Apparatus for Compensating and/or Transmitting Forces or Torques and Rotational Movements Between Two Components
AssigneeAsturia Automotive Systems AG
InventorsDaniel Lezock, Wolfgang Freund, Juergen Schulze
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Abstract
An apparatus for compensating and/or transmitting forces/torques and rotational movements between two components, particularly for compensating for vehicle movements, in which at least one joint module is situated between the two components, which joint module converts a translational and/or rotational movement of a piston, to which a pressure medium is applied, into a rotational movement of at least one first rotatable shaft or of a first and a second rotatable shaft.
Claims30
An apparatus comprising a ball rod joint module for compensating or transmitting forces, torques or rotational movements between two components, said joint module comprising:
- a piston,
- at least one rotatable shaft,
- a plurality of coupling rods having a ball eat each end thereof interposed between said piston and said rotatable shaft so as to assume a spatial angle with a ball at one end of each coupling rod being connected in an articulated manner to the piston and the ball at the other end of each coupling rod being connected in an articulated manner to the rotatable shaft;
- a pressure chamber adjacent said piston, and
- a pressure medium feed passage leading to said pressure chamber;
- wherein application of a pressure medium through said pressure medium feed passage to said pressure chamber will cause movement of said piston, and the movement of said piston will impart a rotational movement to said rotatable shaft through said coupling rods.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.