Abstract:
An apparatus includes an inner component (42), an outer component (36); and a tolerance ring (20) located between the inner and outer components to provide an interference fit there between. The tolerance ring includes a strip of material having a plurality of radially extending projections (72). The strip of material is curved into a ring having a gap. The radially extending projections are compressible between the inner and outer components, and the stiffness of the radially extending projections varies around the circumference of the tolerance ring.
Abstract:
A tolerance ring (316) can be disposed between an inner component (306) and an outer component (302), the inner and outer components defining stepped sidewalls. In an embodiment, a preassembly can include an outer component defining a bore (304) having a stepped inner sidewall (310), an inner component (306) having a stepped outer sidewall (312), and a tolerance ring (316) adapted to be disposed between the inner component and the bore. In an embodiment, an assembly can include an outer component defining a bore having a stepped inner sidewall, an inner component having a stepped outer sidewall, and a tolerance ring disposed between the inner component and the bore. In an embodiment, a hard disk drive preassembly (300) can include an actuator arm defining a bore having a stepped inner sidewall, a pivot having a stepped outer sidewall, and a tolerance ring adapted to be disposed between the pivot and the bore.
Abstract:
A method of assembling a tolerance ring between opposing surfaces of an inner and outer component arranged to mate with one another to provide an interference fit therebetween includes mounting the tolerance ring on one of the inner and outer components whereby the projections are received in a recessed portion on that component, partially mating the inner and outer components, and completing mating by causing relative movement between the tolerance ring and the recessed portion to move the projections from the recessed portion and to be compressed between the mated inner and outer components. The tolerance ring includes an annular band of resilient material for engaging an opposing surface of one of the inner and outer components. The annular band has a plurality of deformable projections extending radially therefrom to engage the opposing surface of the other one of the inner and outer components.
Abstract:
An apparatus includes an inner component (42), an outer component (36); and a tolerance ring (20) located between the inner and outer components to provide an interference fit there between. The tolerance ring includes a strip of material having a plurality of radially extending projections (72). The strip of material is curved into a ring having a gap. The radially extending projections are compressible between the inner and outer components, and the stiffness of the radially extending projections varies around the circumference of the tolerance ring.
Abstract:
Un aparato que comprende un componente interior (42), un componente exterior (36) y un anillo de tolerancia (20) situado entre los componentes interior y exterior para proporcionar un ajuste de interferencia entre ellos. El anillo de tolerancia comprende una banda de material que presenta una pluralidad de salientes que se extienden en sentido radial (72). La banda de material está curvada en un anillo que presenta un espacio de separación. Los salientes que se extienden, en sentido radial, son compresibles entre los componentes interior y exterior y la rigidez de los salientes que se extienden en sentido radial varía alrededor de la circunferencia del anillo de tolerancia.
Abstract:
An apparatus includes an inner component (42), an outer component (36); and a tolerance ring (20) located between the inner and outer components to provide an interference fit there between. The tolerance ring includes a strip of material having a plurality of radially extending projections (72). The strip of material is curved into a ring having a gap. The radially extending projections are compressible between the inner and outer components, and the stiffness of the radially extending projections varies around the circumference of the tolerance ring.
Abstract:
La presente invención se refiere a un aparato, caracterizado porque comprende: un componente interior; un componente exterior; y un anillo de tolerancia situado entre los componentes interior y exterior para proporcionar un ajuste de interferencia entre ellos, comprendiendo el anillo de tolerancia una banda de material que tiene una longitud, un primer extremo, un segundo extremo opuesto al primer extremo, y una pluralidad de salientes que se extienden radialmente entre el primer y segundo extremos, estando la banda de material curvada en un anillo que tiene un espacio, siendo los salientes que se extienden radialmente compresibles entre los componentes interior y exterior, en donde un tamaño de un saliente que se extiende radialmente más cerca del primer extremo es diferente de un tamaño de un saliente que se extiende radialmente más cerca de una línea que se extiende perpendicular a la longitud y que divide la banda de material dentro de una fila circunferencial de los salientes que se extienden radialmente.
Abstract:
Un método de montaje de un anillo de tolerancia (18) entre las superficies opuestas de un componente interior(12) y un componente exterior (14) para proporcionar un ajuste de interferencia entre los mismos, estando loscomponentes interior y exterior (12 y 14) dispuestos para acoplarse entre sí, y consistiendo el anillo de tolerancia(18) en una banda anular de material elástico para acoplarse con una superficie opuesta de uno de los componentesinterior y exterior (12 y 14), teniendo la banda anular una pluralidad de salientes deformables (20) que se extiendenradialmente desde la misma para acoplarse a la superficie opuesta del otro de los componentes interior y exterior(12 y 14), cuyo método comprende: montar el anillo de tolerancia (18) en uno de los componentes interior y exterior (12 y 14), por lo que los salientesson recibidos en una porción rebajada (22) en ese componente; acoplar parcialmente los componentes interiores y exteriores (12 y 14); y completar el acoplamiento provocando un movimiento relativo entre el anillo de tolerancia (18) y la porción rebajada(22) para hacer que los salientes (20) abandonen la porción rebajada (22) y se compriman entre los componentesinterior y exterior (12 y 14) acoplados, caracterizado porque el movimiento relativo en el anillo de tolerancia (18) y la porción rebajada (22) es unmovimiento axial.