Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle driveline component having housing assembly with slugs for inhibiting relative movement between a housing member and a tube
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Application No.: US17466350Application Date: 2021-09-03
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Publication No.: US11619249B2Publication Date: 2023-04-04
- Inventor: Anoop Vasu , Cory J. Padfield , Chih-Hung Chung
- Applicant: AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING, INC.
- Applicant Address: US MI Detroit
- Assignee: AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING, INC.
- Current Assignee: AMERICAN AXLE & MANUFACTURING, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Detroit
- Agency: Reising Ethington, P.C.
- Main IPC: F16B5/08
- IPC: F16B5/08 ; B62D65/02 ; B60B35/16

Abstract:
A vehicle driveline component with a housing, a tube and a plurality of slugs. The housing has a tube mount with a body and a plurality of slug bores. The body defines a tube bore that extends along an axis. The slug bores are spaced circumferentially apart about and are formed through the body. Each of the slug bores intersects the tube bore. The tube is received in the tube bore. Each of the slugs is received into an associated one of the slug bores and is welded to the tube. Each of the slugs engages an inside surface of one of the slug bores to inhibit movement of the tube relative to the tube mount. The body has a wall thickness and each of the slugs engages the inside surface of one of the slug bores over a distance that is less than the wall thickness.
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