Drive assembly for rotating and translating a shaft

Details Drive assembly for rotating and translating a shaft Drive assembly for rotating and translating a shaft

2008-01-08

2008-01-08

Heitbrink, Tim (Department: 1722)

Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus

Control means responsive to or actuated by means sensing or...

Feed control of material en route to shaping area

C425S150000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10873288

ABSTRACT:
A drive assembly for rotating and translating a shaft comprising a hollow shaft motor and a fluid cylinder. The hollow shaft motor rotates the shaft and the fluid cylinder moves the shaft lengthwise. The drive is particularly useful in the injection unit of an injection-molding machine. In one preferred embodiment the injection unit includes a hollow electric motor and a hydraulic cylinder. A first cylinder wall of the hydraulic cylinder is joined to a rotor of the hollow motor. A second cylinder wall of the cylinder is connected to a stationary portion of the hollow motor. A piston has two end portions. One end portion of the piston engages the first cylinder wall and the other end portion of the piston engages the second cylinder wall. Means for rotating the piston are attached to the rotor. The means for rotating also permits the piston end portions to slide along the cylinder walls. One channel means provides hydraulic fluid to drive the piston in a forward direction and another channel means provides hydraulic fluid to drive the piston in a reverse direction. Means are provided for attaching an injection screw to the piston. In the preferred arrangement, the cylinder is at least partially situated within the hollow motor.

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