Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flexible member
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Application No.: US17601711Application Date: 2020-04-13
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Publication No.: US11883954B2Publication Date: 2024-01-30
- Inventor: Shimpei Kurokawa , Yosuke Kawai
- Applicant: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: JCIPRNET
- Priority: JP 19075949 2019.04.11
- International Application: PCT/JP2020/016305 2020.04.13
- International Announcement: WO2020/209387A 2020.10.15
- Date entered country: 2021-10-06
- Main IPC: B25J18/06
- IPC: B25J18/06 ; A61B34/30 ; F16F1/32

Abstract:
A flexible member is provided which can have excellent load resistance and flexibility while being more compact. This flexible member has a main body part in which multiple wave washers having closed ring shapes is stacked in an axial direction and joined to each other by multiple joint parts, and the main body part is able to be bent with respect to the axial direction due to elastic deformation of the wave washers. Each of the joint parts includes: a pair of welded parts in linear shape, being gradually separated from each other in a circumferential direction from an inner circumferential side toward an outer circumferential side of the wave washer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220193933A1 FLEXIBLE MEMBER Public/Granted day:2022-06-23
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