Planetary drive assembly and method of connecting a planet carrier to a splined part
AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorsLong Souers, Jordan Geiser, Michael Hodge, Drew Hilty
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Abstract
A drive assembly for a motor vehicle drive train includes a shaft including a plurality of axially extending splines defining an outer circumferential surface, and a planet carrier non-rotatably fixed to the shaft by the axially extending splines. The planet carrier and the shaft are axially constrained with respect to each other by a radially inwardly extending material of the planet carrier axially contacting a radially extending surface of the shaft.
Claims19
A drive assembly for a motor vehicle drive train comprising:
- a shaft including a plurality of axially extending splines defining an outer circumferential surface;
- and
- a planet carrier non-rotatably fixed to the shaft by the axially extending splines, the planet carrier and the shaft being axially constrained with respect to each other by a radially inwardly extending material of the planet carrier axially contacting a radially extending surface of the shaft.
A method of forming a drive assembly for a motor vehicle drive train comprising:
- spline-cutting a planet carrier with axially extending splines defining an outer circumferential surface of a shaft to non-rotatably fix the planet carrier to the shaft;
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- axially constraining the planet carrier and the shaft with respect to each other by forcing a radially inwardly extending material of the planet carrier into axial contact with a radially extending surface of the shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.