Patent ID: 7837565

Claim:
Coupling arrangement, comprising: a coupling element configured as a flexible disk, two cylindrical shaft ends, which are mutually connected by said coupling element so as to transmit torque, said coupling element being associated with a bearing, which receives at least one of said cylindrical shaft ends, the bearing comprising a support body for one of said cylindrical shaft ends; an outside body surrounding the support body wherein said support body has an outer surface; and at least one elastic deformable layer being disposed between said support body and said outside body; characterized in that the bearing acts as a centering sleeve wherein said bearing does not transmit torque; characterized in that said at least one elastic layer has at least in part a spherical configuration and a relatively uniform thickness and said support body outer surface has a spherical configuration that is wrapped and enclosed by said elastic layer, wherein said support body at least partially surrounds said one of said shaft ends; further characterized in that in that said outside body has at least in part a spherical configuration and that said outside body is configured as a pipe having two constrictions to receive said elastic layer and said support body between said constrictions.