Connecting device and method for producing it
AssigneeThyssenkrupp Presta AG
InventorsMichael Brassel, Reinhard Bertsch
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Abstract
The invention relates to a connecting device comprising a joint yoke and a shaft, wherein, in a recess, the joint yoke has a toothing running transversely to a longitudinal axis and the shaft has an elongate toothing. The invention also relates to a method for producing a connecting device of this kind.
Claims10
A connecting device of a drive shaft having two interlocking parts, comprising:
- a joint yoke;
- and
- a shaft configured to be engaged with the joint yoke,
- wherein the joint yoke has a recess for receiving the shaft,
- wherein the joint yoke and the shaft have toothing in a region of a connecting face of the joint yoke and the shaft,
- wherein the toothing of the joint yoke is arranged substantially radially and the toothing of the shaft is arranged substantially axially, and
- wherein the toothing of the joint yoke is a thread.
A method of producing a non-positive and positive shaft-yoke connection, wherein a shaft is substantially concentrically arranged in a recess of a joint yoke and the shaft and the joint yoke are provided with a toothing, the method including:
- providing a thread in a region of a connecting face inside a recess of the joint yoke;
- and
- providing the shaft with toothing running substantially in an axial direction of the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.