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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8157691 | Toothed wheel gearing (variants) and a planetary toothed mechanism based thereon (variants) The engagement of gearwheels with curvilinear teeth is intended to create small-sized mechanical gears of rotational motion with big gear ratio in one stage. The smaller gearwheel—pinion (16)—has one tooth, having in its face section the shape of circumfe... | 04/17/2012 |
| 7678007 | Reclining device incorporation by reference The present invention relates to a reclining device that includes an external teeth gear and an internal teeth gear and in which the rotation axis of one of the external teeth gear and the internal teeth gear revolves around the rotation axis of the other. The prese... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7611436 | Angular position adjusting mechanism In an angular position adjusting apparatus, tooth profiles of an internal gear 31 and an external gear 21 are formed according to loop shapes 74a and 84a of predetermined trochoid curves 74 and 84. ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7407373 | Internal gear pump and an inner rotor of such a pump An inner motor is structured to increase the discharge rate of an internal gear pump by making it possible to freely adjust the eccentricity e between the inner and outer rotors. Each tooth of the inner rotor includes a tooth bottom defined by hypocycloidal curves, ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7354108 | Seat reclining apparatus A seat reclining apparatus includes an internal gear, an external gear, an eccentric drive mechanism, and a base plate. The internal gear is secured to a seatback arm. The external gear includes an external tooth portion being in meshing contact with the internal ge... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351177 | Series of gearboxes A series of gear systems is disclosed, each of which comprises least one double-shaft, reversible planetary stage including a combination of an open positive gear system having lantern-gear teeth and an output system. “z1” represents the lantern-gear ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7329202 | Toothless gear speed reducer A toothless gear speed reducer, which mainly includes an inclined plane cone drive gear, inclined plane conical driven gears and an inclined plane outer gear case drive ring. The toothless gear speed reducer overcomes the difficult problems existent in conventional ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7303499 | Displacing device A device for adjusting two parts (2, 3) relative to one another, other than for a displacing device which is provided displacing a camshaft. The adjusting device is smooth and easy to operate, is self-locking, and ensures a backlash-free, continuous displacem... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7178420 | Ring gear A ring gear includes teeth (10) and tooth gaps (12), in which the teeth (10) can be brought vie tooth flanks (14) into engagement with a corresponding pinion. The tooth flanks (14), after a final engagement point (16) of the... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7086304 | Roller cam assembly A transmission comprises a pair of drive shafts, one an input shaft and the other an output shaft, wherein one of said shafts is attached to a toothed cam having a trochoidal profile and the other drive shaft is attached to a roller ring having a plurality of cylind... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7081062 | Standardized rotary actuator A rotary actuator incorporating a shell, an output plate and a cross-roller bearing retaining the output plate within the shell. A prime mover, disposed within the shell, exerts torque on a gear train within the shell. A pair of gears, disposed on either side of the... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081063 | Internal planetary gear mechanism An internal planetary gear mechanism reduces a load applied to tooth surfaces of an external gear and an internal gear, a sliding portion such as a bearing and the like. By setting the amount of eccentricity α of an eccentric part to be larger than a theoretical va... | 07/25/2006 |
| 6902507 | Roller cam assembly A two-stage epicyclic roller cam transmission comprising in each stage: a roller ring having a plurality of fixed-position rollers; and a cam gear having pitch-circle-generated, trochoid-shaped teeth and independent pitch, wherein the rollers are spaced to mesh with... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6342023 | Gear profile for orbital gear transmissions, and orbital gear transmission and winches utilizing orbital gear transmissions A gear profile for orbital gear transmission is disclosed in which an outer gear (10) and an inner gear (30) are included. At least one of the gears is constrained for orbital motion to impart rotary motion to the other of the gears. The profile of teeth ... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6340127 | Harmonic reduction gear and safety belt apparatus in motor vehicles comprising a harmonic reduction gear of this kind The invention relates to a harmonic reduction gear comprising a drive-side eccenter (12) which engages into a complementary opening (13) of an outer toothed member (14), and a housing-fixed inner toothed ring (15) which is arranged around the outer toothe... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6231469 | Internally meshing planetary gear device An internally meshing planetary gear device which comprises an internal gear having a circular arc tooth form and an outer gear of a planetary gear having an epitrochoid tooth form, the internal gear comprises pins, both ends of which are supported, and r... | 05/15/2001 |
| 5954610 | Speed change gear assembly In order to miniaturize a speed change gear assembly, the respective gears are arranged in the order of the first gear A1, the second gear A2, the fourth gear A4 and the third gear A3 in an axial direction (X-ax... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5918508 | Strain wave gearing having a non-interfering wide mesh range tooth profile A strain wave gearing is provided with tooth profiles formed taking into account tooth inclination and change in the movement locus of the origin of the tooth profile coordinates, thereby obtaining proper meshing over a wide range. Specifically, a tooth m... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5820504 | Trochoidal tooth gear assemblies for in-line mechanical power transmission, gear reduction and differential drive Trochoidal tooth form gear assemblies for in-line mechanical power transmission, gear reduction and differential drive employ internally meshed gear sets having differing numbers of trochoidal gear teeth, all of which are in continuous contact as one gear... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5715732 | Harmonic flexible meshing gear device The silk-hat-shaped flexible external gear (13) of a silk-hat flexible meshing gear device (11) comprises a body (22), a diaphragm (23) and a boss (25). Between the main portion of the body (22) and a curved portion (222) is formed a thinned portion (221)... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5707310 | Internal planetary gear device An internal planetary gear device having an input shaft, an eccentric body rotating with the rotation of the input shaft, an external gear eccentrically rotatably mounted on the eccentric body through a bearing, an internal gear internally meshing with th... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5704865 | Eccentric gear and process for making such a gear An eccentric gear comprises first and second gear rings (7,10) of which the one (7) has internal, straight cogs and the other (10) a smaller number of external cogs. At least one gear ring has a conical form with a large end (A--A) and a small end (B--B),... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5695425 | Outer tooth profile of planetary gear apparatus A planetary gear apparatus comprising an inner tooth gear having an inner peripheral portion formed with a plurality of inner teeth each in the form of a semi-circular cross-section shape and an outer tooth gear positioned within the inner tooth gear and ... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5615579 | Gear structure for reduction gears A gear structure including an internal gear and an external gear meshed together and moved relative to each other through a rotary motion, the radius of the root arcs of the teeth of the external gear being M, which is the ratio between the diameter of th... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5556351 | Differential apparatus A differential apparatus includes a differential casing (21) rotated by an engine drive power; pinion gears (51, 53) slidably and rotatably accommodated in accommodating holes (47, 49) formed in the differential casing (21); a pair of side gears (31, 33) ... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5505668 | Gear system In a conventional internal gear pair system such as a planetary gear system with a small gear ratio of the internal gear to the driving pinion, common problems include tip interference and limited contact between the teeth of the gears. An internal gear p... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5496225 | Vehicle seat articulations The vehicle seat articulation includes a fixed flange fixed to a first framework of the seat, a mobile flange rigidly connected to a second framework of the seat, a cup member enabling the mobile flange to execute an orbital movement causing an angular mo... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5454766 | Continuously variable transmission having a double eccentric shaft and a worm gear adjusting mechanism A hybrid transmission provides a continuous range of reduced output speeds in a coaxial relationship about a common central axis within a surrounding cylindrical housing. The input shaft speed is increased through a planetary transmission having a sun gea... | 10/03/1995 |
| 5429556 | Internally meshing planetary gear structure and flexible meshing type gear meshing structure An internally meshing planetary gear structure or a flexible meshing type gear meshing structure is intended to achieve the lightening, miniaturization and high load capacity by increasing the meshing points of the gear even is the difference in the teeth... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5401220 | Speed reducer with planocentric gear arrangement A two-stage speed reducer including a planocentric gear arrangement which has a rotatable output ring gear and a planet gear mounted within the ring gear for orbital movement. The teeth on the ring gear and the planet gear are tapered to permit axial adju... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5290208 | Series of speed increasing and reduction gear employing an inscribed meshing type planetary gear construction A series of speed increasing and reduction gear having an inscribed meshing type planetary gear construction, in which within the same frame number (sub-series) with a tie-in dimension to a mating machine being constant, on both high and low speed change ... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5232413 | Dynamic coupling device to transmit a rotatory motion between two shafts The device comprises a driving hub (4, 18) coaxially connected to one shaft (20) and oscillatably engaging a number of planetary gear elements (8, 25) homogeneously distributed around the axis of said hub. The planetary gear elements (8, 25) are engaged b... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5145467 | Geared motor for the drive of components, such as motor-vehicle accessories, particularly an opening roof This geared motor comprises an outlet shaft (2) of the motor (1), carrying two coaxial screws (3, 4) offset axially and of mutually opposed screw pitch, two gearwheels (5, 6) located on either side of the shaft and each interacting with a screw (3, 4), an... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5135373 | Spur gear with epi-cycloidal and hypo-cycloidal tooth shapes A spur pump gear system comprising; a housing have a sealed chamber communicating with an intake port and a discharge port; a shaft journalled for rotation within said chamber; a drive spur gear mounted concentrically on said shaft about a first axis with... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5092826 | Arc gear having a rotary transmission of 1:1 The arc gear with a rotary transmission of 1:1 has an inner toothed toothwheel, an outer toothed toothwheel, each connected to a shaft, one of the shafts being for drive and one for output. The shafts are arranged eccentrically with an eccentricity and pa... | 03/03/1992 |
| 4995279 | Transmission systems A continuously variable transmission unit includes a disc drivingly connected to a first shaft, said disc having a frusto-conical groove in its outer periphery, the walls of the groove being inclined inwardly towards one another; an annular element is mou... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4973294 | Limited-slip differential control system A control system for controlling a differential limiting force of a limited slip differential of a vehicle includes a section for sensing a turning radius of the vehicle, a section for sensing centripetal acceleration of the vehicle, and a controller sect... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4969376 | Planetary drive A planetary drive containing two gear wheels with differing numbers of teeth and a radially flexible planetary wheel in engagement with these gear wheels. The planetary wheel has internal teeth and external teeth and is arranged at least partially in an a... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4946428 | Compact play-free speed-reducing transmission The compact high-ratio speed reducer without play consists of an external housing in which a first shaft is rotatingly arranged, carrying a planetary element on which a first gear is loosely supported, this gear having two toothings, one of which is in en... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4922781 | Cycloidal equidistant curved gear transmission mechanism and its device This invention involves a gear transmission mechanism and its device which incorporate double cycloidal equidistant conjugated gear mechanisms and devices, featuring in that a whole branch cyclic cycloidal equidistant curve at a side of the center of curv... | 05/08/1990 |
