IP Library Granted Patent US 8,365,891
Granted Patent B2
US 8,365,891 · App. 12/607,490 · Granted Feb 5, 2013

Overrunning clutch having a damping device

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Patent No.
US 8,365,891
App. No.
12/607,490
Granted
Feb 5, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A positively locking overrunning clutch, which has a damping device, a drive input element and a drive output element and also at least one blocking element which blocks a rotation of the drive output element relative to the drive input element in a first rotational direction and enables the rotation in the opposite rotational direction. The blocking element has two clamping rings which are pivotable relative to one another and damped with respect to one another.

Claims (18)

1. A positively locking overrunning clutch, comprising:

a damping device;

a drive input element;

a drive output element, the drive input element and the drive output element being rotatable about a rotational axis; and

at least one blocking element which blocks a rotation of the drive output element relative to the drive input element in a first rotational direction and enables a rotation in an opposite rotational direction,

wherein the blocking element has two clamping rings, a first clamping ring and a second clamping ring, which are pivotable relative to one another and damped with respect to one another,

wherein the first clamping ring has a first end extending perpendicular to the rotational axis and a second end, which is bent at a right angle, extending parallel to the rotational axis,

wherein the second clamping ring has a first end extending perpendicular to the rotational axis and a second end extending perpendicular to the rotational axis, and

wherein the second end of first clamping ring and the second end of the second clamping ring are directly contactable with each other.

2. The overrunning clutch of claim 1 , further comprising a spring element which acts between the clamping rings.

3. The overrunning clutch of claim 2 , wherein the spring element extends in a tangential direction of the drive input element and the drive output element.

4. The overrunning clutch of claim 2 , wherein the spring element is a helical spring.

5. The overrunning clutch of claim 1 , wherein the clamping rings have inner sides which face toward one another and between which frictional contact is generated, and structured outer sides which interact with latching structures of the drive input element and the drive output element, respectively.

6. The overrunning clutch of claim 5 , wherein blocking surfaces, which are aligned obliquely relative to the rotational axis of the drive input element and the drive output element, are formed on the outer sides of the clamping rings.

7. The overrunning clutch of claim 6 , wherein a surface normal of the blocking surfaces encloses an angle of more than 60° and less than 80° with the rotational axis.

8. The overrunning clutch of claim 1 , further comprising a spring which presses the clamping rings against one another in an axial direction.

9. The overrunning clutch of claim 1 , further comprising a trailing ring, which is arranged between the second clamping ring and the drive output element and which lifts the second clamping up from the drive output element completely when the drive output element is freewheeling.

10. The overrunning clutch of claim 1 , wherein the clamping rings are formed as sheet-metal parts shaped in a non-cutting process.

Assignments (5)
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 Jul 11, 2012
From: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 028533/0036 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 10, 2012
From: SCHAEFFLER KG
To: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 028523/0790 →