METHOD FOR FLEXIBLE ENERGY SUPPLY FROM FIXED PART OF EQUIPMENT TO ITS REVOLVING PART Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: electrical engineering; cable adapters for supporting-rotating gear such as between telescopes and scanners of lidar units.

SUBSTANCE: proposed device has flexible energy carrier connected on one end to fixed part of equipment and on other end, to revolving part placed on carrying member mounted in guides. Carrying member is made in the form of trolley installed on two parallel guides in the form of annular ducts, one of them being disposed along generating surface of revolving part of equipment and other one, in supporting facility made in the form of fixed part of equipment that also accommodates flexible energy carrier; trolley has platform bent at angle of 150 - 160 deg. and provided with butt-end horizontal floors to receive guide rollers; the latter are disposed on one side surface of platform along bending radius of flexible energy carrier and additional rollers, on other side surface together with flexible link disposed on them and inside two parallel guides made in the form of annular ducts; ends of link are secured on surfaces of revolving and fixed parts of equipment to form tensioning device. Trolley is provided with three guide rollers and two additional ones. Part of flexible energy carrier disposed in supporting facility made in the form of annular trough is connected to remaining part through plug connectors. Flexible link is made in the form of spring-loaded rubber cord.

EFFECT: simplified design, enhanced reliability, facilitated serviceability check and partial replacement of energy carrier.

6 cl, 5 dwg