Interconnector for rolling balls
AssigneeHiwin Technologies Corp.
InventorChang-Hsin Kuo
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Abstract
An interconnector for rolling balls in a ball screw or a linear guide way is composed of a spacer, a direction guiding member with two wings, and to linking chains. The adjacent rolling balls are isolated by the spacer so as to prevent mutual collision. The two adjacent spacers are connected with two elastically meandering linking chains able to be configurated in various forms so as to freely elongate and shrink. With this structure the guide way track is able to be formed into any shape which contributes to minimizing the size of apparatus and production cost, and allow the rolling ball to travel in a three dimensional course.
Claims12
An interconnector for rolling balls comprising:
- a spacer located between two adjacent rolling balls to separate them;
- two linking chains formed into a meandering narrow strip shape;
- said linking chain and said spacer are made of a elastic material,
- said two adjacent spacers are connected with said two linking chains.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.