Plate-link chain, particularly for a motor vehicle drive system

US8398513B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Anton Simonov · Bogen, DE
• Martin Vornehm · Neu-Anspach, DE
• Andreas Triller · Bogen, DE
• Marcus Junig · Frebershausen, DE
• Olga Ispolatova · Bogen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 1, 2005
• Grant date: Mar 19, 2013
• Expiry date: Jun 10, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16G13/06
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A plate-link chain for a motor vehicle drive system. The chain includes a plurality of link plates articulatingly connected with each other by rocker members. The rocker members extend transversely to the longitudinal direction of the plate-link chain. The chain includes curved contact surfaces formed on the rocker members and on the link plates, along which the rocker members and link plates are in contact with each other to transmit force. The respective contact surfaces have a width that extends transversely to the longitudinal direction of the plate-link chain, and when considered in a side view running transversely to the width and in the longitudinal direction of the plate-link chain, they have an arc length. The contact surfaces have at least three regions along the arc length with different curvatures.