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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1999
Eberhard Becker, Hagen, DE;
Thomas Dullmann, Hagen, DE;
Heinz Flaig, Bochum, DE;
Winfried Gievers, Wetter, DE;
Gregor Jansen, Bottrop, DE;
Hans-Hermann Osthoff, Wetter, DE;
Josef Paul Saeftel, Castrop-Rauxel, DE;
Roland Staggl, Wetter, DE;
Jan-Helge Steinkopf, Wetter, DE;
Manfred Stober, Witten, DE;
Mannesmann AG, Dusseldorf, DE;
Abstract
A torque support, especially for wheel blocks, is arranged between a gear unit housing with a drive shaft and a driven unit housing. The torque support includes a plate-shaped base body which is detachably fastened to the gear unit housing with fastening elements. The plate-shaped base plate has at least two fastening locations comprising through openings for fastening the torque support to the driven unit housing. To keep the shearing forces resulting from the torque support and acting on the gear shaft small while the torsional moment is simultaneously absorbed with low play and in such a way that load peaks are damped, a corresponding plastic ring body is inserted into each through-opening in a positive-locking engagement. A side of the plastic ring body facing the driven unit housing has an edge area which widens radially outward forms an elastic disk element arranged between the driven unit housing and the torque support.