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US 8,574,084 B2Granted
Vehicle-use propeller shaft
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakayuki Abe
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Abstract
A vehicle-use propeller shaft includes a yoke having four arm portions to disposed at equal intervals in the circumferential direction, each arm portion extending outward in the radial direction. One pair of arm portions and that extend in opposite directions and the other pair of arm portions and that extend in opposite directions have mutually different shapes.
Claims8
A vehicle-use propeller shaft comprising:
- a yoke having an even number, greater than or equal to four, of arm portions disposed at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the propeller shaft, each arm portion extending outward in a radial direction,
- wherein the yoke and the arm portions are integrally formed, and
- wherein any one pair of arm portions that extend in opposite directions and another pair of arm portions that extend in opposite directions have mutually different shapes.
A vehicle-use propeller shaft comprising:
- a yoke having an even number, greater than or equal to four, of arm portions disposed at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the propeller shaft, each arm portion extending outward in a radial direction,
- wherein the yoke and the arm portions are integrally formed, and
- wherein any one pair of arm portions that extend in opposite directions and another pair of arm portions that extend in opposite directions have mutually different flexural rigidities in a thickness direction.
A vehicle-use propeller shaft comprising:
- a yoke having an even number, greater than or equal to four, of arm portions disposed at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the propeller shaft, each arm portion extending outward in a radial direction,
- wherein the yoke and the arm portions are integrally formed, and
- wherein any one pair of arm portions that extend in opposite directions and another pair of arm portions that extend in opposite directions have mutually different masses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.