Device for transmitting a movement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025108921-A1
Application number	US-202318832989-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 19, 2023
Priority date	Jan 28, 2022
Publication date	Apr 3, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A transmission device for transmitting a movement includes a screw extending along an axis, a nut, a housing, a first elastic member, a second elastic member,—a first assembly, a second assembly, a first axial stop, and a second axial stop. The first elastic member is able to be deformed independently of the second elastic member under the effect of a first axial force, and the second elastic member is able to be deformed independently of the first elastic member under the effect of a second axial force which exceeds a second threshold.

First claim

1 . Transmission device for transmitting a movement, the device comprising:
a screw extending along an axis; a nut cooperating with the screw; a housing; a first elastic member; a second elastic member; a first assembly comprising said nut; a second assembly comprising said housing; a first axial stop which is axially integral with the first assembly and able to cooperate with a first complementary axial stop of the second assembly, a first axial clearance being formed between the first axial stop and the first complementary axial stop; and a second axial stop which is axially integral with the first assembly and able to cooperate with a second complementary axial stop of the second assembly, a second axial clearance being formed between the second axial stop and the second complementary axial stop; the first elastic member being able to be deformed independently of the second elastic member under the effect of a first axial force oriented in a first direction and applied by the first assembly on the first elastic member, so as to reduce the first axial clearance, the first axial stop being able to come to bear against the first complementary axial stop when said first axial force exceeds a first threshold, the second elastic member being able to be deformed independently of the first elastic member under the effect of a second axial force oriented in a second direction opposite to the first direction and applied by the first assembly on the second elastic member, so as to reduce the second axial clearance, the second axial stop being able to come to bear against the second complementary axial stop when said second axial force exceeds a second threshold.

2 . The transmission device according to claim 1 , further comprising a first preloading element and a second preloading element, the first preloading element being able to adjust a preloading stress acting on the first elastic member independently of a preloading stress acting on the second elastic member, the second preloading element being able to adjust the preloading stress acting on the second elastic member independently of the preloading stress acting on the first elastic member.

3 . The transmission device according to claim 2 , comprising at least one bearing which comprises a radially inner ring arranged facing the first assembly and a radially outer ring arranged facing the second assembly, a radially outer periphery of each elastic member coming to bear axially, directly or indirectly, against the radially outer ring of said bearing, and a radially inner periphery coming to bear axially against the preloading element.

4 . The transmission device according to claim 3 , wherein the second assembly comprises a shoulder extending radially from a radially inner wall of the housing, wherein the first elastic member is arranged on a first side of the shoulder of the second assembly and the second elastic member is arranged on a second side of the shoulder of the second assembly that is opposite to the first side.

5 . The transmission device according to claim 4 , wherein a first bearing is arranged between the first elastic member and the first side of the shoulder of the second assembly, and wherein a second bearing is arranged between the second elastic member and the second side of the shoulder of the second assembly, wherein the radially outer periphery of the first elastic member comes to bear axially against the radially outer ring of the first bearing and the radially outer periphery of the second elastic member comes to bear axially against the radially outer ring of the second bearing.

6 . The transmission device according to claim 4 , wherein the first assembly comprises a shoulder extending radially from a radially outer wall of the first assembly, the shoulder of the first assembly being arranged radially facing the shoulder of the second assembly.

7 . The transmission device according to claim 6 , wherein the shoulder of the first assembly has a length in the axial direction that is shorter than the length in said axial direction of the shoulder of the second assembly.

8 . The transmission device according to claim 4 , wherein a bearing is arranged radially inside the shoulder of the second assembly.

9 . The transmission device according to claim 5 , further comprising a first annular support plate arranged between the radially outer ring of a bearing and the radially outer periphery of the first elastic member, and a second annular support plate arranged between the radially outer ring of the bearing and the radially outer periphery of the second elastic member, the radially outer periphery of the first elastic member coming to bear against the first support plate and the radially outer periphery of the second elastic member coming to bear against the second support plate.

10 . Seat for an aircraft, comprising a fixed part intended to be fixed to a fixed part of the aircraft and a movable part able to be moved relative to the fixed part, a transmission device for transmitting a movement according to claim 1 being mounted between the movable part and the fixed part, the nut of the transmission device being able to be rotated by an actuator, the screw being connected to said movable part of the seat, the housing being connected to said fixed part of the seat.

11 . The transmission device according to claim 5 , wherein the first assembly comprises a shoulder extending radially from a radially outer wall of the first assembly, the shoulder of the first assembly being arranged radially facing the shoulder of the second assembly.

12 . The transmission device according to claim 4 , wherein a first bearing is arranged between the first elastic member and the first side of the shoulder of the second assembly, and wherein a second bearing is arranged between the second elastic member and the second side of the shoulder of the second assembly, wherein the radially outer periphery of the first elastic member comes to bear axially against the radially outer ring of the first bearing and the radially outer periphery of the second elastic member comes to bear axially against the radially outer ring of the second bearing, wherein a bearing is arranged radially inside the shoulder of the second assembly, the transmission device further comprising a first annular support plate arranged between the radially outer ring of the bearing and the radially outer periphery of the first elastic member, and a second annular support plate arranged between the radially outer ring of the bearing and the radially outer periphery of the second elastic member, the radially outer periphery of the first elastic member coming to bear against the first support plate and the radially outer periphery of the second elastic member coming to bear against the second support plate.

Assignees

• Safran Electronics & Defense

Inventors

• Van Schaik Jeroen Robbert

Classifications

• F16H25/2204

  with balls · CPC title

• F16H25/2209

  with arrangements for taking up backlash · CPC title

• F16H35/10

  Arrangements or devices for absorbing overload or preventing damage by overload · CPC title

• F16C2380/27

  Motor coupled with a gear, e.g. worm gears · CPC title

• B64D11/0619

  with energy absorbing means specially adapted for mitigating impact loads for passenger seats, e.g. at a crash · CPC title