Joint floor transmitting shifting forces from a gear shifting system of a transmission to a transmission drive member

US6123621A · kind A · utility

Assignee

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

Inventors

• Franz J. Wolf · Salmünster, DE
• Waldemar Hermann · Fürstenau, DE
• Peter Kaminski · Portola Valley, US
• Dieter Baum · Wiesbaden, DE
• Alexander Korn · Creglingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 23, 1995
• Grant date: Sep 26, 2000
• Expiry date: Mar 23, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16H59/0208
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A joint for transmitting shifting forces from a gear-shifting system of a transmission to a transmission drive member includes a pair of joint parts (1, 2) frictionally locked to the transmission drive member and to the gear-shifting system, a coupling (3) mounted between the joint parts (1, 2) and an elastically deforming device. The elastic deforming device is a damper (4) substantially enclosing omnidirectionally the coupling (3) in such manner that when the joint is not transmitting shifting forces, the damper (4) keeps the coupling (3) spaced from the joint parts (1, 2).