Tolerance ring, assembly, and method of making and using the same

    公开(公告)号:US12259009B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-25

    申请号:US17419172

    申请日:2019-12-31

    Inventor: Thomas Childs

    Abstract: A tolerance ring (200) including a tolerance ring sidewall (404) including a plurality of waves (or bridges) (452) extending at least one of radially inward or outward and having first (416) and second end portions (420) terminating at first (417) and second ends (421), respectively, where the tolerance ring has a first radius of curvature Ri, measured at a point bisecting a circumferential length, LC, of the tolerance ring sidewall, and a second radius of curvature, R2, measured along one of the first and second end portions of the tolerance ring sidewall, and wherein at least one of: 1) Ri is greater than R2, or 2) wherein Ri is negative and R2 is positive.

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