Abstract: A vehicle stabilizer bar assembly having a pair of stabilizer bar members that are selectively uncoupled via a clutch. The clutch includes a moving element that can be selectively moved via an actuator to effect the uncoupling of the stabilizer bar members. The actuator is configured to apply a force to the moving element concentrically about the axis along which the moving element translates. The clutch is configured to transmit torque from one of the stabilizer bar members to the other stabilizer bar member concentrically about the axis. A method for operating a vehicle stabilizer bar assembly is also provided.

Abstract: A fluid coupling device for coupling torque between two members and utilizing a magnetorheological fluid having a controllable yield strength in shear in response to a magnetic field and having a determinable viscosity in the absence of a magnetic field and with the coupling device having a rotor, rotatably supported in a cavity in a housing with the cavity filled with the magnetorheological fluid and with the cavity and rotor having similarly shaped contours and constructed to concentrate the magnetic coupling effect through the fluid at the radially outer end of the rotor and a torque load simulator system utilizing the fluid coupling for determining the performance of a torque tool or other torque related apparatus relative to a predetermined standard of performance.