Tolerance ring, assembly, and method of making and using the same
AssigneeSaint-Gobain Performance Plastics Rencol Limited
InventorThomas Childs
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Abstract
A tolerance ring (200) including a tolerance ring sidewall (404) including a plurality of waves (or bridges) (452) extending at least one of radially inward or outward and having first (416) and second end portions (420) terminating at first (417) and second ends (421), respectively, where the tolerance ring has a first radius of curvature Ri, measured at a point bisecting a circumferential length, LC, of the tolerance ring sidewall, and a second radius of curvature, R2, measured along one of the first and second end portions of the tolerance ring sidewall, and wherein at least one of: 1) Ri is greater than R2, or 2) wherein Ri is negative and R2 is positive.
Claims13
A tolerance ring comprising:
- a tolerance ring sidewall comprising a plurality of waves extending at least one of radially inward or outward and having first and second end portions terminating at first and second ends, respectively, wherein the tolerance ring has a first radius of curvature, R1, measured at a point bisecting a circumferential length, Lc, of the tolerance ring sidewall, and a second radius of curvature, R2, measured along one of the first and second end portions of the tolerance ring sidewall, and wherein at least one of:
- 1) R1 is greater than R2, or 2) wherein R1 is negative and R2 is positive.
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