# US 10,502,266 B2 · Torque transmission arrangement > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,502,266 B2 - Document ID: US10502266B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/520,969 - Filed: 2015-10-23 - Published: 2017-11-30 - Granted: 2019-12-10 - Earliest claimed: 2014-10-23 - Assignees: Audi AG - Applicants: Audi AG - Inventors: Michael Buck; Oliver Kleemann - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10502266B2 ## CPC - F16D 1/116: the interengaging parts including a continuous or interrupted circumferential groove in the surface of one of the coupling parts (circlips for retaining hubs on shafts F16B21/18) - F16D 1/104: having retaining means rotating with the coupling and acting only by friction - F16B 21/078: {the socket having a further molded-in or embedded component, e.g. a ring with snap-in teeth molded into it (F16B21/065 takes precedence)} - F16D 2001/103: {the torque is transmitted via splined connections} - F16D: COUPLINGS FOR TRANSMITTING ROTATION; CLUTCHES; BRAKES - F16B: DEVICES FOR FASTENING OR SECURING CONSTRUCTIONAL ELEMENTS OR MACHINE PARTS TOGETHER, e.g. NAILS, BOLTS, CIRCLIPS, CLAMPS, CLIPS OR WEDGES; JOINTS OR JOINTING (couplings for transmitting rotation F16D) ## Abstract A torque transmission arrangement in a motor vehicle drive train, having a radially inner shaft and a radially outer hub, which are joined together in torque-transmitting manner by a plug-in toothed gearing with play, in which the plug-in gearing, and shaft outer teeth cooperate with hub inner teeth. In order to avoid gear teeth clattering, and to provide a freedom from play in the plug-in gearing, a spring element is provided, with which the shaft and can be braced against each other. In order to produce the freedom from play, the hub includes a support portion against which the spring element is supported with a spring force, building up a tilting moment by which the hub can tilt with respect to the shaft in the axial direction. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A torque transmission arrangement in a motor vehicle drive train, comprising: a radially inner shaft having outer teeth; a radially outer hub having inner teeth and an annular support portion comprising an inwardly-facing cylindrical surface adjoining the inner teeth in an axial direction; wherein the shaft outer teeth cooperate with hub inner teeth in a torque-transmitting manner with play, and wherein an annular space is formed between the shaft outer teeth and hub support portion; and a spring element provided within the annular space of the hub support portion, with which the shaft and the hub can be braced against each other in order to avoid gear teeth clattering and to prevent play in the gearing between the inner and outer teeth, the spring element comprising a band-shaped spring washer body having at least one radially-inwardly projecting indentation engaging a tooth gap of the shaft outer teeth, and a resilient radially-outwardly projecting protrusion comprising a spring tongue cut-out from the spring washer body; wherein in order to prevent play in the gearing, the protrusion is supported with a spring force against the hub support portion, building up a tilting moment by which the hub can tilt with respect to the shaft in the axial direction. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The torque transmission arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the hub is shoved by its inner teeth onto a shaft end piece, and the spring element is positioned on a hub end face away from a shaft end face, and/or the spring element is spaced apart from the shaft end face by an axial-lengthwise offset. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The torque transmission arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the hub annular surface is larger in diameter when compared to the hub inner teeth, when compared to its root diameter, and in that the hub inner teeth pass into the annular surface at an annular shoulder with the shoulder surface substantially perpendicular to the axial direction. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The torque transmission arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the spring tongue is V-shaped in cross section with a radially outward spring leg. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The torque transmission arrangement according to claim 1, wherein the spring washer body sits on or is shoved by its inner side onto the shaft outer teeth, or the spring washer body sits or is shoved by its outer side onto the hub support portion. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The torque transmission arrangement according to claim 1, wherein in a mounted state of the connection, the spring washer is positioned in the axial direction between the hub annular shoulder and a collar of the shaft adjacent to the outer teeth of the shaft, which is larger in diameter when compared to the spring washer. ### Claim 7 A torque transmission arrangement in a motor vehicle drive train, comprising: a radially inner shaft having outer teeth; a radially outer hub having inner teeth and an annular support portion comprising an inwardly-facing cylindrical surface adjoining the inner teeth in an axial direction; wherein the shaft outer teeth cooperate with hub inner teeth in a torque-transmitting manner with play, and wherein an annular space is formed between the shaft outer teeth and hub support portion; and a spring element provided within the annular space of the hub support portion, with which the shaft and the hub can be braced against each other in order to avoid gear teeth clattering and to prevent play in the gearing between the inner and outer teeth, the spring element comprising a band-shaped spring washer body having at least one radially-inwardly projecting indentation engaging a tooth gap of the shaft outer teeth, and end regions which overlap each other, in a circumferential direction, so that the overlapped end regions form a resilient radially-outwardly projecting protrusion; wherein in order to prevent play in the gearing, the protrusion is supported with a spring force against the hub support portion, building up a tilting moment by which the hub can tilt with respect to the shaft in the axial direction. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The torque transmission arrangement according to claim 7, wherein the protrusion is a cam-shaped formation of the spring washer body, and the cam-shaped formation is produced by overlapping end regions of the spring washer body.