Decoupler with torque-limiting feature to protect components thereof

    公开(公告)号:US12117052B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-15

    申请号:US18262343

    申请日:2022-01-20

    IPC分类号: F16D41/20

    CPC分类号: F16D41/206

    摘要: In an aspect, a decoupler is provided and includes an input member, an output member, a one-way clutch and an isolation spring. The one-way clutch receives torque from the input member. The isolation spring is helical, having a first helical end and a second helical end, and has first and second axial ends, and radially outer and inner surfaces. The isolation spring receives torque from the clutch, and transmits torque to the output member. The isolation spring changes size radially based on torque. The input member includes a radial projection that is positioned to frictionally engage one of the radially outer and inner surfaces of the spring when the spring reaches a selected size. Frictional engagement of the radial projection with the spring generates torque transfer directly from the input member to the spring in parallel with torque transfer from the input member to the spring through the clutch.

    Decoupler for endless drive arrangement

    公开(公告)号:US12085135B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-10

    申请号:US18249883

    申请日:2021-11-19

    IPC分类号: F16D7/02 B60K25/02 F16D41/20

    摘要: In an aspect, a decoupler is provided for mounting to a shaft in an accessory drive between an engine and an accessory in a vehicle. The decoupler includes a pulley, a hub, a wrap spring clutch, an isolation spring, and a carrier that is positioned to hold an end of the wrap spring clutch and an end of the isolation spring. The carrier has a slot for holding the end of the wrap spring clutch and wherein the slot has a slot exit through which the wrap spring clutch exits from the slot to wrap around an exterior of the carrier. The carrier has a bridge configured to fail before the end wall fails. This permits the carrier to open radially so as to bring the end wall into abutment with a wall of the pulley reducing stress in the end wall.

    CLUTCH SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING AN ACCESSORY SHAFT

    公开(公告)号:US20220307414A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-29

    申请号:US17638565

    申请日:2020-08-27

    摘要: A clutch system includes a rotary input member, a wrap spring clutch and a rotary output member. The wrap spring clutch has a first end, a second end, and a plurality of coils. The stiffness of the wrap spring clutch is selected such that, when transmitting less than a selected coil engagement torque, the clutch system transmits torque helically from the rotary input member, to the second end, helically through the wrap spring clutch to the first end, and into the rotary output member. When transmitting more than the selected coil engagement torque, the clutch system transmits torque in parallel from the rotary input member, to the second end, helically through the wrap spring clutch to the first end, and into the rotary output member, and from the rotary input member through the coil engagement surface, to the first end, and into the rotary output member.

    ROTARY DEVICE WITH CHAMBERED MEMBER AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20220299099A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-22

    申请号:US17753168

    申请日:2020-08-18

    摘要: In one aspect, a rotary device is provided, and includes a shaft adapter, a chambered member, a seal member and at least one internal torque transfer member. The shaft adapter is connectible to a crankshaft or accessory shaft and defines an axis. The chambered member (e.g. a pulley) is rotatably connected to it, and at least partially encloses a chamber (e.g. for oil), and includes a circumferential portion, a first side wall, and a second side wall which is a separate member from the circumferential portion. One of the circumferential portion and the second side wall has projections thereon, and the other has valleys that mate with the projections with no clearance, so as to be able to transfer a torque of at least 10 Nm into one another without plastic deformation. A seal member is compressed between the second side wall and the circumferential portion.

    NOISE ABATEMENT STRUCTURE FOR SYSTEM FOR REDUCING TORSIONAL VIBRATION ON A ROTARY SHAFT

    公开(公告)号:US20220290735A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-15

    申请号:US17754153

    申请日:2020-09-28

    摘要: In an aspect, a system is provided for reducing torsional vibrations for an engine having a crankshaft. The system includes an isolation device, which includes a shaft adapter that is mounted to the crankshaft, a pulley that is rotatably mounted to the shaft adapter, and at least one isolation spring that resiliently transfers torque between the pulley and the shaft adapter. The system further includes a torsional vibration damper that is mountable to the crankshaft. A noise generation space extends axially between the isolation device and the torsional vibration damper. The system further includes a noise abatement ring that extends axially from one of the isolation device and the torsional vibration damper towards the other of the isolation device and the torsional vibration damper, and at least partially radially encloses at least a portion of the noise generation space.

    ENERGY EFFICIENT A/C COMPRESSOR CLUTCH

    公开(公告)号:US20210018049A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-21

    申请号:US17040860

    申请日:2019-03-26

    IPC分类号: F16D13/76 B60K25/02

    摘要: In an aspect, an automotive air conditioning assembly comprising a scroll compressor and a wrap spring clutch. The wrap spring clutch enables the use of a comparatively smaller pulley (a diameter of at most 85 mm) which comparatively increases the compressor speed and hence cooling capacity at a given engine speed. The clutch requires low power (e.g. less than 5 Watts) for continuous operation.

    Isolator that includes first and second isolation spring arrangement in series

    公开(公告)号:US10794448B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-06

    申请号:US15560098

    申请日:2016-03-21

    发明人: Boris Replete

    摘要: In an aspect, an isolator is provided for isolating a device driven by an engine via an endless drive member. The isolator includes a shaft adapter that is connectable with a shaft of the device and that defines an isolator axis, a rotary drive member that is engageable with the endless drive member, a first isolation spring arrangement that includes a first torsion spring, and that is positioned to transfer torque between the shaft adapter and an intermediate drive member, and a second isolation spring arrangement that is positioned to transfer torque between the intermediate member and the rotary drive member.