Driving mechanism for treadmill

• US 7,618,352 B1
• Filed: 05/11/2009
• Issued: 11/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ta-Chuang Wei
• Original Assignee: Ta-Chuang Wei
• Inventors: Wei, Ta-Chuang
• Primary Examiner(s): Thanh; Loan H
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TAM M
• Application Number:
  US12/453,404
• Time in Patent Office: 190 Days
• Field of Search: 482/51, 482/54, 198/780, 198/788, 198/789, 198/832, 198/835
• US Class Current: 482/54
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/0257 Mechanical systems therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B65G 23/08 with self-contained driving mechanisms, e.g. motors and associated gearing

Abstract

A driving mechanism used in a treadmill and concealed inside a tubular driving roller for rotating the tubular driving roller in moving an endless running belt through a driving gear of a transmission shaft, a reduction gear, a driven gear of a driven shaft and an internal gear.

Claims

1. A driving mechanism for a treadmill, comprising a tubular driving roller adapted to rotate an endless running belt, a motor suspending inside said tubular driving roller, a first hollow locating block located on one side of said motor, a second hollow locating block located on an opposite side of said motor, a first end cap and a second end cap respectively affixed to two distal ends of said tubular driving roller with pins, a connection tube, having a first end fixedly connected to said first hollow locating block and a second end pivotally connected to said first end cap with axle bearings, for guiding a power wire of said motor to the outside of said tubular driving roller, a transmission shaft supported on axle bearings in said second hollow locating block and connected to an output shaft of said motor for synchronous rotation thereof, a driving gear fixedly mounted on an end of said transmission shaft remote from said motor, a supplementary block affixed to said second hollow locating block, a support block affixed to said second hollow locating block, a driven shaft supported on axle bearings in said support block, a reduction gear fixedly mounted on one end of said driven shaft and meshed with said driving gear, an internal gear mounted on said second end cap inside said tubular driving roller, a driven gear fixedly mounted on an opposite end of said driven shaft and meshed with said internal gear, and a mounting rod supported on axle bearings in said second end cap and connected to said support block for mounting on a frame;

wherein when said motor is started, said driving gear is rotated with said transmission shaft and said output shaft of said motor to rotate said reduction gear and said driven shaft, thereby causing said internal gear and said second end cap to rotate, and therefore said tubular driving roller is forced to rotate said endless running belt.