Patents Examined by Saul Rogriguez
  • Patent number: 7143886
    Abstract: An actuation force generating arrangement for a centrifugal clutch includes a housing, a supporting element, and a plurality of centrifugal members. The housing is rotatable about an axis, the housing having a plurality of first supporting areas which each extend radially with respect to the axis. The supporting element is axially movable with respect to the housing and has a plurality of second supporting areas which each extend radially with respect to the axis, each second support area being separated from a respective first support area by an axial distance which decreases with radial distance from the axis. Each of the first and second support areas has a first portion and a second portion which lies radially outside of the first portion, the first and second support areas being inclined with respect to each other at a relative inclination angle which is greater at the second portions than at the first portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: ZF Sachs AG
    Inventors: Winfried Stürmer, Reinhold Weidinger