Patent ID: 6354415
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: F16D

Abstract:
Free wheel device, comprising an outer ring equipped with an interior slideway, an inner ring or shaft equipped with an exterior slideway, a free wheel placed between the slideway of the outer ring and the slideway of the inner ring and comprising a number of cams placed in windows of a cylindrical part of a single cage and providing a one-way coupling between the outer and inner rings, and at least one bearing placed radially between the outer and inner rings and intended to keep the said outer and inner rings concentric, characterized in that at least a free end of the cylindrical part of the cage is centered radially between said slideways on a cylindrical guiding bearing surface formed on the bearing adjacent to the said free end, said cylindrical guiding bearing surface being arranged so that said cylindrical guiding bearing surface is coaxial with the slideways, approximately radially mid-way between the slideways so as to achieve radial centering of said cylindrical part of the cage.