| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5957258 |
Friction clutch for a motor vehicle |
September 28, 1999 |
| A friction clutch with a flywheel and a clutch housing has the flywheel and clutch housing connected to one another by means of a preferably cylindrical wall located in the radially outer portion of the clutch housing. The cylindrical wall can extend in a ring-shaped manner around th |
| 5934433 |
Friction clutch having an actuator for automated operation |
August 10, 1999 |
| An actuator for automated operation of a friction clutch includes a drive that is connected with an input part of a gearing and an output part of the gearing that is movable into operative connection via a transmission member with a disengagement bearing of the friction clutch. The t |
| 5899308 |
Friction clutch for a motor vehicle |
May 4, 1999 |
| A friction clutch with a flywheel and a clutch housing has the flywheel and clutch housing connected to one another by means of a preferably cylindrical wall located in the radially outer portion of the clutch housing. The cylindrical wall can extend in a ring-shaped manner around th |
| 5799766 |
Arrangement for the attachment of a flywheel to a crankshaft |
September 1, 1998 |
| The present invention generally relates to the attachment of a centrifugal mass or a modular clutch to the output end of a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine. For this purpose, axially-oriented gear teeth can be introduced in both parts, e.g. a serration, and there can be a cent |
| 5732810 |
Friction clutch with a pulse generator |
March 31, 1998 |
| A friction clutch has an inertia mass attachable to a drive, a housing that serves to accommodate a pressure spring as well as a pressure plate, and a ring that encompasses the rotational axis of the inertia mass and housing and acts, in connection with a signal receiver, as a pulse gene |
| 5720373 |
Friction clutch for a motor vehicle |
February 24, 1998 |
| A friction clutch for a motor vehicle in which a friction lining ring can be clamped directly between the centrifugal mass and the pressure plate. In addition, a radially inward extension of the friction lining rang is riveted directly to a carrier which is fastened non-rotationally on a |
| 5715920 |
Friction clutch with auxiliary spring to assist the release force |
February 10, 1998 |
| This invention relates to a friction clutch with a membrane spring in a pulled or pushed clutch design, in which there is a second membrane spring/plate spring which provides assistance to the release force and which, when the friction clutch is engaged, generates little or no release |
| 5685407 |
Transmission device for a motor vehicle |
November 11, 1997 |
| The invention relates to a transmission device which is located between the crankshaft of an engine and a clutch and is designed with a flexible plate in contact with the crankshaft, and which can be connected to the flexible plate by means of connecting elements which are engaged from t |
| 5634542 |
Friction clutch with a flywheel |
June 3, 1997 |
| A friction clutch/flywheel assembly includes a flywheel with a predetermined diametral area designed to hold a preferably cylindrical wall of a basin-shaped clutch housing, so that the clutch housing does not rotate and is also secured against axial movement with respect to the flywh |
| 5560463 |
Friction clutch for a motor vehicle transmission and a friction clutch having automatic adjustme |
October 1, 1996 |
| A motor vehicle friction clutch with an automatic adjustment for wear of the friction linings, whereby distributed over the circumference of the pressure plate there are several clearance sensors which act on the thrust plate with the interposition of an adjustment device. Each clearance |
| 5524739 |
Transmission having a clutch with an arrangement for fastening the clutch to the crankshaft and |
June 11, 1996 |
| A system of fastening a flywheel on an output end of a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, the flywheel being combined into a single component with a clutch plate unit and a clutch disc. The fastening can be achieved with essentially axial joint surfaces on the output end on one |
| 5404979 |
Motor vehicle manual transmission modular clutch assembly |
April 11, 1995 |
| A manual transmission modular clutch assembly has a flywheel, pressure plate and interposed clutch plate mounted in a cover that is adapted to be connected to an engine crankshaft and wherein separate spring-torque straps connect the pressure plate and the flywheel to the cover for r |
| 5377803 |
Pressure plate arrangement for a motor vehicle friction clutch |
January 3, 1995 |
| A pressure plate arrangement (1) for a friction clutch of a motor vehicle is proposed, wherein an adjustment device (19), which automatically compensates for the wear of the friction linings (21), is disposed in the support path between a diaphragm spring (13) and a pressure plate (11), |
