Fiber-reinforced drive shaft

US4380443A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Felten & Guilleaume Carlswerk Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Federmann · Bensberg, DE
• Joachim Bausch · Lindlar, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 9, 1981
• Grant date: Apr 19, 1983
• Expiry date: Jun 9, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16C2326/06
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A drive shaft, particularly for motor vehicles, has a tubular shaft part of a fiber reinforced synthetic plastic material, two end pieces each associated with respective one of the end portions of the shaft and having sleeve-shaped and ring-shaped sections, and a plurality of anchoring pins arranged on the end pieces on the region between the sleeve-shaped and the ring-shaped section at circumferentially spaced locations.