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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2002
Karl-Heinz Simons, Merzenich, DE;
Thomas Svensson, Cologne, DE;
Visteon Global Technologies Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a mechanical connection for transmitting torque, demonstrating a common longitudinal axis a shaft rotating around the longitudinal axis and a hub coaxial to the shaft, its inside contour surrounding the shaft via a slaving section, wherein in the area of the slaving section, the shaft and the inside contour of the hub comprise of at least one retaining section with out-of-round cross section for transmitting torque. In the region of the slaving section, at least one of the shaft or the hub demonstrates at least two retaining sections angularly displaced to each other around the longitudinal axis.