Patents Assigned to Ltd. Toyo Tire & Rubber Co.
  • Patent number: 4738650
    Abstract: A flexible shaft coupling comprising drive side connecting elements and driven side connecting elements arranged alternately and equidistantly in an annular orientation, and coupling pieces of annular form linking mutually adjacent pairs of drive side connecting elements and driven side connecting elements, each of both connecting elements being formed of an inner sleeve, an outer sleeve and an elastic intermediate member bonding them, the coupling pieces being formed of a belt strip wrapping around the outer sleeve and an elastomeric body surrounding and covering the wrapped belt strip. The elastic intermediate member is formed as a rubber bushing press-fitted between the inner and outer sleeves and extends only in an axially middle portion of both sleeves, and adjacent to the rubber bushing, intermediate sleeves are fitted to the inner sleeve or outer sleeve. The elastic intermediate member has a compressive strain of 25-40%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1988
    Assignees: Ltd. Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Toyota Jidosya Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuo Hojo, Yoshihiro Nunotaki, Hiroshi Harada, Kenji Murase, Michihiro Kawada, Masahiro Ishigaki