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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7631578 | Gear stage of an actuating drive In the case of a gear stage (1) of an actuating drive, in particular for a vehicle seat, having a bearing (12) which defines an axis (A12) and having an oscillatory body (11) which is mounted in a rotatable manner by the bearing (12 | 12/15/2009 |
| 7267023 | Miter gear transmission A miter gear transmission includes a driving shaft, an idler cluster and a driven shaft. The idler cluster includes two cone-shaped gear sets, each having a proximate end with a gear having a largest number of teeth and a distal end with a gear having a smallest num... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7039976 | Braking control system for a washing machine An inner tub of a washing machine is rapidly braked during a portion of a deceleration phase following an extraction phase of an overall spin cycle. A controller establishes the braking operation over a critical speed band or resonant frequency zone during which exc... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6845690 | Transmission system and method of making same A transmission system for a motor vehicle, which contains a vehicle transmission equipped for longitudinal installation with a gear output shaft that points in the direction of the rear of the motor vehicle in the installed state is provided, wherein the shaft can b... | 01/25/2005 |
| 5724866 | Method and an apparatus for controlling a car equipped with an automatic transmission having a lockup clutch The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a car equipped with an automatic transmission having a lockup clutch. According to the control method of the present invention, when the lockup clutch is in the lockup state, a var... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5496226 | Friction drive unit for riding lawn mowers and the like A variable speed friction drive apparatus for a lawn mower includes a pair of drive cones supported by a frame for rotational movement about a common first axis, and a pair of drums supported by carriages for rotation about axes transverse to the lengths ... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5435210 | Differential drive mechanisms A differential drive mechanism comprises a cage, which is rotatable about a first axis and represents the input, two coaxial output shafts which are rotatable with respect to the cage about the first axis, a coupling which is connected eccentrically to th... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5214973 | Traction drive power transmission systems Traction drive transmissions which may be utilized as speed increasers or speed reducers for various power and rotary motor applications including for use in transmissions for helicopter main rotor and tail rotor drives wherein power from the primary inpu... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5142942 | Conical frictional differential drive steering mechanism A differential device has a drive shaft, a pair of cones connected to it so as to rotate at the same speed, a pair of wheel shafts with a pair of ring wheels fitted on them such that the ring wheels are engaged in a rotational direction with conical surfa... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5139466 | Continuously variable transmissions A continuously variable transmission has a variable transmission unit which provides a variable speed ratio between an input member (2) and an output member (3). The output member drives an output transmission member (11) through a simple drive connection... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5042239 | Power transmission and steering apparatus for vehicles A power transmission and steering apparatus for vehicles includes an engine coupled for rotating a pair of coaxial, spaced-apart driver wheels formed of a low durometer plastic material. A pair of discs are positioned in an opposed, spaced apart relation ... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4709587 | Friction drive for automotive and truck accessories A friction drive arrangement for driving automotive and truck accessories from the automotive/truck engine comprising a drive wheel, with an outer rim surface, for mounting on an output shaft of the engine and one or more driven wheels for driving the acc... | 12/01/1987 |
| 4691592 | Continuously-variable ratio transmission A continuously-variable ratio automotive transmission, especially of the toroidal race rolling-traction type, in which mechanism comprising a clutch, a brake and two epicyclics--a reversing train and a mixing train--is interposed between the ratio-varying... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4625586 | Resilient rod coupling member and adjusting structure for friction drive mechanism A connecting member slidably couples an elongated, resilient rod to a movable frame of a variable speed friction drive mechanism. The member is elongated and has an elongated bore non-parallel to the longitudinal axis of the member which slidably receives... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4592247 | Continually adjustable ball-type planetary gear set In a continually adjustable ball-type planetary gear set which comprises a housing, a driving shaft, a driven shaft, rings provided with raceways engaging a plurality of planetary balls and positioned on the driving shaft, and a sleeve rotationally fixed ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4458558 | Variable V-belt type continuously variable transmission for vehicles A variable V-belt type continuously variable transmission for vehicles which includes an input shaft and an output shaft, a first torque transmitting gear mechanism alternatively connectable with the input shaft and the output shaft, a countershaft connec... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4293050 | Transmission-differential combination A rotating drive wheel which drives a pair of output shafts. The driving of each of the output shafts proceeds via a mechanical transmission which delivers rotary motion from the drive wheel to the output shafts. A drive ratio delivered by each of the tra... | 10/06/1981 |
| 3968942 | Magnetic tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus A magnetic tape recorder has two electric motors only, one of which is arranged selectively to drive one or other of two winding hubs depending on the direction in which a magnetic tape is to be transported and the other of which drives a tape drive capst... | 07/13/1976 |
