Machine element or mechanism – Control lever and linkage systems – Elements
Patent
1992-03-12
1993-10-26
Herrmann, Allan D.
Machine element or mechanism
Control lever and linkage systems
Elements
74 45, 74109, 74465, 74559, 74834, 123 78E, F16H 3508, F16H 2120, F16H 5517
Patent
active
052555720
ABSTRACT:
A variable stroke mechanism provides a means for varying the stroke and leverage of a linkage between reciprocating power source and crankshaft. The mechanism includes a lever connected at one end to the reciprocating power source and at the other end to the crankshaft with a variable fulcrum point between the two ends. The lever forms a longitudinally extending slot for containing a fulcrum member, the other surfaces of which, while generally cylindrical, secures a series of parallel and equiangularly displaced cylindrical roller bearings. The top of the slot formed within the lever is a flat bearing surface and the opposing bottom surface contains a series of semicircular channels forming a gear train sized and located to successively engage the roller bearings on the fulcrum member and said bearings serving as gear teeth such that rotation of the fulcrum member changes the position of the fulcrum point relative to the lever. The mechanism may be repeated as necessary in a multi-piston engine with the relative positions of the flat raced surface and the gear train race surface being reversed in the case of opposing pistons utilizing a single control shaft with common rotation of all fulcrum members. Rotation of the fulcrum member and movement of the pivot point can be controlled by a self-braking servo-motor with appropriate worm gear drive.
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Herrmann Allan D.
Lee Philip J.
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