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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2004
John R. Rice, Chesterfield, MI (US);
Michael A. Ciavaglia, Dearborn, MI (US);
Joseph M. Johnson, Huntington Woods, MI (US);
John R. Rice, Chesterfield, MI (US);
Michael A. Ciavaglia, Dearborn, MI (US);
Joseph M. Johnson, Huntington Woods, MI (US);
Delphi Technologies, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
A flexible drive member attachment is connected to a flexible drive member by a yoke having side walls connected by a bridge wall that has a stud connecting the attachment to a driven member. A coupler is disposed between the side walls and attached to the bridge wall. The coupler has teeth that extend through respective windows of the flexible drive member. An outer shoe engages each side wall of the yoke. Each outer shoe has a forward flange engaging the bridge wall and a rearward flange that extends through a rearward slot of the associated side wall. Each rearward flange has fingers that extend behind the flexible drive member and through spaces between adjacent teeth of the coupler and into sockets of the other shoe. The flexible drive member may be a drive chain or a drive belt having spaced windows.