Apertured Insert Interface for Torque Transfer and Bearing Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing articles or systems for torque bearing or bearing support often fail to provide a balance between torque transfer and bearing support, are not modular or interchangeable, and are limited to specific exterior cross-sections, leading to increased complexity, cost, and difficulty in use.
Innovation Solution
An apertured article with a radially extending protrusions around its aperture periphery, allowing for both torque transfer and bearing support without requiring additional components, and compatibility with circular and polygonal exterior cross-sections, enabling use with live or dead axles and facilitating modularity and interchangeability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Force
If existing articles are designed to provide torque bearing, then torque transfer capability is improved, but bearing support capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The apertured article is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it provides torque bearing through its aperture configuration while also providing bearing support through its radially extending protrusions. This multi-functional design resolves the contradiction by making a single article capable of both torque transfer and bearing support, eliminating the need for separate components for each function.
2Reliability
If existing articles are designed to provide bearing support, then bearing capability is improved, but torque bearing capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The apertured article integrates both bearing support and torque bearing functions into a single component. The aperture provides the torque bearing interface while the radially extending protrusions provide the bearing support interface, allowing the article to simultaneously excel at both functions without compromise.
3Force
If components are bolted onto the face of a wheel to provide torque transfer, then torque transfer capability is improved, but article thickness increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges the torque transfer function and bearing support function into a single integrated apertured article. By combining these functions that were previously requiring separate components (such as bolts on the wheel face), the design eliminates the need for additional thickness while maintaining both capabilities.
4Ease of manufacture
If existing articles are limited to specific exterior cross-sections, then manufacturing simplicity is improved, but adaptability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The apertured article is designed with universal compatibility to work with both circular and polygonal exterior cross-sections of axles. The aperture and radially extending protrusions are configured to accommodate different axle geometries, making the article adaptable to various applications while maintaining ease of manufacture through a standardized design.
Data Source
AI summary
An apertured article, insertion article and associated systems. The apertured article having an aperture, which has an aperture periphery, the aperture periphery having an aperture inner periphery and spaced aperture protrusions that extend radially outwardly from the aperture inner periphery to an aperture outer periphery. The aperture outer periphery is defined by distal edges of the spaced aperture protrusions. The aperture inner periphery is positioned along the circumference of an inner aperture reference circle, the inner aperture reference circle inscribing the aperture periphery, and the aperture outer periphery is positioned along the circumference of an outer aperture reference circle. As viewed along a radial line whose origin is at the center of the inner aperture reference circle, the aperture inner periphery can be positioned along 0.4 to 0.6 of the entire circumference of the inner aperture reference circle. The insertion article can be configured for insertion in the apertured article.