The present disclosure relates to an actuator for a brake device. The actuator includes a housing having a motor accommodating part and a gear accommodating part, a motor accommodated in the motor accommodating part, and a reduction device accommodated in the gear accommodating part, wherein the reduction device includes, a crossed helical gear reduction unit including a driving crossed helical gear coupled to a shaft of the motor, and a ring wheel provided with a driven crossed helical gear engaged with the driving crossed helical gear on an outer circumference thereof, and a planetary gear reduction unit including a sun gear rotating together with the ring wheel, a ring gear provided as an internal gear, a plurality of planetary gears engaged with the sun gear and the ring gear, and a carrier on which the plurality of planetary gears is rotatably supported and having an output shaft.

The invention relates to a planar spiral gearbox, in particular for use in a door system, comprising: a gear, in particular a scroll plate, having a planar side on which a spiral toothed arrangement is arranged having at least one tooth that has a spiral tooth progression; and a cylindrical gear, in particular a torus gear, that has an external toothed arrangement at its jacket surface, wherein the spiral toothed arrangement of the gear is in meshing engagement with the external toothed arrangement of the cylindrical gear, with the gear having at least one additional toothed arrangement section that is radially spaced apart from an axis of rotation of the gear and serves for engagement of a drive toothed arrangement.

A gear drive, such as for an actuator, is a right-angle drive where toothed outer ridge of a face gear is coupled to teeth of a motor output shaft, and a set of planetary gears are engaged with a central sun gear of the face gear. The sun gear and planetary gears are aligned with the motor output shaft. For instance the motor output shaft may be substantially in the same plane with the sun gear and the planetary gears. From another standpoint the axis of the motor output shaft may intersect the sun gear, as well as intersecting a volume that the planetary gears sweep through as the planetary gears engage the sun gear.

A gear drive, such as for an actuator, is a right-angle drive where toothed outer ridge of a face gear is coupled to teeth of a motor output shaft, and a set of planetary gears are engaged with a central sun gear of the face gear. The sun gear and planetary gears are aligned with the motor output shaft. For instance the motor output shaft may be substantially in the same plane with the sun gear and the planetary gears. From another standpoint the axis of the motor output shaft may intersect the sun gear, as well as intersecting a volume that the planetary gears sweep through as the planetary gears engage the sun gear.

A worm drive apparatus includes a worm drive assembly having a worm engaged with a worm shaft and positioned within a housing; and a first gear engaged with the worm shaft; a worm wheel positioned within a channel created by the housing, the worm wheel engaged with a shaft extending through the channel; a friction assembly engaged with the worm wheel and the shaft, the friction assembly having a friction disk positioned adjacent to the worm wheel; a lock washer positioned adjacent to the friction disk; and a wave spring positioned adjacent to the lock washer; the friction assembly aids in preventing unwanted movement of the apparatus; and the worm wheel and first gear are to engage.

A transmission device includes an external transmission device, an internal transmission device, and a spacer ring. The external transmission device is cylindrical and has an outer wall and an inner wall. The inner wall has a plurality of inwardly extending arc-shaped protrusions. The internal transmission device is disposed in the inner wall and has an outer circumferential surface including a plurality of outwardly extending arc-shaped protrusions. The spacer ring is located between and contacts the arc-shaped protrusions of the external transmission device and the arc-shaped protrusions of the internal transmission device. When torque between the external transmission device and the internal transmission device is greater than a predetermined torque, one or more of the arc-shaped protrusions of the external transmission device or the arc-shaped protrusions of the internal transmission device deform and the external transmission device rotationally slips relative to the internal transmission device.

Articulable joints having diamond bearing surfaces engaged with metal bearing surfaces are provided herein. The articulable joints provide multiple degrees of freedom to components, such as drivelines, and bear loads in multiple directions. The articulable joints include diamond bearing surfaces slidingly engaged with opposing metal bearing surfaces that include more than trace amounts of diamond solvent-catalyst.

An actuator for motor vehicle applications, in particular for motor vehicle closing devices, comprising an electric motor, an actuating element which can be directly or indirectly acted upon via a drive train, and, arranged on a drive shaft of the electric motor, a drive wheel with an evoloid toothing, the drive train having at least one crown gear stage.

An intersecting-axes gear type mechanism includes two gears configured to rotate in mesh with each other. Respective axes of rotation of the two gears being disposed in an intersecting-axes manner, and at least one of the gears has teeth each of which includes a tooth trace extending substantially in a radial direction and a radially inner end face. A chamfered portion is formed on a meeting portion where the radially inner end face and a tooth face of the each of the teeth meet, so as to extend over an overall length of the meeting portion. At least an entirety of an area where the chamfered portion and the radially inner end face meet and an entirety of an area where the chamfered portion and the tooth face meet are each composed of a curved surface in overall length.

An axle drive for a vehicle comprising at least one drivable vehicle axle oriented transversely to a longitudinal direction of the vehicle comprises: a drive shaft that extends in parallel with the longitudinal direction and that is configured to receive drive power from an electric motor at an input section and to output said drive power at an output section; a driven shaft that extends in parallel with the drive shaft and that is configured to receive drive power from the output section of the drive shaft at an input section and to output said drive power to the vehicle axle via a bevel gear arranged at a first end of the driven shaft; and a brake, in particular a parking brake, having a brake disk that is arranged at a second end of the driven shaft and that is arranged between the input section of the drive shaft and the input section of the driven shaft with respect to the longitudinal direction.