Power transmission device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10113596-B2
Application number	US-201515300701-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 24, 2015
Priority date	Apr 17, 2014
Publication date	Oct 30, 2018
Grant date	Oct 30, 2018

Abstract

A power transmission device that transmits a rotational driving force outputted from a driving source to a target device to be driven includes: a driving rotor rotated by the rotational driving force; a driven rotor that rotates with a rotary shaft of the target device; and a connection member. The connection member has a plate shape extending perpendicular to the rotary shaft. The connection member is connected at least one of the driving rotor and the driven rotor, and is capable of connecting the driving rotor and the driven rotor to each other. The connection member has a through hole, and the driven rotor has an overlapping portion disposed overlapping with the through hole when viewed in the axial direction of the rotary shaft.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A power transmission device that transmits a rotational driving force outputted from a driving source to a target device to be driven, the power transmission device comprising:
a driving rotor rotated by the rotational driving force;
a driven rotor rotated with a rotary shaft of the target device;
an electromagnet that generates an electromagnetic force connecting the driven rotor and the driving rotor; and
a buffer member that dampens a shock caused when the driven rotor and the driving rotor are connected to each other, wherein:
the drive rotor has
an armature connected to the driving rotor by the electromagnetic force, and
a plate that applies a load to the armature in an axial direction of the rotary shaft,

the armature has a driven-side through hole passing through the armature in an axial direction of the rotary shaft;
the plate has a plate-side through hole passing through the plate in the axial direction of the rotary shaft; and
the buffer member has an overlapping portion disposed overlapping with the driven-side through hole when viewed in the axial direction of the rotary shaft in a state where the overlapping portion extends over an entire region of the plate-side through hole and covers the plate-side through hole.

2. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein
the buffer member is made of rubber.

3. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein
the driven rotor includes a break portion that breaks when a torque transmitted from the driving source to the target device is larger than or equal to a predetermined reference torque, to block transmission of the rotational driving force from the driving source to the target device.

4. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the driving source is an internal combustion engine; and
the target device is a compressor.

5. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein:
a distance between the plate and the inner hub in the axial direction is smaller than a thickness of the inner hub in the axial direction.

6. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein
the buffer member includes a flat portion and a thickened portion having a thickness greater than a thickness of the flat portion in the axial direction of the rotary shaft.

7. The power transmission device according to claim 6 , wherein the overlapping portion is the flat portion.

8. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein the buffer member is an elastically-deformable rubber material.

9. The power transmission device according to claim 8 , wherein the elastically-deformable rubber material is an ethylene-propylene-dien rubber.

Assignees

• Denso Corp

Inventors

• Nakajima Hiroshi
• Kushida Youhei
• Okuda Kiyomi
• Kishibuchi Akira
• Hayashi Toshihiro

Classifications

• F16F15/1216

  Torsional springs, e.g. torsion bar or torsionally-loaded coil springs · CPC title

• F16D3/78

  shaped as an elastic disc or flat ring, arranged perpendicular to the axis of the coupling parts, different sets of spots of the disc or ring being attached to each coupling part, e.g. Hardy couplings · CPC title

• F16D13/76 Primary

  specially adapted to incorporate with other transmission parts, i.e. at least one of the clutch parts also having another function, e.g. being the disc of a pulley · CPC title

• F16D27/06

  with friction surfaces arranged within the flux · CPC title

• F16D13/40

  in which the or each axially-movable member is pressed exclusively against an axially-located member · CPC title