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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2014
Applicant:
The Gates Corporation, Denver, CO (US);
Inventor:
Peter A. Ward, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Assignee:
GATES CORPORATION, Denver, CO (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 9/00 (2006.01); F16H 59/00 (2006.01); F16H 61/00 (2006.01); F16H 63/00 (2006.01); F16D 3/00 (2006.01); F16H 55/14 (2006.01); F16H 55/36 (2006.01); F16H 55/38 (2006.01); F16D 41/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 55/38 (2013.01); F16D 41/206 (2013.01); F16H 55/36 (2013.01); F16H 2055/366 (2013.01);
Abstract
An isolating pulley comprising a hub, a pulley journalled to the hub, a spring carrier journalled to the hub, a torsion spring engaged between the pulley and the spring carrier, a frictionmember engaged between the spring carrier and the hub, the frictionmember comprising a first multiple ribbed surface to engage the spring carrier and a second multiple ribbed surface to engage the hub, and the first multiple ribbed surface and the second multiple ribbed surface extending in a radial direction normal to an axis of rotation A-A.