Patent ID: 11885051
Assignee: INCEPTUS MEDICAL, LLC
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC D | IPC D

Claim 0:
1. A braiding system, comprising:
a drive unit including
an outer assembly including an outer cam, outer slots, and outer drive members aligned with the outer slots;
an inner assembly including an inner cam, inner slots, and inner drive members aligned with the inner slots, wherein the inner assembly is coaxially aligned with the outer assembly, and wherein the number of inner and outer slots is the same;

a plurality of tubes, wherein individual ones of the tubes are constrained within individual ones of the inner and/or outer slots;
an outer drive motor configured to rotate the outer cam to move the outer drive members radially inward to drive a first set of the tubes from the outer slots to the inner slots; and
an inner drive motor configured to rotate the inner cam to move the inner drive members radially outward to drive a second set of the tubes from the inner slots to the outer slots, wherein the inner and outer drive motors are configured to rotate the inner and outer cams to simultaneously (a) move the outer drive members radially inward to drive the first set of the tubes from the outer slots to the inner slots and (b) move the inner drive members radially outward to drive the second set of the tubes from the inner slots to the outer slots.