Rotary shafts – gudgeons – housings – and flexible couplings for ro – Coupling accommodates drive between members having... – Tripod coupling
Patent
1994-10-24
1996-06-25
Stodola, Daniel P.
Rotary shafts, gudgeons, housings, and flexible couplings for ro
Coupling accommodates drive between members having...
Tripod coupling
464175, 464905, F16D 3205, F16D 384
Patent
active
055295380
ABSTRACT:
A bushing between a big diameter end of a flexible boot and a tulip housing of a constant velocity universal joint. The tulip housing has a plurality of longitudinal drive channels each open at an open end of the tulip housing. Drive bearings on a trunnion on the end of a shaft are bodily shiftable in the drive channels and accommodate stroking and angulation of the shaft relative to the tulip housing. The bushing has an integral boss aligned with the open end of each drive channel. Each boss has a pair of channel segments aligned with planar sides of the drive channel which segments define extensions of the drive channel. The channel extensions receive the drive bearings if the bearings become dislodged from their drive channels during installation of the universal joint on a vehicle. The channel extensions maintain the alignment of the dislodged drive bearings relative to the open ends of the drive channels so that the boot does not need to be unclamped to effect reentry of the drive bearings into the drive channels.
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Devers Richard A.
Farrell Robert C.
Kozlowskik Keith A.
Schulz John F.
Zollinger Donovan J.
Dunn Eileen A.
General Motors Corporation
Schwartz Saul
Stodola Daniel P.
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