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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2017
Applicant:
Gecom Corporation, Greensburg, IN (US);
Inventor:
Yoshiaki Yokota, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Assignee:
GECOM CORPORATION, Greensburg, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 57/10 (2006.01); E05B 81/24 (2014.01); E05B 81/20 (2014.01); E05B 81/38 (2014.01); E05B 81/14 (2014.01); E05B 81/06 (2014.01); E05B 79/20 (2014.01); F16H 57/02 (2012.01); F16H 57/039 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E05B 81/25 (2013.01); E05B 79/20 (2013.01); E05B 81/06 (2013.01); E05B 81/14 (2013.01); E05B 81/20 (2013.01); E05B 81/38 (2013.01); F16H 57/10 (2013.01); F16H 57/039 (2013.01); F16H 2057/02034 (2013.01); F16H 2057/02082 (2013.01);
Abstract
A drive apparatus includes a sun gear, a ring gear, a carrier which supports planetary gears, a drive source which drives the ring gear as an input element, and fixing mechanism which fixes selectively one output element of the sun gear as a first output element and the carrier as a second output element so as not to rotate, and driving force is outputted from the other output element which is other than the one output element of the sun gear and the carrier fixed by the fixing mechanism.