Divided flywheel
AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsGunter Worner, Ernst Tscheplak, Franz Moser
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Abstract
Divided flywheel arrangements are disclosed with a spring arrangement, and preferably also a slip clutch arrangement, accommodated in a lubricant bath, which is formed by an annular space limited radially outwards only by parts which are stationary relative to one another. Centrifugal forces acting on the lubricant cannot therefore force the lubricant against seals between mutually movable parts. Certain disclosed arrangements do not accommodate these parts in a lubricant bath.
Claims4
A divided flywheel with at least two mutually rotatable mass elements which are flexibly drive-coupled to one another by a spring arrangement and non-positively by a slip clutch arrangement;
- the slip clutch arrangement being connected in series with the spring arrangement;
- the spring arrangement having compression springs arranged tangentially to the flywheel axis;
- the compression springs being accommodated in windows of three axially aligned discs;
- the center disc being non-rotatable with respect to one mass element and attached thereto;
- the other two discs being fixedly held at ring-shaped wall parts which tightly enclose the spring arrangement axially and radially on the outside in a U-shape;
- the ring-shaped parts having radially inside edges, which define the ends of the U-shape and are connected with sealing means for sealing the ring-shaped parts at a hub area of the one mass element to form an annular chamber enclosing the spring arrangement;
- the annular chamber being filled with a lubricant;
- a ring disc being arranged at the wall parts and radially outside the annular chamber;
- and wherein
- the ring disc is arranged as part of the slip clutch arrangement, which is located radially between the other mass element and the wall parts outside the annular chamber.
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