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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2004
Burckhard Becker, Solingen, DE;
Van-toan Ho, Solingen, DE;
Ulrich Karthaus, Remscheid, DE;
Wilfried Beneker, Leichlingen, DE;
Burckhard Becker, Solingen, DE;
Van-Toan Ho, Solingen, DE;
Ulrich Karthaus, Remscheid, DE;
Wilfried Beneker, Leichlingen, DE;
Abstract
A gear train is provided including an output shaft rotatable about an output axis, a housing rotatable relative to the shaft, a toothed washer having a circumferential first toothed surface, an eccentric that is rotatably disposed on the shaft and has an eccentric driving surface offset relative to the axis by an eccentricity, the eccentric comprising a driving region, an annular gear comprising a circumferential second toothed surface, a circumferential third toothed surface and an eccentric driven surface cooperating with the driving surface, a gearwheel comprising a circumferential fourth toothed surface, the first toothed surface of the washer and the second toothed surface of the annular gear meshing together in a first angular position and forming a first nutating gear having the eccentricity and the third toothed surface of the annular gear and the fourth toothed surface of the gearwheel meshing together in a second angular position.