IP Library Granted Patent US 7,980,372
Granted Patent B2
US 7,980,372 · App. 11/574,168 · Granted Jul 19, 2011

Device for damping rotary oscillations

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Patent No.
US 7,980,372
App. No.
11/574,168
Granted
Jul 19, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A device for damping rotary oscillations in a drive train with a freewheel clutch ( 27 ) located between a pulley ( 25 ) and a rotor hub ( 26 ) is provided. The hub ( 26 ) is connected to an input shaft of an auxiliary unit, and the pulley ( 25 ) is connected to a crankshaft via a traction means, and the freewheel clutch ( 27 ) has an inner ring ( 34 ), which surrounds the hub ( 26 ) while being fixed thereto, and includes an outer ring ( 35 ), which surrounds the inner ring ( 34 ) with radial play and which is fixed to the pulley ( 25 ). At least one locking element ( 36 ) that is actuated by centrifugal force is provided in the inner ring ( 34 ), and at least one locking receptacle ( 37 ) is provided in the outer ring ( 35 ).

Claims (9)

1. Device for damping rotary oscillations in a drive train, for a starter-generator of a traction drive of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine, comprising a freewheel clutch situated between a generator-freewheel pulley and a hub, the hub is connected to an input shaft of the starter-generator and the generator-freewheel pulley is connected to a crankshaft via a traction element, and the freewheel clutch has an inner ring, which surrounds the hub and which is fixed thereto, and an outer ring, which surrounds the inner ring with radial play and which is fixed to the generator-freewheel pulley, at least one centrifugal force actuated locking element is arranged in the inner ring and at least one locking receptacle is arranged in the outer ring, and the locking elements are constructed as latches, which each have a short lever and a long lever based on a position of a pivot support of the locking element on the inner ring, wherein a spring element acting in a direction of the outer ring is arranged between the inner ring and the short lever, and the short lever is moveable into and out of engagement with corresponding ones of the locking receptacles.

2. Device according to claim 1 , wherein the locking receptacles are arranged one behind the other on the outer ring and the locking elements are arranged one behind the other on the inner ring in a circumferential direction with uniform spacing.

3. Device according to claim 1 , wherein all of the locking elements are arranged in the locking receptacles in a rest state.

4. Device according to claim 1 , wherein the device for damping rotary oscillations is arranged in a starter generator drive.

5. Device according to claim 1 , wherein the latches have an additional mass located on the long lever.

6. Device according to claim 1 , wherein a projection limiting a path of the long lever is arranged on a radially outward side of the long lever on the inner ring.

7. Device according to claim 1 , wherein a projection limiting a path of the short lever is arranged on a radially inward side of the short lever on the inner ring.

8. Device according to claim 1 , wherein the locking receptacles are constructed as teeth arranged uniformly on an inner periphery of the outer ring.

9. Device according to claim 8 , wherein a number of the teeth is a whole-number multiple of a number of the locking elements.

Assignments (6)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE PROPERTY NUMBERS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 037732 FRAME 0347. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE APP. NO. 14/553248 SHOULD BE APP. NO. 14/553258. Recorded Oct 11, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 040404/0530 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG; SCHAEFFLER VERWALTUNGS 5 GMBH
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037732/0228 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 5, 2016
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 037732/0347 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 12, 2012
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
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CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 18, 2011
From: SCHAEFFLER KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 025980/0696 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 26, 2007
From: WIESNETH, BERNHARD; HOCHMUTH, HARALD; ZERNICKEL, ALEXANDER; WILHELM, SIGURD
To: SCHAEFFLER KG
Reel/Frame 019480/0491 →