Does anybody know what the name of this feature is?
This is the back side of a hyperglide hub where the hub body engages the wheel hub. I'm trying to upgrade to 10 speed. Original on the left, new part on the right. There's 10 teeth on the old one and 15 on the new one.
New one obviously won't fit due to the difference in the number of teeth, but adding 10 tooth to my searches doesn't bring up anything helpful
More brands are using ratchet hubs now that the patent has expired. Shimano calls their version "direct engagement".
There are some details in this article, and an animation of Shimano's version in this youtube animation
From the animation it looks like what DT Swiss called "star ratchets" Shimano calls "hub ratchet" and "outer ratchet".
I think it's still a freehub because the ratchet mechanism is at the freehub-wheel hub interface. A freewheel has the ratchet mechanism enclosed within its own body, right? With a static threaded interface to the wheel hub.
I'm still trying to understand how the spline OP is trying to identify fits in. Are we looking at the back of the mated ratchet rings?