Fiber-reinforced drive shaft
AssigneeFelten & Guilleaume Carlswerk AG
InventorsHelmut Federmann, Joachim Bausch
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Abstract
A drive shaft, particularly for motor vehicles, has a tubular shaft part of a fiber reinforced synthetic plastic material, two end pieces each associated with respective one of the end portions of the shaft and having sleeve-shaped and ring-shaped sections, and a plurality of anchoring pins arranged on the end pieces on the region between the sleeve-shaped and the ring-shaped section at circumferentially spaced locations.
Claims17
A drive shaft, particularly for motor vehicles, comprising a tubular shaft part having an axis and two axially spaced end portions and being composed of a fiber-reinforced synthetic plastic material;
- two end pieces each associated with a respective one of said end portions of said shaft and having a sleeve-shaped section extending into and surrounded by a respective one of said end portions of said shaft part, and a ring-shaped section extending axially outwardly from said sleeve-shaped section and having an inner end face which forms a stop and a protective end abutment for a respective one of said end portions of said shaft part, said end pieces being constituted of metal;
- and means for connecting said end pieces with said shaft part, said connecting means including a plurality of anchoring members provided in each of said end pieces, said anchoring members being arranged on said sleeve-shaped section so that they extend substantially radially outwardly at a plurality of circumferentially spaced locations in the vicinity of a transition between said sleeve-shaped section and said ring-shaped section of each of said end pieces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.