Track system with a support member
AssigneeLear Corporation
InventorAntoine Moulin
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Abstract
A track system may include a track assembly and a support assembly. A track assembly may include a toothed portion. The support assembly may include a support member removable from and adjustably connected to the track assembly. The toothed portion may include a plurality of track teeth. The support member may include an adjuster pinion. The adjuster pinion may include a plurality of pinion teeth configured to engage the plurality of track teeth. The adjuster pinion may be adjustable to an engaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are engaged with one another. The adjuster pinion may be adjustable to a disengaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are not engaged with one another.
Claims20
A track system, comprising:
- a track assembly including a toothed portion;
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- a support assembly including a support member removable from and adjustably connected to the track assembly;
- wherein the support member includes an adjuster pinion;
- wherein the adjuster pinion is configured to engage the toothed portion of the track assembly;
- wherein the adjuster pinion is adjustable to an engaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are engaged with one another;
- wherein the adjuster pinion is adjustable to an unaligned disengaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are not engaged with one another;
- the adjuster pinion is adjustable to an aligned disengaged position;
- when the adjuster pinion is in the aligned disengaged position, the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are at least partially aligned with one another relative to a Z-direction;
- when the adjuster pinion is in the unaligned disengaged position, the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are not substantially aligned with one another relative to the Z-direction;
- the adjuster pinion is adjustable generally in the Z-direction to engage with and disengage from the toothed portion;
- when the adjuster pinion is in the aligned disengaged position, the adjuster pinion is adjustable generally in a Y-direction to move out of Z-direction alignment with the toothed portion to the unaligned disengaged position;
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- when the adjuster pinion is in the unaligned disengaged position, the adjuster pinion does not substantially restrict removal of the support member from the track assembly generally in the Z-direction.
A track system, comprising:
- a track assembly including a toothed portion;
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- a support assembly including a support member removable from and adjustably connected to the track assembly;
- wherein the support member includes an adjuster pinion;
- wherein the adjuster pinion is configured to engage the toothed portion of the track assembly;
- wherein the adjuster pinion is adjustable to an engaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are engaged with one another;
- the adjuster pinion is adjustable to an unaligned disengaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are not engaged with one another;
- the adjuster pinion includes an aligned disengaged position;
- the support member includes an actuation shaft and an actuation body;
- the actuation shaft is operatively connected to the actuation body such that the actuation body is rotatable via rotation of the actuation shaft;
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- the actuation body is configured to adjust the adjuster pinion generally in a Z-direction toward the engaged position and/or toward the aligned disengaged position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.