Abstract:
In a method of manufacturing an articulated shaft structure for the transfer of torque from a transmission to a differential drive, including a connecting flange having a tube section, a shaft plate disposed between the connecting flange and a transmission output flange and forming a torsion element for accommodating some articulation of the connecting flange relative to the output flange, and a centering part extending from the connecting flange for aligning the articulated shaft relative to a transmission shaft, the connecting flange is formed integrally with the tube section by deep-drawing in follow-on tool the tube section and, in the same manufacturing step, punching openings into the flange, and deep-drawing the centering part and pressing it into the tube section.
Abstract:
An elastic plate member is clamped between an input-side stopper plate and an output-side stopper plate, and the input-side stopper plate is secured to an input-side member, and the output-side stopper plate to an output-side member at appropriate intervals therebetween, respectively, in a state in which tubular members and collar members into which the tubular members are respectively inserted are interposed therebetween. The input-side member and the output-side member are elastically coupled in the axial direction and in the circumferential direction of the input- and output-side members. A tilting-restriction shaft is formed on either the input-side or output-side stopper plate. A tilting-restriction member having a tilting-restriction hole is fixed between the stopper plate provided with the tilting-restriction shaft and the input-side member or the output-side member facing the side of the stopper plate provided with the tilting-restriction shaft, and the tilting-restriction shaft is accommodated in the tilting-restriction hole.
Abstract:
A yieldable coupling wherein an externally toothed hub which can transmit torque to a rotary driven unit mates with an internally toothed sleeve forming part of a flange further having a support connectable to the output element of a rotary driving unit and an elastomeric connector between the support and the sleeve. The connector can include one or more rubber rings which are vulcanized to the adjacent components of the flange. A needle bearing or a friction bearing can be interposed between the hub and the connector.
Abstract:
The device for mechanically transmitting torque from a motor to a power transmission is especially suitable for marine propulsion systems as a sound-damping transfer coupling of a drive shaft. The device comprises a damping member with two halves mirror-symmetrical relative to a plane that is perpendicular to the axial direction. Each half is a composite body comprised of a first and a second conical rubber ring of opposite conical orientation. The second conical rubber ring is concentrically arranged inside the first conical rubber ring. A metallic conical center ring is vulcanized to the mantle surfaces of the first and second conical rubber rings that are facing one another. A metallic outer ring is vulcanized to an outer conical mantle surface of the first conical rubber ring and a metallic inner ring is vulcanized to an inner conical mantle surface of the second conical rubber ring. The device further comprises screws for fastening the two halves to one another at the inner and outer rings, whereby the halves are arranged such that a respective base portion of the conical center rings face one another. The device has a strong center ring effect in all directions so that a universal joint may be guided and supported without any further mechanical bearings for the drive shaft.
Abstract:
An elastically coupled joint comprises a shaft for transmitting rotary motion, a housing in which the shaft is concentrically inserted, an elastic member provided between the shaft and the housing, and a stopper for preventing excessive displacement between the shaft and the housing. The housing is provided, at an end thereof with a yoke for supporting a spider of a universal joint. The elastic member is provided with a tubular outer ring and a cylindrical elastic body fixed on the inner side of the outer ring. The shaft is pressure fitted into the central portion of the elastic member. The stopper is composed of a pin member inserted in a penetrating hole formed in the housing, the elastic member and the shaft. The penetrating hole may be formed such that the stopper pin is received in the shaft with a press fit, with each end portion of the pin having a predetermined uniform circumferential gap to the housing and the outer ring.
Abstract:
A wheel hub assembly includes a tubular shaped hub member and a univeral joint member connected to the hub member for rotating it about an axis of rotation. The universal joint member fits into the hub member with each having spaced apart confronting surfaces. A filler material is filled into the space between the confronting surfaces and forms a torque transmitting connection between the universal joint member and the hub member.
Abstract:
The elastic coupling connects a first and second body movable in rotation around substantially aligned axes, and comprises a crown including a number of elastic elements substantially identical and separated by rigid studs for connection with said bodies. Two adjacent elastic elements are connected by adhesion to the stud which separates them and two successive studs are connected in rigid manner, one to the first body and the other to the second body, these studs thus forming a first and second assembly adapted to be associated, respectively, with the first and with the second body. Precompression of the elastic elements is effected at rest, by means being adapted to exert a stress of substantially radial direction on said rigid studs. The precompression means comprise a first and a second rigid element fixed respectively to the first and to the second movable body, each of this first and this second rigid element comprising, stressing means adapted to maintain said radial stress on, respectively, the studs of the first and of the second assemblies. These stressing means are also arranged to maintain the rigid elements fast to the crown without connection of these elements and of the studs to said movable bodies, and not to exert stress, respectively, on the studs of the second and of the first assemblies.
Abstract:
The present invention covers a backlash equalizer of simple and economical construction which includes isolation of input and output with no interaction during adjustment. This latter is easy to obtain.
Abstract:
A shaft coupling for precisely transmitting angular motion and position from one rotating input shaft to an eccentric measuring shaft. A flexible crossmember is radially mounted on one end of the measuring shaft and is held in sliding engagement in a pair of holes in a hub mounted on one end of the input shaft. As the input shaft is rotated, the flexible crossmember torques the measuring shaft at a constant rotational velocity with respect to the input shaft.