Patent ID: 7013859
Filing Date: 2006-03-21
Classification: F16F,F16H

Abstract:
1. A device ( 1 ) for damping torsional vibrations having a driving component ( 4 ) and a driven component ( 4 , 7 ), separated by an air gap in which magnets ( 16 , 17 , 95 , 101 ) opposite each other are disposed on the drive component and the driven component and in which the torsional capacity of the driving component and driven component ( 4 , 7 ) with respect to each other is limited wherein the improvement comprises the arrangement of the magnets ( 16 , 17 ) disposed on respective substantially flat confronting surfaces on a drive component and a driven component separated by an air gap said arrangement of magnets disposed in axial alignment in a first substantially circular path ( 15 ) and an intermittently contactable carry along connection disposed in a separate second substantially circular path ( 15 ′) axially and radially displaced from said magnets ( 16 , 17 ).