Flexible joint for a power transmission
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKatsuyuki Kobayashi
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Abstract
A flexible joint for a power transmission of the divided type includes an assembly of bolt hole metal sleeves disposed upon the drive side, and bolt hole metal sleeves disposed upon the driven side, arranged alternately upon the circumference of the transmission and linked together by joint elements, characterized in that the compressive rigidity of the joint elements upon which a compressive force acts under acceleration conditions is greater than the compressive rigidity of the joint elements upon which a tensile force acts under acceleration conditions, thereby realizing an optimum design in terms of both strength and economy.
Claims9
A flexible joint of interconnected elements for a power transmission, which comprises:
- a plurality of first joint element means;
- a plurality of second joint element means, each alternately arranged with respect to each of said first joint element means and interconnecting said first joint element means, each of said first joint element means and said second joint element means including adjacent bolt metal collars having elastic means wrapped thereabout and rubber or synthetic resin means disposed interiorly and exteriorly thereof;
- bolt-hole metal sleeves disposed within said collars;
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- means for increasing the compressive rigidity of said first joint element means embedded only within said rubber or synthetic resin means of said first joint element means so as to effectively resist a compressive force acting thereon under acceleration conditions.
A flexible joint of interconnected elements for a power transmission, which comprises:
- a plurality of first joint elements;
- a plurality of second joint elements, each alternately arranged with respect to each of said first joint element means and interconnecting said first joint element means, each of said first joint element means and said second joint element means including adjacent bolt metal collars having elastic means wrapped thereabout and rubber or synthetic means disposed interiorly and exteriorly thereof;
- bolt-hole metal sleeves disposed within said collars;
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- means for increasing the compressive rigidity of said first joint element means so as to effectively resist a compressive force acting thereon under acceleration conditions which comprises elements having a greater width, thickness, and overall size than those structural characteristics of said second joint element means upon which a tensile force acts under acceleration conditions.
A flexible joint of interconnected elements for a power transmission, which comprises:
- a plurality of first joint elements;
- a plurality of second joint elements, each alternately arranged with respect to each of said first joint element means and interconnecting said first joint element means, each of said first joint element means and said second joint element means including adjacent bolt metal collars having elastic means wrapped thereabout and rubber or synthetic means disposed interiorly and exteriorly thereof;
- bolt-hole metal sleeves disposed within said collars;
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- means for increasing the compressive rigidity of said first joint element means so as to effectively resist a compressive force acting thereon under acceleration conditions which comprises elements of a rubber of synthetic resin which is harder than the rubber of synthetic resin constituting said second joint element means upon which a tensile force acts under acceleration conditions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.