Flap Device

Abstract

A flap device for a motor vehicle comprises a flap housing that can be flowed through by a gas flow; a flap shaft that is rotatably supported about an axis of rotation in the flap housing and that supports a flap for blocking, directing or throttling the gas flow; and an actuating drive for rotating the flap shaft. The actuating drive is in a drive-effective connection with the flap shaft via a coupling, wherein the coupling comprises two separate coupling parts that can be axially plugged into one another and that, in the state plugged into one another, can be brought into engagement with one another in a form-fitting manner with respect to at least one direction of rotation, and wherein the coupling comprises a spring element that is inserted under an axial preload between the coupling parts plugged into one another, wherein the coupling parts have respective locking sections that, on an axial plugging into one another of the coupling parts, can be moved past one another and can be brought into an engaging-behind engagement with respect to at least one axial direction by a mutual rotation of the coupling parts plugged into one another with respect to the axis of rotation.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.