Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Blended shaft drive
- Patent Title (中): 混合轴驱动
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Application No.: US13276920Application Date: 2011-10-19
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Publication No.: US09084595B2Publication Date: 2015-07-21
- Inventor: Mark Edwin Housman
- Applicant: Mark Edwin Housman
- Applicant Address: US TN Memphis
- Assignee: SMITH & NEPHEW INC.
- Current Assignee: SMITH & NEPHEW INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US TN Memphis
- Agency: Burns & Levinson LLP
- Agent Joseph M. Maraia
- Main IPC: A61B17/04
- IPC: A61B17/04 ; A61B17/88 ; A61B17/86 ; A61F2/08 ; A61B19/00

Abstract:
A solid, monolithic shaft member has an engagement end. The engagement end has a proximal end a distal end. The proximal end has a first cross-sectional geometry, and the distal end has a second cross-sectional geometry. The first cross-sectional geometry of the proximal end is different from the second cross-sectional geometry of the distal end. The cross-sectional geometry of the distal end transitions to the a cross-sectional geometry of the proximal end along a longitudinal axis of the engagement end of the solid, monolithic shaft member. This transition provides a gradual, blending, continuously transitioning cross-sectional geometry along the entire length of the longitudinal axis of the engagement end of the solid, monolithic shaft member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130103054A1 Blended Shaft Drive Public/Granted day:2013-04-25
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