Coiled cord and displacement apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11322272-B2
Application number	US-202016996998-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 19, 2020
Priority date	Sep 20, 2019
Publication date	May 3, 2022
Grant date	May 3, 2022

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a coiled cord capable of increasing the length of a cable while preventing a winding diameter of the coiled cord in a plane orthogonal to the direction in which the coiled cord is extended and contracted in a natural state from increasing. A first exemplary aspect is a coiled cord around which a cable is wound, the cable being capable of being freely extended and contracted, the coiled cord including: a first layer in which the cable is wound from an inner side of the coiled cord to an outer side thereof in a radial direction, and a second layer in which the cable is wound from the outer side of the coiled cord to the inner side thereof in the radial direction, in which the first and the second layers are continuously connected to each other.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A displacement apparatus comprising:
a coiled cord comprising a wound cable, the cable being capable of being freely extended and contracted in an axial direction, the coiled cord comprising:
a first substantially planar layer in which the cable is spirally wound about the axial direction from a radially inner side of the coiled cord to a radially outer side thereof, and
a second substantially planar layer in which the cable is spirally wound about the axial direction from the radially outer side of the coiled cord to the radially inner side thereof, the first and the second layers being continuously connected to each other;

a base part;
a part to be displaced configured to be displaced with respect to the base part, the coiled cord being extended and contracted in accordance with displacement of the part to be displaced; and
an extending and contracting mechanism comprising at least a first rod and a second rod inserted in the first rod, one end of the mechanism being fixed to the base part and another end of the mechanism being fixed to the part to be displaced, wherein:
the coiled cord is located within the extending and contracting mechanism;
the second rod is substantially housed inside the first rod when the extending and contracting mechanism is contracted; and
the second rod protrudes from the first rod when the extending and contracting mechanism is extended.

2. The displacement apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when a direction in which the coiled cord is extended and contracted is the axial direction, a plurality of the cables are stacked and integrated in the direction in which the coiled cord is extended and contracted.

3. The displacement apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a direction in which the cable of the first layer is wound from the radially inner side of the coiled cord to the radially outer side thereof is the same as a direction in which the cable of the second layer is wound from the radially outer side of the coiled cord to the radially inner side thereof.

4. The displacement apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a direction in which the cable of the first layer is wound from the radially inner side of the coiled cord to the radially outer side thereof is different from a direction in which the cable of the second layer is wound from the radially outer side of the coiled cord to the radially inner side thereof.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Itozawa Yuta
• Komura Hirotaka

Classifications

• B65H55/04 Primary

  characterised by method of winding · CPC title

• H01B7/06 Primary

  Extensible conductors or cables, e.g. self-coiling cords · CPC title

• H01B13/008

  for manufacturing extensible conductors or cables · CPC title

• H02G11/00

  Arrangements of electric cables or lines between relatively-movable parts · CPC title

• B65H2701/31

  Textiles threads or artificial strands of filaments · CPC title