Machine element or mechanism – Rotary member or shaft indexing – e.g. – tool or work turret – Preselected indexed position
Patent
1982-02-01
1984-12-11
Herrmann, Allan D.
Machine element or mechanism
Rotary member or shaft indexing, e.g., tool or work turret
Preselected indexed position
74211, 74409, F16H 128, F16H 1310, F16H 5518
Patent
active
044870914
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for minimizing backlash and improving the efficiency of speed reduction mechanisms in which a series of rollers are equally spaced in a circle on a disk to perform operationally somewhat like an internal ring gear. Mounted for eccentric movement and simultaneously engaging each of the rollers is an orbital rotor having a perimeter defined by an epitrichoid curve with a number of lobes equal to one less than the number of rollers. The rotor is mounted for free rotation on an eccentric keyed to a drive shaft. Rotation of the drive shaft causes the rotor to move orbitally and to rotate with a speed reduction equal to the reciprocal of the number of lobes on the rotor. Each roller is mounted for controlled omnidirectional compliance and preloaded to provide a controlled pressure between each roller and the adjacent surface of the rotor. The outer surface of each roller is crowned to increase the efficiency and prevent binding that might be caused by angular deflection of the roller.
Each roller is mounted on a shaft that is press-fitted into an eccentric bore in a mounting sleeve that is enlarged near the roller to provide for controlled deflection of the shaft as the sleeve is rotated in its mounting. Each roller is individually adjusted to produce a controlled preload pressure between the roller and the rotor.
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Andrews Stephen B.
Barrett E. Thorpe
Herrmann Allan D.
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