US 12,215,786 B2
Orbital tensile drive
Jake Robert Read, Mississauga (CA)
Assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed on Sep. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/474,841.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/377,081, filed on Sep. 26, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0110614 A1, Apr. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. F16H 7/20 (2006.01); F16H 7/00 (2006.01); F16H 57/00 (2012.01); F16H 57/035 (2012.01)
CPC F16H 7/20 (2013.01) [F16H 57/0025 (2013.01); F16H 57/035 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An orbital tensile drive comprising:
a fixed shaft;
an output shaft;
an orbiter body that comprises a plurality of idler pulleys, wherein an axis of rotation of each of the plurality of idler pulleys is tilted at an angle relative to a common axis of rotation of the orbiter body; and
a tensile element movably engaged with the fixed shaft, the output shaft, and the plurality of idler pulleys, wherein the orbiter body is operative to rotate, thereby causing:
relative rotation between the fixed shaft and the output shaft, and
relative rotation between the orbiter body and the output shaft.