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US 10,539,223 B2Granted
Gear unit having a shaft, a flange part, and a housing part
AssigneeSew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsTobias Schwan, Peter Barton, Jan Knittel, Peter Eller
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Abstract
A gear unit includes a shaft, in particular an input shaft, a flange part and a housing part. The input shaft is supported by bearings in the housing part, and a fan is connected to the shaft in a torsion-proof manner. The housing part includes cooling fins, in particular cooling fins that extend in the axial direction, i.e. in the axis direction of the shaft, the cooling fins have an offset and/or stepped configuration, and the flange part surrounds the offset or stepped region of the cooling fins, in particular in the manner of a housing.
Claims12
A gear unit, comprising:
- a shaft;
- a flange part;
- a housing part;
- at least one bearing provided in the housing part and supporting the shaft;
- and
- a fan connected to the shaft in a torsionally fixed manner;
- wherein the housing part includes stepped cooling fins, and the flange part surrounds a stepped region of the stepped cooling fins
- wherein the flange part includes projections projecting radially outwardly from the flange part, each of the projections corresponding to a respective one of the stepped cooling fins and being disposed at a respective same peripheral angle position as the respective one of the stepped cooling fins.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.