IP Library Granted Patent US 10,113,596
Granted Patent B2
US 10,113,596 · App. 15/300,701 · Granted Oct 30, 2018

Power transmission device

Inventors: Hiroshi Nakajima (Kariya, JP); Youhei Kushida (Kariya, JP); Kiyomi Okuda (Kariya, JP); Akira Kishibuchi (Kariya, JP); Toshihiro Hayashi (Kariya, JP)
Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
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Patent No.
US 10,113,596
App. No.
15/300,701
Granted
Oct 30, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A power transmission device that transmits a rotational driving force outputted from a driving source to a target device to be driven includes: a driving rotor rotated by the rotational driving force; a driven rotor that rotates with a rotary shaft of the target device; and a connection member. The connection member has a plate shape extending perpendicular to the rotary shaft. The connection member is connected at least one of the driving rotor and the driven rotor, and is capable of connecting the driving rotor and the driven rotor to each other. The connection member has a through hole, and the driven rotor has an overlapping portion disposed overlapping with the through hole when viewed in the axial direction of the rotary shaft.

Claims (25)

1. A power transmission device that transmits a rotational driving force outputted from a driving source to a target device to be driven, the power transmission device comprising:

a driving rotor rotated by the rotational driving force;

a driven rotor rotated with a rotary shaft of the target device;

an electromagnet that generates an electromagnetic force connecting the driven rotor and the driving rotor; and

a buffer member that dampens a shock caused when the driven rotor and the driving rotor are connected to each other, wherein:

the drive rotor has

an armature connected to the driving rotor by the electromagnetic force, and

a plate that applies a load to the armature in an axial direction of the rotary shaft,

the armature has a driven-side through hole passing through the armature in an axial direction of the rotary shaft;

the plate has a plate-side through hole passing through the plate in the axial direction of the rotary shaft; and

the buffer member has an overlapping portion disposed overlapping with the driven-side through hole when viewed in the axial direction of the rotary shaft in a state where the overlapping portion extends over an entire region of the plate-side through hole and covers the plate-side through hole.

2. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein

the buffer member is made of rubber.

3. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein

the driven rotor includes a break portion that breaks when a torque transmitted from the driving source to the target device is larger than or equal to a predetermined reference torque, to block transmission of the rotational driving force from the driving source to the target device.

4. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the driving source is an internal combustion engine; and

the target device is a compressor.

5. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein:

a distance between the plate and the inner hub in the axial direction is smaller than a thickness of the inner hub in the axial direction.

6. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein

the buffer member includes a flat portion and a thickened portion having a thickness greater than a thickness of the flat portion in the axial direction of the rotary shaft.

7. The power transmission device according to claim 6 , wherein the overlapping portion is the flat portion.

8. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein the buffer member is an elastically-deformable rubber material.

9. The power transmission device according to claim 8 , wherein the elastically-deformable rubber material is an ethylene-propylene-dien rubber.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 29, 2016
From: NAKAJIMA, HIROSHI; KUSHIDA, YOUHEI; OKUDA, KIYOMI; KISHIBUCHI, AKIRA; HAYASHI, TOSHIHIRO
To: DENSO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039899/0385 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-085282 · Apr 17, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170122384A1 · May 4, 2017
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