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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2012
Applicant:
Brian William Franke, Hamilton, IN (US);
Inventor:
Brian William Franke, Hamilton, IN (US);
Assignee:
EATON CORPORATION, Cleveland, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 15/121 (2006.01); F16F 15/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 15/1206 (2013.01);
Abstract
A planetary gear damper is provided having a ring gear, a plurality of planet gears meshed with the ring gear, and a sun gear meshed with the planet gears. The planetary gear damper provides for torsional damping which has long travel and provides low rate damping.