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Tripod Joint:
A tripod joint is disclosed which has an outer joint part and an inner
joint part. The outer joint part includes a first longitudinal axis and a
longitudinally running cavity with an open end. Three longitudinally
running recesses are formed in the outer joint part. The inner joint
part includes a second longitudinal axis and comprising at least one
central body on which are integrally formed three journals with
journal axes which extend radially from the second longitudinal axis.
In each case, one roller body is arranged on the journals, which roller
body has at least one outer ring, a closed inner ring and bearing
bodies which are arranged in between. Each roller body is
additionally, in each case, held in the recesses in a longitudinally
moveable manner, and a rotation of the closed inner ring about the
respective journal is blocked. Also proposed is a roller body with a
non-circular or angular inner ring.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a National Phase of International Application No.
PCT/EP2007/061326, filed on Oct. 23, 2007, which application is
hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a tripod joint having an outer joint
part and an inner joint part with a central body which has three
integrally formed journals. In each case, one roller body is arranged
on the journals. The invention additionally relates to a roller body for
a tripod joint.
Figure: Tripod Joint
Drive Shaft:
Critical Speed
Every driveshaft has a critical speed. Critical speed is the point at
which a rotating driveshaft begins to bow off its normal rotating
centerline.
Drive shafts begin to vibrate as they approach critical speed. If they
are operated at near critical speed for an extended period, they often
fail. This can damage the vehicle and possibly injure persons nearby.
A drive shaft’s safe operating speed can be raised by increasing its
tube diameter or by shortening the installed center-to-center length of
the driveshaft. Changing the installed length of a driveshaft will
require the use of multiple drive shafts with center bearings.
Important: The critical speed of an assembly can be affected by
driveshaft imbalance, improper universal joint operating angles, or
improperly phased drive shafts. (A properly phased driveshaft has the
in-board yokes of the shaft in line with each other.) Since critical
speed can ultimately cause drive shaft failure, it is extremely
important to be very precise in all applications.
Operating angles.
The existing tripod assembly has three spherical PEG and 32 rollers assembled
with one roller in each Tripod PEG, which comprises a retaining ring made of
spring steel to hold the protection roller in tripod body, a Roller will rotate in
tulip track diameter when the torque transmitted from engine then the tripod
assembly rollers will be subjected to load.During the study of various Tripod
assemblies it is observed that elliptical profile tripod body is having better
contact angle.(Ovality - 0.1 mm)). So it is decided to adapt the oval shape
perpendicular to the spline axis. A tripod assembly for existing design
Requirements of Drive shaft – Tripod assembly is provided in Table 1, the
capability of tripod assembly to with stand the static load up to 1500Nm in Drive
shaft assembly. The main task is to check the capability of Tripod assembly for
static load.
Adam’s model description
The loads that contribute to the rollers in the existing tripod assembly are • The
Static & Dynamic load produced by the tripod trunion • The Static & dynamic
friction load produced by the needls • The static and dynamic load applied on
the ID of Rollers The loads contribution to Rollers in existing tripod assembly is
shown in fig 5.2. This section illustrates the procedure followed for building a
mathematical model, discretization of a computational domain, porous
modeling, and ADAMS solver set up. ADAMS, a design oriented Pro-E modeling
code was selected to investigate and optimize the tripod Assembly, The Load
domain was created by considering the cavity inside the geometry by utilizing
the CAD modeling package Pro Engineer.
Force calculation