Divided flywheel

US4906220A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Gunter Worner · Weingarten, DE
• Ernst Tscheplak · Waiblingen, DE
• Franz Moser · Kürten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 16, 1988
• Grant date: Mar 6, 1990
• Expiry date: Feb 16, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16F15/163
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Divided flywheel arrangements are disclosed with a spring arrangement, and preferably also a slip clutch arrangement, accommodated in a lubricant bath, which is formed by an annular space limited radially outwards only by parts which are stationary relative to one another. Centrifugal forces acting on the lubricant cannot therefore force the lubricant against seals between mutually movable parts. Certain disclosed arrangements do not accommodate these parts in a lubricant bath.