Flex plate and flywheel configuration

Details Flex plate and flywheel configuration Flex plate and flywheel configuration

1998-08-14

2000-03-21

Browne, Lynne H.

Rotary shafts, gudgeons, housings, and flexible couplings for ro

Torque transmitted via flexible element

Element is plate with external edge completely surrounding...

464 68, 192200, F16D 352

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060396512

ABSTRACT:
A flywheel assembly 1 includes a flexible plate 3 and a flywheel 2. The flexible plate 3 has a rigidity in a rotation direction and flexibility in a bending direction, and is coupled at its radially inner portion to a crankshaft 100. An elastic plate body of the flexible plate 3 is provided at its inner periphery with a cylindrical support portion 16 projected away from the crankshaft 100. The flywheel 2 is fixed at its outer peripheral portion to an outer peripheral portion of the flexible plate 3. The flywheel 2 is provided at its inner periphery with a cylindrical portion 13 projected toward the flexible plate 3 and radially overlapping the cylindrical support portion 16.

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