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US 4,674,351 AGranted
Compliant gear
AssigneeSundstrand Corporation
InventorWilliam A. Byrd
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Abstract
A compliant gear which includes an inner hub portion, an outer ring gear portion, and a compliant laminate between the hub portion and the ring gear portion. The laminate includes a rigid laminar shim of generally uniform thickness sandwiched between a pair of elastomer layers of generally uniform thickness. The laminar shim and the elastomer layers extend generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the gear.
Claims19
In a gear system, a gear comprising:
- a gear hub portion;
- a gear power transmitting rim portion;
- and
- a compliant laminate between the gear hub and gear rim portions, the laminate including radial stiffness means for the gear in the form of a rigid laminar shim sandwiched between a pair of elastomer layers.
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A compliant gear, comprising:
- an inner gear hub portion;
- an outer ring gear portion;
- and
- a compliant laminate between the gear hub portion and the ring gear portion, the laminate including radial stiffness means for the gear in the form of a rigid laminar shim of generally uniform thickness sandwiched between a pair of elastomer layers of generally uniform thickness, the elastomer layers being bonded to the laminar shim and to the respective hub portion or ring gear portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.