Gearbox for adjustment devices, especially in motor vehicles
AssigneeIMS Gear GmbH
InventorsStefan Hoch, Stéphane Birker, Michael Woehrle
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Abstract
The invention involves a gearbox, especially for adjustment devices in motor vehicles, with a plastic worm drive. The invention provides that the worm drive has an encircling, circular flat contact surface perpendicular to the worm axle and a number of removal pockets in the form of recesses that are interposed axially between contact surface and the worm axle and at the same time arranged in a level recessed to the level of contact surface, whereby an encircling bevel is formed in the transition area from level of removal pockets to the level of the circular contact surface.
Claims14
A gearbox, comprising:
- a one-part worm drive made entirely from plastic;
- a circular, flat contact surface circling perpendicular to a worm axle and at least seven removal pockets attached axially to the worm drive between the contact surface and the worm axle and extending into a level in an interior of the worm drive below a level of the contact surface;
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- an encircling bevel capping a transition area from the level of the interior of the worm drive to the level of the contact surface, the removal pockets define a plurality of bars each including axial top surfaces, wherein the transition area axially overlaps the axial top surfaces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.