Daimler Chrysler Ag

Daimler-Benz Ag

Wolfgang Niechoj

G&uuml;nter W&ouml;rner

Andreas Kollmann

Heinz Koch

Claus-Christian Alt

Rolf Schr&ouml;der

Stefan Weniger

Felix Deffner

J&uuml;rgen Henkel

Theodor Grossmann

Olaf Rindfleisch

Rudolf Gobel

Peter M&uuml;nich

In an arrangement of a running roller on a coupling journal of a coupling half of a moveable shaft coupling, a radial rolling bearing, the inner ring of which is connected to the coupling journal by a ball joint, is inserted into the running roller. In order to maintain an additional degree of freedom for the relative movements of the coupling journal in relation to the complementary coupling half in the directions perpendicular to the central axis of the latter, either the running face of the running roller is configured cylindrically or the rolling bearing is configured as a loose bearing.

Arrangement of a running roller on a coupling journal of a moveable shaft coupling

A fold bellows for rotating drive joints is proposed which, although it is equipped with a plurality of folds along its length, admits large bend angles without the flanks of its folds having mutual contract for a physical bellows dimensioning which corresponds approximately to a dimensioning of known fold bellows. For this purpose the fold bellows is equipped with a joint side fold of larger diameter, with a shaft side fold of smaller diameter and with at least one further fold which is provided at an axial interval from the two other folds and is smaller than the shaft side fold in diameter.

Fold bellows for rotating vehicle drive joint

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Weinstadt, Germany

Wolfgang Niechoj