Apparatus for reducing vehicle drive train vibrations

US5176233A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Guenter Woerner · Weingarten, DE
• Ernst Tscheplak · Waiblingen, DE
• Franz Moser · Kürten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 4, 1986
• Grant date: Jan 5, 1993
• Expiry date: Jun 4, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16F15/1397
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for reducing the transmission of vibrations from an engine to a transmission line having two flywheel elements capable of rotation relative to one another, the first element being drivingly connected to the engine and the second element being drivingly connected to the transmission line. The two flywheel elements are connected by a spring mounting and abutments. A first abutment of the spring mounting is frictionally connected with limited rotational capacity to the second flywheel element. The frictional contact between the first abutment and the second flywheel element is smaller than the frictional contact between the second abutment and the first flywheel element.