	US 12,110,959 B2
	Planet carrier assembly
Michael Keck, Emskirchen (DE); Jan Heymel, Erlangen (DE); and Ralph Schimpf, Nuremberg (DE)
Assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Appl. No. 18/035,763
Filed by Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 28, 2021, PCT No. PCT/DE2021/100862 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 8, 2023, PCT Pub. No. WO2022/117140, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 9, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 131 940.1 (DE), filed on Dec. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0011551 A1, Jan. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. F16H 57/00 (2012.01); F16H 57/08 (2006.01); F16H 57/02 (2012.01)

CPC F16H 57/0025 (2013.01) [F16H 57/082 (2013.01); F16H 57/0018 (2013.01); F16H 57/02 (2013.01); F16H 57/08 (2013.01)]

16 Claims

1. A planet carrier assembly comprising a first carrier side plate of a planet carrier and comprising a shaft, the shaft being provided with a guide surface and with an axial stop axially adjacent to the guide surface, and a holder for the first carrier side plate being radially supported on the guide surface and being centered on an axially aligned axis of rotation of the shaft, the first carrier side plate and the shaft being at least materially bonded to one another in a first joining zone, wherein the first carrier side plate and the shaft are materially bonded to one another at the first joining zone formed axially between the axial stop and the first carrier side plate, wherein the axial stop is provided with at least one joining surface which faces the first carrier side plate and extends radially outwards away from the axis of rotation and extends at least partially around the circumference of the joining surface, and the first joining zone is formed axially between the first carrier side plate and the joining surface.