Cable drive device of a motor vehicle, window lifter and cable drum
AssigneeBrose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
InventorsThomas Krieger, Lubos Licko, Udo Taubmann, Michael Wendrich
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Abstract
A cable drive device of an adjustment system of a motor vehicle has an actuating drive and a cable drive housing in which a cable drum that is rotatably coupled to the actuating drive and has a traction cable wound thereon is received. The cable drum, for receiving a cable nipple fastened to the traction cable, on at least one end side has a nipple chamber having a chamber opening and mutually spaced apart chamber walls. The nipple chamber on at least one of the chamber walls has a delimiting element. The cable nipple when introduced into the nipple chamber by way of the chamber opening engaging below the delimiting element.
Claims16
A cable drive device of an adjustment system, the cable drive device comprising:
- an actuating drive;
- a cable drive housing;
- a cable drum disposed in said cable drive housing and coupled to said actuating drive and rotatable about a rotation axis and onto said cable drum a traction cable is to be wound, wherein said cable drum for receiving the traction cable containing a drum casing having a helical or spiral cable groove formed therein and said helical or spiral cable groove on at least one end side of said cable drum opens into a nipple chamber for receiving a cable nipple fastened to an end side of the traction cable, wherein:
- said nipple chamber having a chamber opening formed therein as well as chamber walls running in an axial direction and being mutually spaced apart in a radial direction;
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- said nipple chamber on at least one of said chamber walls having a delimiting element, the cable nipple when introduced into said nipple chamber by way of said chamber opening engaging below said delimiting element.
A cable drum, comprising:
- a drum casing having a helical or spiral cable groove formed therein and at least on one drum end side a nipple chamber, said nipple chamber having a chamber opening formed therein as well as chamber walls that are mutually spaced apart, and within said nipple chamber, an oval or teardrop-shaped delimiting element being oriented in a direction of an opposite chamber wall is disposed on at least one of said chamber walls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.