Ntn Corporation

Shingo Yoshinaga

Minoru Ishijima

A boot for a constant velocity universal joint includes large- and small-diameter mounting portions to be mounted to an outer joint member and a shaft, respectively, with boot clamps, a bellows portion integrally coupling the large- and small-diameter mounting portions to each other, and a cylindrical shoulder portion formed at a bellows portion-side end of the large-diameter-side mounting portion, and connected to the bellows portion through two auxiliary crest portions and one auxiliary trough portion between the auxiliary crest portions. A radial distance between each of the auxiliary crest portions and the auxiliary trough portion is shorter than a radial distance between a crest portion and a trough portion. A diameter passing through a center of the radial distance between each of the auxiliary crest portions and the auxiliary trough portion is larger than a diameter of the cylindrical shoulder portion.

Boot for constant velocity universal joint

A boot band includes a band body, which is obtained by forming a band-plate-like member into a ring shape, and a lever, which is obtained by forming a strip-like member into an arc shape, and is provided on a joined portion of the band body. The boot band fastens a boot for a constant velocity universal joint, which is arranged on an inner side of the band body, by reducing the band body in diameter such that the lever is turned over using an end portion of the lever as a fulcrum and then superposed on the band body, thereby reducing the band body in diameter. The lever includes two chamfered portions formed in a fulcrum-side region of the end portion of the lever along a thickness direction of the lever.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Shingo Yoshinaga