313 results about "Jackshaft" patented technology

A kinetic energy recovery system (“KERS system”) and motorcycle equipped with the same is disclosed. The KERS system may be mechanical, hydraulic, or a combination thereof. In an embodiment, motorcycle includes a rear wheel, an electric motor, a motor shaft, and a front wheel equipped with a wheel hub that includes a sprag clutch. The motor shaft can be fitted with a motor drive sprocket that drives a jackshaft chain that in turn drives a jackshaft input sprocket that is fitted to the jackshaft. Jackshaft input sprocket may be installed in conjunction with a sprag clutch that allows the rear wheel to free wheel during coasting while the front wheel KERS system is engaged. The motor harvests kinetic energy from the front wheel without simultaneously powering the rear wheel while the use of a geared dead zone allows the front and rear wheels to not lock together to improve safety.

In a double clutch transmission in which an input shaft can be coupled by two load clutches selectively with a central intermediate shaft and a concentric intermediate shaft and each of the intermediate shafts can be operatively connected by gear stages selectively to a first or a second jackshaft arranged in the power output path to a driven vehicle axle, wherein the jackshafts are arranged parallel to the transmission input and intermediate shafts, the intermediate shafts each have at least one gear firmly mounted thereon which forms the input gear for more than one of the gear stages provided for different transmission gear ratios so as to form a compact transmission arrangement, particularly for transverse engine applications.

A bicycle crank axle bearing assembly includes a pair of first and second axle support members, a pair of first and second bearings and a lock nut. The first and second axle support members include first and second mounting sections with first and second male screw parts that are configured and arranged to be non-rotatably coupled to a hanger part of a bicycle frame, and first and second bearing retaining sections in which the first and second bearings are retained to rotatably support a crank axle. The lock nut is disposed at least one of the first and second male screw parts of the first and second axle support members to retain an axial position of the at least one of the first and second support members with respect to the hanger part.

A snow bike system includes a motorcycle converted for use in the snow with a rear suspension and belt track system. The belt track is relatively very wide and driven by a front wheel sprocket through a jackshaft. Matching shocks and struts in the rear suspension independently equalize the pressure applied to the ground. The rear strut is a sliding extension type that causes the front of the sliders to kick up when fully compressed during acceleration or climbing uphill. Increased weight on the rear track is shifted forward to keep the front ski down. The jackshaft provides both disc braking and moves the motorcycle engine drive power outboard to accommodate the wider belt track. A tubular subframe and tunnel rigidly mounts to the motorcycle's original rear swing arm pivots and shock mounts.

A speed reducer and a yaw drive apparatus for a wind power generation apparatus, where the speed reducer has high efficiency and a short axial length, and suitable for the yaw drive apparatus. The speed reducer has three stages for speed reduction. The total reduction gear ratio of a first stage speed reducing portion (10) and a second stage speed reducing portion (20) is set at 1/6 to 1/60, and a third stage speed reducing portion (30) is constructed from an eccentric oscillating-type speed reducing mechanism having an internal-geared gear body (32), external gears (34), crankshafts (35), and a carrier (37). The reduction gear ratio of the eccentric oscillating-type speed reducing mechanism is set at 1/50 to 1/140, and the total reduction gear ratio of the speed reducer is set at 1/1000 to 1/3000. A yaw drive method and the yaw drive apparatus can reduce noise, and the yaw drive apparatus is inexpensive and reduced in size.

A method of replacing an inlet guide vane from a lower inlet casing of a compressor, the lower inlet casing adapted to be secured to an upper inlet casing at a horizontal joint, and after removal of the upper half of the inlet casing but with a rotor of the compressor remaining in place, wherein the inlet guide vane is supported between radially inner and outer walls of the lower inlet casing, and further wherein the inlet guide vane is formed with an integral stem that extends radially through the outer wall and supports a drive gear on its outer end that engages an annular gear rack, the method including a) removing the gear on the radially outer end of the integral stem of the inlet guide vane; b) shearing the inlet guide vane into two cut portions; c) removing the cut portions from inside the lower inlet casing; and d) replacing the inlet guide vane by a modified inlet guide vane having a two-piece stem assembly that enables installation without removal of the rotor. A new inlet guide vane assembly is provided for replacing the vane. The new assembly includes a vane having a cylindrical stub at a radially inner end thereof and a relatively short integral stem at a radially outer end thereof; a jack shaft adapted for connection at a radially inner end thereof to a radially outer end of the integral stem such that torque applied to the jack shaft is transmitted to the vane, a radially outer end of the jack shaft adapted to receive a drive gear. An outer stem piece is seated on the jack shaft and welded to the drive gear to complete a torque transmission path from the drive gear to complete a torque transmission path from the drive gear to the vane.

An improved bicycle crankshaft assembly, including a crank axle with an axial axial axis, a first axle end, and a second axle end axially opposed to the first axle end; a first crank arm connected to the crank axle at a first crank arm interface adjacent the first axle end; a second crank arm connected to the crank axle at a second crank arm interface axially spaced from the first crank arm interface; a first bearing surrounding said crank axle adjacent said first axle end for rotation of said crank axle about said axial axis; a second bearing surrounding the crank axle and axially spaced from the first bearing. The crank axle includes reinforcement fibers for structural reinforcement of the crank axle and the crank axle is an integral crank axle that extends through the first bearing and the second bearing.

A jack shaft garage door operator for opening and closing a movable garage door has a drive containing an electric motor. A rotatable jack shaft is connected to the drive unit to be driven thereby. A pull-up cable drum is connected to and driven by the jack shaft. A pull-up cable extends from the drum about which it is wound and connects to a bottom part of the garage door to raise the door. A pivoting arm is mounted near the jack shaft and provides tension to the cable. A shaft lock hub mounted on the jack shaft is engaged and locked by the arm if the tension in the cable drops. A stop is mounted on the garage door for engagement by the movable arm in the event that the door is opened without the cable being drawn in the cable drum.

The invention belongs to the field of automobile manufacturing, relating to a jackshaft part in an automobile power transmission system and the manufacturing technology thereof. The process adopts hyposteel bars of normalized condition as the raw stock, and heats the bar raw stock to 900 DEG C for extrusion molding. The entire extrusion molding process comprises the following extrusion technology: forward extrusion molding technology, overall backward extrusion molding technology, long-hole extrusion molding technology, drawing-down extrusion molding technology and diameter extension extrusion technology; wherein, the number of the working steps of the extrusion technique required in the extrusion molding procedures of the jackshaft parts with different structures and dimensions is different; the temperature of the metal material reduces from 900 DEG C to 100 DEG C; the extrusion workpiece, the shape and dimension of which is similar to that of jackshaft part finished product, is obtained, and the part is manufactured after mechanical cutting processing procedure, alignment and inspection procedures. After the entire extrusion molding is finished, the bending strength, shear strength and impact ductility of the extrusion workpiece are superior to the mechanical performance index of a test bar of the same material which is subject to hardening and tempering as well as heat treatment, and the tensile strength is similar to the test bar of the same material which is subject to hardening and tempering as well as heat treatment; the elastic torsion angle of the hollow jackshaft is larger than 120 degrees.

The present invention is a condensate drain pump for an air conditioner, comprising a condensate discharge hose including two check valves which are formed in neighboring places, respectively and are extended to a storage tank where generated condensate is stored and a place where the condensate is discharged, so that inhaled condensate can be discharged via a check valve if a piston moves toward only a direction to which the condensate is discharged in the middle between the storage tank and the place, and the inhaled condensate cannot be discharged to the storage tank by the check valve; a pumping device including a cylinder having one opened end and the other end connected to a position between said two check valves, and the piston inserted from an open position of the cylinder for executing reciprocating motions while maintaining water tightness; and a driving device including a crank axis rotated by a low speed motor, and a connecting rod having one end connected to the crank axis and the other end connected to the piston for converting rotation movements of the low speed motor into rectilinear reciprocating movements of the piston.

A mobile counterweight type pumping unit comprises a counterweight type balancing mechanism, a triangular support, a crank and connecting rod mechanism and frame. The counterweight type balancing mechanism comprises a walking beam, two slideways, a reciprocating screw rod, two counterweight blocks, a variable frequency motor and a horsehead. The variable frequency motor is fixed on the right of the upper end face of the walking beam and is connected to the right end of the reciprocating screw rod. The left end of the reciprocating screw rod is supported on the left of the upper end face of the walking beam through a screw rod bearing. The slideways are fixed on two sides of the walking beam. A nut is fitted on the reciprocating screw rod. Two identical counterweights are fixed onto the nut and are slidably fitted with the slideways respectively. A balancing block is fixed at the right end of the walking beam. The upper end of the triangular support is connected with the walking beam through a triangular support shaft. The upper end of a connecting rod is connected with the walking beam through an upper shaft. The lower end of a crank is connected with a shaft seat through a crankshaft. The lower end of the triangular support and the shaft seat are fixed onto the frame respectively. By replacing an original balancing block and a reducer with the counterweights and adding the balancing block onto the walking beam, the mobile counterweight type pumping unit is simple in structure and energy-saving.

A powertrain for a pedal vehicle includes a crank axle and an output sprocket rotating around a first rotation axis. The coupling between the crank axle and the output sprocket goes through an epicyclic gear system that includes a ring gear, a planet carrier, and a sun gear (13) which rotate around a second rotation axis that is spatially offset from the first rotation axis.

To provide a controller and a control method for an internal combustion engine capable of detecting misfire with good accuracy by simple calculation, even when a vibration in a period of about severalstrokes occurs in the crankshaft. A controller 50 and a control method for an internal combustion engine detects crank angle [theta d] based on an output signal of the specific crank angle sensor 6,and calculates a crank angle speed [omega d], a crank angle acceleration [alpha d], and a crank angle jerk [delta d] which is a time change rate of the crank angle acceleration [alpha d]; calculates afluctuation amount [delta delta d] of the crank angle jerk [delta d] in a determination period which is set corresponding to a one combustion stroke based on the crank angle jerk [delta d]; and determines a presence/absence of misfire in the one combustion stroke based on the fluctuation amount [delta delta d] of the crank angle jerk.

A nut cracking device with a frame comprising elongated, parallel members that surround a mechanical advantage device, such as a hydraulic jack. Top and bottom channel members are mounted at opposite ends of the frame members to separate the frame members and form a rigid frame structure. An anvil with texture to reduce slipping and increase pressure is mounted to the top member and extends toward the jack, on which a table is mounted. A nut may be placed on the table. Upon displacement of the jack's shaft, the table moves toward the anvil and any nut on the table is clamped, and ultimately fractured, between the table and the anvil. A hand-grippable knob permits manual bypass of a valve to permit the table to be pulled away from the anvil by springs mounted to the table.

A tray piston type rocking fluid pressure-feeder driven by a crank connecting rod mechanism comprises a support housing (5), a plurality of tray piston type rocking execution devices (2), a fluid inlet and outlet passage system, a cooling system, and a driving force generation system. The fluid inlet and outlet passage system comprises a fluid passage (6, 6a, 6b), a pipe orifice and a valve. The fluid passage (6, 6a, 6b) is in communication with a working chamber (4c). The cooling system is a mechanism for forced cooling and/or natural heat dissipation of components of the fluid pressure-feeder. The support housing (5) is provided with n (n≥1) tray piston type rocking execution devices (2), rotating centerlines of rocking trays (36) of the n tray piston type rocking execution devices (2) are distributed on the same circumferential diameter around the rotating center of a driving crankshaft (10), and the rotating centerlines of the rocking trays (36) are perpendicular to a plane of a support wallboard (34). A system for mechanically driving pistons to act on a fluid load comprises a prime motor and a crank rocker mechanism. The reciprocating rocking range of an angular travel of rocking piston plates (40) is approximately 0 to 150 degrees, and the fluid pressure-feeder is applied to driving the pistons to pressure-feed a fluid for pumping work; and the pressure-fed fluid is gas or liquid.

Crank gear (10) for a reciprocating compressor of the type equipped with at least one module which has two lines with two opposite cylinders. The crank gear is suitable for constraining the two cylinders to a crankshaft (20), so as to align the two cylinders, opposite each other with respect to an axis (21) of the shaft (20). The crank gear (10) is equipped with two rods (35), a series of connecting rods (30) and two cross heads (40) and (50). The series of identical connecting rods (30) is symmetrically positioned with respect to the alignment axis (25) of the two cylinders and furthermore the overall barycentre of the series of connecting rods lies on the axis (25) and on the axis (21) of the shaft (20) so that the whole of the shaft (20) is both statically and dynamically balanced.