Compact gas spring
    1.
    发明授权
    Compact gas spring 失效
    紧凑型气弹簧

    公开(公告)号:US6003848A

    公开(公告)日:1999-12-21

    申请号:US886241

    申请日:1997-07-01

    摘要: A gas spring with a sealing and bearing assembly received within a casing of the gas spring adjacent to a rod slidably received through the assembly for axial reciprocation. The assembly has an annular retaining ring received within the casing, an annular bearing with a throughbore through which the rod reciprocates carried by the retaining ring, an annular retainer carried by the retaining ring downstream of the bearing, and a sealing member received within the retaining ring adjacent to the retainer and in firm engagement with the rod and retaining ring to provide a gas-tight seal between the rod and the retaining ring to prevent the escape of gas from the gas spring. The retainer preferably has a dovetail flange extending therefrom and the sealing ring has a complementarily shaped recess molded or press-fit onto the flange to attach the sealing ring to the retainer. The retainer is preferably firmly clamped to the retaining ring by rolling its upper edge over the retainer. To prevent contaminants from entering the gas spring and fouling the bearing and sealing assembly, a wiper is provided downstream of the sealing member and attached to the retainer.

    摘要翻译: 具有密封和轴承组件的气弹簧被接收在气弹簧的壳体内,邻近可滑动地容纳在组件中用于轴向往复运动的杆。 所述组件具有容纳在所述壳体内的环形保持环,具有通孔的环形轴承,所述杆由所述保持环承载的所述往复运动,由所述保持环承载的环形保持器承载在所述轴承的下游,以及密封构件, 环与保持器相邻并且与杆和保持环牢固接合以在杆和保持环之间提供气密密封,以防止气体从气体弹簧逸出。 保持器优选地具有从其延伸的燕尾形凸缘,并且密封环具有模制或压配合到凸缘上以将密封环附接到保持器的互补形状的凹部。 保持器优选通过将其上边缘滚动在保持器上而牢固地夹紧到保持环上。 为了防止污染物进入气弹簧并污染轴承和密封组件,擦拭器设置在密封构件的下游并附接到保持器。

    Gas spring
    2.
    发明授权
    Gas spring 失效
    气泉水

    公开(公告)号:US5303906A

    公开(公告)日:1994-04-19

    申请号:US958554

    申请日:1992-10-08

    摘要: A gas spring with a piston reciprocable in a chamber of a casing, a sealing assembly at the rear end of the casing through which the piston rod extends, and an end cap closing the rear end of the casing. The sealing assembly has a reinforcing ring having a sealing ring on one side and a wiper on the other side. The sealing ring and wiper are portions of a single body of elastomeric material molded to the reinforcing ring and integrally connected through one or more openings in the reinforcing ring. The casing wall is rolled radially inwardly over the sealing assembly into pressure contact with the reinforcing ring so that the sealing assembly becomes in effect an end cap for the front end of the casing. The rear end of the casing is rolled over the rear end cap by swaging into pressure contact with the end cap. A filler valve is disposed in the end cap. In use, the piston is normally retained on the rod by an enlargement having a diameter larger than the bore of the rod bearing so that in the unlikely event the piston separates from the rod the enlargement will be embedded in the bearing to retain the rod in the casing. If the piston separates from the rod a port in the rod vents to the atmosphere the compressed gas in the chamber.

    摘要翻译: 一种气体弹簧,其具有可在壳体的腔室中往复运动的活塞,在壳体的后端处的活塞杆延伸穿过的密封组件和封闭壳体后端的端盖。 密封组件具有一侧的密封环和另一侧的刮水器的加强环。 密封圈和擦拭器是模制到加强环的单个弹性材料体的部分,并且通过加强环中的一个或多个开口整体连接。 壳体壁在密封组件上径向向内滚动,与加强环压力接触,使得密封组件实际上成为壳体前端的端盖。 套管的后端通过与端盖压力接触而在后端盖上滚动。 一个加注阀设置在端盖中。 在使用中,活塞通常通过直径大于杆轴承孔的尺寸保持在杆上,使得活塞在极小的情况下与杆分离,扩大将被嵌入到轴承中以将杆保持在 套管。 如果活塞与杆分离,则杆中的一个端口将空气中的压缩气体排放到大气中。

    Gas spring
    3.
    发明授权
    Gas spring 失效
    气泉水

    公开(公告)号:US5275387A

    公开(公告)日:1994-01-04

    申请号:US865956

    申请日:1992-04-09

    摘要: A gas spring with a piston reciprocable in a chamber of a casing, a sealing assembly at the rear end of the casing through which the piston rod extends, and an end cap closing the rear end of the casing. The sealing assembly has a reinforcing ring having a sealing ring on one side and a wiper on the other side. The sealing ring and wiper are portions of a single body of elastomeric material molded to the reinforcing ring and integrally connected through one or more openings in the reinforcing ring. The casing wall is rolled radially inwardly over the sealing assembly into pressure contact with the reinforcing ring so that the sealing assembly becomes in effect an end cap for the front end of the casing. The rear end of the casing is rolled over the rear end cap by swaging into pressure contact with the end cap. A filler valve is disposed in the end cap.

    摘要翻译: 一种气体弹簧,其具有可在壳体的腔室中往复运动的活塞,在壳体的后端处的活塞杆延伸穿过的密封组件和封闭壳体后端的端盖。 密封组件具有一侧的密封环和另一侧的刮水器的加强环。 密封圈和擦拭器是模制到加强环的单个弹性材料体的部分,并且通过加强环中的一个或多个开口整体连接。 壳体壁在密封组件上径向向内滚动,与加强环压力接触,使得密封组件实际上成为壳体前端的端盖。 套管的后端通过与端盖压力接触而在后端盖上滚动。 一个加注阀设置在端盖中。

    Automotive seat belt retractor with anti-cinch device
    4.
    发明授权
    Automotive seat belt retractor with anti-cinch device 失效
    汽车安全带卷收器带防抱死装置

    公开(公告)号:US4611770A

    公开(公告)日:1986-09-16

    申请号:US739400

    申请日:1985-05-30

    申请人: Patrick J. Cotter

    发明人: Patrick J. Cotter

    IPC分类号: B60R22/353 B60R22/34

    CPC分类号: B60R22/353 B60R2022/3535

    摘要: A motor vehicle seat belt retractor assembly is provided in which a locking pawl is carried with a rotatable saddle member to permit limited movement when the pawl is lockingly engaged with a ratchet tooth in the retractor.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种机动车辆座椅安全带卷收器组件,其中锁定爪被携带有可旋转的鞍座构件,以允许当棘爪与牵开器中的棘齿锁定地接合时的有限的移动。

    Gas spring with threaded mount and method of producing the same
    5.
    发明授权
    Gas spring with threaded mount and method of producing the same 失效
    带螺纹安装座的气弹簧及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US5480128A

    公开(公告)日:1996-01-02

    申请号:US369689

    申请日:1995-01-06

    申请人: Patrick J. Cotter

    发明人: Patrick J. Cotter

    IPC分类号: F16F9/32 F16F9/54 F16F9/34

    CPC分类号: F16F9/54

    摘要: A gas spring with an elongate tubular casing having a chamber for containing a gas under pressure therein. The casing has an opening at one end and an annular groove around the outer circumference. A piston rod projects from the casing through the opening and is connected to a piston disposed within the chamber for compressing the gas therein. A mounting sleeve is telescoped over the casing and has exterior threads thereon. The sleeve has an internal annular groove which coincides with the groove in the casing forming a passage between the sleeve and the casing. The sleeve is secured to the casing by a lock ring formed in the passage by injecting a resin into the passage and allowing it to cool and solidify. Holes are formed through the sleeve opening into the passage. Some permit resin to be injected into the passage through the holes and some permit resin to flow from the passage into the holes. The resin material in the holes is trimmed to the radially outer tip of the threads leaving excess resin material between some of the threads. This excess material acts as a thread locking element when the gas spring is installed into a die.

    摘要翻译: 一种具有细长管状壳体的气体弹簧,其具有用于在其内容纳压力的气体的腔室。 壳体在一端具有开口,围绕外周具有环形槽。 活塞杆从壳体通过开口突出并且连接到设置在腔室内的活塞,用于在其中压缩气体。 安装套筒可套在套管上并且在其上具有外螺纹。 套筒具有与壳体中的槽重合的内部环形槽,形成套筒和套管之间的通道。 通过将树脂注入通道并使其冷却和固化,将套筒通过形成在通道中的锁环固定到壳体上。 孔通过套筒开口形成通道。 一些允许树脂注入到通过孔的通道中,并且一些允许树脂从通道流入孔中。 孔中的树脂材料被修剪到螺纹的径向外部末端,在一些螺纹之间留下多余的树脂材料。 当气体弹簧安装到模具中时,这种多余的材料用作螺纹锁定元件。

    Release mechanism
    6.
    发明授权
    Release mechanism 失效
    释放机制

    公开(公告)号:US5065954A

    公开(公告)日:1991-11-19

    申请号:US183651

    申请日:1988-04-19

    申请人: Patrick J. Cotter

    发明人: Patrick J. Cotter

    IPC分类号: B60R22/44

    CPC分类号: B60R22/44

    摘要: A spindle is supported for rotation in opposite directions about its longitudinal central axis. An end portion of seat belt webbing is secured to the spindle. The belt webbing normally moves parallel to a predetermined plane as the belt webbing is withdrawn from the spindle. The belt webbing moves in a direction transverse to the predetermined plane during the last quarter of a revolution of the spindle as the belt webbing is fully withdrawn from the spindle. The spindle is biased to rotate about its longitudinal central axis in a belt retraction direction to wind the belt webbing onto the spindle. A comfort mechanism has a member which is movable between a first position in which rotation of the spindle in the belt retraction direction is blocked and a second position in which rotation of the spindle in the belt retraction direction is permitted. A release mechanism moves the member of the comfort mechanism to its second position in response to the end portion of the belt webbing moving in the transverse direction relative to the predetermined plane during the last quarter revolution of the spindle as the belt webbing is fully withdrawn from the spindle.

    摘要翻译: 主轴被支撑以围绕其纵向中心轴线在相反方向旋转。 安全带安全带的端部固定在主轴上。 当皮带织带从主轴中取出时,皮带织带通常平行于预定的平面移动。 当皮带织带从主轴完全拉出时,皮带织带在主轴转动的最后四分之一时沿横向于预定平面的方向移动。 主轴被偏压以围绕其纵向中心轴线在带收回方向上旋转以将带织带卷绕到主轴上。 舒适机构具有能够在主轴在带退避方向的旋转被阻挡的第一位置和允许主轴在带退避方向上旋转的第二位置之间移动的构件。 释放机构响应于带织带的端部在主轴的最后四分之一旋转期间相对于预定平面在横向方向上移动时将舒适机构的构件移动到其第二位置,因为带织物完全从 主轴。

    Gas spring with filler block
    7.
    发明授权
    Gas spring with filler block 失效
    气体弹簧带填料块

    公开(公告)号:US5975507A

    公开(公告)日:1999-11-02

    申请号:US910790

    申请日:1997-08-13

    申请人: Patrick J. Cotter

    发明人: Patrick J. Cotter

    IPC分类号: F16F9/02 F16F9/43 F10F9/34

    CPC分类号: F16F9/0218 F16F9/43

    摘要: A gas spring with a filler block assembly defining the rear sealing wall of the gas chamber of the gas spring. The filler block assembly has an end cap with an internally threaded through passageway for filling the chamber with compressed gas. An externally threaded screw plug is threaded into the cap passageway and has an enlarged head portion with a conical sealing surface. An O-ring encircles the screw plug and is wedge-captured sealably between its sealing surface and a radial sealing surface on the cap front face. The screw plug and passageway threads are constructed and arranged to provide a gas chamber filling leakage path therebetween such that the gas spring chamber can be charged with pressurized nitrogen gas admitted into the rear end of the cap filling passageway with the screw plug and O-ring already installed in the cap in final operable position to function as a one-way check valve for admitting the pressurized gas to the spring chamber and to prevent egress of the gas therefrom. In one embodiment, the screw plug is imperforate. In another embodiment, the screw plug has a bleed passageway extending axially therethrough communicating at one end with the gas spring chamber and at the other end with the filling passageway. A bleed plug is threadably received in the cap filling passageway, and a sealing gasket is captured between the bleed plug and the screw plug for sealing the adjacent end outlet of the screw plug bleed passageway. The gas filling leakage path then also includes the clearance space between the threads of the bleed plug and the cap filling passageway.

    摘要翻译: 气体弹簧,其具有限定气弹簧的气室的后密封壁的填料块组件。 填料块组件具有带有内螺纹通孔的端盖,用于用压缩气体填充室。 外螺纹的螺塞被拧入盖通道中并具有扩大的头部,其具有锥形密封表面。 O形圈环绕螺塞,并且在其密封表面和盖前表面上的径向密封表面之间可密封地楔入。 螺栓和通道螺纹被构造和布置成提供一个在其间填充泄漏路径的气体室,使得气体弹簧室可以用加压氮气进入充气通道的后端,其中螺塞和O形环 已经安装在盖子的最终可操作位置中,用作单向止回阀,用于将加压气体引入弹簧室并防止气体从其中流出。 在一个实施例中,螺塞是无孔的。 在另一个实施例中,螺塞具有沿轴向延伸的排放通道,其一端与气弹簧室连通,另一端与填充通道连通。 泄放塞被螺纹地容纳在盖填充通道中,并且密封垫圈被捕获在排放塞和螺塞之间,用于密封螺塞堵塞通道的相邻端部出口。 然后,气体填充泄漏路径还包括排放塞的螺纹和盖填充通道之间的间隙空间。

    Rack and pinion lifter
    8.
    发明授权
    Rack and pinion lifter 失效
    齿条和小齿轮升降机

    公开(公告)号:US5125290A

    公开(公告)日:1992-06-30

    申请号:US483069

    申请日:1990-02-21

    申请人: Patrick J. Cotter

    发明人: Patrick J. Cotter

    IPC分类号: F16H19/00

    摘要: A device with one or more actuator racks carried by a housing for reciprocation and each meshing with a separate pinion gear having a non-circular central hole in which a complimentary coupling shaft can be removably received for rotation in unison with the gear(s). The pinion gears are carried and journalled for rotation in the housing by a pair of co-axial bushings with generally opposed and spaced apart axially projecting rims received in mating peripheral shoulders in the side faces of the gears. The gear teeth extend generally axially continuously between their side faces with the shoulders in their side edges. Preferably the radial extent of each shoulder is less than the radial extent of the teeth. When the coupling shaft is removed from the gears each pinion can rotate independently of the shaft and each other to initially position its associated rack at a desired location and when the shaft is inserted in the pinion gears they rotate in unison to simultaneously actuate the rack(s).

    摘要翻译: 一种具有一个或多个致动器架的装置,其由用于往复运动的壳体承载,并且每个与具有非圆形中心孔的单独的小齿轮啮合,在该小齿轮中可互补地容纳互补的连接轴以与齿轮一致地旋转。 小齿轮通过一对同轴衬套被承载和轴颈旋转,以便在齿轮的侧面中接合在配合的外围肩部中的大致相对且间隔开的轴向突出的轮缘。 齿轮齿在其侧面之间大致轴向地连续延伸,肩部处于其侧边缘。 优选地,每个肩部的径向范围小于齿的径向范围。 当联接轴从齿轮移除时,每个小齿轮可以独立于轴和彼此旋转,以将其相关联的齿条初始定位在期望的位置,并且当轴插入小齿轮时,它们一致地旋转以同时致动齿条( s)。

    Seat belt retractor with hollow spool
    9.
    发明授权
    Seat belt retractor with hollow spool 失效
    带中空阀芯的安全带卷收器

    公开(公告)号:US5002236A

    公开(公告)日:1991-03-26

    申请号:US366165

    申请日:1989-06-14

    申请人: Patrick J. Cotter

    发明人: Patrick J. Cotter

    IPC分类号: B60R22/34

    CPC分类号: B60R22/34 B60R2022/3427

    摘要: A webbing retainer plate retains an end portion of a length of belt webbing within a seat belt retractor spool. The spool includes a spindle and a hollow sleeve spaced outwardly of the spindle and rotatable with the spindle. An opening in the sleeve allows the end of a length of belt webbing to extend into the sleeve. The end of the belt is sewn in a loop and encloses a central portion of the webbing retainer plate. The central portion of the plate clamps the webbing loop against the sleeve and against the spindle, to block the belt end portion from being withdrawn from the sleeve. The webbing retainer plate has two arm portions which extend from the central portion. The plate arm portions engage the inner peripheral surface of the sleeve to maintain the plate in position lodged within the sleeve. The end portion of the belt webbing, including the sewn loop, is located within the outer peripheral surface of the sleeve. This allows the belt webbing to be wound smoothly on the exterior of the sleeve.

    摘要翻译: 带状保持板将一段带状织带的端部部分保持在安全带卷收器卷轴内。 卷轴包括主轴和与主轴向外间隔并与主轴一起旋转的中空套筒。 套筒中的一个开口允许一定长度的皮带织带延伸到套筒中。 带的端部缝合在一个环中并且包围着带状保持板的中心部分。 板的中心部分将织带环套住套筒并抵靠主轴,以阻止带端部从套筒中取出。 织带保持板具有从中心部分延伸的两个臂部。 板臂部分接合套筒的内周表面以将板保持在套筒内的位置。 带织带的包括缝合环的端部位于套筒的外周表面内。 这使得带状织带能够平滑地卷绕在套筒的外部。