Pan/tilt tracking mount

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9080720-B2
Application number	US-69763607-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 6, 2007
Priority date	Apr 12, 2006
Publication date	Jul 14, 2015
Grant date	Jul 14, 2015

Abstract

A pan tilt tracking mount is disclosed. In a first embodiment, the pan tilt tracking mount includes an at least one housing, wherein interior dimensions of the at least one housing are precisely defined; a first assembly located within the at least one housing based upon at least one of the precisely defined interior dimensions, the first assembly including a first shaft and a first worm gear set, wherein the first worm gear set allows tilt rotation of the first assembly; and a second assembly located within the at least one housing based upon at least one of the precisely defined interior dimensions, the second assembly including a second shaft and a second worm gear set, wherein the second worm gear set allows pan rotation of the second assembly.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device comprising:
a housing;
a first assembly including a first worm shaft and a first worm wheel, wherein the first worm shaft is coupled to the housing through bearings and first and second independently adjustable bearing supports attached to corresponding first and second recesses in first opposing sides of the housing;
a tilt motor mounted external to one of the first opposing sides of the housing, the tilt motor having a tilt motor shaft receive…

Assignees

• Kahn Philip
• Flir Systems

Inventors

• Kahn Philip

Classifications

• F16M11/10

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F16M11/2014

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F16M11/18 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F16M11/12

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• H04N7/183

  Electricity · mapped topic