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US 2008/0073630 A1Published application
Lifter
AssigneeMoteck Electric Corp.
InventorJung-Jen Wu
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Abstract
A lifter is disclosed using two transmission mechanisms at two sides of a housing for lifting, for example, a bed or chair, each transmission mechanism including a motor. a worm gear wheel meshed with a worm shaft as the output of the motor, a screw rod threaded into an inner thread in the hollow gear shaft of the worm gear wheel, a push block fixedly fastened to one end of the screw rod and moved with the screw rod to lift/lower the load upon rotation of the motor, and a sliding block fixedly fastened to the other end of the screw rod to guide axial displacement of the screw rod in the housing.
Claims7
A lifter comprising
- a housing, said housing defining therein an accommodation chamber;
- and
- two transmission mechanisms mounted in said accommodation chamber at two sides, said transmission mechanisms each comprising a motor, said motor having an output worm shaft, a worm gear wheel meshed with said worm shaft and rotatable by said worm shaft upon rotation of said motor, said worm gear wheel having an inner thread in a hollow gear shaft thereof, a screw rod threaded into said inner thread of said worm gear wheel, and a push block fixedly fastened to one end of said screw rod and moved with said screw rod to move a load upon rotation of said motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.