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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2015
Applicant:

Schaeffler Technologies Ag & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach, DE;

Inventors:

Gregory Cowen, Windsor, CA;

Ryan Duffy, Royal Oak, MI (US);

Lucian Botez, Novi, MI (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 7/08 (2013.01); F16H 2007/0806 (2013.01); F16H 2007/0872 (2013.01); F16H 2007/0893 (2013.01);
Abstract

A compliant tensioner arm assembly including an arm, an elastically deformable body disposed on a surface of the arm, and a sliding surface disposed on the elastically deformable body is disclosed. The elastically deformable body allows the sliding surface to yield to a load condition of the sliding surface so that the sliding surface yields to the load condition.


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