Arrangement for connecting two shaft ends with a bearing

US7837565B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Carl Freudenberg KG · DE

Inventors

• Markus Dürre · Karlstadt, DE
• Guido Himmelmann · Mülheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 19, 2006
• Grant date: Nov 23, 2010
• Expiry date: Jun 21, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T403/32721
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An arrangement, comprising two shaft ends (1, 2), which are mutually connected by a coupling element (3) so as to transmit torque, the coupling element (3) being associated with a bearing (4), which receives at least one shaft end (1), the bearing (4) comprising a support body (5) for the shaft end (1) and an outside body (6) surrounding the support body, and an elastic deformable layer (7) being disposed between the support body (5) and the outside body (6), with the aim of creating an arrangement that guarantees the lowest possible cardan rigidity while achieving maximum radial rigidity, is characterized in that the elastic layer has at least in part a spherical configuration. A bearing also has at least in part a spherically configured layer.