2974 results about "Tension control" patented technology

This invention pertains to processing continuous webs such as paper, film, composites, and the like, in dynamic continuous processing operations. More particularly, it relates to accumulating limited lengths of such continuous webs and to controlling tension in such continuous webs during the processing operation. Both tension control and limited accumulations are achieved in a festoon system by connecting a corresponding festoon to actuator or the like, sensing variables such as position, tension, velocity, and acceleration parameters related to the web and the festoon, and providing active force commands, in response to the sensed variables, to cause translational movement, generally including a target acceleration, in the upper festoon rolls to control tension disturbances in the web while providing limited accumulation of a length of the web. In some applications of the invention, the festoon control system is used to attenuate tension disturbances. In other applications of the invention, the festoon control system is used to create controlled tension disturbances.

The present invention is characterized by that on the spinning machine it utilizes addition of a yarn tension control device and simple renovation of guide wheel to spin the invented core-spun composition yarn whose yarn is covered with staple fiber, and its covering rate is high. Said composite core-covered yarn not only has the appearance style, hand property, fluffy property and other advantages of staple fibre, but also possesses the strength and elongation, conformal property and drapping property, etc. of yarn.

A tether continuous energy supply system for an unmanned aerial vehicle comprising: a ground station, a ground station energy system, a spool coupled to the ground station energy system at a rotating joint, a tether that is wound about the spool, wherein a first end of the tether is coupled to the rotating joint, a tension control motor coupled to both the spool and the ground station energy system, an unmanned aerial vehicle coupled to a second end of the tether, a UAV energy system, a fluid that moves throughout the tether continuous energy supply system, a tension control system that receives and transmits signals from a plurality of sensors contained within the tether continuous energy supply system, and a distributed controls system that receives and transmits signals from the plurality of sensors contained within the tether continuous energy supply system.

A vehicle occupant protection apparatus (10) comprises an inflatable device (18) for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle. At least one tether (82, 84, 86, 88) is connected with the inflatable device (18) to control the location of the inflatable device when inflated. The occupant protection apparatus (10) includes at least one sensor (140) for sensing at least one condition relevant to a determination of where to locate the inflatable device (18) when inflated. The occupant protection apparatus (10) also includes a tether tension control mechanism (102, 104, 106, 108, 120) for tensioning the at least one tether (82, 84, 86, 88) in accordance with the sensing of the at least one condition.

The present invention discloses a dual spindle full-automatic winding machine which is set on the base and characterized in that, it mainly comprises a feeding mechanisms, a mobile mechanism, a pick-and-place mechanism, a tension control mechanism, a thread drawing mechanism, a wire winding and arranging mechanism, a curing mechanism, and a discharging mechanism who are interactive with each other for coordination under PLC control; the above mechanisms coordinate with each other from imputing to magnetic core in the shape of 'I' to final product outputted according to requirement of winding process. The invention is full-automatic, practical, can improve production efficiency and has good promotion value.

The invention discloses a rope net type space debris capturing and cleaning system which comprises a transmission subsystem and a fly net subsystem. The transmission subsystem comprises a transmitter, a net cabin, a net cabin cover ejecting device, a buffer device, a tying rope tension control device and a tying rope cutter, and the fly net subsystem comprises a rope net and four mass blocks; a net cabin cover can be ejected out of an outlet of the net cabin, and the rope net can be driven by the net cabin cover to be drawn out of the net cabin; the transmitter works at the moment when the fly net and a tying rope are straightened, the sides of the rope net are driven by four mass blocks according to preset transmitting opening angles, so that the rope net can fly out and is opened simultaneously until the rope net is fully opened, an object is netted after the rope net reaches the objective position, a port of the rope net is tightened under the control of the mass bocks, and the object can be completely captured; after the tying rope draws the captured object aircraft away from an orbit, the tying rope cutter cuts off the tying rope, and the object aircraft can be separated from a satellite platform. The rope net type space debris capturing and cleaning system has the advantages that a secondary transmission mode is adopted, so that twining and knotting can be prevented in rope net spreading procedures; the mass blocks are pushed to be synchronously transmitted, so that a millisecond-level synchronous transmission effect can be realized, and the shape of the rope net can be controlled advantageously.

To provide an optical film structure useful in a liquid crystal display device and capable of using thin optical films without warp and distortion. An optical film structure comprises at least one optical film, at least four film fixing parts arranged at an outer peripheral portion of the optical film, a film tension controlling member fitted at one of the ends thereof to each of the film fixing parts in such a fashion as to be capable of pulling the optical film under tension while maintaining flatness of the optical film, and a film fixing frame to which the other end of the film tension controlling member is connected and which fixes the optical film.

An in-line strainer for placement within a span of wire fence to apply tension thereto is provided. The in-line strainer includes a reel having a hollow central hub for receiving a torque limiting mechanism. The torque limiting mechanism includes a central axle and a spring mechanism. As the axle is manually rotated, the reel is also rotated through its engagement with the torque limiting mechanism until a target tension on the wire is reached. Once the target tension has been reached, the torque limiting mechanism disengages, allowing the axle to “slip” relative to the reel, preventing further rotation of the reel and, consequently, further tensioning of the wire. In addition, the in-line strainer includes a failure mechanism which ensures that, when the load threshold on the fence is exceeded, the in-line strainer will automatically release tension on the wire wound thereon in a predictable and safe manner.

An overend unwind system for unwinding tacky elastomeric fiber threads such as uncoated spandex thread, capturing the ballooning affect of the thread as the thread leaves the spool, applying a first-stage tension control on the thread adjacent where the thread leaves the spool, feeding the unwound thread to a nip in a downstream process, and applying a final tension increment to the thread adjacent where the thread enters the downstream process. All thread guide surfaces encountered by the thread after leaving the spool, and while the thread is under designed operating tension, are moving surfaces, such that the tensioned thread thereby experiences a reduced level of drag as the thread traverses its path of travel from the spool to the downstream process.

A system, apparatus and method for tension control in a thread feeding system that provides a fast and reliable method for feeding high tack elastomeric thread or fiber from a package to a thread processing system. A drive and tension control apparatus at least one of increments, maintains or decrements the speed of a driven take-off roll when the tension is out of a predetermined range of operation. A tension controller devices measures tension and determines whether the average tension for the moving threads is out-of-range relative to the predetermined tension values for the threads. Alarms and other indicators may also be used to determine the threads are at least one of broken, not moving and out-of-range for tension control.

The invention has the purpose of providing a water quenching and cooling method and device for ultrahigh-strength strip steel. The device comprises an inlet tension roll (2), an outlet tension roll (16), and a water quenching and cooling tank (5), wherein water quenching nozzles (8) and a withdrawing and straightening machine (10) are arranged in the cooling tank; the cooling tank is connected with a gas sealing device (4), a gas circulating device (6), a water circulating device (9), a water sealing device (14), a drying device (15), a strip steel operating line centering device (3) and a tension control system (17); the multiple water quenching nozzles (8) in the front section of the water quenching and cooling tank eject high-pressure water to cool the strip steel when the strip steel to be cooled enters the water quenching and cooling tank (5) through the inlet tension roll (2); the steel plate passes through the withdrawing and straightening machine (10) arranged on the lower part of the water quenching and cooling tank (5) after being cooled to 250 to 350 DEG C; the shape of the strip steel plate is straightened by a mild straightening mode; the strip steel after being cooled and straightened is transferred out of the water quenching and cooling device through the outlet tension roll (16); and the rapid cooling can be realized and the ultrahigh-strength steel plate with a good shape can be obtained at the same time.

The invention relates to a full-automatic winding machine used for winding plastic tubes, aiming at simplifying the complicated structure of the winding machine and comprising a main-machine base, a rotary big arm arranged on the main-machine base, a tube-distributing mechanism and a tension control mechanism, wherein, two winding disks are symmetrically arranged on the rotary big arm, and after improvement, two winding-disk driving motors are symmetrically arranged on the rotary big arm and respectively connected with the two winding disks in a transmission way. The invention adopts the design of configuring driving sources respectively for the two winding disks to overcome the defects of complicated winding disk supporting and jointing devices, etc. existing by sharing one driving source, and the improvement reduces parts and reduces the manufacturing accuracy of the parts so as to simplify action program and distinctly enhance the reliability of equipment. The full-automatic winding machine of the invention improves the automation capability of plastic hose winding, enhances winding efficiency and is suitable for the automatic manufacturing line of various plastic hoses.

An elastic thread supply device including a tension controller configured to control the stress acting upon an elastic thread drawn from an elastic thread package, and a drive roll configured to supply the elastic thread dispensed from the tension controller to a processing line. The drive roll operates at a supply velocity slower than a conveyance velocity of a web, and increases or decreases the supply velocity depending on the fluctuation in the conveyance velocity.