Free-wheeling arrangement, especially for the guide wheel of hydrodynamic torque converters

US3954161A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Fritz Ehret · Waiblingen, DE
• Otto Worner · Reutlingen, DE
• Ulrich Juskowiak

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 26, 1974
• Grant date: May 4, 1976
• Expiry date: Aug 26, 1994

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16H2041/246
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A free-wheeling arrangement in which gripping rollers are arranged between an inner race and an outer race which is equipped with gripping surfaces and short abutment flanks; the gripping rollers are forced into the gripping position by springs which are supported on cross tongues of a cage formed by a sheet metal ring, out of which are punched out the cross tongues; the sheet metal ring of a cage is thereby fixed in the axial direction by the clamping-in action between the outer race and the structural part accommodating the same while an outwardly directed nose portion is provided at least at one cross tongue of each cage to prevent relative rotation, which engages in a cross groove provided in the inner contour of the outer race; a disk covers off the free-wheeling device which serves simultaneously as abutment for the gripping rollers.