Title:
PLANETARY GEAR CARRIER WITH COMPLIANCE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2018044673
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a planetary gear assembly having a carrier with compliance to reduce mechanical tolerances of ring gears during meshing engagement of the ring gears with the planetary gears.SOLUTION: A plurality of rotatable planetary gears (36a, 36b) can be interposed between a split ring gear and a sun gear (28). An output-side ring gear portion (34) can have a different number of teeth than a drive-side ring gear portion (32) by a value corresponding to a multiple of the number of planetary gears. A compliant planetary gear carrier (40, 140) can support the planetary gears allowing variance of a normally equidistant distance between separate spaced rotational axes of at least two of the plurality of planetary gears to selectively compensate for mechanical tolerances of the drive-side ring gear portion and the output-side ring gear portion of the split ring gear.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
Inventors:
CHRISTOPHER J PLUTA
MICHAEL MARSH
MICHAEL MARSH
Application Number:
JP2017173698A
Publication Date:
March 22, 2018
Filing Date:
September 11, 2017
Export Citation:
Assignee:
BORGWARNER INC
International Classes:
F16H1/28; F01L1/352; F16H55/18
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Shinji Oga
Hiroyuki Hyakumoto
Hiroyuki Hyakumoto
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