STEER-DRIVE FOR VEHICLES
    1.
    发明公开
    STEER-DRIVE FOR VEHICLES 审中-公开
    转向驱动车辆

    公开(公告)号:EP1345805A4

    公开(公告)日:2007-10-31

    申请号:EP01995375

    申请日:2001-12-06

    申请人: TORVEC INC

    CPC分类号: B63H25/10 B62D11/14

    摘要: A steer-drive interposes respective left and right orbital gear drives (20, 22) into the vehicle drivetrain between the engine/transmission (10, 12) and the respective propulsion axles associated with each side of the vehicle. The orbital drive units comprise only an input gear (54) and an output gear (58) interconnected by at least one orbiting cluster gear (60, 61) that is supported in a rotating housing and also meshes only with the input and output gears. The orbital units are designed so that (a) when rotation of the housing (64) is prevented, driving torque is transferred at speed ratios selected to be as close to 1:1 as is practical, and (b) when steering torque causes rotation of the housing, the steering torque is added simultaneously in equal and opposite directions to the orbital units, causing the drive on one side of the vehicle to slow down at the same rate. The steer-drive is appropriate for the drivetrains of tracked vehicles, boats and airplanes.

    LONG-PISTON HYDRAULIC MACHINES
    2.
    发明公开
    LONG-PISTON HYDRAULIC MACHINES 有权
    长活塞液压机

    公开(公告)号:EP1721075A4

    公开(公告)日:2007-03-14

    申请号:EP04795074

    申请日:2004-10-12

    申请人: TORVEC INC

    摘要: Smaller and lighter hydraulic pump/motors provide remarkably improved volumetric efficiency with pistons having body portions substantially as long as the axial length of the respective cylinders in which they reciprocate. A plurality of respective lubricating channels, formed circumferentially and radially transecting the walls of each cylinder, are each positioned to be almost completely closed at all times by the axial cylindrical body of each respective piston during its entire stroke. Each lubricating channel is interconnected, one to another, to form a single, continuous lubricating passageway entirely within the cylinder block and not connected by either fluid 'input' or fluid 'output' passageways, being replenished solely by a minimal flow of fluid entering from the valve end of each cylinder and passing between each respective cylindrical wall of each cylinder and the axial cylindrical body of each respective piston. Several embodiments are disclosed in combination with various spring-biased hold-down assemblies.

    MODULAR TRACK-LAYING SYSTEM
    3.
    发明公开
    MODULAR TRACK-LAYING SYSTEM 有权
    MOLDULARES RAUPENSYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:EP1140607A4

    公开(公告)日:2003-04-16

    申请号:EP99963062

    申请日:1999-12-10

    申请人: TORVEC INC

    CPC分类号: B62D55/10

    摘要: A modular track suspension system is readily adapted for attachment to any presently manufactured full-size automotive vehicle (10) built with a load-carrying frame (12), being easily substituted for the vehicle's conventional wheeled undercarriage either during or following final assembly. The module uses a pair of endless rubber tracks (14, 15), one track under each respective side of the vehicle; and each track (14, 15) is supported over tandem units (17, 18) with, preferably, side-by-side dual-wheels (20, 21 and 22, 23) having rubber tires. The dual-wheels are each movable in a vertical plane, and each dual-wheel can move separately and independently of the similar independent movement of the other dual-wheel with which it is in tandem. Each dual-wheel is also resiliently biased in the direction of the terrain on which the vehicle is standing or moving.

    摘要翻译: 模块化的轨道悬挂系统容易地适用于附接到任何目前制造的具有承载框架(12)的全尺寸机动车辆(10),在最终组装期间或之后容易地代替车辆的传统轮式底架。 该模块使用一对环形橡胶履带(14,15),在车辆的各个侧面下方有一条履带; 并且每个轨道(14,15)优选地被具有橡胶轮胎的并排双轮(20,21和22,23)支撑在串联单元(17,18)上方。 双轮每个都可以在垂直平面内移动,并且每个双轮可以单独移动并且独立于与其串联的另一个双轮的类似的独立移动。 每个双轮还在车辆站立或移动的地形的方向上弹性地偏置。

    COMPACT FULL-TRACTION DIFFERENTIAL
    6.
    发明公开
    COMPACT FULL-TRACTION DIFFERENTIAL 审中-公开
    全牵引COMPACT差动

    公开(公告)号:EP1606534A4

    公开(公告)日:2009-07-29

    申请号:EP03800315

    申请日:2003-12-31

    申请人: TORVEC INC

    IPC分类号: F16H48/06 F16H48/28 F16H48/29

    摘要: The size, weight, and cost of a full-traction differential are significantly reduced by the synergism of several interrelated design features of a cartridge-like gear complex: (1) Each combination gear has only a shallow journal hole in each end of an otherwise solid gear body, being supported on mating hubs fixed to mounting plates slipped into a one-piece differential housing. (2) The solid worm-wheel portion of the combination gears has a deeper hour-glass shape. (3) Mating worm/worm-wheel teeth have a broad 'supra-enveloping' contact pattern on only the drive side of the mesh. (4) The side-gear worms have closed-end teeth. (5) Both diameter and axial length of the side-gear worms are reduced by a special cutting process. The efficiency of the differential is increased by a thrust plate supported in the mounting plates and positioned between inner ends of the side-gear worms.

    VARIABLE-ANGLE GEAR SYSTEM
    10.
    发明公开
    VARIABLE-ANGLE GEAR SYSTEM 失效
    可调节角度GEAR

    公开(公告)号:EP0760064A4

    公开(公告)日:1997-06-04

    申请号:EP95921372

    申请日:1995-05-23

    申请人: TORVEC INC

    摘要: The disclosed gear system provides distinctive forms of gearing (150a, 156a) for directly transmitting substantially constant velocity between two shafts (154', 160'), while allowing the angle between the shafts (154', 160') to vary, by even more than 80 degrees, in any plane during operation. Several forms of gear teeth appropriate for the system are specifically detailed and applied in the design of the constant-velocity joints.