Machine element or mechanism – Mechanical movements – Reciprocating or oscillating to or from alternating rotary
Patent
1992-09-24
1994-05-17
Herrmann, Allan D.
Machine element or mechanism
Mechanical movements
Reciprocating or oscillating to or from alternating rotary
744248R, 74459, 269242, 403DIG1, 411539, 411546, F16H 2522
Patent
active
053117883
ABSTRACT:
In order to offer a linear working unit which is a linear working unit capable of accurately driving two movable members in mutually reverse directions, i.e., leftward and rightward, with a single driving means and yet formed in a construction highly accurate in performance but compact and moderately priced, according to the present invention, a left-hand thread part and a right-hand thread part are formed on a single feed screw, with a nut block being joined independently with each of the left-hand thread part and the right-hand thread part and with the respective nut blocks being installed on a guide rail, and rolling elements are set in the space between the rolling groove formed for the rolling elements in the guide rail and the rolling grooves formed in the nut blocks, so that the nut blocks are kept free to slide in the axial direction by the effect of the rolling motion of these rolling elements. Thereby, the linear working unit is capable of operating the two nut blocks so as to make their highly accurate movements in the mutually reverse directions, i.e., leftward and rightward, through control of a single feed screw and, as these nut blocks are built into the same guide rail, the linear working unit can offer the additional advantage that it can be formed in a non-bulky structure comprised of a smaller number of items of component parts and can yet be operated in a simple manner.
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Herrmann Allan D.
NSK Ltd.
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