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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
UNI Flex Inc., Nagano, JP;
NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
7450 / ; 745005 ; 745024 ; 745026 ; 1921 / ;
Abstract
An automatic tension controlling mechanism of a control cable having a tension controlling mechanism. The tension controlling mechanism includes a case through which through a threaded rod of a control cable passes, a split threaded ring composed of plural split parts stored in the case which can be meshed with threaded rod, a spring stored in the case, and a tapered face formed in the case so as to urge the split threaded ring in the direction of meshing with the threaded rod.