Drive shaft coupling

US7314416B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• GKN Walterscheid GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Terry Loughrin · Bolingbrook, US
• John Zubik · Lockport, US
• Wilhelm Schott

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 30, 2001
• Grant date: Jan 1, 2008
• Expiry date: Mar 15, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16D2001/103
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A drive shaft assembly to interconnect a driving component and a driven component has a first shaft and a second shaft operably engaged with the first shaft to enable torque transmission and relative axial sliding motion. A joint component operably interconnects one of the first and second shafts to one of the driving and/or driven components. The joint component is rotatable through a specified range of rotation, or “free-motion”. The joint component is axially fixed relative to one of the second shaft, driving component and/or the driven component.