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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2018
Sinfonia Technology Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Masaharu Tsujimura, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuaki Saito, Tokyo, JP;
SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
For a gear train GL including a drive gearand an idler gearengaged with each other and a lock gear, provided are a first drive meansA configured to linearly drive the lock gearin forward and backward directions, a second drive meansB configured to rotationally drive the drive gearin normal and reverse directions, and a controller C configured to control the both drive meansA andB. The controller C starts driving the lock gearat the time of an unlocking operation, from an engagement position toward the disengagement position through the first drive meansA, and when the drive is started, the controller C drives the drive gearinto one of normal and reverse directions and into the other direction through the second drive meansB with a polarity reversal in a predetermined cycles Tand T