Machine element or mechanism inventions 02/07

20070039403 - Sleeve bearing for collapsible steering column: A telescopically collapsible vehicular steering column assembly includes inner and outer shaft tubes which are joined in a sliding fit by a bushing. The bushing includes a pair of spaced journal bearings formed of steel-backed PTFE held in a plastic carrier body. The bushing is located in a receiving chamber... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070039402 - Steering column arrangement: According to the invention, the switch module (7) comprises a centering device (8) which, under the action of a force (F) which is oriented coaxially with respect to the longitudinal axis (L) of the steering spindle (2), fixes the switch module (7) on the casing tube (3). The centering device... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070039404 - Moveable control pedal assembly: A moveable control pedal assembly includes a pedal carriage to which a pedal arm is mounted. The carriage can be moved forward and backward via threaded extender rods which engage the pedal carriage to move it along the extender rods when they are rotated by a suitable drive means. A... Agent: Clark Hill, P.C.

20070039405 - Reacting force controller for accelerator pedal: When a driver presses an accelerator pedal to the maximum stroke, apart from the linear variation of the elastic force by a return spring mounted to return the accelerator pedal, an additional momentary change in force by a turn-over spring is transmitted to the driver, so that a reacting-force controller... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070039406 - Parking brake apparatus: A release operation knob is provided at a distal end of a brake operation lever so as to move back and forth in a direction orthogonal to an axis of the brake operation lever. A locking pawl is provided swingably on the brake operation lever so as to engage with... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070039407 - Grip for fitting over hand-held articles: A grip includes a first body member and a second body member. The first body member has a tubular body with an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface of the tubular body includes a groove having a bottom wall with a plurality of openings. The second body... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070039409 - Pillar stem for aerobar assembly: An aerobar assembly is arranged to be mounted on a pillar stem, rather than on the handlebars, of a bicycle. The pillar stem in turn supports the handlebars. By mounting the aerobar on the stem, the range of adjustability of the aerobar is greatly increased, and the handlebar is subject... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070039408 - Plastic handguard: A handguard configured to be attached to a handlebar of a vehicle is disclosed herein. In one embodiment of the application, the handguard includes an arm portion, a shield portion, and a support member. The support member has a shape that corresponds to at least a section of the arm... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk

20070039410 - Wrapped steering wheel and method: A steering wheel includes a steering ring having a first channel and a second channel and a covering coupled to the steering ring. A first edge of the covering is secured within the first channel with a first member and a second edge of the covering is secured within the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070039411 - Joined multiple cam comprising individual prefabricated cams: To this end, such a multiple cam is characterized in that at least one prefabricated individual cam (1, 2) is placed as a cam ring on the outside circumference of a carrier pipe (3″) at an axial distance from the neighboring individual cams (1, 2) and is fixedly connected to... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070039412 - Crank with clutch and coupler: A crank including a mechanism capable of connecting the crank arm to a shaft to drive the shaft in rotation in either a unidirectional drive mode or a bidirectionally driving mode, the mechanism being quickly adjustable between modes. A coupler in the mechanism may be slidable between a first position... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20070039414 - Drive unit with reducer: To provide a harmonic drive gearing with high degree of freedom in terms of layout. A harmonic drive gearing 10 includes a circular spline 1′, having outer teeth formed on an outer peripheral surface; an flexible spline 2, positioned at the outside of the circular spline 1′, and having inner... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070039413 - Start-up assistance coaxial gear reducer with increasing ratio up to direct drive: The invention concerns a decreasing reduction start-up phase coaxial mechanical reducer using constantly variable radius gears, with a final direct drive 1:1 ratio obtained without internal movement component.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070039415 - Rotary indexing table: The invention relates to a rotary indexing table comprising a turntable which has drivers engaging into a barrel cam, with the turntable being rotatably drivable relative to a stationary center part via the barrel cam which can in turn be acted on by a motor via at least one force... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Groh, Sprinkle & Citkowski, P.c

20070034029 - Apparatus and method for gyroscopic propulsion: The present invention is a combination of three interconnected gyroscopic ring-like rotating masses, with each of the three ring-like masses being configured to rotate in various planes, depending on the desired orientation. Regardless of the orientation of the three rings, each of the three interconnected rotating masses will share substantially... Agent: Wright Law Group, PLLC

20070034030 - Internal combustion engine startup torque transfer mechanism: A construction width region Aowc of a one-way clutch overlaps with a mesh width region Agg where torque is transferred from a pinion to a ring gear at the time of startup of the engine, so that the center positions of the two regions coincide with each other in the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070034031 - Shift mechanism for power transmission assemblies: The present invention provides a shift mechanism disposed in a housing for providing operable communication between a shift actuator and a shift sleeve. The shift mechanism generally includes a shift rail, a shift fork, a first biasing member, and a second biasing member. The shift rail is slidably supported by... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070034032 - Gearbox: A mainshaft assembly for a gearbox and a gearbox embodying such a mainshaft assembly are disclosed. The mainshaft assembly comprises a mainshaft, and several drive gears, each carried for rotation about the mainshaft, each drive gear having a different number of teeth. The assembly includes first and a second hub,... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070034033 - Rotation mechanism for construction machine and method of measuring backlash in the mechanism: A swing mechanism for a construction machine is provided with a center frame 3 having a pinion insertion hole 3c, an inner race having an internal gear and mounted on a side of an undercarriage, an outer race 1b rotatably arranged surrounding the inner race and provided with the center... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070034034 - Transmission element for a zero backlash transmission, especially for precision mechanics: A transmission element for a zero backlash transmission with at least two transmission paths that are tensioned relative to one another has a first transmission part and a second transmission part that are elastically tensionable relative to one another. At least one torsion spring element for increasing the elasticity is... Agent: Gudrun E. Huckett Draudt

20070034035 - Pinion motor: In a pinion motor having a pinion formed on the motor shaft that is supported by a load side bearing and a counter-load side bearing, the motor includes an accompanying instrument that requires precise control of the axial distance with respect to the motor shaft within a predetermined range of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070034036 - Manufacturing method of rack shaft: In a manufacturing method of a rack shaft, the rack shaft is formed by mounting a shaft raw material on a receiving groove of a lower mold, the receiving mold having an approximately U-shaped cross section, thereafter arranging an upper mold having a rack-teeth-forming teeth portion formed in a rectangular... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070034037 - Actuation method and device for a control cable for a bicycle gearshift: A method for carrying out gearshifting of a bicycle derailleur through an actuation device is described that utilizes a mobile mechanical member to control the derailleur. Every gearshifting operation corresponds to a movement of predetermined amount of the mobile member. The method is carried out by the steps of an... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070034038 - Pedal assembly for a vehicle: A pedal assembly is disclosed that includes a gear having a first tooth with a root and terminal ends. The gear rotates due to an input force. The assembly also includes a rack having a second tooth with root and terminal ends. The second tooth meshes with the first tooth... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070034039 - Method for modifying the location of nodal points of a vibrating beam: The apparatus in one embodiment may have: a beam having at least first and second mounting points that are operatively coupled to the beam by first and second flexures, respectivly; the beam having first and second nodal points; the beam having a center area; and an altered mass content in... Agent: Carmen B. Patti & Associates, LLC

20070034040 - Device and method for pre-stressing the cable system of a vehicle brake actuating system: A brake actuating system in a motor vehicle having wheels and brakes for braking rotation of the wheels includes a cable system including a plurality of cables operatively connected to the brakes of the vehicle. An actuator is operatively connected to the cable system and is operable by an occupant... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070034041 - Shift-by-wire gearshift device: The present devices include a selector lever operable by a user for remotely controlling a motor vehicle transmission, a biasing element to maintain one end of said selector lever in contact with a contoured surface for providing the user with a shifting feeling, and a detector element comprising an emitting... Agent: Hensley Kim & Edgington, LLC

20070034042 - Rotational movement generating and amplifying apparatus: A rotational movement generating and amplifying apparatus comprising a first disk of a first radius; a rotating first rod protruding upward from the first disk; and a rotational assembly having a first elongated plate member, second elongated plate member, and second disk. The first plate member connecting to the first... Agent: Jerry H. Noh

20070034043 - Bicycle component of composite material with inserts and relative manufacturing process: A bicycle component is made of composite material provided with at least one insert for coupling with another bicycle component, as well as a process for its manufacture. Before the molding process of the composite material, between the insert and the composite material an adhesive is applied. The adhesive is... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070034044 - Crankshaft for v-type six-cylinder engine: A crankshaft for a V-type six-cylinder engine is equipped with first through sixth crank pins, first through fourth crank journals, and first through ninth arms for connecting the crank pins and the crank journals to each other. Of the first through ninth arms, the fifth arm is equipped with no... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070034047 - Planetary motor: A motor suitable for use in a medical imaging environment has (a) a cylindrical outer gear having a bore with a centerline and an internal surface with circumferentially distributed and radially directed teeth, (b) a means for mounting this outer gear such that it is constrained to move in rotational... Agent: Larry J. Guffey

20070034046 - Pneumatic stepper motor: A stepper motor suitable for use in a medical imaging environment has (a) a cylindrical central gear having two ends with a center line extending between these ends, and an external surface with circumferentially distributed and radially directed teeth, (b) a means for mounting the central gear such that it... Agent: Larry J. Guffey

20070034045 - Universal transmission: Disclosed, is a mechanical energy transmission that can induce power multiplication in any given transmission ratio. It provides a means for obtaining highly desirable transmission effects that are unachievable with the conventional transmission, such as: (I) simultaneous power multiplication and speed multiplication, (II) simultaneous power multiplication and speed retainance or... Agent: Ajamu Z. H. Matthews Lp # C56 Ramgoolie Trace

20070022833 - Reverse gear system for motorcycle: A reverse gear system for a motorcycle includes a shifter for rotatably supporting the idler gear, locating the idler gear in a separation position to disengage the idler gear from the main-shaft-side gear when the shifter is set in a retracted position, and for locating the idler gear in an... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070022834 - Transmission device between a primary drive shaft and an output shaft and a vehicle equipped with such a device: This transmission device is characterized in that the clutch mechanism, retracted to the disengaged position, assumes the shape of a plate (6) that is integral in rotation with the output shaft (1), whereby this clutch cover plate (6) is provided, on its face opposite the gearwheel (4), with ramps designed... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070022835 - Dual-clutch transmission with integrated electric machine and utilization thereof: New alternatives for integration of electric machines (EM1 to EM6) in an extensively integrated dual-clutch transmission (1) having one dual clutch (2), one first input shaft (8) designed as a hollow shaft and one second input shaft (9) co-axially supported in the first input shaft (8), the same as a... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20070022836 - Geared motor and shaft member for geared motor: A motor with a helical pinion is made available as the motor for a hypoid geared motor. The hypoid geared motor includes a motor with a helical pinion formed on a motor shaft; a shaft member having an engagement portion integrally rotatable with the helical pinion at one end and... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070022837 - Deflection lever: On a high-voltage power switch there is provided a shaft for transmitting a rotary motion through a wall. A deflection lever is disposed on the shaft. The shaft and the deflection lever are part of a kinematic chain. For adjustment of the deflection lever in its position on the shaft,... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070022838 - Wave gear drive having widely engaging tooth profile: A wave gear drive, wherein a rigid internal gear is formed in a spur gear with a module m and a flexible external gear is formed in a conical gear having an opening side front end with a module m. The number of the teeth of the external gear is... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC