Patent ID: 7165909
Filing Date: 2007-01-23
Classification: B60G,F16F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A joint for the elastic mechanical connection of two machine parts, the joint comprising: a connection element having a middle area and two end areas, each to which one of the machine parts to be connected is fastened, said connection element being a rotationally symmetrical turned part; a housing, said connection element middle area being enclosed by said housing, said housing comprising at least two bushes which are concentrically inserted one into another, and which together define a hollow cylinder with an intermediate space; and elastic material filling said intermediate space, said connection element being enclosed by an innermost bush of said at least two bushes with said connection element cardanically, torsionally as well as radially and axially movable in relation to one or more of the other of said at least two bushes, wherein said at least two bushes include three bushes inserted concentrically one into another with each of said at least two bushes being cylindrical, said three bushes including said innermost bush, an intermediate bush, and an outer bush, said intermediate bush including openings, through which the elastic material, in said intermediate space between said innermost bush and said intermediate bush as well in said intermediate space between said intermediate bush and the outer bush, is connected.