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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2015
Nextern, Inc., Saint Paul, MN (US);
Ryan Douglas, Stillwater, MN (US);
Casey Carlson, Independence, MN (US);
Dennis Berke, Riverfalls, MN (US);
Nextern, Inc., White Bear Lake, MN (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and associated methods relate to nutating a piston drive linkage oriented around a longitudinal axis in response to the rotation of a drive shaft about a drive axis of rotation, said longitudinal axis being offset and canted with respect to said drive axis of rotation. In an illustrative example, the piston drive linkage may be formed as an umbrella shape with multiple arm members extending radially from the longitudinal axis. The distal ends of each of the radial arm members may attach to a stationary piston crank. The nutating motion of the piston drive linkage may impart a substantially linear motion profile substantially parallel to the drive axis of rotation. A shaft extending along the longitudinal axis from the piston linkage may advantageously freely insert into and rotate within a receptacle of a spinner body being rotated around the drive axis of rotation.