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US 7,114,486 B2Granted
Subunit of a throttle valve housing
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsThomas Hannewald, Stefan Koehler, Roland Lindner
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Abstract
The dividing unit comprises a metal throttle valve shaft and of a plastic throttle valve. The throttle valve shaft is mounted so that it centrally passes through the throttle valve and the maximum acute angle alpha between the longitudinal axis of the throttle valve shaft and another longitudinal axis of the throttle valve ranges from 5 DEG to 25 DEG.
Claims3
A subunit of a throttle valve housing, comprising:
- a metallic throttle valve shaft;
- a plastic throttle valve arranged with respect to the throttle valve shaft to guide the throttle valve shaft centrally through the throttle valve at a maximum acute angle of inclination α between a longitudinal axis of the throttle valve shaft and the throttle valve between 5° and 25°, the throttle valve comprising at least one sleeve arranged to at least partially surround the throttle valve shaft;
- at least one intermediate layer comprising a metallic material, the intermediate layer arranged between the throttle valve shaft and the throttle valve;
- an outwardly circumferential groove in the throttle valve;
- and
- a plastic tolerance ring positioned in the circumferential groove, the plastic tolerance ring including a gap.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.