US 2012/0279328 A1Published application

Human-powered device using two levers and human-powered vehicle provided with aforementioned device

OwnerTokio Nakagawa, Masayoshi Nakagawa +1inventors

InventorsTokio Nakagawa, Masayoshi Nakagawa, Tomori Nakagawa

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Abstract

Atmospheric pollution and global warming have been caused due to conversion of petroleum, natural gas and atomic energy into electrical energy and continued use of the first two of these energy sources as engine fuel. Such being the case, there is a pressing need to use alternative energy and to change from using power mechanisms to using alternative types of mechanisms. Disclosed is a human-powered device provided with a first lever and a second lever. A large force is generated using a first lever. By means of a second lever, the force is further amplified, and swing amplitude is enlarged. The fulcrum position is made to move, with the result that the second lever is provided with a continuously variable function. A pinion makes normal or reverse rotation according to the movement of the second lever, which swings. By means of a ratchet mechanism provided at a first shaft, this normal or reverse rotation is converted into rotation made in one direction only by a gear wheel. This gear wheel causes a small pinion on an output shaft to rotate, with the result that the swinging movement caused by the levers is converted into rotational movement and is taken out. In this way, a drive mechanism is created which does not require fuel or a drive energy source.

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Dependent claims

A human-powered device using two levers in which the end of a first lever is affixed to a first lever fulcrum support component to form a fulcrum, in the vicinity of which fulcrum a point of action is installed that is joined to a connecting component that provides power to a second lever;

a connection component withdrawal spring from the first lever is installed at one end of the connection component and a power point is installed at the other end;
in the vicinity of the point of action, a first lever withdrawal spring is installed, the first lever sliding the fulcrum to the center by making the other end the power point, there being a power point that transmits the force that has been generated by the first lever by means of the connecting component;
a power point that constitutes a toothed member is installed on the other end [of the second lever], there being a roller-shaped fulcrum that rotates between the toothed member that constitutes the power point and the point of action;
the lever comes into contact with the external circumference of the roller and slides, by which means it can slide toward or away from the point of action making sliding possible;
this roller-shaped fulcrum is affixed in the roller-shaped fulcrum support component so that sliding movement can be effected;
a second lever is provided that has a double velocity-changing function due to the lever, an amplifying action on the force due to the ordinary [first] lever and that increases the sliding amplitude;
the toothed member of the sliding second lever causes the gear wheel to rotate in only one direction by the ratchet mechanism, the sliding movement due to the levers being converted to rotational motion and is taken out.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.