Dog clutch
AssigneeFpt Industrial S.P.A.
InventorsAlex Marcello, Alessandro Mantovan
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Abstract
A dog clutch comprising a sleeve and a relative crown with respective teeth conformed for engaging each one alternatively to the others wherein, during operation a pulling side for said teeth is defined, that identifies a surface through which the torque is transferred, and wherein, the teeth pulling side or at least the crown and/or the sleeve is conformed so that the relative tooth is tapered from a relative base towards a relative vertex, wherein said pulling side comprises at least three portions of which a first portion is adjacent to said base and a third portion is adjacent to said vertex following a rectilinear path and being approximately parallel to generating line of said crown or sleeve, and having a second portion adjoining said first portion with said third portion.
Claims11
A dog clutch comprising a sleeve (M) and a relative crown (K) with respective teeth (TM1, TM2, TK1, TK2) conformed for engaging each one alternatively to the others and wherein, during operation a pulling side (A) for said teeth is defined, that identifies a surface through which the torque is transferred, and wherein the teeth pulling side (A) or at least the crown and/or the sleeve is conformed so that the relative tooth is tapered from a relative base (BA) towards a relative vertex (VA), wherein said pulling side comprises at least three portions (A1, A2, A3) of which a first portion is adjacent to said base (BA) and a third portion is adjacent to said vertex (VA) both following a rectilinear path and substantially parallel to a generating line (GEN) of said crown or sleeve, and having a second portion (A2) adjoining said first portion with said third portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.