Rotation transmitting device
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorsKeiji Togawa, Morio Usami, Hiroshi Osawa
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a rotation transmitting device which permits the transmission of rotation with a reduced play and which permits the constituents to be aligned easily. The rotation transmitting device has a transmitting member (30) which surrounds a rotating part (12) of a drive shaft (11) and a rotating part (22) of a driven shaft (21). At least either the rotating part (12) of the drive shaft (11) or the rotating part (22) of the driven shaft (21) has an external surface that comes into contact with the internal surface of the transmitting member (30) so that friction arising between the internal surface and the external surface achieves torque transmission and reception to and from the transmitting member (30).
Claims11
A rotation transmitting device comprising:
- a first rotating shaft having a first rotating part;
- a second rotating shaft having a second rotating part and being arranged in a direction intersecting with said first rotating shaft;
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- a transmitting member having an internal surface surrounding said first rotating part and said second rotating part, wherein
- said first rotating part transmits rotation to said transmitting member,
- said second rotating part receives rotation from said transmitting member, and
- rotation is transmitted between at least either said first rotating part or said second rotating part and said transmitting member by friction arising between an external surface of said at least one of said rotating parts and an internal surface of said transmitting member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.