US 12,442,421 B2
Constant-speed universal joint
Koji Kubo, Kariya (JP); Yuya Kudo, Handa (JP); Masahito Ikeo, Anjo (JP); Yoshitaka Shinoda, Nagakute (JP); and Susumu Abe, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to JTEKT CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed by JTEKT CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/063,299.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-200276 (JP), filed on Dec. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0184297 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. F16D 3/223 (2011.01); F16D 3/2237 (2011.01)
CPC F16D 3/2237 (2013.01) [F16D 2003/22306 (2013.01); F16D 2003/22309 (2013.01); F16D 2003/22313 (2013.01); Y10S 464/906 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A constant-velocity universal joint of a joint center fixed type, the constant-velocity universal Joint comprising:
an outer ring in which a plurality of outer-ring ball grooves extending in an axial direction is formed in an inner circumferential surface;
an inner ring in which a plurality of inner-ring ball grooves extending in the axial direction is formed in an outer circumferential surface;
a plurality of balls that engages with the outer-ring ball grooves and the inner-ring ball grooves; and
a holder that is interposed between an inner spherical surface of the outer ring and an outer spherical surface of the inner ring and in which a holding window for holding the plurality of balls is formed,
wherein the plurality of inner-ring ball grooves includes a first inner-ring ball groove and a second inner-ring ball roove having different shapes,
wherein a chamfered portion is formed in the inner ring between each of the inner-ring ball grooves and the outer spherical surface, and
wherein the chamfered portion includes a linear section portion and an arc section portion, the linear section portion is located in the chamfered portion close to the outer spherical surface and is formed in a linear shape in a section perpendicular to a moving locus of a center of the corresponding ball, and the arc section portion is located in the chamfered portion close to the corresponding: inner-ring ball groove and is formed in a protruding arc shape in the section perpendicular to the moving locus of the center of the corresponding ball.