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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1988
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Carl Heynemann, Taufkirchen, DE;
Otto Richter, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Metzeler Kautschuk GmbH, Munich, DE;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C / ; B60K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
464 96 ; 464181 ;
Abstract
A deformable drive shaft includes drive side and driven side connections and a flexible intermediate section interconnecting the connections, the flexible intermediate section being formed of an alternating sequence of disc-shaped rigid segments and disc-shaped flexible segments, the formed rigid segments having surfaces with complementary funnel-shaped projections and funnel-shaped depressions formed thereon, the funnel-shaped projections of a given formed rigid segment extending through an adjacent flexible segment into adjacent respective funnel-shaped depressions of the next formed rigid segment.