Rotary shafts – gudgeons – housings – and flexible couplings for ro – Shafting – Nonmetalic shaft or component
Patent
1987-10-23
1988-07-19
Jillions, John M.
Rotary shafts, gudgeons, housings, and flexible couplings for ro
Shafting
Nonmetalic shaft or component
464183, F16C 100
Patent
active
047582049
ABSTRACT:
A transmission system for transmitting essential torque between two locations whose relative positions can change within certain limits, such as between the gearbox and rear axle of an automobile. The system includes a flexible shaft of fibre-reinforced plastics material which connects said locations. The two ends of the shaft are rigidly attached at said locations and the shaft has a sufficiently low Young's modulus in the longitudinal direction and low flexural stiffness to enable positional changes between said locations to be taken up by bending of the shaft. To this end the shaft has the form of a coreless tubular shaft in which the tubular wall comprises a substantially homogenous material with the fibres distributed substantially uniformly over the whole cross-section. The fibres are suitably carbon fibres, forming an angle to the longitudinal direction of the shaft of between .+-.40.degree. and .+-.50.degree., preferably between .+-.43.degree. and .+-.47.degree..
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Fiber Mechanics AB
Jillions John M.
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