US 11,940,020 B2
Rubber outboard deflector ring
Adam J. Tebbe, Saginaw, MI (US); Ray A. Baker, Saginaw, MI (US); and Scott T. Phillpotts, Clio, MI (US)
Assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation, Saginaw, MI (US)
Filed by Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation, Saginaw, MI (US)
Filed on May 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/326,305.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/122,172, filed on Dec. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0178403 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. F15D 1/10 (2006.01); F16D 3/224 (2011.01); F16D 3/84 (2006.01); F16D 3/223 (2011.01)
CPC F16D 3/224 (2013.01) [F15D 1/10 (2013.01); F16D 3/845 (2013.01); F16D 2003/22326 (2013.01); Y10S 464/906 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A deflector ring for a constant velocity joint, comprising:
a rigid inner ring portion having a disc-shaped wall with opposite planar sides extending away from a central axis to an outer periphery, and
a flexible, resilient outer ring portion fixed to at least one of the opposite planar sides of the rigid inner ring portion, said flexible, resilient outer ring portion extending radially outwardly from the outer periphery of the rigid inner portion, wherein the rigid inner ring portion and the flexible, resilient outer ring portion are dissimilar materials.