Liner reciprocating motion device and optical card transporting device which employs the same
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorKoichi Kobayashi
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Abstract
A linear reciprocating motion device according to the present invention comprises an object which is movable exclusively in a prescribed direction, a cam groove which is formed on a closed curve, a linking rod whose one end is connected to said object and its the other end is engaged with said cam groove, and means for moving the other end of said linking rod along said cam groove with a prescribed angular velocity. The moving means with angular velocity comprises a crank arm whose length is free to be increased or decreased, with its one end connected to the other end of said linking rod and rotates in the interior of said closed curve, and a motor that causes to rotate the crank sub-arm that is linked to the crank arm at a constant speed.
Claims3
A linear reciprocating uniform motion device, comprising:
- an object being slideable exclusively in a prescribed direction;
- cam groov formed on a closed curve;
- a linking rod having a first end connected to said object and a second end engaged with said cam groove;
- a crank arm being rotatable in the interior of said closed curve, one end of said crank arm being connected to the second end of said linking rod;
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- means for rotating said crank arm to move the second end of said linking rod along said cam groove with a prescribed angular velocity so as to give said object a linear reciprocating uniform motion and given an acceleration and deceleration at the neighborhood of the position where the direction of the motion of said object is to be reversed, wherein a lenght L of said linking rod is determined by the following equation;
- L=max{P.sub.1 -S.sub.c (.theta.-.theta..sub.s)/(180-2.theta..sub.s)}sin.theta.
- where P.sub.1 is a starting point of the uniform motion of said object;
- S.sub.c is a stroke for a segment of the uniform motion of said object;
- .theta. is a rotation angle of said crank arm, .theta..sub.s is a rotation angle of said crank arm at a segment of the acceleration and deceleration, .theta..sub.s .ltoreq..theta..ltoreq.180-.theta..sub.s, and 0<.theta..sub.s <90, and wherein a locus Q of the second end of said linking rod is determined by the following equations,
- y=x . tan.theta.,
- (x-p).sup.2 +y.sup.2 =L.sup.2,
- P=P.sub.1 -S.sub.c (.theta.-.theta..sub.s)/(180-2.theta..sub.s),
- L=max{P.sub.1 -S.sub.c (.theta.-.theta..sub.s)/(180-2.theta..sub.s)}sin.theta.,
- where (x,y) are coordinates for each point Q of the second end of said linking rod, P is a point of the motion of said object, P.sub.1 is a starting point of the uniform motion of said object, S.sub.c is a stroke for a segment of the uniform motion of said object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.