公开(公告)号：US20020107102A1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-08

申请号：US10010117

申请日：2001-12-06

Applicant: TORVEC, Inc.

Inventor： Vernon E. Gleasman ,  Keith E. Gleasman ,  Warren R. Alexander ,  Robert C. Horton

IPC: B62D011/06

CPC classification number: B63H25/10 ,  B62D11/14

Abstract: A steer-drive for vehicles primarily operated in fluids (e.g., boats and planes) interposes respective left and right orbital gear drives into the vehicle drivetrain between the engine/transmission or/speed-reducer and the vehicle's respective port and starboard propulsion elements. The orbital drive units comprise only an input gear and an output gear interconnected by at least one orbiting cluster gear 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 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 or subtracted from the driving torque. Steering torque is applied simultaneously in equal and opposite directions to the orbital units, causing the vehicle's respective propulsion element on one side of the vehicle to speed up and the vehicle's respective propulsion element on the other side of the vehicle to slow down at the same rate.

Abstract translation: 主要用于流体（例如船只和飞机）的车辆的转向驱动装置将相应的左右轨道齿轮传动装置插入到发动机/变速器或/减速器与车辆的相应端口和右舷推进元件之间的车辆传动系中。 轨道驱动单元仅包括输入齿轮和输出齿轮，所述输入齿轮和输出齿轮通过支撑在旋转壳体中并且仅与输入和输出齿轮啮合的至少一个轨道式集线齿轮互连。 轨道单元被设计成使得（a）当壳体旋转被阻止时，驱动扭矩以选择的速度比传递为接近1：1，并且（b）当转向扭矩导致壳体旋转时 ，从驱动转矩加减速转向转矩。 转向扭矩以与轨道单位相同和相反的方向同时施加，导致车辆一侧的车辆相应的推进元件加速，车辆另一侧的相应推进元件以相同的速度减速 。