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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7624656 | Continuously variable transmission A torque transfer mechanism for use as a continuously variable transmission that includes an input shaft, a cam member, a torque-splitting mechanism cooperating with the cam member, and a torque output assembly for coupling the torque splitting mechanism to an outpu... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7409883 | Balanced power axoid mechanism and axoid press The inventive axoid mechanism and axoid press relate to mechanical engineering, to devices for converting power and speed parameters of linear motions and are based on power axoid mechanisms whose friction is eliminated by the substitution of a sliding motion with a... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7216516 | Wobble joint A wobble joint particularly useful for supporting a wash plate in a wash basket of an automatic washing appliance includes inner and outer races formed with mating part-spherical surfaces having common centers of curvature about a longitudinal axis of the joint. Ant... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7124658 | Continuously variable gearbox A steplessly variable transmission has an input body rotatable about an input-element axis and an output body rotatable about an output-body axis and movable between a position with the axes coaxial and a position with the axes substantially parallel and offset from... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7104229 | Variable valve timing system A variable valve timing system for an internal combustion engine, comprising a drive shaft driven by the engine, a camshaft driven by the drive shaft, and a cam supported by the camshaft for bearing against a valve actuating member. The camshaft and the drive shaft ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7077420 | Foldable three-wheeled jogging stroller A three-wheeled jogging stroller is movable between a deployed condition and a folded condition. Among other features, the stroller includes a forward member, a rear member, and a handle member that is rotatable to move the stroller from the deployed condition to th... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7066046 | Method for making speed reducers A CNC machine makes a single speed reducer by forming a worm recess, a worm gear recess, and a worm shaft groove that is discontinuous at the worm recess in a first solid block of aluminum. Matching recesses and grooves are formed in a second solid block of aluminum... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7056254 | Non-slip continuously variable transmission A non-slip continuously variable transmission (CVT) uses the positive engagement of gear teeth and does not rely on friction to transmit torque. The transmission has a ring gear with spur gear teeth at its periphery and conical teeth at its top surface adjacent to a... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7021167 | Rotary joint mechanism A rotary joint mechanism for connecting two machine parts to effect relative movement between the two machine parts includes an outer ring adapted to be connected to a rotatable machine part, and an inner ring adapted to be connected to a fixed machine part, with th... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7013938 | Shiftable rolling feed device for a wood planing machine A drive shiftable rolling feed device includes front and rear feed rollers mounted on a support carriage of a wood planing machine for feeding a workpiece, a reduction gear train disposed to convert a primary drive of a cutter shaft into two reduction drives and cou... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6968756 | Multi-speed ratio apparatus to control shaft output A multi-speed ratio apparatus to control output for use, but not limited to, either as a module connected to a transmission or as a stand alone transmission. The multi-speed ratio apparatus is connected to a driving member (such as, for example, an engine, motor, or... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6957683 | Spring drive system and window cover A spring drive system useful for window covers is disclosed, which comprises one or more coil spring drives or flat spring drives and the combination whose elements are selected from one or more of a group which includes (1) a band or cord transmission which provide... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6955623 | Single planet steering position planetary differential A single planet planetary differential including a shaft mechanism, a planet gear, disposed so as to be meshingly communicated with the shaft mechanism, a carrier device, the carrier device defining a carrier cavity for rotatingly containing the planet gear, a worm ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6925844 | Lock having a helical keyway and accompanying key and methods therefor The present application advantageously provides at least one keyway in a lock core that poses tremendous difficulty for a lock breaker by not allowing the lock breaker to see all of the pin tumblers in the keyway. The keyway according to a preferred embodiment of th... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6802798 | Adjustable Gemini pedal trace extending crank mechanism An adjustable crank mechanism comprises a sun gear rigidly attached to a main frame of the device and the sun gear meshed with an adjacent planetary gear of half diameter. A planetary crank arm rigidly projecting from the planetary gear generates an alternative move... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6691981 | Gate valve A gate valve (2) comprising valve body (4, 6) and a gate element (8) movable to selectively interrupt a flow passage through the valve body (4, 6). The gate element (8) is supported for rotation in a correspondingly shaped recess (14) in the valve body (4... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6672598 | Member arranged to act between two in relation to each other movable parts of a vehicle The present invention relates to a member (1) arranged to act between two parts of a vehicle which are movable in relation to each other. The member (1) comprises a first portion (2) having an elongated rod (6) with external threads (7) and a second porti... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6666241 | Wood planing device for a wood planing machine A wood planing device includes a support carriage movably mounted on a wood planing machine, and a rotatable shaft rotatably mounted on the carriage and having a coupling segment. A coupling sleeve surrounds the shaft and is movable between engaging and d... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6652406 | Transmission A transmission provided with an input shaft and an output shaft supported on a first axis so as to freely rotate. The transmission is also provided with a transmission eccentric shaft mounted on the input shaft so as to freely rotate, the eccentric shaft ... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6648050 | Spring drive system and window cover A spring drive system useful for window covers is disclosed, which comprises one or more coil spring drives or flat spring drives and the combination whose elements are selected from one or more of a group which includes (1) a band or cord transmission wh... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6622580 | Backlash-free speed reducing device A backlash-free speed reducing device includes a drive unit, a rotary unit, and a power output unit. The drive unit consists of a drive motor having a drive shaft. A first power transmission cable is wound around the drive shaft. The rotary unit has two f... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6601471 | Main block of drop-power station Four similar gravitational sub-systems connected with one another to keep rotational energy substantially constant caused by gravity as a result of the combined interaction between two elements having different groups of gravity masses and different speed... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6557599 | Wood planing machine with shiftable reduction drives of a feed-in rolling mechanism A wood planing machine includes a first drive transmission member transmitting a rotating force of a cutting member to a first transmission shaft with two gears mounted thereon. Two gears are splined on a second transmission shaft and are movable along an... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6463824 | Right angle attachment for power hand tool A right angle attachment configured to be attached to a small electrically powered rotary hand tool of the type that is used in woodworking, hobby work and other work. Being small, lightweight, relatively vibration free and quiet in operation, the attachm... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6363804 | System and method for conversion of gravity into mechanical energy using two sub-systems Two similar gravitational transducer sub-systems connected with one another to maintain rotational energy caused by gravity as a result of the interaction between the two sub-systems. Each of the two sub-systems viewed independently employs a method and s... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6308586 | Gear transmission with stepless adjustable translation The invention relates to a gear transmission with a steplessly adjustable translation ratio for converting of rotary speeds and of torques of shafts. The uniform rotary motion of a drive shaft is transferred to a driven shaft with the aid of time staggere... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6279410 | Torque variator device consisting on one mechanism to be interleaved between a conductor transmission arbor and a conducted arbor The torque variator device of the invention is a mechanism to be interleaved between a transmission arbor and a conducted arbor, and it includes two circular plates that at the external edges they have double serrated rings. On one hand, said rings includ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6230575 | Gear transmission with stepless adjustable translation The invention relates to a transmission gear with a steplessly adjustable translation for converting rotation speeds and torques between two shafts. Such converters are employed in all areas of the drive technology, as for example in machine tools and veh... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6213715 | Fan structure having a spherical four-bar mechanism A fan structure includes a fan head having a plurality of blades mounted for rotation. A mechanism is coupled to the fan head and is constructed and arranged to move the fan head along a surface of a sphere in a three dimensional pattern. At least one mot... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6205873 | Transmit motion via flexures A linkage couples a pair of rotatable shafts so that the rotation of one the shafts causes rotation of the other said shaft about the some axis. The linkage includes a pair of thin flexure strips disposed in parallel between the pair of parallel rotatable... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6145408 | Mechanism for feature improvement for bicycles and other crankdriven mechanism In the case of bicycles, the purpose of the new construction is to make maximum use of the momentum produced by pedalling under varying ground conditions, load, and acceleration--thus making bicycling easier. The construction has two variable positions wh... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6142029 | Axoid force mechanism An axoid force mechanism has first and second end elements, at least one of the end elements being arranged for progressive movement. First and second stocks are respectively on the first and second end elements, the first and second stocks respectively h... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6125711 | Multi-stage speed converter with idler Method and apparatus for achieving high torque and speed reduction in a compact and light-weight low parts-count speed converter apparatus featuring a floating ground element that both provides a moving ground to the first stage and acts as an input to a ... | 10/03/2000 |
| 5996432 | Torque variator device The present invention is a torque variator device of the type applicable to transmission shafts of a vehicle. The device is interconnected between its conductor and conducted ends. The device includes a conducting piece that conforms a header end that is ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5971877 | Variable transmission A power transmission system used in connection with a vehicle power wheel of a bicycle or other vehicle which has a fixed axle and which utilizes a rotating chain sprocket engaging an endless chain for receiving an input torque and transmitting an output ... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5950488 | Positive engagement continuously variable transmission A device for transmitting rotational power that relays on mechanical gearing and has a continuous range of output-to-input speed ratio comprises two radially grooved discs(16, 28), sliding teeth(22), an internally saw-toothed gear(26), a ring-shaped sprin... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5921133 | System and method of conversion of gravitation into mechanical energy by means of a sequence of impulses of force Two unbalanced connectable systems are moving over the above two portions of their movement with different speed during the separation from one another.... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5823049 | Mechanical scanner A method and apparatus are provided for a scanning output from a rotary input based upon the cooperation of a continuous track and a discontinuous track via at least one interacting element.... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5679088 | Change gear system A change gear system comprises a driven case, a driving shaft and shifting means for shifting the drive shaft, and three sliding frames are provided in alignment in the driven case. Each sliding frame is provided with a pair of rack gears with teeth facin... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5655581 | Tractor-mounted stump grinder with laterally and longitudinally movable cutter wheel A stump grinder mountable on a three-point hitch of a conventional tractor and provided with a laterally and longitudinally movable cutter wheel. The stump grinder includes a support frame adapted for mounting on the three-point hitch, a swing frame horiz... | 08/12/1997 |
