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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2014
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventor:
Ulrich Bertram, Bergheim, DE;
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 15/14 (2006.01); F16F 15/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F 15/30 (2013.01); F16F 15/145 (2013.01); F16F 2226/04 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49231 (2015.01); Y10T 74/2128 (2015.01);
Abstract
An internal combustion engine with a centrifugal pendulum device having a pendulum mass carrier, a moveable coupling element rotatably coupled to the pendulum mass carrier via a first bearing element, the coupling element forming a continuous piece of material, and two pendulum masses spaced away from one another and rotatably coupled to the coupling element via a second bearing element and a third bearing element.