公开(公告)号：US08920284B2

公开(公告)日：2014-12-30

申请号：US13265769

申请日：2010-04-21

申请人： Gerald P. Fox

发明人： Gerald P. Fox

IPC分类号： F16H57/08 ,  F16H1/28 ,  F16C19/38 ,  F16C33/60 ,  F16C35/063 ,  F16C43/04

CPC分类号： F16H1/2836 ,  F16C19/38 ,  F16C19/386 ,  F16C33/60 ,  F16C35/063 ,  F16C43/04 ,  F16C2361/61 ,  F16H57/082 ,  F16H2057/085 ,  Y10T29/49462 ,  Y10T29/49464

摘要： An epicyclic gear system (A) includes a sun gear (2), a ring gear (4) located around the sun gear (2) and planet pinions (6) located between the sun and ring gears (2,4). The planet pinions (6) rotate on a carrier (8) that includes flexpins (20) that are cantilevered from a wall (12) of the carrier (8) and sleeves (22) that are attached to the remote ends of the flexpins (20) and extend back over the flexpins (20) to create a double cantilever. Bearings (24) support the planet pinions (6) on the sleeves (22) so that the planet pinions (6) rotate about the flexpins (20). The double cantilever enables the flexpins (2) to flex such that the axes (Y) of the planet pinions (6) remain parallel to the common axis (X) of the sun and ring gears (2, 4). Each sleeve (22) h an integrated bearing race (44) and a bearing seat (42) that carries a separate bearing race (60). The sleeve (22) is easily detached from its flexpin (20) and the separate race (60) is easily removed from the sleeve (22) to disassemble the bearing (24) and remove the planet pinion (6).

摘要翻译： 行星齿轮系统（A）包括太阳齿轮（2），位于太阳轮（2）周围的环形齿轮（4）和位于太阳与环形齿轮（2,4）之间的行星齿轮（6）。 行星小齿轮（6）在载体（8）上旋转，该载体（8）包括从载体（8）的壁（12）悬臂的柔性弹簧（20）和附接到柔性弹簧的远端的套筒（22） 20）并且延伸回柔性件（20）以形成双悬臂梁。 轴承（24）支撑套筒（22）上的行星小齿轮（6），使得行星小齿轮（6）围绕柔性销（20）旋转。 双悬臂使柔性弹簧（2）弯曲，使得行星小齿轮（6）的轴线（Y）保持平行于太阳和环形齿轮（2,4）的公共轴线（X）。 每个套筒（22）具有集成的轴承座（44）和承载单独的轴承座（60）的轴承座（42）。 套筒（22）容易从其挠性销（20）分离，并且分离的座圈（60）容易地从套筒（22）移除，以拆卸轴承（24）并且移除行星齿轮（6）。

公开(公告)号：US08376902B2

公开(公告)日：2013-02-19

申请号：US12996871

申请日：2009-06-11

申请人： Gerald P. Fox ,  Randy P. Kruse ,  James N. Maloof

发明人： Gerald P. Fox ,  Randy P. Kruse ,  James N. Maloof

IPC分类号： F16H1/48

CPC分类号： F16H1/2836 ,  F03D15/00 ,  F03D15/10 ,  F03D80/70 ,  F05B2260/40311 ,  Y02E10/722

摘要： An epicyclic gear system (A) includes helical sun and ring gears (2, 4) and helical planet pinions (6) located between and engaged with the sun and ring gears. The gear system also includes a carrier (8) having an end wall (12) and flexpins (20) cantilevered from the end wall and extended into the planet pinions. Each flexpin at its end remote from the end wall carries a sleeve (22) that extends back over the flexpin where it is spaced from the flexpin. The planet pinion for the flexpin rotates around the sleeve on a bearing (24). The arrangement is such that the flexpin will flex adjacent to the carrier end wall circumferentially along the pitch circle of the carrier in one direction and circumferentially in the opposite direction adjacent to attachment of the sleeve. But the helical gear imparts a couple to the planet pinion that seeks to tilt the sleeve radially toward or away from the main axis of the system. A deflection inhibitor (I) lies between each flexpin and the sleeve surrounding it to prevent the radial deflection.

摘要翻译： 行星齿轮系统（A）包括螺旋太阳和环形齿轮（2,4）和位于太阳和环形齿轮之间并与其接合的螺旋行星小齿轮（6）。 齿轮系统还包括具有端壁（12）的托架（8）和从端壁悬臂延伸到行星小齿轮的挠性弹簧（20）。 在其远离端壁的端部处的每个柔性销带有一个套筒（22），该套筒（22）在柔性销之后延伸，在该位置与弹性销间隔开。 用于柔性销的行星齿轮围绕套筒在轴承（24）上旋转。 该布置使得柔性销将沿着沿着一个方向的载体的节圆周向地沿着载体端壁弯曲，并且在与套筒的附接相邻的相反方向上周向地弯曲。 但螺旋齿轮将一对耦合到行星小齿轮上，其试图将套筒径向地朝向或远离系统的主轴线倾斜。 偏转抑制剂（I）位于每个柔性销和围绕其之间的套筒之间以防止径向偏转。

公开(公告)号：US07297086B2

公开(公告)日：2007-11-20

申请号：US10543213

申请日：2004-01-27

申请人： Gerald P. Fox

发明人： Gerald P. Fox

IPC分类号： F16H1/48

CPC分类号： F16H57/082 ,  F16H1/2836 ,  F16H2001/289 ,  F16H2057/085

摘要： An epicyclic gear system (A, B), which is highly compact, yet capable of transferring substantial torque, includes a sun gear (2, 62), a ring gear (4, 64) around the sun gear, and planet gears (6, 8, 66, 68) organized in two rows between the sun and ring gears. In addition, the gear system has a carrier (10, 70) provided with one or two flanges (14, 72, 74) and flexible pins (20, 22, 80, 82) around which the planet gears revolve. The planet gears are mounted on the pins in a double cantilever arrangement to improve the mesh with the sun and ring gears and achieve better load distribution.

摘要翻译： 行星齿轮系（A，B）高度紧凑，但能够传递大量扭矩，包括太阳轮（2,62），围绕太阳齿轮的环形齿轮（4,64）和行星齿轮（6） ，8,66,68）在太阳和环形齿轮之间组织成两排。 另外，齿轮系具有一个带有一个或两个凸缘（14,72,74）和行星齿轮旋转的柔性销（20,22,88,82）的托架（10,70）。 行星齿轮以双悬臂布置安装在销上，以改善与太阳和环形齿轮的啮合，并实现更好的负载分布。

公开(公告)号：US07219938B2

公开(公告)日：2007-05-22

申请号：US10871147

申请日：2004-06-18

申请人： Stephen E. Brister ,  David G. Toth ,  Rudolph C. Karich ,  Ryan J. Anderson ,  Gerald P. Fox ,  Samuel R. Williams

发明人： Stephen E. Brister ,  David G. Toth ,  Rudolph C. Karich ,  Ryan J. Anderson ,  Gerald P. Fox ,  Samuel R. Williams

IPC分类号： F16C19/50

CPC分类号： B61F15/22 ,  F16C19/386 ,  F16C33/768 ,  F16C35/063 ,  F16C2326/10

摘要： A backing ring that serves to back an antifriction bearing on the journal of a rail car axle includes an annular body that seats against a fillet that is located at the end of the journal and also a lip that projects over a larger dust guard diameter that is located on the axle immediately beyond the fillet. In addition, the backing ring includes a stabilizing element which cooperates with the lip and with the dust guard diameter to lessen the tendency of the annular body to work against the fillet and create a fretting wear when the journal undergoes cyclic flexures. The stabilizing element accommodates dust guard diameters of varying size. The stabilizing element may also establish a seal between the lip and the dust guard diameter.

摘要翻译： 用于将轨道车轴的轴颈上的减摩轴承支撑的背衬环包括环形体，该环形体抵靠位于轴颈末端的圆角，并且还具有突出在更大的防尘罩直径上的唇形， 位于立即超过圆角的轴上。 此外，背衬环包括与唇缘配合并具有防尘罩直径的稳定元件，以减小环形体抵抗圆角的倾向，并且当轴颈经历周期性弯曲时产生微动磨损。 稳定元件适应不同尺寸的防尘罩直径。 稳定元件还可以在唇缘和防尘罩直径之间建立密封。

公开(公告)号：US20050052043A1

公开(公告)日：2005-03-10

申请号：US10871147

申请日：2004-06-18

申请人： Stephen Brister ,  David Toth ,  Rudolph Karich ,  Ryan Anderson ,  Gerald P. Fox ,  Samuel Williams

发明人： Stephen Brister ,  David Toth ,  Rudolph Karich ,  Ryan Anderson ,  Gerald P. Fox ,  Samuel Williams

IPC分类号： B61F15/22 ,  F16C35/063 ,  B60B37/00

CPC分类号： B61F15/22 ,  F16C19/386 ,  F16C33/768 ,  F16C35/063 ,  F16C2326/10

摘要： A backing ring that serves to back an antifriction bearing on the journal of a rail car axle includes an annular body that seats against a fillet that is located at the end of the journal and also a lip that projects over a larger dust guard diameter that is located on the axle immediately beyond the fillet. In addition, the backing ring includes a stabilizing element which cooperates with the lip and with the dust guard diameter to lessen the tendency of the annular body to work against the fillet and create a fretting wear when the journal undergoes cyclic flexures. The stabilizing element accommodates dust guard diameters of varying size. The stabilizing element may also establish a seal between the lip and the dust guard diameter.

摘要翻译： 用于将轨道车轴的轴颈上的减摩轴承支撑的背衬环包括环形体，该环形体抵靠位于轴颈末端的圆角，并且还具有突出在更大的防尘罩直径上的唇形， 位于立即超过圆角的轴上。 此外，背衬环包括与唇缘配合并具有防尘罩直径的稳定元件，以减小环形体抵抗圆角的倾向，并且当轴颈经历周期性弯曲时产生微动磨损。 稳定元件适应不同尺寸的防尘罩直径。 稳定元件还可以在唇缘和防尘罩直径之间建立密封。

公开(公告)号：US5735612A

公开(公告)日：1998-04-07

申请号：US815753

申请日：1997-03-12

申请人： Gerald P. Fox ,  John R. Dieterle

发明人： Gerald P. Fox ,  John R. Dieterle

IPC分类号： G01P3/488 ,  B60B35/18 ,  F16C19/36 ,  F16C33/60 ,  F16C41/00 ,  G01P3/44 ,  F16C33/58

CPC分类号： F16C35/063 ,  F16C19/364 ,  F16C33/605 ,  F16C41/007 ,  G01P3/443 ,  F16C2326/02

摘要： A bearing for enabling an axle shaft to rotate in a housing includes a cup which is attached to the housing, a cone which fits over the axle shaft, and tapered rollers arranged in a single row between tapered raceways on the cup and cone. The cup has a thrust rib at the large diameter end of its raceway, while another thrust rib is located at the small diameter end of the cone raceway. The arrangement is such that the bearing transmits radial loads and thrust loads in both directions. In one direction the thrust loads are taken on the raceways; in the other through the ribs. The cup contains an oblique bore which opens toward the axis of rotation beyond the small diameter end of the cup raceway, and this bore contains a speed sensor. An excitor ring rotates with the cone immediately inwardly from the speed sensor, and it has disruptions which cause the sensor to produce a pulsating signal, the frequency of which reflects the angular velocity. The excitor ring may be part of a rib ring that fits over the axle shaft and against the end of the cone, or it may be on a locking collar that fits over the axle shaft and against the end of the cone. The cone may be an integral part of the axle shaft with its raceway being a surface on the axle shaft.

摘要翻译： 用于使车轴能够在壳体中旋转的轴承包括附接到壳体的杯，装配在车轴上的锥体和在杯和锥体上的锥形滚道之间以单列排列的锥形滚子。 杯子在其滚道的大直径端处具有推力肋，而另一个推力肋位于锥形滚道的小直径端。 这种布置使得轴承沿两个方向传递径向载荷和推力载荷。 在一个方向上，推力载荷在滚道上; 在另一个通过肋骨。 杯子包含一个倾斜的孔，其朝向杯子滚道的小直径端的旋转轴线开口，并且该孔包含速度传感器。 激振环随着锥体从速度传感器立即向内旋转，并且其具有导致传感器产生脉动信号的中断，其频率反映角速度。 激振环可以是配合在车轴上并抵靠锥体端部的肋环的一部分，或者它可以在配合在车轴上并抵靠锥体的端部的锁定环上。 锥体可以是车轴的一个整体部分，其轨道是车轴上的表面。

公开(公告)号：US07572061B2

公开(公告)日：2009-08-11

申请号：US11547998

申请日：2005-05-06

申请人： Gerald P. Fox ,  John H. Rhodes

发明人： Gerald P. Fox ,  John H. Rhodes

IPC分类号： F16C19/49

CPC分类号： F16C33/60 ,  F03D15/00 ,  F03D15/10 ,  F03D80/70 ,  F05B2240/50 ,  F05B2260/4031 ,  F16C19/497 ,  F16C19/543 ,  F16C25/083 ,  F16C2360/31 ,  F16H57/021 ,  Y02E10/722

摘要： A locating bearing assembly (10) is provided that optimizes load distribution between bearing rows and for all rolling elements within the rows in either positive or negative torque conditions, by combining a single row tapered roller bearing with an angular contact ball bearing. The outer race (60) for the ball bearing is preloaded by a spring element (72) to prevent the balls (26) from floating freely between the ball bearing's inner and outer raceways (16, 64). This will insure that the balls (26) are always sufficiently loaded to roll along a single axis which is off set from the radial direction. The use of the single row tapered bearing and the preloaded angular contact ball bearing provides for a locating bearing assembly (“LBA”) in which the ball bearing supports only reversing axial loads. All radial loads are borne by the tapered roller bearing and transmitted to the bearing assembly housing (30).

摘要翻译： 提供了一种定位轴承组件（10），其通过将单列圆锥滚子轴承与角接触球轴承组合来优化轴承列之间的负载分布和用于正或负扭矩条件下的行内的所有滚动元件。 用于球轴承的外圈（60）由弹簧元件（72）预加载，以防止球（26）在滚珠轴承的内滚道（16,64）之间自由浮动。 这将确保球（26）总是被充分负载以沿着从径向方向偏离的单个轴滚动。 使用单列锥形轴承和预加载的角接触球轴承提供了一种定位轴承组件（“LBA”），其中滚珠轴承仅支承反向轴向载荷。 所有的径向载荷由圆锥滚子轴承承载并传递到轴承组件壳体（30）。

公开(公告)号：US06764219B2

公开(公告)日：2004-07-20

申请号：US10114832

申请日：2002-04-02

申请人： Gary L. Doll ,  Gerald P. Fox

发明人： Gary L. Doll ,  Gerald P. Fox

IPC分类号： F16C1936

CPC分类号： F16C19/364 ,  C23C14/027 ,  C23C14/06 ,  C23C30/00 ,  F16C33/366 ,  F16C33/6696 ,  F16C2206/04 ,  F16C2206/06 ,  F16C2206/82 ,  F16C2240/64 ,  F16C2240/84 ,  F16C2300/02

摘要： A full complement antifriction bearing includes an inner race, an outer race, and rolling elements organized in a circular row between the races without a cage or retainer for separating the rolling elements. While the absence of a cage or retainers enable the bearing to have the maximum number of rolling elements and thus transfer greater loads, adjacent rolling elements contact each other. Each rolling element or every other rolling element is covered with a tribological coating that retards adhesive wear and reduces friction.

摘要翻译： 满装抗磨轴承包括内座圈，外座圈和滚动元件，滚动元件组合在座圈之间的圆形排列中，而没有用于分离滚动元件的保持架或保持器。 虽然没有笼或保持器使得轴承能够具有最大数量的滚动元件并因此传递更大的载荷，但相邻的滚动元件彼此接触。 每个滚动元件或每个其他滚动元件都被摩擦学涂层覆盖，从而延缓了粘合剂磨损并减少了摩擦。

公开(公告)号：US08961362B2

公开(公告)日：2015-02-24

申请号：US13505352

申请日：2010-10-07

申请人： Gerald P. Fox ,  Hans Landin

发明人： Gerald P. Fox ,  Hans Landin

IPC分类号： F16H57/021 ,  F16H3/52 ,  F03D11/02 ,  F16H1/22 ,  F16H37/08 ,  F16H57/033

CPC分类号： F03D11/02 ,  F03D9/25 ,  F03D15/00 ,  F03D15/10 ,  F03D80/70 ,  F05B2260/40311 ,  F16H1/22 ,  F16H37/0833 ,  F16H2057/0335 ,  Y02E10/722

摘要： A compact modular assembly of a geared power train (100) and generator (400) suitable for use in a wind turbine application to maximize a step-up ratio between an input and output within a limited radial space. The power train is configured as a hybricyclic split-compound planetary gearing system with a grounded closed carrier flex pin system in a high torque stage (A), and an open carrier flex pin system in a low torque stage (B), having a step up ratio of approximately 30:1. To facilitate modular assembly and disassembly of the power train and generator, each component is mounted independently to opposite sides of a common support structure (500) anchored to a bedplate (502).

摘要翻译： 适用于风力涡轮机应用的齿轮传动系（100）和发电机（400）的紧凑的模块化组件，以在有限径向空间内最大化输入和输出之间的升压比。 动力传动系被配置为在高扭矩级（A）中具有接地的封闭载体弯曲销系统的混合型复式行星齿轮传动系统，以及在低扭矩级（B）中的开放载体挠性销系统，具有步骤 比例约为30：1。 为了便于动力传动系和发电机的模块化组装和拆卸，每个部件独立地安装在锚固到底板（502）上的公共支撑结构（500）的相对侧。

公开(公告)号：US08926190B2

公开(公告)日：2015-01-06

申请号：US13976650

申请日：2011-12-22

申请人： Gerald P. Fox ,  Brian Werner ,  Thomas J. Rybkoski

发明人： Gerald P. Fox ,  Brian Werner ,  Thomas J. Rybkoski

IPC分类号： F16C33/54 ,  F16C43/04 ,  F16C33/46 ,  F16C33/52

CPC分类号： F16C43/04 ,  F16C19/364 ,  F16C33/4611 ,  F16C33/4664 ,  F16C33/506 ,  F16C33/526 ,  F16C33/54 ,  F16C2300/14 ,  Y10T29/49691

摘要： A bearing cage assembly comprising of a plurality of discrete bridge elements coupled between first and second cage support wire rings having selected tensions, and conforming to the surfaces of associated rolling elements. The discrete bridge elements maintain rolling element in separation, provide rolling element retention within the bearing assembly, and function as a lubrication reservoir for grease lubricated bearings. The discrete bridge elements may be disposed between adjacent rolling elements, or may be configured to pass through axial bores of hollow rolling elements.

摘要翻译： 一种轴承保持架组件，其包括多个分立的桥接元件，该多个离散的桥接元件联接在具有选定张力的第一和第二保持架支撑线环之间，并且与相关的滚动元件的表面一致。 离散桥梁元件将滚动元件保持分离，提供滚动元件保持在轴承组件内，并用作油脂润滑轴承的润滑油箱。 离散桥元件可以设置在相邻的滚动元件之间，或者可以被配置成穿过中空滚动元件的轴向孔。