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US 9,068,608 B2Granted
Isolator decoupler
AssigneeThe Gates Corporation
InventorsAlexander Serkh, Imtiaz Ali, Peter Ward
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Abstract
An isolator decoupler comprising a pulley, a shaft, a bushing slidingly engaged with the pulley and slidingly engaged with the shaft, the pulley journalled to the shaft by a bearing, a one-way clutch fixed to the shaft and engaged with the bushing whereby the bushing rotates in unison with the one-way clutch, a torsion spring engaged between the pulley and the one-way clutch to resiliently couple the pulley to the shaft, and the pulley non-resiliently directly coupleable to the shaft in a temporary predetermined loaded condition.
Claims4
An isolator decoupler comprising:
- a pulley (3);
- a shaft (11);
- a bushing (2) slidingly engaged with the pulley and Slidingly engaged with the shaft;
- the pulley journalled to the shaft by a bearing (8);
- a one-way clutch (7) fixed to the shaft and engaged with the bushing whereby the bushing rotates in unison with the one-way clutch;
- a torsion spring (4) engaged between the pulley and the one-way clutch to resiliently couple the pulley to the shaft;
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- the pulley non-resiliently directly coupleable to the shaft in a temporary predetermined loaded condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.