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US 11,867,241 B2Granted
Freewheeling element
AssigneePaul Müller GmbH & Co. KG Unternehmensbeteiligungen
InventorsManfred Elbacher, Andreas Radke
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Abstract
The invention relates to a freewheeling element comprising a cage, a plurality of clamping bodies, each of the clamping bodies being received in an associated clamping body pocket formed in the cage, and a plurality of rolling bodies, each of the rolling bodies being received in an associated rolling body pocket formed in the cage, the cage having a higher resilience than the clamping bodies and the rolling bodies.
Claims12
A freewheeling element having:
- a cage,
- a plurality of sprags, wherein each of the sprags is accommodated in a respective sprag pocket formed in the cage, and
- a plurality of rolling bodies, wherein each of the rolling bodies is a cylindrical roller accommodated in a respective rolling-body pocket, formed in the cage,
- wherein the cage has a higher level of elasticity than the sprags and the rolling bodies,
- wherein two or more of the plurality of sprag pockets are formed, between adjacent rolling-body pockets, along a circumference of the cage,
- wherein the rolling bodies are accommodated in the rolling-body pockets in a removable latching or snap-fit connection, and
- wherein the sprags are accommodated in the sprag pockets in a removable latching or snap-fit connection.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.