Form Patents (Class 74/462)
  • Patent number: 12259032
    Abstract: A strain wave gear device includes: an internal gear; a wave generator; a flex gear including an outer gear and a first annular portion integrally formed with the outer gear of the same material; and an outputter that rotates together with the flex gear and includes a second annular portion facing against the first annular portion in a radial direction centered on an axis. The second annular portion is provided with a transmission tooth protruding radially while the first annular portion is provided with a recess to receive the transmission tooth. The recess is circumferentially wider than the transmission tooth and tolerates relative circumferential displacement of the flex gear with respect to the outputter. Transmission pairs, each including the transmission tooth and the recess, are circumferentially arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SKG INC.
    Inventor: Yutaka Imagawa
  • Patent number: 12233608
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for the automatic manufacturing of wind turbine blades, including an elongate tool support (2) with a main suspension beam (4), a plurality of support frames (8) supporting the main suspension beam (4) above the wind turbine blade mould (1), an elongate guide rail (5) provided on the main suspension beam (4) so as to extend longitudinally along the main suspension beam (4), a slider base (6) slidably mounted on the guide rail (5), a drive mechanism (53) for driving the slider base (6) longitudinally along the guide rail (5) and a tool holder (7) mounted on the slider base (6). The apparatus/method improves the efficiency and accuracy of the blade manufacture, and also reduces the exposure of the human body to harmful substances used in blade manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Gurit Tooling (Taicang) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Binjiang Chen, Jialin Lu
  • Patent number: 12215771
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a harmonic reducer with conjugate cycloidal profiles, including a circular spline, a flexspline, a wave generator and a flexible bearing. A profile of the circular spline and a profile of the flexspline are conjugate cycloidal profiles. The profile of the circular spline and the profile of the flexspline are formed by hypocycloids and epicycloids formed by two rolling circles around a pitch circle of the circular spline and a pitch circle of the flexspline under an engaging state respectively. A sum of radii of the first rolling circle and the second rolling circle is equal to a difference between radii of the pitch circle of the circular spline and the pitch circle of the flexspline under the engaging state. The wave generator is a biarc cam wave generator, a cam curve is an arc within an angle of contact in the long axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: TIANJIN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yuhu Yang, Ran Xie, Guocheng Zhou, Zhaoguang Shen
  • Patent number: 12214433
    Abstract: A method for producing a tooth geometry includes selecting a root-side starting contour configured as an ellipse segment and a head-side partial contour of a tooth; selecting an adaptation region for at least a part of the root-side starting contour; determining for the adaptation region a correction specification determined using a correction function configured as an at least third-order polynomial having at least one adjustable function parameter comprising adjustable coefficients; modifying the root-side starting contour using the correction specification to form a root-side final contour, and producing the tooth geometry by chip-removing machining based on the head-side partial contour and the root-side final contour. Also disclosed are a computer program product for carrying out the method, a tool for manufacturing the tooth geometry based on the method, and a machine component having the tooth geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Flender GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Hess
  • Patent number: 12209648
    Abstract: According to a tooth profile designing method for a strain wave gear device, a first curve from a point A (?=0) to a point B (?=?/2) in a moving locus of external teeth with respect to internal teeth is extracted. A similarity curve is obtained by multiplying the first curve by (1??) using the point B as a center of similarity, and a second curve is obtained by rotating the similarity curve by 180° about a midpoint C between the point A and the point B as a center of similarity. A third curve is obtained by multiplying only the x-coordinate of the second curve by ? (?<1), or a fourth curve is obtained by multiplying only the y-coordinate of the second curve by ? (?>1). An addendum tooth profile of the external teeth is defined using the third curve or the fourth curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: HARMONIC DRIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Yuya Murayama
  • Patent number: 12201337
    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: January 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Curiteva, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Linder, Ryan Heskett
  • Patent number: 12188546
    Abstract: A speed reducer comprises a transmission shaft, an eccentric wheel, a first wheel assembly, a rotating wheel and a second wheel assembly. The first wheel assembly comprises a first wheel disc and at least one first roller. The at least one first roller is disposed on the inner wall of first wheel disc. The rotating wheel comprises a main body comprising an outer ring structure and a concave structure. The outer ring structure comprises at least one first tooth. The at least one first tooth is in contact with the corresponding first roller. At least one second roller is disposed within the concave structure. The second wheel assembly comprises a second wheel disc and at least one second tooth. The at least one second tooth is disposed on an outer periphery of the second wheel assembly. The at least one second tooth is in contact with the corresponding second roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Chi-Wen Chung, En-Yi Chu, Hung-Wei Lin, Ming-Li Tsao
  • Patent number: 12181044
    Abstract: Belt systems, such as toothed systems, having a belt and a wheel (e.g., a pulley, gear, sprocket, etc.) that have the fit of the wheel optimized for the fit of the belt, and vice versa. The systems utilize combined techniques and materials to create a belt and wheel interface that improves and even maximizes performance by increasing the efficient transfer of power between belt and wheel, and by distributing the forces across multiple teeth of the wheel. A coating on the wheel can be used to modify the pitch of the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Gates Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas S. Moss, III, Leslee W. Brown, Jennifer E. Pease, Walt Lifsey, Kyle Spring
  • Patent number: 12146560
    Abstract: A wave generator suitable for a small-sized or medium-sized harmonic reducer, including a main body that is a porous structure manufactured by powder metallurgy and includes a central shaft and an elliptically shaped plug encirclingly disposed on a circumference of the central shaft. An outer diameter of the elliptically shaped plug is in a range of 25 mm to 72 mm. The wave generator has a strength enabling the wave generator to bear a torque less than or equal to 18 Nm that overcomes the technical bias so as to provide a wave generator manufactured by powder metallurgy capable of fulfilling the required harmonic reducer, thereby reducing the manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Tung Pei Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei-Kuei Yu
  • Patent number: 12125415
    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: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC
    Inventor: Adithya Gangadhar Shetty
  • Patent number: 12095342
    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: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kojima, Motoaki Kobayashi, Teppei Tokizaki, Yoshichika Kawashima
  • Patent number: 12044293
    Abstract: Disclosed is a planetary gear transmission box, comprising a housing portion, a first planetary gear transmission stage, and a second planetary gear transmission stage, wherein the first planetary gear transmission stage comprises a first sun gear (3), a first planetary carrier (5), and a first ring gear; the second planetary gear transmission stage comprises a second sun gear, a second planetary carrier (7), and a second ring gear (6); the first sun gear (3) is connected to an external input element; the first planetary carrier (5) is connected to the second sun gear; the second planetary carrier (7) is connected to an output element; the transmission ratio of the gear transmission box is greater than 25; and the second planetary carrier (7) is directly supported on the housing portion. The locked rotor torque of the gear box is increased, such that the output rotational speed is reduced, and thus a bearing member at the output end can be omitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG ZHAOQING L&V CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Hongyu Gong, Yuan Jiang, Xianghuai Qiu, Qingchun Yang
  • Patent number: 12031620
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a sprocket that mitigates the impact of tension fluctuations resulting from load torque changes, suppresses noise and vibration, ensures stable chain behavior, prevents sprocket durability loss and the generation of harmonics during rotation, along with a chain drive system. Tooth roots between adjacent teeth of the sprocket include those with a radial deviation from a root circle of a standard tooth profile, set within a predetermined numerical range corresponding to a tooth pitch. A phase variation pattern is created by changing a root radius in accordance with an angular position. The phase variation pattern has a waveform with an amplitude varied within a range of (1/7)Amax, where Amax represents a maximum amplitude. The chain drive system includes a plurality of sprockets and a chain passed over the sprockets, at least one of them being the above-described sprocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TSUBAKIMOTO CHAIN CO.
    Inventors: Shoichiro Shimizu, Yuta Watanabe, Akira Hirai
  • Patent number: 12023740
    Abstract: A device for producing a gear green compact from a powder includes a die, an upper stamp, and a lower stamp, wherein the die has at least one helical toothing on an inner lateral surface, which helical toothing extends only over a partial area of the circumference of the inner lateral surface, and which has a first helix angle, wherein, adjoining the first helical toothing in a circumferential direction, one toothed edge surface is formed on each side, both of which have a second helix angle, wherein at least one of the second helix angles of the die is unequal to the first helix angle of the helical toothing of the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Miba Sinter Austria Gmbh
    Inventors: Christian Kronberger, Horst Roessler, Martin Ohler, Alexander Mueller
  • Patent number: 12018680
    Abstract: A fluid pump includes an inlet plate and an electric motor. The electric motor has a shaft that rotates about an axis. A pumping arrangement is rotationally coupled to the shaft. The pumping arrangement includes an rotating element. The fluid pump further includes a thrust bearing driver including a disc-like plate having first and second faces, and two posts extending perpendicularly from the first face. The shaft has a terminal end including a pair of slots that cooperate with the posts of the thrust bearing driver. The inner gear rotor has an inner surface including a pair of slots that cooperate with the posts of the thrust bearing driver. The posts of the thrust bearing driver are received in the slots of both the shaft and the rotating element, and the thrust bearing driver is sandwiched between the shaft, the inlet plate, and the rotating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: PHINIA Delphi Luxembourg SARL
    Inventors: Alejandro Moreno, Aldo Darien Venegas Carrillo
  • Patent number: 12012998
    Abstract: Clutch device with a dog clutch having inner toothing of a sliding sleeve which is displaceable as part of the dog clutch between a clutch body and the hub of an idler wheel along the outer teeth of the clutch body and the outer toothing of the hub for coupling and decoupling. The inner toothing of the sliding sleeve can be produced comparatively simply compared to the prior art and results in a reduced installation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventor: Michael Jungwirth
  • Patent number: 12007011
    Abstract: A gearbox assembly includes a first gear and a second gear. The first gear includes a plurality of first gear teeth. The second gear includes a plurality of second gear teeth. The plurality of first gear teeth and the plurality of second gear teeth mesh with each other as the first gear and the second gear rotate. A profile shape of at least one first gear tooth of the first gear is characterized by a total profile modification between 66 micrometers and 120 micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignees: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, GE AVIO S.R.L.
    Inventors: Andrea Piazza, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger
  • 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