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Coupling with improved bush-ring connection
11598378 · 2023-03-07 · ·

A coupling includes a plurality of laminations forming a lamination package and having lamination holes arranged flush to form an assembly opening, a ring, and a bush accommodated in the assembly opening and having a first end area connected to the ring via a form-fit connection.

Motor shaft adapter
11598377 · 2023-03-07 · ·

Motor shaft adapters include a cylindrical shaft sleeve with a tubular body defined between inner and outer cylindrical surfaces, and frame adapters that include a section of structural tubing and flanges having sides aligned to the sides of the structural tubing section and fixed at respective ends of the section of structural tubing into assembly between a motor and gearhead. Key slot apertures are defined by opposing body end-walls of the tubular body and through the inner and outer cylindrical surfaces of the sleeve. A shaft key has outer sidewalls that include opposing outer sleeve aperture sidewall portions that enable the shaft key sidewall portions to fit within and to thereby engage the sleeve via the key slot aperture. The key sidewalls further include a base pair of opposing key seat engagement portions that fit within and engage opposing sidewalls of a key seat aperture defined within a workpiece shaft.

Hybrid drive train

A hybrid drive train for a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine, an electric machine, a first clutch, which is provided for coupling a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine to the rotor, and a second further clutch, which is designed as a wet clutch and which has a clutch cover. A screw connection is provided for non-rotatably connecting the rotor to the clutch cover, which screw connection includes a screw, which is substantially arranged in an axial direction and which at least partially penetrates a connecting piece non-rotatably fastened to the clutch cover.

Dog clutch with ratcheting one-way clutch

A dog clutch with ratcheting one-way clutch includes an axis, a dog clutch ring, a first ring, a second ring, and a plurality of rockers. The dog clutch ring has a plurality of first teeth. The first ring includes a plurality of second teeth, complementary to the first teeth, a first spline for receiving a first shaft, and a plurality of first pockets. The second ring includes a plurality of third teeth, complementary to the first teeth, a second spline for receiving a second shaft, and a plurality of second pockets. The plurality of rockers is disposed in a one of the plurality of first pockets or the plurality of second pockets for selectively engaging with the other one of the plurality of first pockets or the plurality of second pockets to prevent rotation of the first ring relative to the second ring in only one rotational direction.

Modular viscous fan clutch system
11624410 · 2023-04-11 · ·

A viscous clutch head may be replaced by selecting a viscous clutch head and a mount adapter. The viscous clutch head and the mount adapter may be selected from a group of universal modular fan drives and from a group of mount adapters. The mount adapter of a threaded type or a flange and bolt type may be selected. Depending on the viscous clutch head to be replaced, a fan adapter and/or a pilot adapter may also be selected from a group of fan adapters and from a group of pilot adapters. Accordingly, a range of models of viscous fan clutch systems may be replaced by using a limited number of parts. These parts may be stored on a tool cart. As different models of viscous fan clutch systems may be replaced using a limited number of parts, the in-stock inventory of replacement parts may be reduced.

POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING THE SAME
20220316534 · 2022-10-06 ·

A power transmission system is provided, which includes a biasing member configured to bias a second power-transmission member in a rotational direction with respect to a first power-transmission member by a spline part of the biasing member being engaged with a spline part of the second power-transmission member while the biasing member is locked by the first power-transmission member and a spring part thereof is in a first elastically displaced state, and a temporarily fixing member having a temporarily fixing part which temporarily fixes the biasing member to the first power-transmission member in a second elastically displaced state with greater elastic displacement than in the first state. The second power-transmission member is provided, on a first axial side of the spline part, with a canceling part configured to cancel the temporary fixing of the biasing member to the first power-transmission member by the temporarily fixing part.

Double clutch unit in a transmission

A double clutch unit for a transmission, having an outer clutch pack and an inner clutch pack each having a clutch pack input and a clutch pack output, wherein a clutch unit input hub rotationally fixed to the outer clutch pack input side and the inner clutch pack input side, a clutch unit inner output hub attached in fixed rotational relation to the outer clutch pack output side, a clutch unit outer output hub attached in fixed rotational relation to an inner clutch pack output side, and an oil distributor rotationally fixed to the inner clutch pack input side, are axially slidable relative to a stator, and a spring-loaded bolt is attached to the engine side of a clutch unit inner power output shaft maintaining the inner output hub, clutch unit outer output hub and oil distributor in axial alignment with respect to the stator.

SHIFTING DEVICE
20230145280 · 2023-05-11 ·

A shifting device for a drivetrain of a motor vehicle, includes a housing which a first and a second drive shaft are rotatably mounted. The first and second drive shafts are arranged coaxially to one another such that they have a common axis of rotation. The shifting device also includes a shiftable clutch device which is arranged between the first and the second drive shaft. The clutch device has an open shift position in which the first drive shaft is freely rotatable with respect to the second drive shaft, and the clutch device has a closed shift position in which the first drive shaft is connected non-rotatably by the clutch device to the second drive shaft. A control element is displaceable in the direction of the axis of rotation of the drive shafts and, depending on its displacement position, shifts the clutch device to the open or closed shift position. The control element is formed by a sliding sleeve which surrounds at least one of the two drive shafts, and a gear element is provided on an outer circumference of the sliding sleeve.

POWER TRANSMISSION APPARATUS
20230145318 · 2023-05-11 ·

In a power transmission apparatus, a centrifugal clutch includes a holder, a press, and springs to urge masses from a radially outer position to a radially inner position. The masses are each housed in an associated one of housing portions arranged in a circumferential direction of the holder such that the masses are radially movable. More than one spring is provided in the circumferential direction between an inner peripheral wall surface of each of the housing portions and an associated one of the masses to urge the associated mass from the radially outer position to the radially inner position.

Locking coupling for rotating assembly
11655855 · 2023-05-23 · ·

A coupling is provided that includes a shaft, a hub, a retainer and a fastener. The shaft includes a plurality of shaft splines. The shaft splines are arranged circumferentially about an exterior of the shaft. The hub includes a plurality of hub splines, a hub bore and a hub fastener aperture. The hub splines are arranged circumferentially about the hub bore. The hub splines are mated with the shaft splines. The shaft is within the hub bore. The retainer includes a plurality of retainer splines, a retainer bore and a retainer fastener aperture. The retainer splines are arranged circumferentially about the retainer bore. A first of the retainer splines circumferentially overlaps and is axially next to a first of the shaft splines. The shaft is within the retainer bore. The fastener is within the hub fastener aperture and the retainer fastener aperture. The fastener connects the retainer to the hub.