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English: Drawings of a Thompson Constant Velocity Joint with colors added to help identify the parts; the second drawing removes several parts to show the central innovation which is a spherical pantograph that maintains both cardan joints in the homokinetic plane. Importantly, all of the rotating axes of: input shaft 27, output shaft 28, output pivot shafts X, control yoke pivot shafts Y, output shaft control pin A, input shaft control pin B, and control yoke pivot pin C all pass through the coupling center point 29. Images derived from US Patent 7,442,126.
Date

Filed March 26, 2002

(13 April 2009 (original upload date))
Source (Original text: US Patent n° 7,442,126)
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  • Drawings from the inventor Glenn Alexander Thompson's patent.
  • derivative work: MarkWarren (talk)

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Public domain The text and illustrations of US patents published before March 1, 1989 are in the public domain unless the patent text contains a specific notice that portions are copyrighted. See 37 CFR 1.71(d), 37 CFR 1.84(s)

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  • 2011-01-02 02:33 Catsquisher 1200×951× (292337 bytes) <!== {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |Description={{en|1=Patent Drawing for Thompson constant velocity coupling, U.S. Patent 7,144,326 (2006). Drawing has been modified from the original: edited, cropped and annotated.}} |Source=[http://patft.uspto.gov

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