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AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorsXavier Mehul, Christophe Walliser, Jean-Philippe Dietrich, Eric Moschler, Gabriel Dalstein
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Constant velocity joints are used in vehicles to transmit a torque from the drive train to the driven wheels and at the same time to allow bending movements to allow the vehicle to drive around bends or to dip the chassis relative to the driven wheels. An outer ring of a tripod roller has flanges which retain rollers and retain an inner ring. During assembly, the inner ring is cooled such that its diameter is reduced such that it can be moved into position axially without interference from the flange. Once the parts return to the same temperature, the inner ring and rollers are retained.
A method for assembling a tripod roller, the tripod roller comprising:
A tripod roller having an inner ring and an outer ring, the inner ring and the outer ring being designed as running rings and having a plurality of rolling elements, the rolling elements being arranged in a rolling element space between the running rings, having a first and a second flange, the flanges axially delimiting the rolling element space the flanges each defining a flange diameter, the flanges being assigned to one of the running rings, so that this running ring forms a flange ring and the other running ring forms a thrust ring, the raceway of the thrust ring defining a raceway diameter wherein the flanges are integrally formed on the flange ring and the raceway diameter overlaps both flange diameters such that the running ring between the flanges is held captive in the axial direction.
A method of assembling a constant velocity joint tripod roller, comprising:
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