Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Roller screw and method of circulating rollers in roller screw
- Patent Title (中): 滚子螺杆和滚子丝杠循环方法
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Application No.: US12744175Application Date: 2008-11-14
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Publication No.: US08739646B2Publication Date: 2014-06-03
- Inventor: Kentaro Nishimura , Tetsuya Miura , Akimasa Yoshida , Soshi Miyahara , Yusuke Todoroki , Takashi Sakuyama
- Applicant: Kentaro Nishimura , Tetsuya Miura , Akimasa Yoshida , Soshi Miyahara , Yusuke Todoroki , Takashi Sakuyama
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: THK Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
- Priority: JP2007-309609 20071130
- International Application: PCT/JP2008/070748 WO 20081114
- International Announcement: WO2009/069478 WO 20090604
- Main IPC: F16H25/22
- IPC: F16H25/22

Abstract:
There is provided a roller screw in which a twisted amount of an unloaded return path is reduced.The roller screw has a screw shaft 1 having a spiral roller-rolling surface 1a on an outer peripheral surface thereof; a nut 2 having a spiral loaded roller-rolling surface 2a on an inner peripheral surface thereof, the spiral loaded roller-rolling surface being opposed to the roller-rolling surface 1a of the screw shaft 1; a circulation member 7 arranged in the nut 2 and formed to have an unloaded return path 8 connecting one end and the other end of the loaded roller-rolling surface 2a, whose turn number is less than one, of the nut 2; and a plurality of rollers 4 arranged in a one-turn roller circulation path composed by a loaded roller-rolling path 6 and the unloaded return path 8. The circulation member 7 guides the rollers which have moved and arrived at the one end of the loaded roller-rolling path 6 having less than one turn, to the unloaded return path 8, and then returns the rollers to the other end of the loaded roller-rolling path 6 having less than one turn. The number of turns of the loaded roller-rolling path 6 is set to be less than one turn, whereby the rollers 4 which have arrived at one end of the loaded roller-rolling path 6 can be transferred to the other end of the loaded roller-rolling path 6 without changing their attitudes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100282011A1 ROLLER SCREW AND METHOD OF CIRCULATING ROLLERS IN ROLLER SCREW Public/Granted day:2010-11-11
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