161 |
Mechanical-electromagnetic clutch |
EP82400940.1 |
1982-05-19 |
EP0065923B1 |
1985-08-07 |
Takemura, Toji; Hirashima, Kenzo |
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162 |
ELECTROMAGNETIC CONNECTING DEVICE |
US15878364 |
2018-01-23 |
US20180209490A1 |
2018-07-26 |
Motoi KATO; Yoshihiro KUROSU; Yasuyuki IIZUKA; Shun TOMARU |
An electromagnetic clutch includes a field core including a coil storage groove, and a rotor including a core storage groove. The coil storage groove is formed by an inner cylindrical portion, an outer cylindrical portion, and a bottom portion. The bottom portion of the field core wholly projects to the outside of the core storage groove. The outer peripheral surface of the inner cylindrical portion and the inner peripheral surface of the outer cylindrical portion include a first transition surface and a second transition surface, respectively, on the bottom portion side. Each of the first transition surface and the second transition surface includes a tilting surface that gradually narrows the groove width of the coil storage groove along with an increase in a distance from the side of the opening of the coil storage groove. |
163 |
ELECTROMAGNETIC CLUTCH |
US15738152 |
2016-07-12 |
US20180180115A1 |
2018-06-28 |
Satoshi IHA; Toshihiro HAYASHI |
An electromagnetic clutch includes: a driving-side rotatable body that is rotated about an axis of a rotatable shaft of a drive-subject device; and a driven-side rotatable body that is placed on one side of the driving-side rotatable body in an axial direction. The electromagnetic clutch includes a flat spring that is formed to be rotatable integrally with the rotatable shaft of the drive-subject device and is joined to the driven-side rotatable body. The electromagnetic clutch includes a blocking member that is installed to the flat spring. A primary through-hole is formed in the driven-side rotatable body. A secondary through-hole is formed in the flat spring. Switching between coupling and decoupling between driving-side rotatable body and the driven-side rotatable body is made through elastic deformation of the flat spring. The blocking member closes the secondary through-hole. |
164 |
ELECTROMAGNETIC CLUTCH |
US15260063 |
2016-09-08 |
US20170067516A1 |
2017-03-09 |
Yoshinori FUJISAWA |
An electromagnetic clutch includes an armature to be attracted to a rotor, an armature hub formed on one end portion of a rotating shaft, and a leaf spring which connects the armature to the armature hub and biases the armature away from the rotor. The leaf spring includes a base fixed to the armature hub, a stopper connected to the base, and a connecting piece surrounding the stopper by projecting outside from the base, and fixed to the armature. A through hole into which a rivet for fixing the base to the armature hub is inserted is formed in the base. A low-strength portion having strength lower than that in the periphery of the through hole is formed in a boundary portion between the base and a connecting portion. |
165 |
Friction clutch assemblies |
US14008600 |
2012-04-10 |
US09217476B2 |
2015-12-22 |
Joshua L. Roby |
A friction clutch assembly, preferably for a hybrid cooling pump. The friction clutch assembly includes a friction lining carrier member, a friction lining member, a compression spring member, a clutch carrier member and a flux plate member. A solenoid can be utilized to control the compression of the spring member. The friction clutch assembly has a preferred use in a hybrid coolant pump with two modes of operation, an electric motor operation, and a mechanical pulley-driven operation. The friction clutch assembly can be positioned inside a motor housing. The softening compression spring can minimize parasitic clutch power consumption. |
166 |
Electromagnetic clutch |
US14003194 |
2012-04-10 |
US09140313B2 |
2015-09-22 |
Atsutoshi Ikegawa |
A compact-size electromagnetic clutch reaches a blocking state as an electromagnetic solenoid is switched from a non-driving state to a driving state and can save wasteful consumption of energy under this blocking state. This electromagnetic clutch includes a wrap spring in pressure-contact with an outer face of a cylindrical portion of a drive pulley provided on the center side thereof. One end of the wrap spring is coupled to a drive arm of a drive member operably connected to a shaft. The other end of the wrap spring is coupled to an operational member rotatable relative to the shaft and movable along the rotational axis thereof. An electromagnetic solenoid attracts the operational member. An operational mechanism permits realization of the blocking state by preventing rotation of the drive member after a twisting operation of the wrap spring subsequent to the attraction of the operational member by this electromagnetic solenoid. |
167 |
Control Methods and Systems for Dual Mode Cooling Pump |
US14658207 |
2015-03-15 |
US20150184575A1 |
2015-07-02 |
John Shutty; Stephen Bohan; Joshua L. Roby |
Methods and systems for controlling the operation of a dual mode engine accessory, such as a dual mode cooling pump. The dual mode device has two modes of operation, an electric motor operation and a mechanical pulley-driven operation. A friction clutch mechanism controlled by the control system is utilized to switch between the two modes of operation. The speed of the electrical motor can be changed to be substantially the same as, or changed in the direction of, the speed of the mechanical pulley-driven system. |
168 |
Control methods for dual mode cooling pump |
US13473577 |
2012-05-16 |
US08978600B2 |
2015-03-17 |
John Shutty; Stephen Bohan; Joshua L. Roby |
Methods and systems for controlling the operation of a dual mode engine accessory, such as a dual mode cooling pump. The dual mode device has two modes of operation, an electric motor operation and a mechanical pulley-driven operation. A friction clutch mechanism controlled by the control system is utilized to switch between the two modes of operation. The speed of the electrical motor can be changed to be substantially the same as, or changed in the direction of, the speed of the mechanical pulley-driven system. |
169 |
SUPERCHARGER TORSIONAL COMPLIANCE AND DAMPING FEATURES |
US14147188 |
2014-01-03 |
US20140334959A1 |
2014-11-13 |
Brian W. Franke; Michael J. Hornbrook; David Gerard Rauen; Rodney Champlin Glover; Thomas Jonathan Walsh; Bryn Tailer Dixon; Randal J. Graves |
A positive displacement pump (8) comprises a cylindrical input shaft (13) comprising a first area (A1) with a first diameter (D1), a second area (A2) with a second diameter (D2), and a third area (A3) with a third diameter (D3), where the second diameter is greater than the first diameter and the third diameter. A stator (19) is press fit to a portion of the third area. A cylindrical bushing (15) is press fit around the second area. When the input shaft (13) rotates, the torsional vibration damping bushing (15) resists the rotation. The pump also comprises a clutch assembly (21). A clutch armature (29) of the assembly comprises a cylindrical, hollow passageway (290) and radially extending arms (39). Each arm comprises an opening (293), at least one slot (295) passing through the arm, and at least one void (297) abutting the slot, the void passing through the arm. When the clutch assembly engages, the armature damps vibrations. |
170 |
FRICTION CLUTCH ASSEMBLIES |
US14008600 |
2012-04-10 |
US20140322041A1 |
2014-10-30 |
Joshua L. Roby |
A friction clutch assembly, preferably for a hybrid cooling pump. The friction clutch assembly includes a friction lining carrier member, a friction lining member, a compression spring member, a clutch carrier member and a flux plate member. A solenoid can be utilized to control the compression of the spring member. The friction clutch assembly has a preferred use in a hybrid coolant pump with two modes of operation, an electric motor operation, and a mechanical pulley-driven operation. The friction clutch assembly can be positioned inside a motor housing. The softening compression spring can minimize parasitic clutch power consumption. |
171 |
Clutch mechanism |
US12953999 |
2010-11-24 |
US08757343B2 |
2014-06-24 |
Shigeyoshi Sakuraba; Yasuo Tabuchi |
A clutch mechanism includes a pulley, an armature, an electromagnet, a plate spring and a damper. The armature combines with the pulley in a direction of a rotation axis. The electromagnet generates attracting magnetic force, which attracts the armature in a joining direction. The plate spring generates resilient force, which urges the armature in an opposite direction from the joining direction. The damper includes an impact mitigation part mitigating an impact when the armature collides with the pulley. The pulley, the armature, the damper and the plate spring are arranged in this order in the direction of the rotation axis. The damper includes a contact portion contacting part of the armature in the direction of the rotation axis. The plate spring includes a pressing part pressing the contact portion on the armature during both the joining and unjoining of the armature and the pulley. |
172 |
COMPRESSION SPRING MEMBERS |
US14008615 |
2012-04-10 |
US20140158492A1 |
2014-06-12 |
Joshua L. Roby |
Compression spring members, particularly for friction clutch assemblies. The compression spring members include a plurality of deformable members and where the amount of force necessary to compress the spring member lessens over displacement once a peak amount of force is reached. The compression spring members can comprise a plurality of buckling beam spring members, a plurality of connecting members, or the like. One or more ring members can be provided for attachment to the connecting members. The friction clutch assembly is preferably used for a hybrid coolant pump with two modes of operation, an electric motor operation and a mechanical pulley-driven operation. |
173 |
PULLEY ASSEMBLIES FOR VEHICLE ACCESSORIES |
US14008593 |
2012-04-10 |
US20140023527A1 |
2014-01-23 |
Joshua L. Roby |
Pulley assemblies for vehicle accessories, such as a water pump. The pulley assembly which can be connected to a related housing member, such as a clutch housing member, includes a pulley member directly driven by the accessory belt of a vehicle engine and a separate pair of bearing members. A preferred use of the pulley assembly is with a hybrid coolant pump with two modes of operation, an electric motor operation, and a mechanical pulley-driven operation. A friction clutch assembly can be positioned inside the housing member and can include a softening spring which minimizes parasitic clutch power consumption. |
174 |
ELECTROMAGNETIC CLUTCH |
US12740595 |
2008-10-29 |
US20100258400A1 |
2010-10-14 |
Isamu Shirai; Takeshi Arasawa; Hideaki Fujiu; Takao Shimoyama |
Provided is an electromagnetic clutch, in which a plurality of magnetic flux shielding slits extending in the axial direction and arcuately in the circumferential direction are formed individually in a rotor and an armature, and in which the magnetic flux by the excitation of a coil inserted on the anti-armature side of the rotor is passed from the non-slit portion of the rotor to the non-slit portion of the armature and from the non-slit portion of the armature to the non-slit portion of the rotor, so that a magnetic attraction is generated to bring two frictional faces into press contact with each other and so that the two frictional faces are separated by the demagnetization of the coil. The slits of at least one of the rotor and the armature are formed to change in such a taper shape that the slit width at the frictional face side may be smaller than that at the anti-frictional face side. Without inviting any drastic cost increase, the mutual press-contact force of the frictional faces can be enhanced so that a higher torque transmission may be possible with the same size as that of the conventional structure. |
175 |
Electromagnetic clutch |
US11391490 |
2006-03-29 |
US07798302B2 |
2010-09-21 |
Tomonori Matsumura; Hirokazu Ichinose |
In this electromagnetic clutch, a compressive force is generated in a plate spring when an armature plate is contact with a first rotor. Therefore, a force in the direction away from the first rotor acts on a first bent portion of a plate spring. However, an extension portion of a second rotor is capable of abutting to the first bent portion from the direction opposite to the first rotor. So a stress generated in the first bent portion is dispersed to the extension portion. |
176 |
Field coil assembly of electromagnetic clutch |
US12482260 |
2009-06-10 |
US07746204B2 |
2010-06-29 |
Sung-Taeg Oh; Dae-Yong Park; Sung-Won Cho |
The present invention relates to a field coil assembly of an electromagnetic clutch for a compressor. A field coil assembly according to the present invention includes a field coil member 20 having a coil wire 22 extending outward; a power connecting member 30 having a sleeve 35 with a terminal 40 protruding out, the terminal electrically connecting the coil wire 22 to an external power source; a flange 28 coupled to one side of the field coil member 20 with the coil wire 22 drawn therefrom, the flange 28 having a catching portion 29 coupled with the sleeve 35, the flange 28 having electric conductivity; and a ground terminal 50 provided in the sleeve 35 and electrically connected to the terminal 40, the ground terminal 50 having at least a portion contacted with the catching portion 29. |
177 |
Rotational coupling device |
US11150027 |
2005-06-10 |
US07732959B2 |
2010-06-08 |
James A. Pardee |
A rotational coupling device for use as a clutch and/or brake is provided having improved magnetic efficiency and structural integrity. A permanent magnet is coupled to one of a brake plate and an armature and axially aligned with a portion of the other for improved braking performance. |
178 |
ELECTROMAGNETIC CLUTCH |
US12489536 |
2009-06-23 |
US20090321214A1 |
2009-12-31 |
Nobuaki Hoshino; Masahiro Kawaguchi; Masaki Ota; Yoshio Kimoto; Toru Onishi |
An electromagnetic clutch includes a coil generating a first magnetic flux or a second magnetic flux depending on the direction of current flowing therein, a stationary core accommodating therein the coil, a stationary magnet providing a magnetic flux that opposes the first magnetic flux, a rotor rotatable concentrically with a rotatable shaft, a moving core fixed to the rotor, a moving magnet providing a magnetic flux that opposes the second magnetic flux, a sun gear fixed to the rotatable shaft, an internal gear fixed to the rotor, a planetary gear meshed with the sun gear and the internal gear, an arm supporting the planetary gear, a pulley rotatable concentrically with the rotatable shaft, a first armature being capable of coupling to the stationary core, and a second armature being capable of coupling to the moving core. |
179 |
FIELD COIL ASSEMBLY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC CLUTCH |
US12482260 |
2009-06-10 |
US20090309681A1 |
2009-12-17 |
Sung-Taeg OH; Dae-Yong Park; Sung-Won Cho |
The present invention relates to a field coil assembly of an electromagnetic clutch for a compressor. A field coil assembly according to the present invention includes a field coil member 20 having a coil wire 22 extending outward; a power connecting member 30 having a sleeve 35 with a terminal 40 protruding out, the terminal electrically connecting the coil wire 22 to an external power source; a flange 28 coupled to one side of the field coil member 20 with the coil wire 22 drawn therefrom, the flange 28 having a catching portion 29 coupled with the sleeve 35, the flange 28 having electric conductivity; and a ground terminal 50 provided in the sleeve 35 and electrically connected to the terminal 40, the ground terminal 50 having at least a portion contacted with the catching portion 29. |
180 |
Rotational coupling device |
US11150027 |
2005-06-10 |
US20060279147A1 |
2006-12-14 |
James Pardee |
A rotational coupling device for use as a clutch and/or brake is provided having improved magnetic efficiency and structural integrity. A permanent magnet is coupled to one of a brake plate and an armature and axially aligned with a portion of the other for improved braking performance. |