Patent ID: 7717792

Claim:
A device for dampening vibrations developed in a driveline, the driveline having an engine with a crankshaft and a flywheel coupled via the device to a driven member, the device comprising: a planar body having a central hub and a peripheral rim, a plurality of guide pins disposed in the planar body, the guide pins configured to aligning the planar body with the flywheel, a plurality of elastically deformable members extending outward from the hub and connecting the hub to the rim, the hub and the rim each having mounting portions configured such that the mounting portion of the hub is mounted to the driven member and the mounting portion of the rim is mounted to the flywheel, the mounting portion of the hub having a yoke mounted in a central aperture in the hub, the yoke being configured to connect with the driven member whereby vibrations developed in the engine are dampened by the relative rotation between the hub and rim.