A device for closing a delivery head of a dispensing machine for delivering fluid products includes a stationary support, a drive shaft, which rotates with respect to the stationary support around a vertical axis, and can be moved with respect to the stationary support along the same vertical axis, a cup-shaped closing element carried at the distal end of an arm fixed to a lower end of the drive shaft, and a screw and nut mechanism which controls a translation of the closing element in the direction of the longitudinal axis and a rotation movement to the longitudinal axis using a single actuator.

The present invention provides a rack assist type electric power steering apparatus. The power steering apparatus includes: a ball nut coupled to a rack bar via balls to be rotated, and configured to cause the rack bar to slide; a bearing mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the ball nut so as to support rotation of the ball nut; and a support member coupled to at least one of a space between one side of an outer race of the bearing and a housing and a space between the other side of the outer race of the bearing and the housing so as to support the bearing.

A motion control 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.

A ball-screw actuator includes a screw nut having a metal core and an over-molded plastic outer shell. The plastic outer shell includes features which would be expensive to manufacture in a single piece metal screw nut, such as an anti-rotation feature, an axial position control feature, and a lateral position control feature. The anti-rotation feature may take the form of an axial groove or of an axial ridge.

A rotary mechanical transmission, includes: a containment structure, a first rotary element, connected to a drive unit to define a mechanical power input unit and rotatable about an axis. The transmission also includes a fixed guide and a second rotary element, rotatable about said axis and defining a power output unit. A connecting element extends along the axis and couples to the first rotary element by a first threaded connection. The connecting element is also coupled with one of either the fixed guide and the second rotary element by a second threaded connection, and with the other of the fixed guide and the second rotary element by a linear guide parallel to the axis. The first threaded connection and second threaded connection have different pitches in such a way as to vary the angular speed between the connecting element and the first rotary element.

A system includes a linear guide, drive device, spindle nut and spindle extending along an axis. The spindle nut is arranged on the spindle, with the spindle nut and spindle engaged. The drive device connects to the spindle nut in a torque-proof manner to rotate the spindle nut about the axis, moving the spindle parallel to the axis. The spindle has a spindle groove extending parallel to the axis on an outer circumferential side. The linear guide includes a guide housing arranged in a torque-proof manner, and a ledge element. The guide housing has a radially outwardly extending receptacle. The ledge element includes a radially outwardly disposed carrier and a ledge radially inwardly of the carrier, connected to the carrier and extending parallel to the axis. The ledge element engages the carrier in the receptacle and the ledge in the spindle groove, guiding the spindle parallel to the axis.

A door opening and closing device for vehicles of the present invention includes: a motor drive mechanism; a first housing that accommodates the motor drive mechanism; a spindle drive mechanism connected to the motor drive mechanism; and a second housing that is arranged coaxially with the first housing and relatively moves with respect to the first housing by the spindle drive mechanism. The spindle drive mechanism includes: a spindle connected to the motor drive mechanism; a spindle nut screwed with the spindle; a push rod fixed so as not to rotate relative to the spindle nut and provided with a protrusion on its outer periphery; and a guide tube in which a guide groove guiding the protrusion of the push rod in an axial direction is formed.

A motor stop mechanism for a motor including an output shaft includes a motor mounting surface to which the motor is attachable and a threaded drive shaft fixed to and rotatable with the motor output shaft. A trunnion threaded on the threaded drive shaft is displaceable between a retracted position and an extended position by forward and reverse rotation of the threaded drive shaft. A housing surrounds the threaded drive shaft and the trunnion, and a stop limit fixed to the housing defines the extended position of the trunnion. In use, when the trunnion reaches the stop limit, the motor is stopped.

Described is a mechanical transmission (T) comprising a containment structure (1) housing a roto-translational element (2), extending along an axis of rotation (X) and comprising a first and a second threaded portion (3, 4), a rotary element (5) connected or connectable to a drive unit to define a mechanical power input unit and equipped with a first thread (8) designed to engage rotatably with the first threaded portion (3) to the roto-translational element in such a way as to define a first threaded connection, a fixed guide (9) having a second thread (14) designed to engage with the second threaded portion (4) of the roto-translational element (2) in such a way as to define a second threaded connection, and a translating element (10), translating along the axis (X) and defining a power output unit. The translating element (10) is connected to the roto-translational element (2) for translating at the same linear speed as the roto-translational element (2). The roto-translational element (2) is thus simultaneously coupled to the rotary element (5) and to the fixed guide (9) respectively by means of the first and second threaded connections. These connections have different pitches in such a way as to vary the angular speed between the roto-translational element (2) and the rotary element (5).

A spindle drive, a spindle nut for the spindle drive, and a louvre window or louvre shutter having a spindle drive for moving louvre elements. The spindle nut is constructed in multiple parts including a screw nut part, having an internal thread to engage on an external thread of the threaded spindle, and a bearing part in which the screw nut part is mounted. The screw nut part includes a driver structure for transmitting a drive force applied by the threaded spindle to the spindle nut onto an element to be driven. Furthermore, the screw nut part is rotatably mounted in the bearing part in such a way that the screw nut part executes a relative movement in relation to the bearing part, and a directional component of the movement is transverse to a thread longitudinal axis of the internal thread.