US 12,435,761 B2
Universal joint and method
Bryan Logan Spicer, Dublin, CA (US)
Filed by Bryan Logan Spicer, Dublin, CA (US)
Filed on May 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/318,553.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/343,890, filed on May 19, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0375046 A1, Nov. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G01M 1/32 (2006.01); F16D 3/32 (2006.01); F16D 3/38 (2006.01)
CPC F16D 3/32 (2013.01) [G01M 1/32 (2013.01); F16D 3/382 (2013.01); F16D 2300/22 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of using a universal joint, the universal joint comprising a first ring cross link configured to be coupled to a driving yoke; a second ring cross link configured to be coupled to a driven yoke; an internal coupling yoke operably coupling the first ring cross link and the second ring cross link together, wherein at least one of the internal coupling yoke, the first cross link, and the second cross link include a wobble joint where the internal coupling yoke is coupled to the first cross link and/or the second cross link, comprising:
providing the driving yoke coupled to both the first ring cross link and the second ring cross link with the internal coupling yoke and at least one of the first cross link and the second cross link coupled together by a wobble joint including an offset compression trunnion;
rotating the universal joint whereby the internal coupling yoke rotates relative to at least one of the first cross link and the second cross link via the offset compression trunnion and the wobble joint.