Lifting device

• US 9,718,659 B2
• Filed: 05/18/2015
• Issued: 08/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ming-Hsien Huang
• Original Assignee: Ming-Hsien Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Ming-Hsien
• Primary Examiner(s): MARCELO, EMMANUEL MONSAYAC
• Application Number:
  US14/714,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20160236920A1
• Time in Patent Office: 806 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B66F 9/06 movable, with their loads, on wheels or the like, e.g. fork-lift trucks vehicle aspects B60 - B62; vehicles predominantly for transporting loads and modified to facilitate loading or unloading B60P1/00; low-lift hand trucks for transporting goods B62B3/06

Abstract

A lifting device including a body, a sliding member, a pulley, a worm, an elastic member and a connecting member is provided. The sliding member is used to set an object and stays at any position between two positions. The pulley has a fist groove. A curvature radius of the first groove is a constant value. The worm has a second groove. A curvature radius of the second groove is a non-constant value. The elastic member is disposed in the body. When the sliding member is slid between the two positions, the pulley and the worm are rotated in at least one circle. A sum which a first torque generated by a gravity of the object and the sliding member with the curvature radius of the first groove and a second torque generated by a force of the elastic member with the curvature radius of the second groove is zero.

Claims

1. A lifting device, used to carry an object, the lifting device comprising:

a body;

a sliding member, slidably disposed on the body, used to carry the object, and capable of staying at any position between a first position and a second position;

a pulley, pivotally disposed within the body and having at least one first groove surrounding a circumference of the pulley, wherein a curvature radius of the first groove is a constant value;

a worm, being coaxial with the pulley, wherein the worm has a second groove surrounding a circumference of the worm, and a curvature radius of the second groove gradually changes;

an elastic member, disposed in the body and having a first end and a second end opposite to each other; and

a connecting member, having a first end portion connected with the second end of the elastic member and a second end portion connected with the sliding member, and winding within the first groove and the second groove,

wherein when the sliding member slides from the first position to the second position, or slides from the second position to the first position, the worm and the pulley rotate at least one circle, gravity of the object and the sliding member acts in concert with the curvature radius of the first groove to generate a first torque, elastic member is elastically deformed and correspondingly generates a force, the force acts in concert with the curvature radius of the second groove to generate a second torque, and a sum of the first torque and the second torque is zero.

2. The lifting device as recited in claim 1, wherein when the sliding member is located at the first position, a length of a portion of the connecting member winding within the first groove is greater than a length of a portion of the connecting member winding within the second groove, and when the sliding member is located at the second position, a length of a portion of the connecting member winding within the first groove is smaller than a length of a portion of the connecting member winding within the second groove.

3. The lifting device as recited in claim 2, wherein the curvature radius of the second groove gradually decreases from a junction between the first groove and the second groove.

4. The lifting device as recited in claim 3, further comprising a fine adjusting module disposed on the body, the fine adjusting module comprising:

a bolt, rotatably disposed on the body;

a position limiting member, disposed within the body and screwed to the bolt; and

a fixed pulley, pivotally connected with the position limiting member, and the second end portion of the connecting member connected to the sliding member through the fixed pulley.

5. The lifting device as recited in claim 4, further comprising a turning pulley disposed between the worm and the elastic member for changing an extending direction of the connecting member.

6. The lifting device as recited in claim 1, further comprising a stopper module disposed within the body and connected with the sliding member and the second end portion of the connecting member, wherein the stopper module moves back-and-forth between the first position and second position along with the sliding member, and the stopper module comprises:

a fixed plate, fixed on the sliding member;

a cover, disposed on the fixed plate;

a stopper plate, disposed between the fixed plate and the cover, wherein the second end portion of the connecting member is sandwiched by the stopper plate and the cover, and an end of the stopper plate has a zigzag structure; and

a torsion spring, two ends of the torsion spring respectively leaning against the fixed plate and the stopper plate,

wherein when the connecting member breaks, the torsion spring drives the stopper plate to rotate, and the zigzag structure is embedded into the body to limit the movement of the sliding member.

7. The lifting device as recited in claim 1, further comprising a torque adjusting module, wherein the torque adjusting module comprises:

a screw, rotatably disposed on the body; and

an adjusting portion, disposed within the body and screwed on the screw, and the first end of the elastic member being hooked on the adjusting portion,

wherein when the screw rotates, the adjusting portion moves in relative to the elastic member along the screw so as to adjust a relative position of the first end of the elastic member at the body.

8. The lifting device as recited in claim 1, wherein the first groove and the second groove are not communicated with each other.

9. The lifting device as recited in claim 1, wherein the connecting member has two cables fixed at the first groove and the second groove.

10. The lifting device as recited in claim 1, wherein the pulley and the worm are integrally formed.

11. The lifting device as recited in claim 1, wherein the worm further has a position limiting slot, the connecting member further has a bump, the position limiting slot is disposed at the junction between the first groove and the second groove, and the bump is positionally limited within the position limiting slot.