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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2022
Schaeffler Technologies Ag & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Robert Schieck, Nuremberg, DE;
Thomas Riedel, Erlangen, DE;
Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Abstract
An oil drip pan for rotationally fixed placement onto a shaft, which is rotatable about an axis, includes a pan bottom which extends in an axial direction, is closed on the circumference, and from which two pan walls extend radially inwards towards the axis. A channel is defined by the pan bottom and the two pan walls. The channel is arranged to, when the shaft rotates, receive hydraulic fluid. At least portions of the pan bottom have surface structures extending in the axial direction and protruding inwards in a radial direction out of the pan bottom. The surface structures are configured such that the hydraulic fluid flows over the surface structures in a circumferential direction when the shaft rotates, and solid particles from the hydraulic fluid are deposited in pan pockets defined by circumferentially adjacent surface structures.