Patent ID: 7037027
Filing Date: 2006-05-02
Classification: F16B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A connection arrangement for connecting first and second components that are adjacent to each other, wherein said first component has an internally threaded first hole therein, said second component has a second hole therein, and said connection arrangement comprises: an externally threaded standoff member that has a first bolt hole therein and that is adapted to be screwed partly into said first hole and to protrude partly out of said first hole by a selectively variable protrusion distance that matches a spacing distance between said first and second components in an axial direction; an eccentric arrangement including an outer eccentric disk and an inner eccentric disk, wherein said outer eccentric disk is adapted to be rotatably received in said second hole while being supported by said second component against being pulled through said second hole toward said first component, and wherein said inner eccentric disk is rotatably received in a disk hole in said outer eccentric disk while being supported by said outer eccentric disk against being pulled through said disk hole toward said first component, and said inner eccentric disk has a second bolt hole therein, and wherein said inner and outer eccentric disks can be selectively rotated to bring said second bolt hole into axial alignment with said first bolt hole while compensating for any misalignment of said first and second holes in radial directions within a radial compensation range; and a bolt arrangement including a bolt shaft, a clamping cone at a first end of said bolt shaft, and a bolt head or nut at a second end of said bolt shaft, wherein said bolt shaft extends axially through said first and second bolt holes, said bolt head or nut is arranged to bear axially against said eccentric arrangement, and said clamping cone is arranged to bear axially against said standoff member.