Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110110710 | BALL JOINT - A ball joint includes a ball head and a ball socket. The ball head has a spherical head and a rotatable post extending from the spherical head. The ball socket defines a receiving cavity for rotatably receiving the spherical head. The ball socket forms a plurality of annular resisting surfaces on an inner surface defining the receiving cavity. Each annular resisting surface is tangent with an outer surface of the spherical head. | 05-12-2011 |
20110113914 | PARALLEL ROBOT - A parallel robot includes a base plate, two first actuators located on the base plate, a mobile platform, and two kinematic chains respectively interconnecting the base plate and the mobile platform. Each kinematic chain includes a driving bar assembly and a driven bar assembly. The driving bar assembly is connected to one of two first actuators. The driving bar includes two substantially parallel first transmission bars. Each of the first transmission bars includes a rotating portion rotatably connected to the base plate. The driven bar assembly interconnects the driving bar assembly and the mobile platform. Each of the two first actuators rotates two rotating portions of the two first transmission bars in the same direction simultaneously. | 05-19-2011 |
20110113915 | PARALLEL ROBOT - A parallel robot includes a fixed platform, a movable platform, a plurality of control arms, a rotation arm, a plurality of first actuators, and a second actuator. The control arms are rotatably connected to the fixed platform and the movable platform, respectively. Opposite ends of the rotation arm are universally rotatably connected to the fixed platform and the movable platform, respectively. The first actuators are to respectively move the control arms. The second actuator is to drive the rotation arm to rotate around the center axis of the rotation arm. Each control arm includes a first transmission unit including a transmission member. Each first actuator includes a transmission gear to engage the transmission member of the control arm. | 05-19-2011 |
20110113918 | TRANSLATIONAL BRANCH JOINT AND PARALLEL ROBOT UTILIZING THE SAME - An exemplary translational branch joint for a parallel robot includes a swing arm connected to a four-bar linkage. The four-bar linkage includes two parallel connecting bars, a first link member, a second link member, and joint members. The first link member and the second link member connect the connecting bars. Each joint member comprises a first joint portion and a second joint portion extending from the first joint portion. The first joint portion has a first axis, and the second joint portion has a second axis substantially perpendicular to the first axis. The first joint portions of the joint members are rotatably connected to ends of the first link member and the second link member, and the second joint portions of the joint members are rotatably connected to ends of the connecting bars. | 05-19-2011 |
20110120254 | PARALLEL ROBOT - A parallel robot includes a base, a movable platform, a plurality of control arms, a rotation arm, a plurality of first actuators, and a second actuator. The control arms rotatably interconnect to the base and the movable platform, respectively. Opposite ends of the rotation arm are universally rotatably connected to the base and the movable platform, respectively. The first actuators move the control arms, respectively. The second actuator rotates the rotation arm around a central axis. Each control arm comprises a first transmission member and a transmission cable. The first transmission member comprises a fan-shaped transmission portion. Each first actuator comprises a transmission shaft to engage the first transmission member of the control arm. The transmission cable coils around the transmission shaft for at least one winding, then criss-crosses, and winds on the fan-shaped transmission portion. | 05-26-2011 |
20110124449 | DECELERATION MECHANISM AND TRANSMISSION DEVICE UTILIZED THEREBY - A deceleration mechanism comprises a base, a transmission device rotatably connected to the base, and a driving device fixed to the base. The transmission device includes a driving assembly having a driving wheel and a driven assembly having a driven wheel. Diameter of the driven wheel is greater than that of the driving wheel. The driving device provides power to rotate the driving wheel. The transmission device further includes a transmission member wound on the driving wheel and the driven wheel. The transmission member winds on the driving wheel at least one winding, then criss-crosses and winds on the driven wheel. | 05-26-2011 |
20110154936 | PARALLEL ROBOT - A parallel robot includes a base, a movable platform, a first kinematic chain and a second kinematic chain. The first and the second kinematic chains are connected to the fixed platform and the movable platform respectively, and move on the same plane. Each of the first and second kinematic chains includes a linear driving mechanism mounted on the base and a parallel four-bar linkage driven by the linear driving mechanism and hinged on the movable platform. | 06-30-2011 |
20110155517 | DECELERATION MECHANISM - A deceleration mechanism includes a transmission assembly and a driving device. The transmission assembly includes a driving member, a first driven assembly, a second driven assembly, a first transmission member, and a second transmission member. The first transmission member coils around the driving member and the first driven assembly. The second transmission member coils around the first driven assembly and the second driven assembly. The driving device rotates the driving member, the driving member rotates the first driven assembly, and the first driven assembly rotates the second driven assembly. | 06-30-2011 |
20110232399 | DECELERATION MECHANISM - A deceleration mechanism comprises a driving member, a driven member, an actuator device connected to the driving member, and a transmission member coiling around the driving member and the driven member. The transmission member comprises a positioning portion and a coiling portion extending from opposite sides of the positioning portion. The position portion is fixed to the driving member, the coiling portion coils a plurality of windings on the driving member, and then coils on the driven member. The number of windings of the transmission member coiled around the driving member is equal to or more than the transmission ratio of the deceleration mechanism. | 09-29-2011 |
20110233007 | DECELERATION MECHANISM - A deceleration mechanism comprises a driving wheel, a driven wheel of a diameter exceeding that of the driving wheel, a transmission member coiling around the driving wheel and the driven wheel; and a tension assembly fixed to the driven wheel. The transmission member coils around the driving wheel, criss-crosses, and coils around the driven wheel. The tension assembly is arranged between the transmission member and the driven wheel and elastically resists the transmission member and the driven wheel. | 09-29-2011 |
20110284581 | DISPENSING APPARATUS - A dispensing apparatus includes a support frame, a receiving tube, a dispenser, a slide rail, a screw rod, a driving assembly, and a push piston. The receiving tube is fixed to the support frame. The receiving tube defines a tube cavity for receiving glue materials, and an output tube communicating with the receiving tube. The dispenser is connected to the receiving tube. A slide rail is fixed on the support frame, and a sliding member is slidably connected to the slide rail. A screw rod engages with the sliding member. A driving assembly drives a screw rod to move. A push piston is fixed on the sliding member, and is partially received in the receiving tube for pushing glue materials to flow to the dispenser. | 11-24-2011 |
20110290049 | DECELERATION DEVICE - A deceleration device includes a driving device and a transmission assembly. The transmission assembly includes a driving member, a first active subassembly, a second active subassembly, a first transmission member, a second transmission member and two regulatory mechanisms. The driving member is connected to the driving device. The first transmission member connects the driving member to the first active subassembly, and is driven by the driving device, and rotates the first active subassembly. The second transmission member connects the first active subassembly to the second active subassembly, and is driven by the first active subassembly, and rotates the second active subassembly. The two regulatory mechanisms elastically resist the first transmission member and the second transmission member, respectively. | 12-01-2011 |
20110294584 | UNIVERSAL BALL JOINT - A universal ball joint includes a first pivotal body and a second pivotal body rotatably assembled with the first pivotal body. The first pivotal body includes a substantially elliptical ball head and a connecting portion extending out from the ball head. The ball head has a major axis and a minor axis substantially perpendicular to the major axis. The second pivotal body defines a substantially elliptical ball socket rotatably engaging with the ball head of the first pivotal body such that the ball head may rotate around the major axis or the minor axis of the ball head. | 12-01-2011 |
20120073766 | RETRACTABLE SHIELDING APPARATUS - A retractable shielding apparatus includes an adjusting base, a fixing base, two retractable shields, a shuttle, and a cable. The two retractable shields are assembled to two ends of the shuttle respectively with one corresponding end thereof. The adjusting base and the fixing base are respectively fixed to the opposite other end of the corresponding two retractable shields. The cable adjustably connects the adjusting base, the two retractable shields, the shuttle and the fixing base together. The shuttle is slidably located between the adjusting base and the fixing base and is configured to slide along the path formed by the cable, such that the two retractable shields can be extended or retracted together with the shuttle. | 03-29-2012 |
20120135811 | UNIVERSAL JOINT - A universal joint includes a pivotal member and two connecting assemblies. The two connecting assemblies are assembled to two ends of the pivotal member, respectively, such that the two connecting assemblies are rotatably assembled together via the pivotal member. The pivotal member defines four arc-shaped pivotal slots spaced to each other at an outer periphery thereof. Each connecting assembly includes two connecting members respectively assembled to the two symmetrical pivotal slots of the pivotal member, and are positioned at a same end of the pivotal member. | 05-31-2012 |