118 results about "Camlock" patented technology

Rigid structural members, profiles, joints, and forms added to structural sandwich panels to provide higher strength, integral joining joint, and single facing sheet manufacturing. Facing sheets (20) and (22), rigid structural members (24) and (26), latch side and pin side cam-locks (34) and (32), fabricated wire truss assembly (48), and rigid structural headers (28) and (30) and an integrated top plate (29) are positioned into containment form assembly (58) in the proper position. Facing sheets (20) and (22) are placed in position in the containment form assembly (58) forming a structural sandwich panel assembly. A foam resin core material (40) is injected into the structural sandwich panel assembly and allowed to cure. The resultant structural sandwich panel includes rigid structural members (24) and (26) and elongated recesses (36) and (38) which also form a joint for joining abutting structural sandwich panels together and cam-locks (32) and (34) used to secure adjoining panels together. Comer and angle panels have a comer rigid structural assembly (44).

The invention relates to a locking device for a charging plug and a charging socket of an electric vehicle. The locking device comprises a shell, a motor, a transmission chain, a lock disk, a lock pin, a lock pin spring, micro switches, a micro switch cam and a lock pin cam, wherein the lock disk is connected to the interior of the shell in a rotating way; the motor is arranged on one side of the lock disk in the shell; the transmission chain is in transmission connection with the motor and the lock disk; the micro switch cam and the lock pin cam are arranged on the lock disk, and rotate coaxially with the lock disk; the cam surface of the micro switch cam is pressed against the micro switches, so that the micro switches finish 'opening' and 'closing' action; the lock pin spring is connected to the lock pin; the cam surface of the lock pin cam is pressed against one end part of the lock pin; and the lock pin axially moves under the rotation of the lock pin cam and the elasticity of the lock pin spring. The locking device has the advantages that the charging plug and the charging socket are used for safe charging in a locked state, and an electrical signal is provided for control over the metering, charging and background maintenance management of a system, so that unattended charging is realized, and great convenience is brought to a charging station.

Components for use in the assembly and installation of a modular decking system, comprised of structural free floating piers which distributes loads of deck pad to ground, piers have a pad bearing surface and four uniformly placed receiver blocks which interlock with corresponding recesses at four pad corners, an interlocking cam passes through pad recesses at deck surface and locks to piers by rotating cam with custom designed tool.The system is designed to be assembled without permanent fasteners to allow for expansion, reconfiguration or relocation, or addition of traditional and contemporary deck accessories that engage and interlock with the piers, pads and cams. One ideal manufacturing method of one or any of the system components is compression molded post-consumer and / or industrial thermo-plastic waste.

A parcel receptacle having a housing and a door member coupled to the housing, the door member structured to move between an open position and a closed position, and a lock assembly. The lock assembly includes a cam lock, a lock set assembly and a lock catch assembly. The cam lock having a latch member structured to move between a locked position and an unlocked position. The lock set assembly having a first position and a second position. The lock catch assembly having a catch member. The cam lock is coupled to the parcel receptacle door. The lock set is coupled to the parcel receptacle door adjacent to the cam lock. The catch member coupled to the housing so that the catch member is positioned to engage either the cam lock latch member or the lock set assembly when the door member is moved into the closed position. When the lock set assembly is in the first position and the door member is moved into the closed position the lock set assembly engages the catch member, and when the lock set assembly is in the second position and the door is moved into the closed position the cam lock latch member engages the catch member.

A directional hopper tee has a fluted interior vertical pipe that merges into a horizontal pipe. The horizontal pipe has an inlet that may receive bulk material, and subject to pressurized air that conveys the bulk material through the hopper tee. Bulk material may be discharged from a hopper through the vertical pipe, for conveyance for discharge from the horizontal pipe of the tee. A closure gate or door is provided through the bottom of the tee, generally in alignment with the vertical pipe, to allow for discharge or dropping of the granular material directly downwardly through and from the tee. The arcuate door is hinged on one side, and is locked by a cam lock on the opposite side, when located into closure against the bottom of the tee, but can be forced opened, through its cam mechanism, to provide for opening of the arcuate door and allow a direct downward discharge of the granular bulk material, from any hopper, and through the drop opening of the tee, as required.

The extracting apparatus includes a bracket, a holder extractably mounted to the bracket, a locking member, an elastic member connecting the bracket with the locking member, and a handle pivotably connecting to the bracket. The locking member is pivotably engaged with the bracket. The handle includes a cam, and the locking member includes a latch portion. When the extracting apparatus is at a locked position, the latch portion of the locking member extends through the bracket to securely engage with the holder. When the handle is pivoted to move toward the bracket, the cam of the handle drives the locking member to rotate relative to the bracket for releasing the holder.

A parcel receptacle having a housing and a door member coupled to the housing, the door member structured to move between an open position and a closed position, and a lock assembly. The lock assembly includes a cam lock, a lock set assembly and a lock catch assembly. The cam lock having a latch member structured to move between a locked position and an unlocked position. The lock set assembly having a first position and a second position. The lock catch assembly having a catch member. The cam lock is coupled to the parcel receptacle door. The lock set is coupled to the parcel receptacle door adjacent to the cam lock. The catch member coupled to the housing so that the catch member is positioned to engage either the cam lock latch member or the lock set assembly when the door member is moved into the closed position. When the lock set assembly is in the first position and the door member is moved into the closed position the lock set assembly engages the catch member, and when the lock set assembly is in the second position and the door is moved into the closed position the cam lock latch member engages the catch member.

A T belt power control system is disclosed to consist of a centrifugal clutch integral bell drum, or in the case of a straight shaft engine such as a Honda GXH50 a non integral bell drum, a T belt drive pulley affixed to a bell drum, an automotive type timing belt, a driven pulley cylindrical cam lock assembly consisting of a larger driven pulley with a one-way bearing for speed reduction and torque enhancement, a non concentric cylindrical housing and an output jackshaft with or without an engine power engaging system to a primary drive sprocket for chain operation. The T Belt tension is secured and maintained by rotating the cam lock assembly with a spanner wrench and then held tight by four bolts. If the T belt power control system is made without an engager system the power is transmitted as soon as the centrifugal clutch latches with the bell drum. If with an engager system the engagement and disengagement of engine power is done by an integral engager remotely controlled by steel cable and hand lever. A motorized vehicle is disclosed as consisting of a standard bicycle frame or modified bicycle frame, a tricycle frame, a go-cart frame, and a paddle wheel boat frame all with the T belt power control system of present invention installed on a gasoline four cycle engine.

An approach to a reduced-head hard disk drive (HDD) involves an actuator subsystem that includes a ball screw cam assembly wherein the number of starts of a multi-start screw equals the number of balls riding in a corresponding start. A stepper motor may be disposed within the screw, to drive rotation of the screw, which drives translation of an actuator arm assembly so that a corresponding pair of read-write heads can access different magnetic-recording disks of a multiple-disk stack. The actuator subsystem may further include a cam locking mechanism for coupling and decoupling the actuator arm with a coil support structure and corresponding voice coil, so that the cam mechanism is able to move under the control of a voice coil motor when input / output operations are performed and is able to move the actuator arm assembly during translation operations.

The invention relates to the technical field of oil-gas drilling, well cementation, well completion or pipeline connection, in particular to a rapid replacing device for a wellhead blowout preventer.Grooves for containing cam blocks are formed in the inner side face of a locking ring at intervals, the cam blocks are rotatably arranged on a body pipe, the outer side face of the locking ring comprises a cam bearing surface and a cam locking surface, the cam bearing surface is a protruding curved surface generated by a certain straight section rotating along the rotating center of the cam blocks, and the cam locking surface is a plane. A sliding-in end is located between the cam bearing surface and the cam locking surface in smooth transition. When the cam locking surface is parallel to theaxis of the body pipe, the distance between the cam locking surface and the axis of the body pipe is larger than the radius of a locking-ring locking surface to enable the cam locking surface and thelocking-ring locking surface to be in interference fit, the cam bearing surface extends outwards from top to bottom in the diameter direction of the body pipe, only one hydraulic device is required for driving the locking ring, the structure is simpler, and the cost is low.

An easily unlatchable cam-lock actuating device for use in a locking coupling assembly that couples two tubular members, includes a cam arm pivotally mounted or a female tubular coupler and extending thereinto for locking a male tubular end of one of the tubular members, a spring-loaded latch bolt movably mounted in the cam arm to engage a cavity of the coupler so as to lock the cam arm at a locking position, and a releasing lever pivotally mounted on the cam arm and coupled to the latch bolt such that, when the releasing lever is turned from a latched position to an unlatched position, the latch bolt is retracted and disengaged from the cavity.

A connector is provided for selectively connecting or disconnecting a stripper rubber to or from drilling head equipment such as a bearing assembly. A generally cylindrical adapter connected to the equipment defines a primary bore to accommodate a down hole tubular. One or more cam pin bores, adapted to house one ore more cam pins, are positioned radially around the adapter substantially parallel to the primary bore. One or more cam lock bores adapted to house one or more at least partially rotatable cam locks, are offset from the pin cam bores such that each cam pin bore partially intersects a corresponding cam lock bore to form an aperture through which the cam lock engages the cam pin. One or more cam pins are connected to the stripper rubber; and one or more at least partially rotatable cam locks housed in the cam lock bores of the adapter optionally engage or disengage the pin cams to respectively connect or disconnect the stripper rubber to or from the equipment.

This invention discloses an electronic lock, including cam lock assembly, electronic control assembly, lock latch assembly and latch bolt assembly. The latch bolt assembly includes latch bolt, latch bolt bracket and latch shaft. The latch bolt mentioned is pivoted at the latch bolt bracket, while latch shaft is translational positioned at it. By the latch shaft, cam bolt and electronic control assembly can connect with latch bolt and latch component in sequence. The latch shaft is configured with reset and compression spring, while latch bolt is with torsion spring and latch mounting parts, then the latch is able to linkage connect through latch mounting parts. From stated above, we can know the invention is ingeniously designed to lock / unlock latch parts, having lock assembly and electronic control assembly sharing one set of lock bolt (latch bolt). It can be seen that the invention effectively simplifies the existing lock structure.

The invention discloses a lock. The lock comprises a shell and a lock cylinder, wherein the lock cylinder is installed in the shell; the lock cylinder comprises a driving mechanism, a cylindrical cam, a lock rod I, a lock rod II and a rotating piece; the driving mechanism is connected with the cylindrical cam; the lock rod I protrudes towards one side of the shell, and the lock rod I is connected with a track of the cylindrical cam in a sliding mode; and the lock rod II protrudes towards the other side of the shell, and the lock rod II is connected with the lock rod I through the rotating piece. Compared with a manual control mechanical lock adopted by an existing glove box, the lock has an automatic locking effect and has the advantages of simple and reliable structure and easiness in implementation of functions, and the service life of the product is prolonged. On the basis, the invention further provides a glove box which adopts the lock.

The invention discloses a robot tool exchanging device driven by air pressure, which is used for automatically exchanging end tools by a robot, belonging to the field of automatic machinery. The technical scheme in the invention provides a robot side module and tools side module, wherein the robot side module comprises a shell, a robot side connecting plate, a valve core, a cam, an upper limit loop, a spring, a lower limit loop, a spring cover plate, a cam retraction compressed air interface, a cam extension compressed air interface, a countersunk bolt and a valve core piston. The compressed air drives the valve core of the robot side module to move downwards, the cam retracts, and the robot side module and the tool side module can be separated; and the compressed air is utilized to drive the valve core of the robot side module to move upwards, the cam extends, and the robot side module and the tool side module are locked by the cam, thereby firmly connecting the robot end with the tool. The invention can realize reliable and convenient connection between the robot end and the tool, and has the advantages of simple control mode, self-locking function and high safety.

A reconfigurable end-effector assembly includes a master boom, a limb, and branches. The branches extend radially outward from the limb. Tandem branch joint assemblies connect the branches to the limb, and include a first and a second branch joint each having a cam lock. Tool modules mounted to the branches are translatable and rotatable with respect to the branches. The joint assemblies rotate and slide with respect to the longitudinal axis of the limb only when the cam lock is released. A configuration tool has an actuator and fingers. The branch joints define openings that are engaged via the fingers. The tool includes a latch which engages the cam lock, and clamps and unclamps the cam lock. A flexible dress package is mountable to the limb and configured to route lengths of conduit to each of the tool modules.

A spring energy storing device, comprising a motor, a worm, a base plate, a motor base, a worm support base, a tension spring installation base, a main shaft, a transmission sleeve, an eccentric sleeve, a worm wheel, a support base, a cam locking arc, an incomplete gear, a complete wheel, a concave wheel locking arc, an output shaft, a spring fixing shaft, a tension spring, a left connecting plate, a right connecting plate and a clamping base. The invention is advantaged by that the transmission is accurate, the corotation and reversal angles of the output shaft are determined, corotation or reversal is terminated by embedding the cam locking arc in the arched gap of the concave wheel locking arc so as to resist against the concave wheel locking arc; the starting position of corotation (reversal) is the movement termination position of last time corotation (reversal); because the radian of the arched gap will not change, the cam locking arc will resist against the arched gap at the same position when corotation and reversal are terminated; therefore the corotation and reversal angles of the concave wheel locking arc are fixed.

An optical transceiver module is provided that has a pivoting bail latching mechanism that is extremely stiff and locks via a cam locking configuration rather than relying on spring-loading forces to bias the latching mechanism to and maintain the latching mechanism in a desired position. The stiffness of the pivoting bail latching mechanism provided by the cam locking configuration better ensures that forces exerted the transceiver module will not cause the transceiver module to come out of the cage while latched.

Method and apparatus for a safety lock assembly for a cam lock fitting mounted onto the outside of the cam lock fitting so that the safety lock mechanism is in close proximity to the cam levers so that when the cam lock fitting is pressurized and the operator attempts to open the cam lock fitting the safety lock mechanism will prevent operation or separation of the male and the female portions of the fitting. This is accomplished by having slidable axles mounted in elongated slots in the bosses adapted to slide in response to movement of a safety lock mechanism handle so that the male and female portions of the cam lock fitting initially only slightly separate allowing the operator to quickly reclose the cam lock fitting if the operator observes that the cam lock fitting is still pressurized.

The invention provides a dual-coil automatic opening door lock and a washing machine provided with the same, and belongs to the technical field of door locks. Specifically, the dual-coil automatic opening door lock comprises a cam, a lock catch, a protective rod and two electromagnetic mechanisms, wherein a first electromagnetic mechanism is used for driving a limiting block to lock the protectiverod in a first status and a second electromagnetic mechanism is used for driving the lock catch to twist towards an unlocked status. The dual-coil automatic opening door lock is provided with the twoelectromagnetic mechanisms which are used for controlling two times of unlocking of the cam respectively. When the first electromagnetic mechanism drives the limiting block to release the locking ofthe protective rod, the protective rod can slide backwardly, and through the structural motion of the second electromagnetic mechanism, the locking of the cam by the lock catch can be released. In theprocess, control signals need to be sent to the two electromagnetic mechanisms respectively. When hot water is used for doing a laundry, after the laundry is done, the first electromagnetic mechanismreceives a control signal to make a motion, and at the time the door lock is not opened, so use safety of a user can be guaranteed.

The invention discloses a quick insertion locking joint. One end of a female joint body is provided with an insertion port, the inner wall of the insertion port is provided with a sealing base, a sealing ring is arranged on the sealing base, the side wall of the insertion port is provided with a plurality of limiting holes, each limiting hole is internally provided with a limiting element, the outer side wall of the female joint body is provided with a first boss, a sliding sleeve is arranged outside the first boss in a sleeving mode, a clamping groove is formed in the outer side wall of the female joint body, a check ring is arranged in the clamping groove, a second boss is arranged on the inner wall of the sliding sleeve, the female joint body is sleeved with an elastic element, the elastic element is arranged between the second boss and the first boss, a limiting groove is formed in the outer wall of a Camlock male joint in the circumferential direction, when the Camlock male jointis inserted into the insertion port, the second boss enables the limiting elements to be fixed in the limiting groove and enables the Camlock male joint to press the sealing ring on the sealing base,and when the second boss slides away from the limiting holes, the limiting elements can be disengaged from the limiting groove. The quick insertion locking joint is simple in structure, small in occupied space, convenient and fast to disassemble and assemble and good in sealing performance.

A directional hopper tee has a fluted interior vertical pipe that merges into a horizontal pipe. The horizontal pipe has an inlet that may receive bulk material, and subject to pressurized air that conveys the bulk material through the hopper tee. Bulk material may be discharged from a hopper through the vertical pipe, for conveyance for discharge from the horizontal pipe of the tee. A closure gate or door is provided through the bottom of the tee, generally in alignment with the vertical pipe, to allow for discharge or dropping of the granular material directly downwardly through and from the tee. The arcuate door is hinged on one side, and is locked by a cam lock on the opposite side, when located into closure against the bottom of the tee, but can be forced opened, through its cam mechanism, to provide for opening of the arcuate door and allow a direct downward discharge of the granular bulk material, from any hopper, and through the drop opening of the tee, as required.

A rail for a covering for an architectural opening is provided. The rail may be attachable to a shade member of the covering. The rail may include a magnet assembly that is at least partially positioned within a retention channel formed in the rail to releasably secure the rail to a head rail. The magnet assembly may be positionable along a longitudinal axis of the rail and may include a cam lock assembly that releasably secures the magnet assembly within the retention channel of the rail. According to the present disclosure, the head rail and the rail are held in close proximity to each other to inhibit the passage of light between the rail and a head rail.

A quick action connector comprises a quick action base and a cam lock, wherein: the quick action base comprises a retaining sleeve, a base body, at least two rivets, a disk, and a biasing spring; and the cam lock comprises a cam arm having a tapered end with rivet slots, wherein the rivets extend from an inner diameter of the retaining sleeve, the spring biases the disk the rivets when the cam arm is not inserted into the base and biases the disk against the tapered end of the cam arm when the cam lock is inserted in the base and rotated such that the rivet slots engage the rivets.

A method and apparatus for an improved rotatable safety cam lock fitting with an air vent, the male and female portions of the cam lock fitting only slightly separate from each other allowing the operator to reclose the cam lock fitting if the operator observes that the cam lock fitting still contains pressurized material. Rotation of the female portion is accomplished by placing a connecting collar on the rear of the female end portion so that the female portion rotates about the connecting collar. The safety lock mechanism operates by placing opposing notches in the end of the male portion so that when the cam levers are opened the male and female portions of the cam lock fitting initially only slightly separate allowing the operator to quickly reclose the cam lock fitting if it contains pressurized material. The rotating female portion easily aligns the cam lobes of the cam lever with the notches on the male coupling so that the male and female portions can be separated.