Torsionally resilient coupling with a connecting element

US4601678A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Woco Franz-Josef Wolf & Co. GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Franz J. Wolf · Salmünster, DE
• Hubert Pletsch · Salmünster, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 15, 1984
• Grant date: Jul 22, 1986
• Expiry date: Aug 15, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16D13/686
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Torsionally resilient coupling with, between two coupling halves, at least one movement-transforming intermediate element which transforms a rotation into a translation and is connected frictionally in rotation to one of the two coupling halves and is connected in translation to a connecting element which is in turn articulated pivotably to a resilient intermediate element which is in turn connected frictionally and integrally in rotation to the respective other coupling half. In this coupling a maximum degree of symmetry of the forces acting is achieved, and shear forces which lead to an asymmetrical stressing of the resilient intermediate elements are eliminated in that the journal pins or journal bolts by which the connecting element if articulated to the resilient intermediate element are guided in lateral slot slits.