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US 8,794,097 B2Granted
Component with inner and outer teeth and method for manufacturing the component
AssigneeZF Friedrichshafen AG
InventorsTobias Buechner, Christian Bauer, Wolfgang Mueller, Peter Hoehne, Klemens Adamski, Martin Meyer
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Abstract
A component with inner teeth (3) and outer teeth (6). The component (7) comprising a basic body (2) provided with the inner teeth (3) and a sheet component (5) provided with the outer teeth (6). The sheet component (5) is connected to the basic body (2), during the manufacturing process, by positive interlock in both the tangential and radial directions.
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A component comprising:
- a basic body (2) provided with radially inwardly facing inner basic body teeth (3) along an inner circumference of the basic body (2) and a radially outwardly facing driving tooth array (4, 4a) along an outer circumference of the basic body (2),
- a sheet component (5) provided with a driving profile (6) having radially outwardly facing outer teeth and radially inwardly facing inner teeth (6a), and the driving profile substantially entirely encases an outer circumference of the basic body (2);
- the sheet component (5) being connected to the basic body (2), via the outwardly facing array engaging with the driving profile, by positive interlock in both a tangential direction and a radial direction;
- the sheet component (5) being mechanically connected to the basic body (2) by deformation of the driving profile
- the driving tooth array (4, 4a) at least partially engages with the driving profile (6);
- the driving tooth array (4) is formed by basic body outer teeth (4a), and each basic body outer tooth has at least one of a back-tapered area and an undercut area (8, 9);
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- the driving profile (6) forms a dovetail shade in an area of a tip of a radially inner projection (6c′, 6d, 6e) thereof, the driving profile forms a continuous unitary covering along a side of a first basic body outer tooth, in a first undercut area, across a bottom adjacent to both the first basic body outer tooth and a second basic body outer tooth, in a second undercut area, and along a side of the second basic body outer tooth.
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A component comprising:
- a basic body provided with radially inward facing inner teeth along a radially inner circumference of the basic body and radially outward facing outer teeth located about a circumference of the basic body;
- a disc carrier provided with a driving profile (6) having radially outward facing outer teeth and inward facing teeth, and the driving profile mating with the radially outward facing outer teeth of the basic body;
- the disc carrier being connected to the basic body at least by positive interlock of the radially outward facing outer teeth of the basic body with the radially inward facing teeth of the driving profile of the disc carrier;
- the basic body (2) comprising a machined metal;
- a ring gear carrier (1) with a central through hole being connected to the base body (2), via a fixing flange (1b), such that the ring gear carrier (1) being mechanically axially fixed with respect to the base body (2), but freely rotatable with respect to the base body (2), and the central through hole being radially interior to the radially inward facing teeth of the basic body;
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- each radially outward facing tooth of the basic body having at least one of a back-tapered area and an undercut area (8, 9).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.