Brakes – Internal-resistance motion retarder – Having a thrust member with a variable volume chamber
Patent
1996-05-07
1998-02-24
Oberleitner, Robert J.
Brakes
Internal-resistance motion retarder
Having a thrust member with a variable volume chamber
188299, 188306, F16F 914
Patent
active
057203709
ABSTRACT:
A rotary damper has a cylindrical casing having a chamber filled with a viscous fluid, a rotor rotatably mounted in the cylindrical casing, a movable valve mounted in the cylindrical casing for adjusting a flow of the viscous fluid in the chamber, a flange mounted in the casing and having a pair of through holes defined therein and communicating with the chamber, and a torque adjustment disk angularly movably mounted in the casing and having an orifice held in communication with the through holes. The orifice has a cross-sectional area varying progressively from an end thereof toward an opposite end thereof, wherein a torque applied by the rotor can be adjusted by angularly moving the torque adjustment disk.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3653228 (1972-04-01), Tiberio
patent: 4893522 (1990-01-01), Arakawa
patent: 5152189 (1992-10-01), Miura
Bartz C. T.
Oberleitner Robert J.
Tok Bearing Co., Ltd.
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