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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Warren G Bopp, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Assignee:
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D / ; F16D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
464 66 ; 192 / ; 1921061 ; 1921062 ; 464 24 ; 464 97 ;
Abstract
A torsion damping assembly includes a spring or spring assemblies (20 or 108,110) and a viscous damper (22 or 106) adapted to be installed between input and output drives of a vehicle driveline. In one embodiment of the assembly the spring (22) is a torsion shaft. In the other embodiment (100) a housing member or assembly (112) contains the spring assemblies (108,110) and the viscous damper (106). The spring assemblies (108,110) are disposed in parallel relative and each assembly includes a plurality of helical coil springs (136) disposed in series.