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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2000
Lowell Van Lund Larson, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Moog Inc., East Aurora, NY (US);
Abstract
A torque-limiting module ( ) is adapted to be mounted on a body ( ) at any of a plurality of locations. Each location has a particular mounting geometry that mandates the relative position and orientation of the module relative to the body. The body includes a housing ( ) adapted to be mounted on the body, in input shaft ( ), an output shaft ( ), a coupling ( ) between the shafts, a brake ( ) arranged to act between the housing and output shaft for braking the shafts when the torque transmitted by the output shaft exceeds a predetermined value, a spring ( ) urging the brake to move toward a position at which the output shaft will be released, a cam surface ( ) mounted on the body at each of the locations, a cam follower ( ) mounted on the module for movement along an axis and engageable with the cam surface at any location, and wherein the module has a variable characteristic, such as torque, that is settable as a function of the position of the cam follower relative to the module.