SILK HAT-TYPE STRAIN WAVE GEAR DEVICE
Granted: March 5, 2020
Application Number:
20200072338
A silk hat-type strain wave gear device has a crossed roller bearing for supporting an internal gear and an external gear so as to allow relative rotation. A first gap part between the inner and outer rings of said bearing is sealed by an oil seal and a second gap part thereof is in communication with a gear-side gap part on the outside of the external gear. A bearing seal separates the second gap part from the gear-side gap part. The bearing seal prevents excessive inflow of lubricant…
DUAL-TYPE STRAIN WAVE GEARING
Granted: February 20, 2020
Application Number:
20200056653
An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers, and a gap formed between these teeth as a cutter clearance area for tooth cutters. Where L1 is the maximum width of the gap, t1 is a depth from the tooth top land of the first external teeth to the deepest part of the gap, h1 is the tooth depth of the first external teeth, t2 is a depth from the tooth top land of the second external teeth to the…
ROTARY ACTUATOR AND LINEAR ACTUATOR
Granted: February 13, 2020
Application Number:
20200049237
A rotary actuator has a hollow motor and hollow reduction gears arranged coaxially on either side of the hollow motor. A rotary shaft is arranged so as to pass through a hollow motor shaft of the hollow motor. The hollow reduction gears have hollow input shafts connected to the shaft ends on either sides of the hollow motor shaft. The hollow reduction gears have hollow output shafts connected to sections of the rotary shaft protruding from both ends of the hollow motor shaft. The…
STRAIN WAVE GEARING AND WAVE GENERATOR
Granted: February 6, 2020
Application Number:
20200040978
A wave generator of a wave gear device flexes an externally toothed gear into a shape along an elliptical closed curve to form engaging portions of the externally toothed gear with an internally toothed gear at two places, namely at both ends of the major axis, and to move the engaging portions in the circumferential direction. The elliptical closed curve has a non-point symmetric shape. For example, the elliptical closed curve is a line symmetric closed curve that is not symmetric about…
STRAIN WAVE GEARING
Granted: January 30, 2020
Application Number:
20200032891
In a strain wave gearing, a flexible externally toothed gear flexed by a wave generator meshes with a flexible internally toothed gear while in an overlapping meshing state. A floating ring, which supports the internally toothed gear from the outer circumferential side, maintains the overlapping state of the meshing and supports the internally toothed gear in a floating state that allows displacement following a state of radial flexion in the tooth trace direction of the internal teeth…
STRAIN WAVE GEAR MECHANISM WITH AN INNER SEAL
Granted: January 2, 2020
Application Number:
20200003288
A strain wave gear mechanism (1) has a gear mechanism component (CS) and an elastically deformable transmission component (FS) that is at least partially in alignment therewith in the radial direction (29) and can be deformed elliptically by way of a drive component (WG). Internal or external toothing systems (8, 9) on the gear mechanism component (CS) and the transmission component (FS) are brought into engagement in opposite regions of an elliptical axis to rotate the transmission…
SEAL STRUCTURE WITH O-RING
Granted: December 5, 2019
Application Number:
20190368610
A mounting groove of a seal structure using an O-ring is defined by: a groove bottom surface; an acute-angle-side groove side surface inclined at an acute angle contiguously to the radially inner edge of the groove bottom surface; and an obtuse-angle-side groove side surface inclined at an obtuse angle contiguously to the radially outer edge of the groove bottom surface. The O-ring is mounted in a state of being pushed and expanded to the acute-angle-side groove side surface. The O-ring…
STRAIN WAVE GEARING HAVING 3-DIMENSIONAL MESHING TOOTH PROFILE
Granted: December 5, 2019
Application Number:
20190368576
A strain wave gearing wherein the tooth profile of an external teeth of a cup-shaped or silk-hat-shaped external gear is set as follows. The tooth-tip tooth thickness decreases gradually from an external-teeth outer end toward an external-teeth inner end along an external tooth trace direction. In addition, a pressure angle at a pitch point (P) increases gradually from the external-teeth outer end toward the external-teeth inner end along the external tooth trace direction. Thus, it is…
CUP-TYPE STRAIN WAVE GEARING
Granted: November 21, 2019
Application Number:
20190353236
A strain wave gearing has a rigid internally toothed gear, a flexible externally toothed gear, and a wave generator. Before being flexed by the wave generator, the externally toothed gear has a cylindrical body part, an inside diameter of which is such that the inside diameter D is smallest at a rear end thereof and increases gradually from the rear end to an opening end thereof. After being flexed by the wave generator, D1?D is satisfied where D1 is the minor diameter of an elliptical…
ROTATION DETECTING DEVICE AND HOLLOW ACTUATOR
Granted: October 3, 2019
Application Number:
20190301898
A hollow type rotation detecting device has a 2-pole magnet ring and a multi-pole gear, the 2-pole magnet being coaxially fixed to the outer circumferential surface of the shaft end part of a hollow motor shaft that extends coaxially inside a cylindrical cover. In an annular gap between the cylindrical cover and the 2-pole magnet ring and multi-pole gear, rigid boards are arranged with an orientation facing in a tangential direction at prescribed intervals along the circumferential…
EXTERNALLY TOOTHED GEAR FOR STRAIN WAVE GEARING
Granted: September 12, 2019
Application Number:
20190277383
In a silk hat-shaped external gear for a strain wave gearing, t(A)>t(C)>t(D)>t(B) is satisfied, where the thicknesses of the inner circumferential end (A), the middle part (B) and the outer circumferential end (C) of the diaphragm body portion of a diaphragm are t(A), t(B) and t(C), and where the thickness of the barrel-side end part (D) of the curved portion of the diaphragm is t(D). With reference to the thickness of the middle part (B), the thickness of the inner…
MAGNETIC TYPE ROTATION TRANSMITTING MECHANISM
Granted: August 1, 2019
Application Number:
20190234504
A magnetic type rotation transmitting mechanism has a rotating plate made of a magnetic material, and a magnet to which the rotational movement of the rotating plate is transmitted through a magnetic coupling between the magnet and the rotating plate. When the rotating plate is rotated, a plurality of oblique edge portions formed on the outer peripheral edge of the rotating plate rotate while sequentially passing through a magnet-facing area. The oblique edge portions move in the…
WAVE GENERATOR AND STRAIN WAVE GEARING
Granted: August 1, 2019
Application Number:
20190234502
A wave generator of a strain wave gearing is provided with a rigid plug, a wave bearing mounted to the ellipsoidal outer peripheral surface of the rigid plug, and four elastic claws that rotate integrally with the rigid plug. The balls of the wave bearing include balls in a loose state and balls in a tight state. The loose-state balls adjacent to the tight-state balls are applied with braking force by the elastic claws immediately before they transition into a tight state, and the…
DUAL-TYPE STRAIN WAVE GEARING
Granted: July 4, 2019
Application Number:
20190203819
An externally toothed gear of a dual-type strain wave gearing is provided with first and second external teeth having different teeth numbers, and a gap formed between these teeth as a cutter clearance area for tooth cutters. The maximum width L1 of the gap is 0.1 to 0.3 times the width L of the externally toothed gear. The depth from the tooth top land of the first external teeth to the deepest part of the gap is 0.9 to 1.3 times the depth of the first external teeth, and the depth from…
ROTARY ACTUATOR PROVIDED WITH STRAIN WAVE REDUCTION GEARS
Granted: April 18, 2019
Application Number:
20190113106
A rotary actuator has: one motor, two strain wave reduction gears disposed symmetrically on both sides of the motor, and one output shaft. The output rotation of the motor is reduced in speed at the same reduction ratio by the two strain wave reduction gears and is outputted from the output shaft to a load side. The first and second externally toothed gears of the first and second strain wave reduction gears are flexed into ellipsoidal shapes with 90 degrees shifted in phase, and are…
SLIDING CONTACT-TYPE WAVE GENERATOR, STRAIN WAVE GEARING, AND WAVE-GENERATING METHOD
Granted: March 21, 2019
Application Number:
20190085962
The wave generator of a strain wave gearing is provided with an ellipsoidally contoured wave generator plug and a wave generator bearing. The wave generator bearing is provided with an annular body fitted between inner and outer races in a sliding contact state. The annular body is composed of an endless coil spring and has a rigidity that is able to maintain a constant gap between the inner and outer races. The annular body also has a specified overall flexibility in the radial…
MOVABLE COIL TYPE LINEAR MOTOR
Granted: February 28, 2019
Application Number:
20190068043
A linear motor includes a motor movable body which has symmetrical structure with respect to a vertical plane and a horizontal plane that include the motor center axis line. Two linear bearings disposed in a space on the inner side of a rectangular tubular movable coil of the motor movable body are disposed symmetrically to the left and right of the center axis line so that the bearing support center coincides with the motor center axis line. Thrust generation sections of the motor…
Combined Cylindrical Roller Bearing
Granted: February 21, 2019
Application Number:
20190055985
A combined cylindrical roller bearing is provided with first and second angular cylindrical roller bearings coaxially disposed in parallel, and a shim plate sandwiched between first and second inner races of these angular cylindrical roller bearings. A gap between the first and second inner races is adjusted by the shim plate. First and second cylindrical rollers do not have the relative positions thereof restricted in the direction of the bearing center axis line thereof. Pressurization…
SLIDING BEARING
Granted: February 14, 2019
Application Number:
20190048925
A sliding bearing has an outer ring, an inner ring, an annular-shaped raceway formed between the two rings, and a sliding body mounted on the raceway. The raceway has rectangular cross-section or a rhomboid cross-section formed from an outer-ring-side V groove and an inner-ring-side V groove. The sliding body is, for example, formed of an endless coil spring, and the outer peripheral surface of the circular contour thereof is in contact in a four-point contact state with four first…
STRAIN WAVE GEARING AND ACTUATOR
Granted: January 17, 2019
Application Number:
20190017585
A strain wave gearing has a wave generator for generating a wave motion that repeatedly flexes each part in the circumferential direction of an externally toothed gear in the radial direction. The wave generator is provided with a plurality of wave-generating members arranged at positions at a prescribed angular interval along the circumferential direction of the externally toothed gear. Each of the wave-generating members is provided with an outer circumferential cam surface, rotates…
