Patent ID: 8353779
Filing Date: 2013-01-15
Classification: F16B,F16D

Abstract:
1. A support structure for a drive shaft, comprising: a mounting part of the drive shaft, the mounting part including a bolt hole; a bolt including a shaft portion including a male thread portion, wherein the shaft portion is inserted in the bolt hole, and the male thread portion is adapted to be screwed on a female thread portion of a mounting member; a heat-shrunk tube heat-shrunk fitted on an outer radial periphery of the shaft portion of the bolt, and disposed between the outer radial periphery of the shaft portion of the bolt and an inner radial periphery of the bolt hole so as to be elastically compressed therebetween, to fix the bolt to the bolt hole by static friction; and wherein the heat-shrunk tube is made from a thermoplastic elastomer; wherein the mounting part is a constant velocity joint which has an outer race, wherein the outer race of the constant velocity joint has the bolt hole.