Patents Assigned to Tokuhatsu Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 6755291
    Abstract: A wet-type friction clutch plate which keeps lubricant on a frictional slide face, stabilizes frictional torque transmission and suppresses shuddering noise. The wet-type friction clutch plate has the frictional slide face on which a grid of grooves is formed. The frictional slide face frictionally engages with an opposite clutch plate. At least one of the sectional shape and plan shape of each of the grooves is configured to provide the frictional slide face with a &mgr;-v characteristic such that &mgr; increases with an increase in v to prevent self-excited vibration during frictional engagement of the wet-type friction clutch plate with the opposite clutch plate, wherein &mgr; is a coefficient of friction on the frictional slide face and v is a relative rotational speed of the wet-type friction clutch plate relative to the opposite clutch plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignees: Tochigi Fuji Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokuhatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Yoshihisa Miyata, Tatsuki Shimura
  • Publication number: 20030106758
    Abstract: A wet-type friction clutch plate surely keeps lubricant on a frictional slide face, stabilizes frictional torque transmission, and suppresses shuddering noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Applicants: TOCHIGI FUJI SANGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOKUHATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Isao Hirota, Yoshihisa Miyata, Tatsuki Shimura