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US 6,855,015 B2Granted
Device for rotating with a multisided socket
AssigneeTeleflex Canada Limited Partnership
InventorsJon David Edward Scott, Stephen Raymond Flood
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AssigneeTeleflex Canada Limited Partnership
InventorsJon David Edward Scott, Stephen Raymond Flood
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A device for rotating with a rotatable first member includes a second member having a portion engageable with the first member. The portion has a first part and a second part which is resiliently biased away from the first part. The second member tightly engages the first member. There may be a device for measuring rotation of the shaft such as a potentiometer. The rotation measuring device may include an electrical connector for the potentiometer including a socket and a post which is pressable into the socket. The device may also include a rotationally adjustable connector. There may be a coupling connected to the second member which includes a third member with a portion having n sides and a fourth member with a portion having n sides which receives the portion of the third member in a mating relationship, thereby allowing the device to be adjusted to a total of at least m.n rotational positions. The second member preferably has a projection which slidably engages a slot in the third member allowing for non-coaxial rotation, and minimal backlash, of the device for measuring rotation relative to the first member.
A device for rotating with a first rotatable member, the device comprising a second member having a portion which is engageable with the first member, said portion having a first part and a second part, the first part being resiliently biased away from the second part, whereby the second member tightly engages the first member, the first member having a socket and the second member fitting non-rotatably within the socket.
A rotationally adjustable device for rotatably connecting to a first member with a multisided portion, the device including a second multisided member having m sides, the second member being capable of engaging the first member in a mating relationship in at least m alternative rotational positions, and a coupling connected to the second member and being generally coaxial with the second member, the coupling including a third multisided member having n sides and a multisided opening having n sides, and receiving the third member in a mating relationship in n alternative rotational positions, m and n being different whole numbers and neither n nor m being a multiple of the other, whereby the connector can be adjusted to a total of at least m.n rotational positions.
An electrical connector including a socket and a post which is tightly pressable into the socket, the post having a plurality of rows of circumferential projections extending thereabout, whereby the projections tightly engage the socket when the post is pressed into the socket, a pair of electrical conductors being inserted between the post and the socket, whereby each of the conductors is crimped a plurality of times by the circumferential projections of the post.
A rotation sensing apparatus for sensing a rotational position of a rotatable first member, the apparatus comprising:
In combination:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.