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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Rudolf Polster, Balersdorf, DE;
Werner Schmidt, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Assignee:
Ina Waelzlager Schaeffler OHG, Herzogenaurach, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H / ; F16C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
474101 ; 384222 ; 474136 ;
Abstract
A tensioning eye for use in a tensioner for a traction drive, in particular a belt drive, in an internal combustion engine, includes a fastening sleeve, a bushing, and an elastic ring circumscribing the bushing for securing the bushing in a bore of the fastening sleeve. The elastic ring has opposite ends formed with radially outwardly directed flanges which are spaced from opposing end faces of the fastening sleeve and define an outer diameter which is greater than a greatest inner diameter of the recess so as to form a radial overlap.