Patent ID: 7396284

Claim:
Opposed path joint, which has a drive-side end ( 2 ) and a power-take-off-side end ( 3 ), having an inner hub ( 4 ) that has an inner hub axis ( 9 ) and an outer surface ( 11 ), in which first inner grooves ( 12 ) and second inner grooves ( 13 ) are arranged, alternately distributed about the inner hub axis ( 9 ), an outer hub ( 7 ) that has an outer hub axis ( 16 ) and an inner surface ( 17 ) in which first outer grooves ( 18 ) and second outer grooves ( 19 ) are arranged, alternately distributed about the outer hub axis ( 16 ), and the first inner grooves ( 12 ), in each instance, lie opposite the first outer grooves ( 18 ), and the second inner grooves ( 13 ) lie opposite the second outer grooves ( 19 ), and form a pair with them, in each instance, wherein said first and second pairs of grooves run bended in opposed directions, a ring-shaped cage ( 5 ) having a spherical outer surface ( 36 ), which cage is arranged between the inner hub ( 4 ) and the outer hub ( 7 ) and has radial openings ( 37 ), corresponding to the number of pairs of grooves ( 12 , 18 ; 13 , 19 ), in which balls ( 6 ) that engage in the grooves ( 12 , 13 ; 18 , 19 ) are guided, wherein two outer grooves that lie diametrically opposite one another always lie at the same end of the outer hub ( 7 ) with their larger opening, and wherein the cage ( 5 ) has a spherical outer surface ( 36 ) and the outer hub ( 7 ) has a corresponding inner surface with the cage ( 5 ) with its spherical outer surface ( 36 ) being guided to be centered in the inner surface of the outer hub ( 7 ).