Rod End Made of Thermoplastic Fiber-Reinforced Plastic
AssigneeAlbany Engineered Composites, Inc.
InventorVolker Schimmelpfennig
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Abstract
The present invention achieves a high mechanical load capacity of a rod end by means of a component loop that passes around a bearing, where the component may be made of continuous-fiber reinforced composite material with thermoplastic matrix and where the continuous-fiber reinforced composite material with thermoplastic matrix may extend into a threaded stem of the rod end, and the component made of continuous-fiber reinforced composite material with thermoplastic matrix may be enclosed by short-fiber reinforced, long-fiber reinforced, or unreinforced thermoplastic. The threaded stem can be implemented with an external or an internal thread.
Claims20
A clevis comprising:
- a first bearing;
- a second bearing;
- a fiber reinforced plastic at least partially looped around the first bearing and the second bearing;
- and
- a stem;
- wherein the fiber reinforced plastic extends into the stem.
A clevis comprising:
- a first bearing;
- a second bearing;
- a fiber reinforced first plastic at least partially looped around the first bearing and the second bearing;
- a stem;
- and
- a ring encircling a portion of the fiber reinforced plastic that extends into the stem.
A clevis comprising:
- a first bearing;
- a second bearing;
- a fiber reinforced first plastic only partially looped around the first bearing and the second bearing;
- a second plastic at least partially encapsulating and directly coupled to the fiber reinforced first plastic;
- a stem;
- and
- a ring encircling a portion of the fiber reinforced plastic that extends into the stem;
- wherein the ring is a continuous-fiber reinforced ring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.