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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bernard Poulin, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, FR;
Assignee:
GKN Automotive AG, Lohmar, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
464111 ; 464124 ;
Abstract
An axially fixed homokinetic tripod joint for high-speed motor vehicle transmission has a tube (2) constituting a transmission shaft connected to a sleeve (26) in which extends a stem (6) provided at its end with a tripod element (10) cooperative with an adapted barrel (20) carried by a complementary transmission shaft. The sleeve (26) has at its free end three centering lugs (34A) which have an outer spherical surface and which cooperate with a spherical central cavity in the barrel (20) for providing an axially fixed and articulated assembly of the joint.