted steering system is described.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: ZF Automotive Germany GmbHInventors: Rolf Dieringer, Markus Beiss, Timm Leuerer, Leon Schroeder
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Patent number: 11448303Abstract: A gear component has an annular form, is made of a metal, and includes tooth portions and a support portion which supports the tooth portions. The tooth portions are provided on an outside of the support portion along an entire circumference thereof, and groove portions are provided along a width direction of the gear component evenly on an annular inner surface of the support portion. At least one groove portion is provided per one tooth portion or two or more adjacent tooth portions, and each groove portion is located to correspond to a position where one tooth portion is present on the support portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: MITAKA DENSHI CO., LTD.Inventor: Ken'Ichi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 11255420Abstract: A worm gear for a worm gear system of a motor vehicle steering device may include a hub, a support element, and a gear rim. The support element may be a support ring that by means of an injection-molding method is injected between the gear rim and the hub. The support ring may connect in a form-fitting manner the hub and the gear rim. The gear rim and the support element may configure a multiplicity of teeth. The support element may have support webs that penetrate the gear rim such that radially outward pointing end sides of the support webs are exposed.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, THYSSENKRUPP AGInventors: Gernot Ernstson, Manuel Peter
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Patent number: 11105407Abstract: A gear including: a hub provided on an inner peripheral side and configured to be connected to a main shaft; a rim provided on an outer peripheral side and formed with external teeth; and a gear web connecting the hub and the rim. The gear web includes a first web extending obliquely upward from the rim to the hub; and a second web extending obliquely downward from the rim to the hub. The first web includes a plurality of first web pieces formed so as to be spaced apart in a circumferential direction, and the second web includes a plurality of second web pieces formed so as to be spaced apart in the circumferential direction. The first web pieces and the second web pieces are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction and are located at mutually different circumferential positions.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuji Yamazaki, Hirofumi Akahori, Kazuhiro Sato, Souichiro Ohsugi
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Patent number: 11047466Abstract: A first concave-convex part is formed in an outer diameter side circumferential surface of a first annular concave part provided in an axial one-side surface of an inner wheel element, and a second concave-convex part is formed in a bottom surface of a second annular concave part provided in the axial other-side surface of the inner wheel element. An outer circumferential part of the inner wheel element is embedded in an outer wheel element, and synthetic resin forming the outer wheel element partially enters into a plurality of concave parts constituting the first concave-convex part and the second concave-convex part. Thus, a configuration is achieved in which the holding power of a synthetic resin outer wheel can be secured from the metal inner wheel element, and the manufacturing error can be suppressed in the worm wheel tooth part provided in the outer circumferential surface of the outer wheel.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Assignee: NSK LTD.Inventors: Haruhiko Kiyota, Takeshi Yamamoto, Kaname Yasuda, Tomohiro Arai, Junichi Takano, Kazuki Hotta
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Patent number: 10907719Abstract: Various examples of methods and apparatuses are provided for a hybrid composite gear. The hybrid composite gear includes a continuous fiber thermoplastic composite material co-molded onto a periphery of a neat thermoplastic or discontinuous fiber thermoplastic gear.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: THE UAB RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Haibin Ning, Uday Vaidya, Selvum Pillay
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Patent number: 10830331Abstract: A transmission includes a first housing part and a second housing part connected at least by a friction-locked connection with the aid of a clamp ring.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Stefan Hannet, Markus Wöppermann
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Patent number: 10760675Abstract: A gear assembly includes gears, housing components joined to one another about the gears, and a gasket. Each housing component includes an axial end wall and a sidewall projecting axially from the axial end wall. The sidewall of each housing component has an axial end surface that faces the axial end surface of the other housing component. One of the housing components includes a rib that projects axially from the axial end wall thereof and is spaced inward from the sidewall thereof. The gasket includes a seal portion and a baffle portion. The seal portion is disposed between the axial end surfaces of the housing components to create a seal therebetween. The baffle portion extends inward from the seal portion and cooperates with the rib, the sidewall, and the axial end wall to form a channel configured guide drainage of lubricant thrown from at least one of the gears.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Salvatore N. Grupido, Aaron Leslie Minor
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Patent number: 10670132Abstract: A gear includes a multiple of gear teeth that extend from an outer portion of a rim about an axis and an inner portion of the rim about the axis, the inner portion of the rim additive manufactured.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Raytheon Technologies CorporationInventor: Michael E. McCune
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Patent number: 10543742Abstract: A large gear and a small gear are provided to an intermediate shaft of an in-wheel motor drive device, and a final output gear configured to mesh with the small gear of the intermediate shaft is provided to an output shaft. The output shaft is supported by bearings on in-board and out-board sides, respectively, and the large gear of the intermediate shaft is arranged between the bearing configured to support the output shaft on the in-board side and the final output gear of the output shaft. The bearing and the large gear are arranged so that, when viewed from the axial direction, a tooth top circle of the large gear of the intermediate shaft and a radially outer circle of the bearing configured to support the output shaft on the in-board side have an intersection point.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2016Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Shiro Tamura, Minoru Suzuki, Shinya Taikou
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Patent number: 10520073Abstract: A gear wheel (10), operable for transmitting substantial torques without developing or generating undue noise and exhibiting improved vibration damping, is axially mountable for operative rotation on a shaft (25) and includes a disc-shaped or cylindrical base body (11) that defines a recess (12) for passage of the shaft. The base body (11) carries a plurality of teeth (13, 14) radially distributed about the circumference of the base body. A disc-shaped damping element (17) is releasably connected to and against a side or face of the base body so as to accommodate relative movement between the base body and the damping element in response to dynamic loads acting on the operating gear wheel. A second damping element (17) can likewise be releasably connected to and against a second or opposite side or face of the base body so as to correspondingly accommodate relative movement between the base body and the second damping element in response to dynamic loads acting on the operating gear wheel.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SEInventors: Bernd Dautermann, Michael Elbs, Armin Deschler
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Patent number: 10066725Abstract: Plural ejector pins are made to project before a molten resin containing reinforcing fibers is injected into an inside of a cavity through pin point gates in a web forming portion in the inside of the cavity and at positions outside the pin point gates in a radial direction. The ejector pins are retracted from the inside of the cavity after a flow of the molten resin containing reinforcing fibers injected into the inside of the cavity through the pin point gates impinges on the ejector pins and is divided and before a tooth portion forming portion in the inside of the cavity is filled with the molten resin containing reinforcing fibers. Accordingly, weld lines which extend along the radial direction are formed at positions outside the ejector pins in the radial direction, and the molten resin is filled in portions formed after the ejector pins are retracted.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATIONInventors: Masaomi Hashimoto, Kazuma Yanagisawa
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Patent number: 9903462Abstract: A planetary gear transmission has a gearbox, multiple stages of planetary gears, and an output shaft. Except for the last stage, each planetary gear stage shares a common first internal gear ring. Each stage has a sun gear, a planet carrier, and multiple planet gears. The sun gear of each stage, except for the first stage is integrally formed with or fixed to the planet carrier of an immediately preceding stage. The last stage of the transmission has a second internal gear ring. The planet gears of the last stage mesh with the second internal gear ring. The second internal gear ring includes a support portion, and the output shaft passes through and is rotatably supported by the support portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Johnson Electric S.A.Inventors: Hua Hu, Carl Henric Andreas Svensson, Thomas Roschke, Mohanlal Ramadoss
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Patent number: 9841098Abstract: A clutch hub is splined to a planetary ring gear and a second rotating element, coupling the two elements. The spline defines a number of axial fluid distribution channels that conduct fluid from an interior radial passageway beside the ring gear to exterior radial passageways over the ring gear. These axial passageways permit packaging the clutch pack directly over the ring gear without drilling holes in the hardened gear material. The axial channels may be defined by radial space between the splined components. Alternatively or additionally, some spline teeth may be omitted to define larger axial channels.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Laurence Andrew Deutsch, Gregory Daniel Goleski, Mark Vaughn Smearsoll
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Patent number: 9759098Abstract: A valvetrain conversion kit for an engine can comprises at least one timing idler rim gear configured to be meshed with at least one of a crank gear of the engine and a cam gear of the engine. The kit can include a first timing gear chamber member having a plurality of engine mounting locations corresponding to a plurality of corresponding cover mounting locations on an internal combustion engine body. The first timing gear chamber member can be configured to be rigidly attached to an engine body at the plurality of engine mounting locations. The first timing gear chamber member can also include a timing idler rim gear shaft supported by the interior surface, the timing idler rim gear shaft having an exterior shaft surface where the exterior shaft surface is configured for rotatably supporting the timing idler rim gear.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Inventor: William Cullen Chapman, Jr.
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Patent number: 9447861Abstract: A component includes a component body which has a toothed section. An adaptive coating is applied, at least in parts, to the toothed section, the coating having a thickness of at least 5 ?m. The adaptive coating may have a hardness gradient that has an increasing hardness from an outer coating surface in the direction towards the component body.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: High Tech Coatings GmbHInventors: Guenter Eitzinger, Thomas Gasperlmair, Klaus Preinfalk, Katrin Zorn
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Patent number: 9371888Abstract: A pair of toothed wheels that mesh with each other includes a plateau portion. The surface of the plateau portion is a plateau-structure surface formed on each tooth face of each of the pair of the toothed wheels, with peak portions of convexities, out of a plurality of concavities and the convexities provided on the each tooth face, being flat. A reduced valley depth Rvk of the plateau portion of one of the pair of the toothed wheels as defined in JISB0671-2 is greater than the reduced valley depth Rvk of the plateau portion of the other of the pair of the toothed wheels. The area occupied by the concavities in the plateau portion of the one of the toothed wheels is larger than the area occupied by the concavities in the plateau portion of the other toothed wheel.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Daisuke Tokozakura, Akira Murakami, Yuya Takahashi, Keisuke Ichige, Masanori Iritani, Hideyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 9267594Abstract: Mating bevel gears generally include a pinion gear having a body that rotates about an axis and a side gear having a body that rotates about an axis that intersects the axis of the pinion gear. Pinion gear teeth of the pinion gear have a side that defines a curvature with an involute section through which a pitch line extends and a parabolic shape between the pinion gear teeth. Side gear teeth of the side gear have a side that defines a curvature with an involute section through which a pitch line extends and a parabolic shape between the side gear teeth. The curvatures on the pinion and the side gear teeth cooperatively define a controlled relative radius of curvature section except where the involute sections are located. The controlled relative radius of curvature section defines a sum of values of radius of curvature at a point of contact between the curvatures of the pinion gear teeth and the side gear teeth. The sum has a constant or decreasing value.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Dale K. Benedict, Yevsey Gutman
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Patent number: 9249692Abstract: The invention relates to a camshaft for an internal combustion engine with a shaft and at least one cam joined therewith, which is connected via a joining surface on the cam side with a joining surface on the shaft side. The joining surface on the cam side and alternatively or additionally the joining surface on the shaft side may be constructed such that they have a predefined roughness. Hereby, the friction between the shaft and the cam can be increased. The invention further relates to a cam for such a camshaft and a method for the manufacture of such a camshaft or respectively of such a cam.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2012Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Mahle International GmbHInventors: Antonio Menonna, Falk Schneider, Stefan Steichele
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Patent number: 9233649Abstract: A support and retention assembly for a portable electronic device has a support member with a front surface which defines a rest surface. The support member is connected to a structure of a dashboard so as to able to be moved between a retracted position and an extended position, in which it is locked by means of releasable locking devices. The assembly is provided with a rest element which projects from the front surface at a lower end of the support member and a clamp which is arranged over the rest element and may rotate upwards about a horizontal axis starting from a stowed position, in which at least part of the clamp is housed in a seat made in the front surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A.Inventors: Gennaro Bisceglia, Paolo Ceccato, Luca Marengo
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Patent number: 9027427Abstract: A method is described for changing gear-ratio by displacing at least one part of the engaging surface of a composite gear (21) and aligning it to the engaging surface of another gear (22), thus permitting a complementary third gear (25) engaged to the engaging surface, to shift from one composite gear to a different composite gear, while being constantly engaged. The method can be employed in a device, which can be used to form a gear-based, continuously engaged, variable transmission. Such a transmission, enhanced by—being combined with a differential assembly and the appropriate gearing, can provide rotational motion at various speeds in one direction and the reverse direction as well as zero motion.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2007Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Inventor: Panayiotis Economou
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Patent number: 9010497Abstract: Diverting pulley arrangement of an elevator, which includes an axle, at least one diverting pulley that rotates while supported on the axle, a faceplate structure, in relation to which and supported by which the diverting pulley is arranged to rotate on the first side of the faceplate structure, which axle is locked so that it does not rotate in relation to the faceplate structure by the aid of a locking element, which locking element is on the second side of the faceplate structure and supported so that it does not move in relation to the faceplate structure. The locking element is placed against the locking surface included in the axle so that the contact point of the locking element and the locking surface of the axle is at least partly visible.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Kone CorporationInventors: Antti Saarelainen, Petteri Valjus, Jaakko Kalliomäki, Jukka Norja, Albu Razvan
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Publication number: 20150047447Abstract: A guide plate mounting structure of a fuel pump, the guide plate mounting structure may include a fuel pump having a housing, a driving shaft protrudedly formed from the housing to the outside of the fuel pump, a block mounted onto an outer peripheral surface of the housing of the fuel pump, a guide plate having a first through hole formed at a center thereof and being positioned at an end of the block, and a fuel pump gear having a second through hole formed at a center thereof and being mounted to the driving shaft of the fuel pump through the second through hole, and a rim formed on an end surface of the fuel pump gear so as to be inserted into a first end surface of the guide plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicants: Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Jae Kyu LEE
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Publication number: 20150047448Abstract: A gear includes an inner ring portion, an outer ring portion, and a number of spokes connecting the inner ring portion with the outer ring portion. An outer circumferential surface of the outer ring portion is provided with teeth. Each spoke includes a curve-shaped main portion, an inner end section at an inner end of the main portion which connects to the inner ring portion, and an outer end section at an outer end of the main portion which connects to the outer ring portion. At least one of the inner end section and outer end section is formed with a furcated structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2014Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Jing Ning TA, Zhi Guo WANG, Qiu Mei LI, Yong Jun ZHAO
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Publication number: 20150033893Abstract: A stub shaft is disclosed. The stub shaft may have an elongated cylindrical body having a base end configured to be secured to an engine block and an opposing distal end. The stub shaft may also have a collar formed at the base end of the elongated cylindrical body. The collar may be configured to be inserted into a cavity in the engine block to guide attachment of the stub shaft to the engine block. The stub shaft may further have an axial bore formed in the elongated cylindrical body and passing from the base end to the distal end. The stub shaft may also have a radial passage formed in the elongated cylindrical body and in fluid communication with the axial bore. The stub shaft may additionally have a thrust face formed between the base end and the radial passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: Electro-Motive Diesel, Inc.Inventors: Stuart Leighton Bell, Abhinav Reddy Pamulaparthy, Jeffrey P. Nowak
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Publication number: 20150033894Abstract: A sintered gear serving as a mechanical structure component is a mechanical structure component made of a metal sintered body, and includes a base region; and a high density region formed so as to include a maximum stress position at which a maximum tensile stress or a maximum shear stress is applied, and to include a surface, in which the high density region is lower in porosity than the base region. A surface hardened layer is formed in a region including the surface by performing a hardening process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicant: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Okuno, Eiichirou Shimazu, Hikaru Araki
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Patent number: 8943921Abstract: An internal gear and cap assembly includes a gear having a base that extends about an axis between a first and second end. The first end defines a groove that extends to a floor and the groove surrounds the axis. Teeth extend from the base. A lip extends from the first end and also surrounds the axis. A cap has a flange that is inserted into the groove. The lip is deformed toward the groove such that material from the lip flows to trap the flange between the lip and the floor of the groove to retain the cap to the gear in the axial direction. Slots may be defined in the flange such that the material from the lip flows into the slots to provide a key-lock between the cap and the gear to prevent rotation of the cap relative to the gear about the axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2012Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Jeffrey R. Lee, Stephen D. Doubler, Travis M. Thompson, Steven L. Clark, Richard Vriesen
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Publication number: 20150007680Abstract: A plurality of ejector pins are made to project before a molten resin containing reinforcing fibers is injected into the inside of a cavity through pin point gates in a web forming portion in the inside of the cavity and at positions outside the pin point gates in the radial direction. The plurality of ejector pins are retracted from the inside of the cavity after the flow of the molten resin containing reinforcing fibers injected into the inside of the cavity through the pin point gates impinges on the plurality of ejector pins and is divided and before a tooth portion forming portion in the inside of the cavity is filled with the molten resin containing reinforcing fibers. Accordingly, weld lines which extend along the radial direction are formed at positions outside the ejector pins in the radial direction, and the molten resin is filled in portions formed after the ejector pins are retracted.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Masaomi HASHIMOTO, Kazuma YANAGISAWA
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Patent number: 8904896Abstract: A gear device includes a gear, a pin, a plate member, a retainer portion, a contact part and a non-contact part. The pin is inserted into an opening of the gear. The plate member is disposed on a face of the gear and attached along an outer peripheral surface of the pin. The retainer portion is disposed in a vicinity of an end portion of the pin, with the plate member being interposed between the retainer portion and the face of the gear. The contact part is formed by faced surfaces of the retainer portion and the plate member with parts of the faced surfaces annularly making contact in a position closest to an outer peripheral surface of the pin. The non-contact part is formed by the faced surfaces with parts of the faced surfaces not making contact in a position away from the outer peripheral surface of the pin.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Masao Ohno, Junichi Matsui, Terumasa Imajyou, Masahiko Ishiyama
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Patent number: 8904999Abstract: A resin gear has a concave portion formed on a gear body at a position radially inward of a boundary region between a toothed portion and a non-toothed portion. During a molding process, a welded portion is formed at the non-toothed portion by merger of flow of the molten resin along a first path and flow of the molten resin along a second path. The first path detours the concave portion and passes through the side of the toothed portion, and the second path detours the concave portion and passes through the side of the non-toothed portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masanobu Kondo, Hiroki Shimoto, Hiroshi Tanimura
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Patent number: 8893575Abstract: An annular caulking-fastened component to be fastened to a counterpart component by caulking includes a notch formed in an inner peripheral edge portion at one end side in a center axis direction, the notch being to be fixed to the counterpart component by caulking; and at least one of an inner-peripheral stepped portion formed between an inner peripheral surface and the inner peripheral edge portion and outward from the inner peripheral surface in a radial direction and an end-face stepped portion formed between an end face at one end side in the center axis direction and the inner peripheral edge portion and from the end face toward the other end side in the center axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2011Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Makoto Taniguchi, Yuki Kurosaki, Yoshihiko Ukai, Jun Kamitake, Jo Kayahana, Shuhei Yamaguchi, Katsuaki Makino
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Patent number: 8893572Abstract: A backlash eliminating device for helical gears is provided for a gear transmission system which includes a transmission shaft, two helical gears and a match gear. A sleeve mounted on the transmission shaft has an outer wall, an inner wall and at least two sections of spiral grooves penetrating through the outer wall and the inner wall. The sleeve includes a transmission part and two extremity parts. The transmission part is disposed between the spiral grooves, and is fixedly connected to the transmission shaft. The extremity parts are disposed outside of the spiral grooves. The helical gears are fixedly connected to the two extremity parts. The sleeve having the spiral grooves provides a preload spring force along an axial direction of the transmission shaft, so that the two helical gears are tightly engaged with the match gear.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2012Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Jinn-Fa Wu, Chiu-Hung Li, Hsi-Hung Hsiao, Chin-Mou Hsu
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Publication number: 20140339011Abstract: A gear blank is provided. It includes a disk having a first face and a second face. A first plurality of individual lugs formed on said first face circumferentially adjacent an outer circumferential edge of said disk. Each lug of said first plurality of individual lugs has a first inner circumferential edge formed on said first face along a first retaining diameter. Adjacent lugs of said first plurality of individual lugs have a first circumferential spacing therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Jefferey E. Beyerlein, Alan G. Turek, Jesse A. Heather
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Patent number: 8887593Abstract: The present invention is to provide a device of a pair of claw-type rotors having same profiles, the device includes a defined rotor and a conjugate rotor intermeshing with and conjugating to each other. The defined rotor includes a first claw having a cross-section profile having an epicycloid, a first arc, a second arc, a third arc, and a fourth arc all connected together in sequence in a counterclockwise direction. The first, second, third, and fourth arcs are connected with slope continuity, whereby locations of centers, values of radiuses and arc angles of the second and third arcs are capable of being defined in accordance with the slope continuity and geometric relations between the first and fourth arcs. The conjugate rotor has a first claw having a cross-section profile generated by utilizing a conjugate curve corresponding to the first claw of the defined rotor.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Liung Feng Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsang Lin Hsu, Tien-Tung Chung
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Publication number: 20140331803Abstract: A drive for adjusting the damper of a building air vent has a main body formed with a receiving aperture. A bearing ring is arranged in the receiving aperture and secured to the main body. The bearing ring has a circumferential direction, wherein the bearing ring has a first end and a second end in circumferential direction. The first end and the second end can be spaced apart in the circumferential direction such that there is a gap between the first end and the second end. A hub for actuating the drive shaft of the damper is fixed to the bearing ring such that the hub is rotatably mounted on the main body relative to the bearing ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Fabian Geiger, Christian Grossenbacher
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Publication number: 20140298940Abstract: A method of manufacturing a multi-material gear is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of (a) heating a first pre-form element of a first material to a temperature at which the first material can be formed; (b) heating a second pre-form element of a second material to a temperature at which the second material can be formed; and (c) forming the first and second pre-form elements in a die at least towards the shape of the gear, thereby providing bonding between the elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2012Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: Imperial Innovations LimitedInventors: Jianguo Lin, Denis Politis, Trevor Anthony Dean, Daniel Balint
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Publication number: 20140271314Abstract: A gear wheel comprising a plurality of helical teeth, each helical tooth of the gear wheel having a tooth profile meshing with semi-encapsulation in a geared hydraulic apparatus. Each tooth having a profile which falls within a band of tolerance of +? 1/15 of the depth of a nominal tooth defined by a spline function interpolating a plurality of node points having pre-established coordinates {X,Y} with their origin on the gear wheel center.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicants: Settima Meccanica S.r.l.Inventor: Mario Antonio Morselli
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Patent number: 8826765Abstract: In the helical gear, an opening perimeter wall includes a first arc side face located at the leading end side in the direction of rotation, concave towards the leading end side in the direction of rotation, and having a distance from the arc center as a first radius. The first arc side face includes a side face at a side of the rotation center of the hub, located at position with a distance from the arc center differing from the length of the first radius, on a verge of a virtual arcuate line centered about the rotation center, and passing through the arc center.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayuki Teramoto, Kazuhiko Murakoshi
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Publication number: 20140238171Abstract: The invention relates to a gear which is rotationally fixed on a driveshaft. The gear consists of injection-molded plastic, and the driveshaft consists of a plastic material which is different from the gear, said shaft being encapsulated by the gear. The shaft consists of plastic, and the plastic of the gear has a higher elasticity than the plastic of the shaft. The shaft has a connecting region which increases the diameter of the shaft in the connecting region where the shaft is encapsulated by the gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventor: Michael Kastrup
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Publication number: 20140216191Abstract: A gearwheel extending in an axial direction and in a radial direction, the gearwheel including a radial web carrying an axial annular rim, the rim carrying gear teeth. The web includes a vibration damper device including a layer of viscoelastic material and a backing layer. The layer of viscoelastic material is arranged axially between the radial web and the backing layer, and the layer of viscoelastic material is fixed directly to the web.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: TURBOMECAInventors: Mathieu Marsaudon, Philippe Cutuli
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Publication number: 20140208880Abstract: A gear wheel includes helical toothing, and a segment for a gear wheel which is made up of segments, each segment having a toothing section having helical toothing, the toothing section being joined to a retaining section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2012Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Zili Wu
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Publication number: 20140190301Abstract: A power take off (PTO) gear including: an input flange including an outwardly extending protrusion; a ring gear; and a piston including an inwardly extending protrusion and a circumferential end. The PTO gear includes first and second cover plates fixedly secured to the ring gear; at least one elastic element engaged with the flange and the first and second cover plates; and a chamber bounded by the circumferential end of the piston and material forming the ring gear and sealed in first and second axial directions by the first and second cover plates, respectively. For first torque applied to the flange, the flange is arranged to rotate with respect to the ring gear such that: the inwardly and outwardly extending protrusions contacts; the flange displaces the circumferentially curved piston; and the circumferential end of the curved piston displaces fluid disposed in the chamber to dampen motion of the flange.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Inventors: Markus Steinberger, Kerry Griffin, Matthew Payne
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Publication number: 20140157928Abstract: A novel method of manufacturing a toothed disc is taught wherein the teeth can be cold formed to a relatively high set of tolerances in a relatively time-efficient manner. A cold-formed disc blank with an annular thickened ring about its periphery is forced through a set of tooth forming rollers which engage the annular thickened ring. As the blank is forced through the set of rollers, the rollers cold forming tooth structures in the annular ring. In some circumstances, the tooth structure can be a final desired tooth profile and in other circumstances, the disc blank may be forced through two or more different sets of tooth forming rollers, each set of tooth forming rollers contributing to the forming of the final, desired tooth profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: MAGNA POWERTRAIN INC.Inventor: John Sabo
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Publication number: 20140157929Abstract: A two-piece flexplate assembly having a ring gear welded to a central plate using a capacitor discharge welding process. The weld is established between a joining structure defined between the ring gear and the central plate using either an overlap arrangement, a projection arrangement, or a chamfer arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Inventor: Guobin Yin
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Publication number: 20140150588Abstract: A gear is provided that includes a gear surface with a vibration sensor. The vibration sensor further includes an accelerometer coupled to a data transmitter and the vibration sensor is provided within a cavity in the gear surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2011Publication date: June 5, 2014Inventors: Goran Christiansson, Sebastian Ziegler
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Publication number: 20140144269Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a multi-stage gear in which no gap is formed between a small-diameter gear and a large-diameter gear, there are included a first step of forming the small-diameter gear on an outer peripheral surface of a workpiece, a second step of forming a large-diameter gear part by plastically deforming an end portion of the workpiece to increase the diameter thereof, and a third step of forming the large-diameter gear by cutting the large-diameter gear part.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2011Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya Sukeda, Hirofumi Inoshita, Koji Shimoda, Akinori Tomioka, Toshiaki Masui, Hironori Aoyama
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Patent number: 8733199Abstract: A method of manufacturing a gear, and the resulting gear, the method resulting such that the surface layer portions of the tooth portions and a tooth root portion are made to be a carburized layer, the remaining portion of the tooth portions and a portion of a disk portion lying below the carburized layer be a quench-hardened layer, and a region of the disk portion lying deeper than the quench-hardened layer be an unquenched layer. The gear is manufactured using raw material steel having the following chemical composition: C: 0.1% to 0.40% (% by mass), Si: 0.35% to 3.0%, Mn: 0.1% to 3.0%, Cr: less than 0.2%, Mo: 0.1% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.15% or less, Al: 0.05% or less, N: 0.03% or less, and Fe and unavoidable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Nippon Steel CorporationInventors: Koji Obayashi, Keita Taguchi, Susumu Kato, Shuji Kozawa, Manabu Kubota, Yuji Adachi, Hirokazu Sato
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Patent number: 8733198Abstract: As to a distance in a radial direction of a rotation shaft from a rim at the hub side to an outer peripheral side face, the outer peripheral side face includes a first side region having a distance located at the most leading end side spot in the direction of rotation of a helical gear longer than a distance at a tail end side spot.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takayuki Teramoto, Kazuhiko Murakoshi
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Publication number: 20140137683Abstract: A pinion gear assembly having a pinion, a collar, and a bearing. The pinion may have a gear portion and a hub portion disposed proximate the gear portion. The collar may be fixedly disposed on the hub portion and the bearing may be fixedly disposed on the collar.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: ARVINMERITOR TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventors: Brian D. Hayes, Robert J. Martin, Srinivasa P. Rengasamy