Patents by Inventor Berndt E. Radbo

Berndt E. Radbo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4567970
    Abstract: Vacuum-regulated system for automatic disengagement of a manual clutch in a vehicle for eliminating mechanical rattle from the vehicle gearbox during idling. A servo unit in the system is joined to the clutch releasing arm and is controlled by the gearbox shift lever for moving the release arm to disengaged position when the lever is in neutral position. The control cable of the clutch pedal is connected to the servo unit via springs, against the force of which the pedal can move in the disengaging direction when the servo unit is holding the clutch in disengaged position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1986
    Assignee: AB Volvo
    Inventors: Berndt E. Radbo, Grzegorz K. Janiszewski
  • Patent number: 4485905
    Abstract: A manually disengageable centrifugal clutch for motor vehicles has a clutch cover fixed to a flywheel, a pressure plate axially movable relative to the flywheel, and an intermediate disc. An intermediate plate defines, together with the pressure plate, a plurality of outwardly narrowing spaces for radially movable centrifugal weights and is spring biased towards the pressure plate. The intermediate plate is suspended on disengagement arms and is movable thereby away from the pressure plate. In one position at a certain distance from the pressure plate, the spaces for the centrifugal weights are widened so much that the weights cannot exert any pressure on the pressure plate. The clutch is thereby disengaged regardless of rotational speed, the disengaging force only depending on the spring force on the intermediate plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Assignee: AB Volvo
    Inventors: Berndt E. Radbo, Grzegorz K. Janiszewski