Speed reducer
AssigneeNabtesco Corporation
InventorsYoshiaki MAKIZOE, John VERZENIEKS, Hideshi SHIMADA
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Abstract
One object is to provide a speed reducer that can absorb or relieve an impact acting thereon. A speed reducer of the present invention includes: a speed reducing unit a housing that houses the speed reducing unit and a shock absorbing means that allows the speed reducing unit to move with respect to the housing in a direction of a rotary shaft of the speed reducing unit.
Claims9
A speed reducer comprising:
- a speed reducing unit;
- a housing that houses the speed reducing unit;
- and
- a shock absorbing unit that allows the speed reducing unit to move with respect to the housing in a direction of a rotary shaft of the speed reducing unit.
A speed reducer comprising:
- a speed reducing unit;
- a housing that houses the speed reducing unit;
- and
- an elastic member disposed between the speed reducing unit and the housing,
- wherein the elastic member includes a spherical portion having a spherical shape, and
- wherein the speed reducing unit is capable of moving with respect to the housing in a direction of a rotary shaft of the speed reducing unit and a circumferential direction of the rotary shaft of the speed reducing unit.
A speed reducing unit housed in a housing and comprising a recess or a projection, the recess receiving an elastic member, the projection being received in the elastic member, the elastic member being disposed between the speed reducing unit and the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.