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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
May. 22, 2023
Ntn Corporation, Osaka, JP;
NTN CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A plunging-type constant velocity universal joint includes outer and inner joint members having linear track grooves, balls, and a cage accommodating the balls in pockets. Curvature centers of spherical outer and inner peripheral surfaces of the cage are offset toward opposite sides with respect to a joint center. A range between distances of 10 mm towards deep and opening sides from a center portion of a sliding range of the track groove of the outer member in the axial direction is a center range, and a region in which a PCD of the track grooves of the outer member becomes smallest is in the center range. A minimum value of a PCD clearance in the track grooves in the center range is from 0.010 mm to 0.100 mm. A PCD mutual difference of the track grooves of the outer member in the center range is 0.150 mm or less.