Rotary shafts – gudgeons – housings – and flexible couplings for ro – Coupling accommodates drive between members having... – Coupling transmits torque via radially directed pin
Patent
1997-06-03
1998-10-06
Dunn, Eileen A.
Rotary shafts, gudgeons, housings, and flexible couplings for ro
Coupling accommodates drive between members having...
Coupling transmits torque via radially directed pin
464118, 464153, F16D 320
Patent
active
058169261
ABSTRACT:
A compact double Cardan motion universal joint has a substantially cylindrical housing having an input end and an output end, with an input shaft and ball joint and an output shaft and interengaging ball joint, respectively; each ball joint consisting of a substantially spherical ball on the shaft member, a ball seat torsionally fixed in the housing, and pivots for providing articulation of the ball shaft about two orthogonal axes. Interengagement between the ball joints is provided by an interconnection ball joint consisting of a hollow socket on a joining end of one of the spherical ball shaft members of said universal joint, and a spherical ball on a joining end of the other spherical ball shaft member, the interconnection ball joint providing universal pivoting and translating motion at a juncture between interengaging portions of the ball shaft members. Pivoting and translating motion between the interengaging portions of said ball shaft members is limited, such that the input shaft and output shaft maintain substantially equal angles with the housing.
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Lynch Jack
Riccitelli Martin G.
Dunn Eileen A.
Palermo Robert F.
The Torrington Company
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