Patent ID: 7712994
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: F16D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A connecting assembly comprising: a shaft journal having a first portion and a second, outer threaded portion, an outer joint part having outer ball tracks, an inner joint part having inner ball tracks and having a bore in which the first portion of the shaft journal is directly engaged in a rotationally fixed way for transmitting torque, torque transmitting balls being held within the outer ball tracks of the outer joint part and the inner ball tracks of the inner joint part such as to transmit torque between the outer joint part and the inner joint part, a nut which is threaded on to said outer thread of said shaft journal; and a threaded sleeve being axially secured to said nut and being freely rotatable relative to said nut and said shaft journal, and further comprising a thread which cooperates with a counter thread of the inner joint part or of a projecting sleeve extending from the inner joint part so as to at least indirectly thread the threaded sleeve to the inner joint part such that the threaded sleeve and nut axially fix the shaft journal relative to the inner joint part.