Form Patents (Class 74/462)
  • Patent number: 11946536
    Abstract: A three-dimensional tooth profile of internal teeth in a strain wave gearing is a basic internal-teeth tooth profile at an internal-teeth outer end, and is a reduced tooth profile, in which the basic internal-teeth tooth profile is proportionally reduced only in the lateral direction, at other tooth-trace-direction positions. A three-dimensional tooth profile of external teeth is a basic external-teeth tooth profile at an external-teeth outer end, and is an increased tooth profile, in which the basic external-teeth tooth profile is proportionally increased only in the lateral direction, at other tooth-trace-direction positions. Tooth cutting process becomes easier than when only the external teeth employ a three-dimensional tooth profile. Since the tooth profiles, which are proportionally reduced and increased only in the lateral direction along the tooth trace direction, are employed, it is further easier in tooth cutting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Norio Shirokoshi, Satoshi Kishi, Yoshihide Kiyosawa
  • Patent number: 11925978
    Abstract: An aluminum component and a method for manufacturing the aluminum component has a forming step and a cutting step. Projections (f) extend in an axial direction and are continuously arranged in a circumferential direction. End portions of the projections (f) are cut along a processing line having a predetermined processing diameter (D) providing splines (S) of predetermined dimensions. Side surfaces (fa) are inclined to be tapered in a direction from a base end to a projecting end. A portion of each side surface (fa) adjacent to the projecting end is an inclined surface (fb) with an inclination angle less than an inclination angle of a portion of the side surface that is adjacent to the base end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha F.C.C.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kondo
  • Patent number: 11918265
    Abstract: An expandable laminoplasty device has a superior plate, an inferior plate, threaded or racked gear post having external threads or gear teeth, the post affixed to one of the superior plate or the inferior plate, and a gear nut or pinion gear, the gear has internal threads or external gear teeth configured to engage external threads or gear teeth of the post. The gear is held in one of the superior plate or inferior plate not affixed to the post and wherein the superior plate or inferior plate not affixed to the post has an end with a slot or channel to receive the post and a side opening to receive and hold the gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Curiteva, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Linder, Ryan Heskett
  • Patent number: 11894753
    Abstract: A deceleration mechanism is provided with first and second gears, a first tooth part arranged in the first gear and extending spirally in an axial direction of the first gear, an engagement projected part arranged on the first tooth part, second tooth parts arranged on the second gear, and an engagement recessed part arranged between the adjacent second tooth parts. The engagement projected part is formed in an arc shape in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the first gear and has a curvature center eccentric from a rotation center of the first gear. The second tooth parts are inclined with respect to the axial direction of the first gear and arranged in a circumferential direction of the second gear. The engagement projected part is formed in an arc-shape in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the first gear and engaged with the engagement projected part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kojima, Motoaki Kobayashi, Teppei Tokizaki, Yoshichika Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11858746
    Abstract: A sprocket comprising teeth for engaging one or more chains is provided with datum connection portions which releasably support a datum body, such as a tensioned wire, in a predefined position. The datum body provides a temporary reference or datum element or surface from which the position of the wear surfaces of the sprocket teeth may be determined by eye or by measurement, particularly in the radial direction. The teeth may further comprise a set of markings corresponding to angularly spaced reference planes intersecting at the sprocket axis. The markings are preferably arranged on the crown or radially outward surface of the teeth and are used to determine wear in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Voigt, Jarrod Brooks
  • Patent number: 11852216
    Abstract: A transmission system of a decelerating mechanism includes a planetary gear unit including a sun gear being adjacent to the first surface and a planetary gear set and a holder including a carrier and several planetary shaft units rotatably disposed on the carrier. The carrier has a first surface and a second surface that face opposite directions. The planetary gear set has several first gears being adjacent to the first surface, respectively fitting around the planetary shaft units, and meshing with the sun gear, several second gears being adjacent to the second surface and being coaxially disposed with the first gears, and an internal gear ring meshing with the second gears. By respectively arranging the first gears and the second gears on two opposite sides of the carrier, mutual interference therebetween while turning could be avoided, and an overall volume of the transmission system could be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: TIEN HSIN INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Lan Ou, Tsung-Ming Tsai, Yu-Nong Wu
  • Patent number: 11835113
    Abstract: A gear pair and nutation reducer are provided. The gear pair is formed by a pin gear and a non-instantaneous-pole enveloping gear in meshing engagement with each other, the effective tooth surface of the pin gear being constructed of an elliptical cone segment that is outwardly convex, and the distance between the highest and lowest points on the elliptical cone segment in the same cross-section gradually decreases inwardly along the generatrix of the reference cone of the pin gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventor: Hong Jiang
  • Patent number: 11828356
    Abstract: A three-dimensional tooth profile of internal teeth in a strain wave gearing is a basic internal-teeth tooth profile at an internal-teeth outer end, and is a reduced tooth profile, in which the basic internal-teeth tooth profile is proportionally reduced only in the lateral direction, at other tooth-trace-direction positions. A three-dimensional tooth profile of external teeth is a basic external-teeth tooth profile at an external-teeth outer end, and is an increased tooth profile, in which the basic external-teeth tooth profile is proportionally increased only in the lateral direction, at other tooth-trace-direction positions. The tooth tip circle of an internal-teeth inner-end-side portion of the internal teeth is larger than that of other portions and does not interfere with the external teeth. The external teeth and the internal teeth mesh three-dimensionally, the teeth do not interfere at the internal-teeth inner-end side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Norio Shirokoshi
  • Patent number: 11801885
    Abstract: A sensor device for a steering actuator, the sensor device may include: a pinion shaft mounted on a housing part; a first pinion gear integrated with the pinion shaft by injection molding; and a sensor unit coupled to the first pinion gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Su Ju Park
  • Patent number: 11744656
    Abstract: An actuation mechanism for a medical instrument includes a pinion and a face gear that move a push-pull element. The pinion has a mounting that permits rotation of the pinion by an external control system such as a robot. The face gear meshes with the pinion. The push-pull element may have a proximal end coupled to the face gear and a distal end coupled to a tool at a distal end of an instrument shaft. A manipulator coupled for manual rotation of the actuation mechanism may include a slip clutch to prevent manual application of excessive force to the actuation mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Bram Gilbert Antoon Lambrecht, Thomas G. Cooper
  • Patent number: 11721250
    Abstract: An exemplary indicator mechanism is configured for use with a door closer including a body and an adjustment screw. The indicator mechanism generally includes an indicator, at least one indicium, and a cycloidal drive. The cycloidal drive is configured to selectively align the indicator and the at least one indicium in response to rotation of the adjustment screw to thereby indicate an operating characteristic of the door closer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventor: Adithya Gangadhar Shetty
  • Patent number: 11662010
    Abstract: A vehicle drive device uses a parallel shaft gear reducer (30) in which a gear is composed of helical gear, as a speed reducer part (B) that decelerates and outputs a rotation of an electric motor part (A). In the vehicle drive device, of meshing parts of the gears formed in the speed reducer part (B), two gears form a meshing part in which the amount of misalignment that occurs between the tooth surfaces of the two gears meshing with each other is different during driving and during coasting of a vehicle. A first tooth surface (S1) meshing with a mating tooth surface during driving is subjected to tooth surface modification, and a second tooth surface (S2) meshing with a mating tooth surface during coasting is subjected to tooth surface modification of an amount different from an amount of the tooth surface modification to the first tooth surface (S1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryou Yukishima, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Katsunori Sato
  • Patent number: 11585414
    Abstract: To provide a simple-structured chain drive mechanism that can reduce the noise generated when the chain sits on the sprocket, prevent deterioration of power transmission efficiency, and retard the progress of wear on the sprocket or chain. The chain drive mechanism includes a sprocket having a plurality of teeth, and a chain having a plurality of link plates and configured to be put around the sprocket. The sprocket includes a pair of flanges protruding circumferentially around the sprocket such as to sandwich the plurality of teeth from sides. The chain includes a pair of seat portions on both sides of the chain so that the flanges abut on the seat portions from a circumferential direction of the sprocket when the chain sits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN CO.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kadono, Yuji Kurematsu
  • Patent number: 11549507
    Abstract: A displacement device including an inner rotor and an outer rotor with meshing projections. Points on each rotor trace a hypotrochoidal path relative to the other. The tips of the outer rotor projections may contact the inner rotor at Top Dead Center (TDC) and Bottom Dead Center (BDC) to form higher and lower pressure regions. Various elements may shape other elements to form seals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Genesis Advanced Technology Inc.
    Inventors: James Brent Klassen, Alexander Sean Li, Arthi Muniyappan, Benjamin McGhie, Justin Michael Hebert, Javier Peter Fernandez-Han, Timothy Davis Burson
  • Patent number: 11512445
    Abstract: A drawbar-circle-moldboard assembly for a work machine includes a drawbar, a circle assembly, and a moldboard. The drawbar is configured to be pivotably connected to a frame of the work machine. The circle assembly is rotatably connected to the drawbar and includes a circle member formed from a hollow box section. The moldboard is connected to the circle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin J. Kovalick
  • Patent number: 11512706
    Abstract: A geared compressor includes a plurality of compression units and a compression-unit-driving mechanism which drives the plurality of compression units. The compression-unit-driving mechanism includes a plurality of driven gears which are provided in respective rotation shafts of the plurality of compression units and a plurality of large-diameter gears which are directly or indirectly driven by a drive source and have outer diameters larger than those of the plurality of driven gears. The plurality of large-diameter gears is arranged side by side in a horizontal direction and each of the plurality of large-diameter gears meshes with two or more of the plurality of driven gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyata, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11473664
    Abstract: A bearing including a bearing ring having an annular base and a plurality of gear teeth integrally formed with the annular base. Each gear tooth of the plurality of gear teeth includes a first flank surface extending substantially radially from the annular base, a top land surface extending substantially in the axial direction, and a chamfered surface between the top land surface and first flank surface. The chamfered surface includes a first arc with a first radius in a range of 0.1 to 0.15 times the gear module of the bearing ring. The first arc has a point of tangency with the first flank surface. The chamfered surface has length P extending in the radial direction between the point of tangency and the top land surface, and P is in the range of 0.1 to 0.15 times the gear module of the bearing ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Bruno Capoldi, Siegfried Derrer
  • Patent number: 11383025
    Abstract: A high pressure delivery system for delivering a medicament, comprising a first chamber for storing a supply of the medicament, a gear pump assembly in fluid communication with the first chamber, said gear pump assembly having a dose inlet and a dose discharge, said dose inlet having a larger diameter than said dose discharge to provide a high pressure discharge, and a fluid connection path in fluid communication with the gear pump assembly for delivering the medicament to a high pressure area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: James Bates, Robert Banik, Barry Ginsberg
  • Patent number: 11384825
    Abstract: A wave gear apparatus comprises a spline having top, bottom, exterior, and interior surfaces. A plurality of spline teeth extend from the interior surface toward a center axis. A wave generator is rotatably disposed in the spline. A belt extends about the wave generator. The belt includes a plurality of belt teeth extending radially outwardly from the belt whereby a total number of the belt teeth is less than a total number of the spline teeth. An output member defines a recess receiving the wave generator and the belt whereby, in response to a rotational movement from the wave generator, the output member rotates in a direction same or opposite of the wave generator. A vehicle lifting system including the wave gear apparatus is also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: BEIJINGWEST INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dominique Fanelli, Pierre-Luc Kovac, Jocelyn Marchand
  • Patent number: 11378185
    Abstract: A parking mechanism for use in a vehicle and method of operation thereof. The parking mechanism includes one or more actuation mechanisms, a parking pawl and a parking gear. At least a portion of the one or more actuation mechanisms are drivingly connected to at least a portion of a cam. The parking pawl has one or more parking pawl teeth extending therefrom that are selectively engagable with at least a portion of one or more parking gear teeth extending from an outer surface of a body portion of the parking gear. The parking pawl also includes a parking pawl pin aperture having a size and shape needed to receive and/or retain at least a portion of a parking pawl pin therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Dana Heavy Vehicle Systems Group, LLC
    Inventors: Robert D. Keller, Ned W. Wright, Aaron D. Gries, Robert L. Vailliencourt, Brian V. Knapke
  • Patent number: 11353090
    Abstract: A speed reducer according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a crankshaft and a speed reducing mechanism. The crankshaft includes a gear portion driven by rotation from a drive source and a journal portion formed integrally with the gear portion. The crankshaft rotates about an axis of the journal portion. The speed reducing mechanism decelerates rotation of the crankshaft and outputs the decelerated rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Yuto Nakai, Shunsuke Kimura
  • Patent number: 11278385
    Abstract: A toothbrush (10) includes a brush assembly (16) with at least three bristle arrangements (12), each having opposing inwardly-directed bristles (122, 124, 126) for simultaneously contacting facial and lingual surfaces (52, 54), and preferably also occlusal surfaces (56) of the teeth (50). Flexible linkages (14), interconnecting the bristle arrangements (12), maintain a relative spacing between the bristle arrangements (12) while allowing variation of an effective curvature of the brush assembly (16) such that the bristle arrangements (12) can ride along, and conform to a non-uniform curvature of, the arch of teeth. The toothbrush (IO) preferably also includes an actuation mechanism (22) for generating to-and-fro motion of the brush assembly (16) along the arch of teeth, most preferably combined with a more rapid small-amplitude oscillatory motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: DENTVER LTD.
    Inventors: Bar Yaad Peled, Eran Eyal
  • Patent number: 11193507
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus pertaining to positive displacement pumps, and further to hydraulic actuation systems. In some embodiments the pumps are gear pumps with bi-directional operation. In some embodiments the actuation system includes a motor-driven, reversible operation gear pump providing fluid under pressure to a rod and cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Andrea Vacca, Gabriele Altare
  • Patent number: 11156267
    Abstract: A planetary gear with a sun wheel, a hollow wheel and a planetary carrier on which a planetary wheel is rotatably mounted. In the axial direction on a first side of the planetary carrier, the sun wheel and hollow wheel include connection areas for coupling the sun wheel and hollow wheel to rotatable or torque-proof areas of an engine. The planetary carrier has a connection area for attaching to rotatable or torque-proof areas of the engine on its opposite second side. The structural component stiffnesses of the sun wheel, planetary carrier, the hollow wheel and the planetary wheel are adjusted to each other such that, during operation they have twistings in the axial direction of the planetary gear that respectively qualitatively correspond to each other between the connection areas and side areas facing away from the connection areas due to the respectively applied torques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Gideon Daniel Venter, Jan Schwarze
  • Patent number: 10989190
    Abstract: An external gear pump, having a driving first pump gear and a second pump gear driven by the first pump gear, which intermesh to convey a fluid from a suction side to a pressure side of the external gear pump. The first pump gear and the second pump gear each have a plurality of teeth, each having a leading tooth flank leading in the rotation direction of the corresponding pump gear and a trailing tooth flank. The leading tooth flank of the first pump gear interacts with the trailing tooth flank of the second pump gear to drive the second pump gear via the first pump gear. The trailing tooth flanks of the first pump gear extend concavely to form a fluid pocket at at least one axial position in the radial direction at least in sections in each case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Simon Ochsenkühn
  • Patent number: 10895844
    Abstract: A gear train mechanism of a timepiece is formed by a gear having an involute tooth profile, which is easily manufactured, and a pinion that meshes with the gear. In order to reduce a fluctuation in torque to be transmitted, a gear train mechanism of a timepiece includes a gear including a tooth having a tooth profile of an involute curve and a pinion including a tooth meshing with the tooth of the gear to transmit and receive a torque, wherein the torque to be transmitted from the gear to the pinion is substantially constant at least in a part of a first half of a meshing period of the gear and the pinion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Fukuda, Shinpei Fukaya
  • Patent number: 10767744
    Abstract: This anti-backlash gear includes a gear wheel and gear teeth. Each gear tooth comprises first and second flanks, a top face and a bottom face, wherein for each gear tooth each flank extends from the top face to the bottom face, wherein the gear teeth comprise a polymeric material which comprises a repeat unit of form I wherein t1, and w1 independently represent 0 or 1 and v1 represents 0, 1 or 2. For each gear tooth, at least one of said flanks comprises two or more surfaces arranged to form a single protrusion extending along the at least one said flank such that a tooth thickness of each gear tooth varies between the top face and the bottom face of said gear tooth in a direction parallel to an axis of rotation of the gearwheel in operation. In use, the single protrusion is elastically deformable so as to absorb backlash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: VICTREX MANUFACTURING LIMITED
    Inventor: Roderick Kleiss
  • Patent number: 10704650
    Abstract: A cycloidal gear pair reducer including an input shaft, mounted in a reducer casing such that it rotates about an axis referred to as “main axis”, an eccentric member carried by the input shaft and rotated by the latter, at least one cycloidal disc rotatably mounted on the eccentric member and having a cycloidal toothing, at least one ring gear provided with a receiving toothing with which the cycloidal toothing of the cycloidal disc meshes, and an output shaft, separate from the input shaft, arranged to be rotated by the cycloidal disc; the cycloidal toothing of the disc and the corresponding receiving toothing of the ring gear being helical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: JTEKT EUROPE
    Inventors: Laurent Rey, Jean-Michel Saniez
  • Patent number: 10677317
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a line gear mechanism for rotation-movement conversion, comprising a driving line gear (1) and a driven line gear (2). A stagger angle between an axis of the driving line gear and an axis of the driven line gear is any value from 0° to 180°. By a point contact meshing between a driving contact curve of a driving line tooth on the driving line gear (1) and a driven contact curve of a driven line tooth on the driven line gear (2), and by utilizing rotation of the driving line gear (1), it achieves that the driven line gear (2) rotates while moving smoothly. The line gear mechanism for rotation-movement conversion is simple in structure, easy to design, can achieve small displacement of movement, and is especially suitable for the conversion of small machinery from rotation to linear motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yangzhi Chen, Yueling Lv
  • Patent number: 10599165
    Abstract: A governor and inversion pump drive gear for an integrated drive generator has a gear body extending from a first end to a second end. There is an enlarged disc between the first and second ends. A boss extends from the enlarged disc toward the second end and has an internal bore with spline teeth. The enlarged disc has input gear teeth at an outer periphery. A shaft portion extends from the disc to the first end. A flange is formed at a location intermediate the first end and the enlarged disc. The inner gear teeth and the drive gear teeth have unique tooth profiles. An integrated dive generator and a method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Derek R. Hochstetler, Ted A. Martin, Duane C. Johnson, Glenn C. Lemmers, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10584783
    Abstract: A gear keeping the bending stress at the dedendum from becoming locally high at the time of power transmission and thereby raising the dedendum bending strength. The radius of curvature is maximum at a critical section position determined by the Hofer's 30° tangent method. Both radii of curvature from the critical section position to the first and second connecting points X1 and Y1 are constant or decreasing. In dedendum line segment 23, there are points A1 and B1 where radius of curvature is smaller than the critical section position. In the dedendum line segment 23, the maximum radius of curvature is 3 times or less the minimum radius of curvature. By a cross-sectional view, the critical section position is part of an arc, and the arc extends to the two sides of the critical section position. Thus, the maximum bending stress becomes smaller and dedendum bending strength is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Narumiya, Osamu Kada, Takashi Fujita, Yutaka Neishi
  • Patent number: 10415672
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a ring gear having a plurality of gear teeth, where each of the plurality of gear teeth of the planet gear has a partial cycloid profile, and a planet gear rotatable within the ring gear, where the planet gear has a plurality of gear teeth, and each of the plurality of gear teeth of the planet gear has a partial cycloid profile. The total number of gear teeth of the planet gear is smaller than the total number of gear teeth of the ring gear. The gear teeth of the planet gear operatively mesh with corresponding gear teeth of the ring gear. The total number of gear teeth of the planet gear provides each gear tooth of the planet gear with a bending strength and a compressive strength such that the bending strength and the compressive strength differ by less than a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventor: Curt Salisbury
  • Patent number: 10409222
    Abstract: A gearwheel (R2) for clock movement, suitable for cooperating with a given first gearwheel (R1), wherein it comprises teeth whose flank is defined such that the torque ratio j between the two meshed gearwheels (R1, R2) is constant at least over a given angular pitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: ROLEX SA
    Inventor: Quentin Theurillat-Bonjour
  • Patent number: 10393240
    Abstract: A gear drive device includes a first gear, a second gear that meshes with the first gear to allow torque transmission, and a biasing member that applies rotational torque in one direction to the first gear or the second gear. The first gear and the second gear are brought into contact at a contacting tooth surface thereof by the biasing member. At least one of the first gear and the second gear includes a non-contacting tooth surface that is on an opposite side of the contacting tooth surface and partially removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yuki Kubo, Seiji Ishigaki
  • Patent number: 10324447
    Abstract: A foil transfer device, a foil transfer method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute first, second and third processes. In the first process, an acute angle portion included in a contour of a predetermined shape is specified. In the second process, an approximation curve along a contour of the acute angle portion specified in the first process and is located inside the predetermined shape is obtained. In the third process, movement route data for the acute angle portion is created along the approximation curve obtained in the second process. The movement route data is usable for, for example, control of moving a heater of the foil transfer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: ROLAND DG CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kouichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 10203022
    Abstract: A wobble plate drive system may include a stator having a central axis and a plurality of stator teeth disposed on an inner cylindrical surface. The system may further include a wobble plate having a wobble axis disposed at a non-zero angle relative to the central axis, an outer cylindrical surface, and an upper annular surface. A plurality of wobble teeth may be disposed on the outer cylindrical surface and a plurality of face teeth may be disposed on the upper annular surface. The system may further include an output gear having an output axis substantially aligned with the central axis and a lower annular surface. A plurality of output teeth may be disposed on the lower annular surface. The wobble plate may be configured to rotate, the plurality of wobble teeth may be configured to engage with the plurality of stator teeth, and the plurality of face teeth may be configured to engage with the plurality of output teeth as the wobble plate nutates around the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Robert J. Atmur, William Patrick Sargent
  • Patent number: 9903459
    Abstract: A strain wave gearing includes a rigid internally toothed gear, a flexible externally toothed gear disposed coaxially within the internally toothed gear, and a wave generator fitted within the externally toothed gear. The internally toothed gear and the externally toothed gear are spur gears having module m; and the number of teeth of the externally toothed gear is 2n less than the number of teeth of the internally toothed gear, where n is a positive integer. Taking a transverse cross-section at a prescribed position along a tooth trace direction of the external teeth as a main cross-section, a degree of flexing, with respect to a rim-neutral circle of the externally toothed gear prior to ellipsoidal flexing, of a rim-neutral line of the ellipsoidally flexed externally toothed gear is set, at a position on the major axis in the main cross-section, to 2mn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9811610
    Abstract: Methods to automatically recognize bevel features and bevel chains in inner bounding loops and outer bounding loops of walls and bends in sheet metal models or on solid models are disclosed, which may be used for computer aided design, manufacturing, DFX, costing, etc. Recognition methods of various types of bevels and classification of bevels as V-bevel, inverted V-bevel, Y-bevel, inverted Y-bevel, X-bevel, K-bevel, generic bevels and different types of vertex bevels are disclosed. Bevel chain recognition methods that assemble the same type of bevels into bevel chains and identify the bevel chains as tangential bevel chains, non-tangential bevel chains and mixed bevel chains based on the connectivity between the bevels are disclosed. Methods to generate bevel profiles that may be used for feature recreation, feature suppression, or tool path generation for cutting features for manufacturing are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: HCL Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Thoguluva Ramamoorthy Kannan, Romesh Agrawal
  • Patent number: 9638311
    Abstract: Hemispherical protrusions are protrudingly provided in end surfaces of a rotor gear and a tooth portion of a small gear having the smaller number of gear teeth between the rotor gear and a large gear of an intermediate gear, and between the small gear of the intermediate gear and an output gear, which are meshed with each other in a transmission gear train. Thus, in a case where the large gear rides on the rotor gear or the small gear rides on the output gear when the intermediate gear is accommodated in a housing after the rotor gear and the output gear are accommodated, it is possible to cancel the riding state thereof only by applying a slight vibration to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taisei Fukuda
  • Patent number: 9593758
    Abstract: A gear of a gear device includes a plurality of teeth having tooth surfaces. The tooth surfaces are shaped such that contact length ratios of three or more of the teeth are outside a predetermined range centered on an average value of the contact length ratios of all of the teeth, where the contact length ratio is obtained by dividing a contact length of a tooth contact face by a diagonal length of a plane of action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Kiten
  • Patent number: 9555767
    Abstract: A drive wheel for a belt tensioner is adapted to be coupled to a belt reel and includes an external tooth system including plural teeth distributed along the circumference. The teeth are inclined in a first circumferential direction and/or the teeth have at least one end face facing away from the central axis of the drive wheel and being inclined in a first circumferential direction and/or the clearances between neighboring teeth are not symmetrical with respect to planes defined by radial and axial directions. The teeth have no symmetry with respect to planes extending tangentially relative to the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: TRW Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Gentner, Thomas Moedinger, Andreas Pregitzer
  • Patent number: 9550243
    Abstract: A gear includes teeth 3 to be engaged with teeth of a corresponding gear to transmit a rotational motion, in which a form (b) of a tooth root side of each tooth 3 includes: a first curved surface c which smoothly connects with a tooth surface a having an involute curve and has a profile represented by a curve which is convex in a direction opposite to the involute curve of the tooth surface a; and a second curved surface d which smoothly connects with the first curved surface c and has a profile defined by a quadratic function having a curve being convex in the same direction as that of the first curved surface c. Therefore, a stress generated on the tooth root side at the time of engagement with the teeth of the corresponding gear can be reduced, and the strength of the teeth can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Ohmi
  • Patent number: 9428085
    Abstract: A disc recliner for a seat assembly includes a fixed plate secured to a seat cushion and a rotatable plate secured to a seat back. Each of the fixed and rotatable plates has a plurality of teeth, the number of teeth not being equal. A flex spline has a plurality of teeth, the number of teeth being equal to the number of teeth on the fixed plate. A wave generator causes a portion of the teeth on the flex spline to meshingly engage with the teeth on the fixed and rotatable plates. Rotation of the wave generator causes the teeth on the flex spline which meshingly engage with the teeth on the fixed and rotatable plates to change, thereby causing the rotatable plate to rotate relative to the fixed plate, which in turn causes the seat back to pivot relative to the seat cushion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Magna Seating Inc
    Inventors: Randolph P Villarroel, Xiao J Wei, Omar D Tame
  • Patent number: 9416861
    Abstract: In the strain wave gearing, an involute positive deflection tooth profile of a low pressure angle of less than 20° is used as the basic tooth profile for the rigid internal spur gear and the flexible external spur gear in order to increase the effective tooth depth. Continuous meshing of the two gears in the tooth trace direction is made possible by shifting the external teeth so that the linear parts of the rack tooth profiles coincide when viewed along the tooth trace direction. The root rim thickness of the front end of the external teeth of the flexible external spur gear is set to an optimal thickness and the root rim thicknesses at various positions other than the front end of the external teeth in the tooth trace direction are set to appropriate values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Shoichi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9339879
    Abstract: For machining a concave-convex gear in which concave teeth of the concave-convex gear and convex teeth of a mating gear are formed in a circumferential direction, to allow torque transmission to or from the mating gear, in a trajectory extracting step a relative movement trajectory of each convex tooth of the mating gear with respect to the concave-convex gear at the time when torque is transmitted is first extracted as a machining target. Then, in a machining step, the concave teeth of the concave-convex gear are machined on a disc-shaped workpiece by moving at least one of the disc-shaped workpiece and a working tool such that a relative movement trajectory of the working tool with respect to the disc-shaped workpiece coincides with the relative movement trajectory of each convex tooth of the mating gear with respect to the concave-convex gear extracted in the trajectory extracting step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ando, Masayuki Takeshima, Ikuko Hirota
  • Patent number: 9334845
    Abstract: The engine starting device includes a pinion unit which is spline-coupled to an output shaft side of a starter motor to slide in an axial direction, the pinion unit including a one-way clutch which spins for rotation in the same direction as that of rotation of the engine, and a pushing mechanism for moving the pinion unit to a position in which the pinion unit comes into meshing engagement with a ring gear. A pinion gear of the pinion unit is movable in the axial direction as a single body, and includes a chamfered portion having a curved surface along a tooth surface on a non-torque transmitting surface side and a large length in the axial direction, the chamfered portion being provided to a ring-gear side distal end portion of the tooth surface on the non-torque transmitting surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Mizuno, Akihiko Imagi, Hiroaki Kitano, Koichiro Kamei, Kazuhiro Odahara, Masami Abe
  • Patent number: 9242582
    Abstract: A fitting (10), in particular for a motor vehicle seat, includes a first fitting part (11), on which a ring gear (17) is formed, a second fitting part (12), on which a gear (16) is formed, which meshes with the ring gear (17), whereby the two fitting parts (11, 12) are in a transmission connection with each other, and a rotatably mounted, revolving eccentric for driving a relative rolling motion of the gear (16) and the ring gear (17). The eccentric is driven by a carrier, wherein during said rolling motion, a tooth flank (16d) of a tooth (16a) of the gear (16) contacts a tooth flank (17d) of a tooth (17a) of the ring gear (17) at a pitch point (W). The radius of curvature (K1) of the tooth flank (16d) of the tooth (16a) of the gear (16) at the pitch point (W) and the radius of curvature (K2) of the tooth flank (17d) of the tooth (17a); of the ring gear (17) at the pitch point (W) are at least approximately equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: KEIPER GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Peter Thiel
  • Patent number: 9226485
    Abstract: A fishing reel employs a driving mechanism having a cooperative pinion gear and a face gear. The face gear has a tooth form with a cross-section wherein the cross-section of the inner pitch portion is less than the cross-section of an outer pitch portion. The pinion gear effectively engages the inner pitch portion less than an outer pitch portion to provide a more uniform distribution of torque and to improve the wearing rate of the gear mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Heligear Engineering (H.K.) Co. Ltd
    Inventor: Chung Cheung
  • Patent number: 9180734
    Abstract: In a machining tool, multiple tooth forming portions for plastically forming spline teeth on an axial end face of a vehicle hub unit, the axial end face facing inward in the vehicle lateral direction, are formed in a circular pattern about the central axis of the machining tool. In the machining tool, a rounded-portion forming portion is formed to form a rounded portion between a tooth flank and a top land of each spline tooth, and the radius of the rounded-portion forming portion gradually changes in the radial direction about the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Toda, Takaaki Onizuka, Katsuyuki Harada
  • Patent number: 9154015
    Abstract: A pressure angle of the worm is set to be greater than a pressure angle of the worm wheel so that a maximum number of meshing teeth becomes smaller than or equal to n (where n is a natural number) with respect to the speed reduction mechanism in which a number of meshing teeth is always n+1 or changed between n+1 and n by rotation under a condition in which the pressure angles of the worm and the worm wheel are the same with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Horikawa, Hideyuki Yagi, Itaru Soga