Patent ID: 6817431
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: B60K,H02K

Abstract:
A suspension for an assembly generating, absorbing, and/or transmitting torque in a drive train of a motor vehicle with a combustion engine having an engine block, witha first non-rotating part (18, 22) of the assembly (10) being connected with the engine block of the combustion engine (12) via a coupling element (40; 50) in a manner so as to be essentially secured against rotation, and a second rotating part (16) of the assembly (10) being connected with an output shaft (14) protruding from the engine block, and with the first and the second part (18, 22; 16) being designed so as to encompass the output shaft (14) at least partially, characterized in that the assembly (10) comprises materials with a thermal expansion coefficient different from that of the material of the engine block of the combustion engine (12), and the coupling element is a disk (40) which extends in an essentially radial direction, at which at least one flange (42) is formed oriented essentially coaxially with the output shaft (14), which can be deformed in the radial direction, with the disk (40) being connected with the engine block and the flange (42) being connected with the first non-rotating part (18), the coupling element (40; 50) thereby being is resilient in the radial direction so that it is readily deformed under thermal expansion/contraction.