Axle shock-load absorber and guard
AssigneeKNINE Racing Ltd.
InventorsBenjamin Grant Shakal, Wayne Adam Shakal, Jordan Sedivy
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Abstract
A device for reducing axle failures on motorized vehicles that includes a sleeve that wraps around the axle and a separate single pieces or two-piece axle guard that wraps around said sleeve. The present invention allows the torsional flex that the axle manufacturer intended to occur but prohibits the axle from bending and possibly breaking. The present invention also acts as a shock-absorber for the axle by absorbing energy that is being transferred through the axle during normal use. Absorbing this energy increases the life of the axle and drive-train and reduces the risk of failure during use.
Claims11
An axle assembly, comprising:
- an axle shaft including a longitudinal axis and a shaft outer surface;
- a polymeric tubular sleeve surrounding and in contact with a majority of the shaft outer surface of the axle shaft and configured to permit the axle shaft to rotate about the longitudinal axis within the sleeve, the sleeve having a sleeve outer surface;
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- an axle guard surrounding and in contact with a majority of the sleeve outer surface of the sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.