Patent 7846029 was granted and assigned to Nidec Sankyo on December, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A torque limiter may include a first member provided with a circumferential face, a second member provided with a base plate part and a cylindrical drum part which is extended from the base plate part so as to surround the circumferential face of the first member, and an urging member for urging the cylindrical drum part of the second member to the circumferential face of the first member. The cylindrical drum part is formed with a plurality of cutout parts to be divided into a plurality of elastic plate parts. The cutout part is extended from a tip end of the cylindrical drum part to a middle position in a radial direction of the base plate part and the elastic plate part is formed of the cylindrical drum part and the base plate part.