F16H2025/2078

Steering system
10730546 · 2020-08-04 · ·

A steering system equipped with a linear electric actuator includes: a casing, a shaft slidably coupled to the casing with respect to a sliding axis and provided with an end that protrudes externally from said casing, an electric motor, which is housed in the casing and provided with a stator and a rotor that is axially hollow and coaxial with the shaft, in which the rotor is operable in rotation with respect to an axis of rotation parallel to the sliding axis, a nut screw integrated in rotation with the rotor of the motor and provided with an internal thread, the nut screw includes a first cylindrical portion and a second cylindrical portion, axially arranged side by side, a joint adapted to make the first cylindrical portion and the second cylindrical portion integrated in rotation, and a helical groove surface integrated with the shaft and coupled to the internal thread.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A LINEAR ACTUATOR
20200240495 · 2020-07-30 ·

A linear actuator is provided. The linear actuator includes a rotor assembly including a rotor and a lead screw. The lead screw is rotationally coupled to the rotor for rotation therewith. The linear actuator further includes a stator assembly configured to selectively rotate the rotor in a desired direction, and a body assembly having a shaft and a shaft tube. The shaft is keyed to the shaft tube and prevented from rotating with the rotor. The shaft includes an inner bore configured to threadably receive the lead screw therein. Selective rotation is configured to displace the shaft between an extended position and a retracted position.

MACHINE TOOL, IN PARTICULAR FOR DRILLING
20200215652 · 2020-07-09 ·

Machining tool comprising a frame in which a drive shaft for a tool is mounted so as to pivot about a rotation axis and to move axially along the rotation axis. The shaft is connected to two rotary motors, namely a first motor connected to a member for meshing with a fluted portion of the shaft in order to drive the shaft in rotation and a second motor connected to a nut engaged with a threaded portion of the shaft in order to move the shaft axially. The motors are connected to at least one control unit designed to control the motors independently of one another, and the first motor and the second motor are coaxial with one another.

VEHICLE-MOUNTED APPARATUS HAVING BIASING STRUCTURE USING COIL SPRING
20200182322 · 2020-06-11 · ·

The present invention is to provide a vehicle-mounted apparatus having a biasing structure using a coil spring capable of reducing a lateral force of a coil spring that is applied to a biasing target member. When N1, n1, N0, and n0 represent the number of effective turns when the relief valve spring 37 is set in a valve hole 34 of a spool 29 in a compressed state, a value of an integer of N1, the number of effective turns when a length of the relief valve spring 37 is a natural length, and a value of an integer of N0, respectively, the spring 37 satisfies an equation 1: 0N1n10.25 or an equation 2: 0.75N1n1<1.

Active Suspension System

A suspension system includes a top mount, a bottom mount, a rigid housing, an air spring, and a linear actuator. The air spring transfers force of a first load path between the top mount and the bottom mount. The air spring includes a pressurized cavity containing pressurized gas that transfers the force of the first load path. The linear actuator transfers force of a second load path between the top mount and the bottom mount in parallel to the first load path. The rigid housing defines at least part of the pressurized cavity and transfers the force of the second load path.

Actuator having a planetary roller screw drive

The disclosure relates to an actuator having a planetary roller screw drive comprising a housing having a cylinder chamber and a fluid reservoir forming one common volume and the housing is filled with a hydraulic fluid. The planetary roller screw drive comprises a spindle having a profiling, which meshes with a plurality of planetary rollers, which are arranged around the spindle and are supported at both ends in a planetary roller carrier. The planetary rollers mesh with an inner profiling of an internal ring gear surrounding the planetary rollers and the planetary rollers are supported in a sleeve surrounding the internal ring gear. According to the disclosure, the planetary roller carrier and/or the sleeve comprise one or more flow ducts connecting the interior and the exterior of a chamber defined radially by the sleeve and axially by the planetary roller carriers to one another.

PRESS WITH SPINDLE DRIVE
20200147914 · 2020-05-14 ·

A spindle drive having a spindle, a spindle nut which is arranged on the spindle, a housing which surrounds the spindle nut, and an overload clutch which is arranged in the housing. The spindle nut and the housing are connected to one another via the overload clutch. The overload clutch is set up to disconnect the spindle nut from the housing in a torque-free manner if a defined overload torque which acts between the spindle nut and the housing is exceeded.

ELECTRIC ACTUATOR FOR A MARINE STEERING SYSTEM
20200115022 · 2020-04-16 ·

An electric actuator comprises a housing and an output shaft reciprocatingly received by the housing. There is a screw assembly disposed within the housing and coupled to the output shaft. The screw assembly includes a plurality of annular rollers and a central screw received by the annular rollers. The annular rollers are rotatable about the central screw. There is a motor which includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor has an inner bore which engages the annular rollers. Rotation of the rotor causes the central screw to translate axially relative to the rotor and the output shaft to reciprocate relative to the housing.

FAULT-TOLERANT ELECTROMECHANICAL LINEAR ACTUATORS

The present disclosure relates an electromechanical linear actuator (1) of the type comprising a containment structure (2), a pushing member (3) designed to translate relative to the containment structure (2) to at least partially project out of the containment structure during operation of the actuator, a mechanical reduction apparatus (4) disposed in the containment structure (2) and rotating about an axis of rotation (X), motor means (5) arranged in the containment structure (2) and operably connected with the mechanical reduction apparatus (4) to rotate it about the axis of rotation (X), a shaft (6) inserted in the mechanical reduction apparatus (4) and connected to the pushing member (3), the shaft (6) being mechanically connected with the mechanical reduction apparatus (4) such that a rotational movement of the mechanical reduction apparatus (4) will cause a translational movement of the shaft (6) along the axis of rotation (X) and a rotation-preventing mechanism (7) operable on the shaft (6) to prevent rotation of the shaft (6) about the axis of rotation (X), the mechanical reduction apparatus (4) comprising first and second lead nuts (8, 9), independent of each other and each having its own thread and its own thread direction, the first and second lead nuts (8, 9) being able to rotate about said axis of rotation (X) under the action of the motor means (5) and coupling means (10, 15, 11) configured to mechanically couple the first and a second lead nuts (8, 9) with the shaft (6), such that a rotational movement of the first and/or second lead nuts (8, 9) will cause a translational movement of the shaft (6) along the axis of rotation (X). The linear actuator (1) is characterized in that the coupling means (10, 15, 11) comprise an intermediate coupling stage (10) inserted in the first and second lead nuts (8, 9), respective first mechanical connection means (15) for coupling the intermediate coupling stage (10) with each lead nut (8, 9), second mechanical connection means (11) and the shaft (6) is inserted in the intermediate coupling stage (10) and is connected therewith via the second mechanical connection means (11).

METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ACTUATOR ARRANGEMENT FOR A CLUTCH OPERATING SYSTEM, AND ACTUATOR ARRANGEMENT

A method for operating an actuator arrangement for a clutch operating system includes providing an actuator arrangement with a transmission, a piston, and an inductive sensor device. The transmission has an electric motor and a metal lead screw that converts a rotary motion into a linear motion. The piston is connected to the metal lead screw. The method also includes energizing the electric motor to linearly displace the metal lead screw in an axial direction, axially displacing the piston with the metal lead screw, using the metal lead screw as a target for the inductive sensor device, and using the inductive sensor device to determine an axial distance traveled by the piston.