Rotary shafts – gudgeons – housings – and flexible couplings for ro – Torque transmitted via flexible element – Element is tube with slot through wall to provide flexibility
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-29
2006-08-29
Binda, Greg (Department: 3679)
Rotary shafts, gudgeons, housings, and flexible couplings for ro
Torque transmitted via flexible element
Element is tube with slot through wall to provide flexibility
C029S896900, C267S181000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07097564
ABSTRACT:
A flexible coupling for flexibly joining two shafts includes a unitary solid cylindrical body having a first end, a second end, and therebetween having one or more longitudinally spaced circular disks spaced by asymmetric slot pairs; a radially offset beam formed between a first slot and a second slot of each asymmetric slot pair, such that the radially offset beam is parallel to a diameter of the cylindrical body and is offset from the parallel diameter by a radial beam offset distance R1; each beam being rotationally offset from longitudinally adjacent beams; and hub means at the first end for coaxially connecting the first end to a first one of the two shafts, and hub means at the second end for coaxially connecting the second end to a second one of the two shafts.
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Binda Greg
Rino Mechanical Components, Inc.
Stoll Robert S.
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