Abstract: A drive arrangement for a drive train of a vehicle is disclosed. In one aspect, the drive arrangement includes at least one transmission element configured to transmit a force and/or a torque and at least one joint. The transmission element and the joint are configured to be connected reversibly in a force transmitting manner and/or in a torque-transmitting manner.

Abstract: A method and a device for fracture splitting a connecting rod and a connecting rod formed therefrom are provided, in which a force exerted on an outer rim of an eye of the connecting rod by a separating tool is generated by an electromagnetic force. The separating tool includes at least two separating members inserted into the eye, and the electromagnetic force is generated by displacing the at least two separating members away from each other inside the eye in response to application of the electromagnetic force. The electromagnetic force may be generated by passing current through coils positioned between the at least two separating members in a manner that causes the coils to repel one another, preferably with a pulse duration of less than 100 microseconds, in order to minimize plastic deformation at the fracture locations.

Abstract: A drive arrangement for a drive train of a vehicle is disclosed. In one aspect, the drive arrangement includes at least one transmission element configured to transmit a force and/or a torque and at least one joint. The transmission element and the joint are configured to be connected reversibly in a force transmitting manner and/or in a torque-transmitting manner.

Abstract: A method and a device for fracture splitting a connecting rod and a connecting rod formed therefrom are provided, in which a force exerted on an outer rim of an eye of the connecting rod by a separating tool is generated by an electromagnetic force. The separating tool includes at least two separating members inserted into the eye, and the electromagnetic force is generated by displacing the at least two separating members away from each other inside the eye in response to application of the electromagnetic force. The electromagnetic force may be generated by passing current through coils positioned between the at least two separating members in a manner that causes the coils to repel one another, preferably with a pulse duration of less than 100 microseconds, in order to minimize plastic deformation at the fracture locations.

Abstract: A method for producing an internal or external part of a torque-transmitting opposed track joint, such as a fixed constant velocity ball joint, in which approximately axially parallel extending track bases of the joint tracks have curvatures which deviate in their axial course from the curvatures of the ball contact lines. The method is characterized in that in a first step a perform with approximately axially parallel extending grooves having lateral flanks is produced, and in a second step the perform is formed into a final joint part whereby the lateral flanks of the grooves are just partially formed to achieve the ball contact lines.

Abstract: A cage for a ball joint, the cage being configured annularly about a longitudinal axis and having an inner surface and an outer surface, two edges delimiting the inner surface and the outer surface and a window, in which the inner surface surrounds an inner space of the cage and two webs laterally adjoin the window. One edge of the cage has an offset relative to the longitudinal axis in relation to one of the two webs at the height of the window. A ball joint with a corresponding cage is also disclosed.

Abstract: An axle assembly comprising a differential provided with a drive wheel comprising two pairs of bevel gears disposed in a two-part housing, one of the pairs of bevel gears being a pair of axle bevel gears and the other pair of bevel gears being a pair of compensating bevel gears.

Abstract: A cage for a ball joint, the cage being configured annularly about a longitudinal axis and having an inner surface and an outer surface, two edges delimiting the inner surface and the outer surface and a window, in which the inner surface surrounds an inner space of the cage and two webs laterally adjoin the window. One edge of the cage has an offset relative to the longitudinal axis in relation to one of the two webs at the height of the window. A ball joint with a corresponding cage is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for producing a torque transmission device such as a fixed constant velocity ball joint constructed as an opposed track joint in which the curvatures bases of the tracks of the joint deviate in their axial course from the curvatures of the ball contact lines. The method is characterized in that prior to the formation of a longitudinal profile of a joint component, the component is brought to an increased hardness by a hardening process and a diffusion layer is partially or completely removed in the region of the longitudinal profile.

Abstract: A connecting arrangement between a shaft journal and a constant velocity rotary joint having a joint inner part and a joint outer part, in which the shaft journal engages in a rotationally fixed manner in one of the joint parts, and the shaft journal and the constant velocity rotary joint are two components. At least one clamping sleeve is provided which is axially secured on one of the components, and which includes at least one elastic element which can lock in place in a contour of the other component.

Abstract: A system for connecting a shaft (5) to a joint (1), which system includes a shaft journal (10) that is connected to the shaft (5), and a sleeve (4) that is connected to a hub of the joint (1), the sleeve (4) having a shaft-side first opening section (7), a joint-side second opening section (8), and a first radial stop section (14), and the shaft journal (10) having a shaft-side first shaft-journal section (11), a joint-side second shaft-journal section (12), and a second radial stop section (15) for delimiting the insertion path of the shaft journal (10) in the sleeve (4).

Abstract: The invention relates to a connecting arrangement between a shaft end and a joint part in which a collar on a connecting nut engages behind a another collar on the shaft end or on the joint part or on a clamping nut which clamps a bearing on the shaft, and one of the collars is formed by a oval ring received in a groove which facilitates disassembly of the connection formed by the connecting arrangement.

Abstract: A differential provided with a drive wheel comprising two pairs of bevel gears disposed in a two-part housing, one of the pairs of bevel gears being a pair of axle bevel gears and the other pair of bevel gears being a pair of compensating bevel gears.

Abstract: A drive joint, particularly a fixed joint in the form of a counter-track joint, for establishing a connection between two components in the drive train of a motor vehicle. The joint is provided with joint parts such as an inner hub, an outer hub and a ball cage containing torque-transmitting balls as additional joint parts. The outer hub of the drive joint can be destroyed in the case of an accident. The invention also relates to a drive shaft comprising such a drive joint.

Abstract: A system for connecting a shaft (5) to a joint (1), which system includes a shaft journal (10) that is connected to the shaft (5), and a sleeve (4) that is connected to a hub of the joint (1), the sleeve (4) having a shaft-side first opening section (7), a joint-side second opening section (8), and a first radial stop section (14), and the shaft journal (10) having a shaft-side first shaft-journal section (11), a joint-side second shaft-journal section (12), and a second radial stop section (15) for delimiting the insertion path of the shaft journal (10) in the sleeve (4).

Abstract: A method of producing shafts such as shafts used in a transmission, particularly for a motor vehicle, is provided. A shaft base body and at least one gearwheel, which is at least substantially finished separately from the shaft and subsequently is fixed to the shaft in such a way as to transmit torque available at the shaft or input torque by the gearwheel having a hollow hub body and being axially pressed onto a seat on the shaft base body so as to form a frictional connection which transmits the torque from the shaft to the gearwheel.

Abstract: A connecting arrangement between a shaft journal and a constant velocity rotary joint having a joint inner part and a joint outer part, in which the shaft journal engages in a rotationally fixed manner in one of the joint parts, and the shaft journal and the constant velocity rotary joint are two components. At least one clamping sleeve is provided which is axially secured on one of the components, and which includes at least one elastic element which can lock in place in a contour of the other component.

Abstract: A drive joint, particularly a fixed joint in the form of a counter-track joint, for establishing a connection between two components in the drive train of a motor vehicle. The joint is provided with joint parts such as an inner hub, an outer hub and a ball cage containing torque-transmitting balls as additional joint parts. The outer hub of the drive joint can be destroyed in the case of an accident. The invention also relates to a drive shaft comprising such a drive joint.

Abstract: A connecting arrangement between a shaft journal, which is mounted so as to be axially fixed with respect to a unit, and a joint part which can be pivotably attached to the shaft journal in a rotationally fixed manner. A shaft nut having an internal thread which can be screwed onto an external thread of the shaft journal, is provided with an additional external thread onto which a further nut can be screwed. The further nut includes first and second thread sections with different pitch directions which produce an axially acting interlocking connection between the further nut, the shaft nut and the joint part.

Abstract: An axle assembly comprising a differential provided with a drive wheel comprising two pairs of bevel gears disposed in a two-part housing, one of the pairs of bevel gears being a pair of axle bevel gears and the other pair of bevel gears being a pair of compensating bevel gears.