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AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorsManuel Seubert, Ralph Schimpf, Marián Cintula, Michal Žácek, Martin Capicík
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A planet carrier assembly includes a rotational axis, a carrier and a carrier flange. The carrier has circumferentially spaced first driver elements formed thereon and the carrier flange has circumferentially spaced second driver elements formed thereon. The second driver elements are interconnected with the first driver elements at common contact areas in an interlocking manner. The carrier flange is axially secured to the carrier in an axial direction by plastically deformed material at the common contact areas. In an example embodiment, the plastically deformed material is displaced from the first driver elements or the second driver elements.
A planet carrier assembly comprising:
A planet carrier assembly having at least one carrier flange and a carrier, wherein the carrier flange is arranged to be concentric to a rotational axis of the planet carrier assembly, wherein first driver elements of the carrier formed on the carrier and second driver elements of the carrier flange formed on the carrier flange in opposite circumferential directions around the rotational axis are interconnected in an interlocking manner, wherein the carrier flange and the carrier are axially secured to one another in the same direction as the rotational axis, wherein the carrier flange and the carrier engage in one another in an interlocking manner in the circumferential directions around the rotational axis at common contact areas in the circumferential directions, and are non-detachably interconnected, and wherein the common contact areas axially secure the carrier flange and the carrier with material which is plastically displaced by embossing, creating a depression into at least one of the driver elements.
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