Rotary shafts – gudgeons – housings – and flexible couplings for ro – Torque transmitted via flexible element – With stationary housing
Patent
1993-04-28
1995-03-14
Stodola, Daniel P.
Rotary shafts, gudgeons, housings, and flexible couplings for ro
Torque transmitted via flexible element
With stationary housing
F16C 102
Patent
active
053972708
ABSTRACT:
A flexible drive cable assembly includes a flexible elongated outer sheath enclosing a flexible elongated inner drive shaft. The drive shaft is connected to a driving element, such as a motor at one end, and to a driven element, such as a transmission at the opposite end. The flexible outer sheath is connected to the housing of the driving element at one end, and to the housing of the driven element at the opposite end, such that the outer sheath is held stationary in the longitudinal direction with respect to the inner drive shaft and the two housings. The outer sheath is connected to the housing by an end fitting. The end fitting includes an elongated connector extending outwardly from the housing to an outer end. The connector has a longitudinally extending aperture for passage of a coupling end of the inner drive shaft for connection to the element disposed within the housing. The connector also includes at least one radially extending projection for engaging an inner surface of the outer sheath to hold the outer sheath stationary in the longitudinal direction with respect to the housing.
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Carman Anthony K.
Pipp, Jr. Walter B.
Dunn Eileen A.
ITT Corporation
Lewis J. Gordon
Seitter Robert P.
Stodola Daniel P.
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