Uni-Cardan Aktiengesellschaft

Sobhy L Girguis

Werner Krude

Peter Harz

In a constant velocity universal joint, an inner joint body is inserted into a hollow outer joint body. A cage is positioned between the inner and outer joint bodies and balls held in windows in the cage extend into grooves formed in the facing surfaces of the inner and outer joint bodies. The centers of the balls are located in a plane which bisects the angle between the axis of the inner and outer joint bodies when the universal joint is bent. The windows in the cage have two boundary surfaces extending parallel to the plane containing the centers of the balls. One of the two boundary surfaces includes a bevelled face extending outwardly to the outer surface of the cage. The prolongation of the bevelled surface intersects the plane containing the centers of the balls.

Constant velocity universal joint

A swivel joint for transmitting torque between a drive shaft and a driven shaft includes an outer joint member having an interior cavity connected with one of the shafts and an inner joint member carried within the cavity connected with the other shaft. A first plurality of ball receiving grooves are formed on the interior wall surface of the cavity and a second plurality of ball receiving grooves equal in number to the first plurality are formed on the exterior surface of the inner joint member. A ball is carried between at least one pair of corresponding ball receiving grooves of the first and second plurality of grooves for transmitting torque between the inner and outer joint members. A cage having circumferentially arranged window recesses is positioned between the inner and outer joint members and the balls are retained in the window recesses. A stop face is provided on the inside of the inner joint member and a cooperating bearing surface is provided on the cage for engaging the stop face at predetermined angular displacements of the inner joint member with respect to the outer joint member.

Swivel joint

A universal joint has a single flexible elastic seal inclosing the trunnion body and in contact with the bearings on the trunnion pins to form seals therewith. The trunnion body is provided with a reservoir in the form of a depression or chamber so that the reservoir is positioned between the trunnion body and the seal. Passages may be provided between the reservoir and seal to extend toward the trunnion pins.

Universal joint

A constant velocity universal joint has an outer joint member with a bore therethrough and an inner joint member within the bore. A plurality of torque transmitting elements, such as balls, are positioned within opposed substantially axially extending grooves formed in the facing surfaces of the inner and outer joint members. The balls are retained in a ball plane by a cage which has an outer spherical surface guided within a correspondingly shaped cylindrical surface in the bore and an inner concave surface which is guided upon a spherical surface of a control body mounted as a separate component on the inner joint member. The centers of the outer and inner cage spherical surfaces are equidistant on opposite sides of the ball plane. The control body has a plurality of control elements positioned between adjacent balls and a plurality of extensions extend from said control elements toward the outer spherical surface of the cage and project beyond the ball plane. The distance between adjacent extensions is less than the diameter of each ball.

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Troisdorf, Germany

Sobhy L Girguis