Rotary shafts, gudgeons, housings, and flexible couplings for rotary shafts inventions 04/08

20080096674 - Drive train for vehicles: A drive train for vehicles is provided, having an internal-combustion engine, to which a flange of a transmission housing is flangedly connected. A crankshaft of the internal-combustion engine is connected by way of an intermediate element with a drive flange of a torque converter of the transmission arranged in the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080096675 - Torque transmission apparatus: An apparatus for transmitting torque from a driving unit to a driven unit, comprising the first unit, the second unit and a plurality of torque transmission units. The first unit serves as the driving unit, which is rotatable around a central axis thereof. The second unit serving as the driven... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080096676 - Constant velocity joint: A constant velocity joint, wherein the tilt angle of a first trunnion relative to a plane crossing perpendicularly to the axis of a second shaft is set to be different from the tilt angle of a second trunnion and the tilt angle of a third trunnion. The tilt angle of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080096677 - Weld yoke assembly: A yoke assembly for a vehicle driveline includes a first component and a second component that are welded together. The first component comprises a yoke with an internal pilot surface. The second component comprises a tube or shaft having an external surface that abuts against the internal pilot surface. A... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080096678 - Fixed type constant velocity joint: A fixed type constant velocity joint comprising an outer ring (1), an inner ring (2), torque transmitting balls (3), a cage (4), and a preloading mechanism in which either a pressing section for axially applying an elastic pressing force or a receiving section for receiving the pressing force from the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080090664 - Slip clutch: A slip clutch acts between a shaft and a housing. The slip clutch includes an oil reservoir within the housing and one or more slipping surfaces disposed in the oil reservoir that are keyed to the shaft and possibly alternately to the housing. The slipping surfaces may include stacked plates... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080090665 - Member with inner teeth and method of producing the same: Grooves as ball rolling grooves are formed in a side peripheral wall of a preparatory formed body that is to be an inner member. A recess opened so as to be continuous to curved bottom sections of the grooves, which face a through-hole, is formed in one end surface of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080085776 - Homokinetic displacement joint: The invention relates to a homokinetic displacement joint for longitudinal shafts of motor vehicles, consisting of an outer and inner joint body having ball raceways, a cage between the joint bodies, and balls provided in the individual pairs of ball raceways. The balls are guided in the cage and the... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.c.

20080081702 - Variable valve timing controller for internal combustion engine: A motor current (driving current of motor) is estimated based on a target motor speed, an actual motor speed, and an engine speed. When the estimated motor current exceeds the upper limit value equivalent to a heat generation limiting current, the motor current is restricted by restricting a variation (motor... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080081703 - Universal joint: A universal joint includes a spider, first and second yokes drivingly interconnected by the spider, a plurality of bearing cups and a plurality of retaining members. The first yoke includes spaced apart arms with apertures extending through each arm. The apertures are coaxially aligned with one another and include a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080081704 - Cross groove type constant velocity joint: A cross groove type constant velocity joint 10 comprises a cuplike outer race 11, an inner race 12, plural balls 13 and a cage 14. The outer race 11 has plural outer grooves 11a twisting about a rotational axis of the outer race 11 on its inner surface. The outer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.