Clutches and power-stop control inventions 04/08

20080093189 - Device for damping rotary oscillations: A device for damping rotary oscillations in a drive train with a freewheel clutch (27) located between a pulley (25) and a rotor hub (26) is provided. The hub (26) is connected to an input shaft of an auxiliary unit, and the pulley (25) is connected to a crankshaft via... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080093195 - Clutch assembly with centrifugal head pressure control: A clutch assembly for an agricultural work vehicle having a piston slidably disposed within a chamber having a first portion and a second portion. The piston is positionable between a first position and a second position in response to a fluid pressure within the first portion of the chamber to... Agent: Cnh America LLC Intellectual Property Law Department

20080093188 - Hydrokinetic coupling device having a pre-defined head loss in an axial conduit peripheral to the piston: The invention relates to a hydrokinetic coupling device (10) consisting of a case (12) and a lockup clutch (18) comprising a piston (20) which can move axially in relation to the case (12) between an engaged position, in which the piston is applied against an annular transverse face of the... Agent: Matthew Stavish Berenato White & Stavish

20080093190 - Switching device for a motor vehicle and of this device: The invention relates to, in essence, a switching device (10, 11) for a motor vehicle. This switching device comprises two idler gears (17, 18) and a claw (14). This claw (14) assures, by displacement, a selective connection of a drive shaft (9) to one of the two idler gears (17,... Agent: Nicolas E. Seckel Patent Attorney

20080093191 - Variable speed drive: The invention concerns a novel type of variable speed drive different from those of prior art in that it does not comprise any gear and in that the speed variations are continuous.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080093192 - Method to convert a non-adjustable clutch cover to an adjustable clutch cover: A method to avoid discarding a worn non-adjusting clutch cover by converting the worn non-adjusting clutch cover to an adjusting clutch cover for re-use. First, the convex portion of the non-adjusting cover is adapted to receive an adjusting ring having the embodiments of the adjusting rings known in the art.... Agent: Gary K. Price, Esq. Bowers Harrison, LLP

20080093193 - Safety system: This invention provides a safety system for electrically operated kitchen appliances such as blenders, food processors and the like. To protect users from contact with cutting or macerating implements which, in operation of such appliances, are rotated at reasonably high speeds by means of powerful electric motors. In order to... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080093194 - Brake-transmission shift interlock assembly: A sub-assembly for a brake transmission shift interlock system. The sub-assembly includes an inhibitor for preventing shifting of a vehicle transmission from a park position in the absence of application of a brake by a vehicle occupant, and a solenoid having a movable armature. A linkage couples the inhibitor to... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080087514 - Hydrodynamic torque converter: A hydrodynamic torque converter including a housing connectable to a drive element for rotation in common around an axis of rotation, the housing being fillable with a fluid; a pump wheel in the housing; a turbine wheel in the housing and connected to a takeoff element; and a supporting/sealing hub... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080087515 - Torque limiting driver and assembly: A torque-limiting driver. The driver comprises a handle having a housing, a drive assembly located the housing. The drive assembly comprises a drive, a drive clutch member supported by the drive shaft and secured to the housing, a camming clutch member supported by the drive shaft and interacting with and... Agent: Ryan Kromholz & Manion, S.c.

20080087516 - Device for damping vibrations, in particular, torsion vibration damper: t

20080087517 - Power transmission apparatus: A power transmission apparatus has an input member rotated by an engine output. First and second clutch sections, respectively, have a plurality of driving clutch discs and a plurality of driven clutch discs. Each driving and driven clutch disc being alternately arranged. First and second output shafts are rotated by... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080087518 - Clutch for a transmission: The clutch of the present invention has a reaction plate, a friction plate, a friction layer, at least one non-compressible member, and a fluid lubricant. The friction plate is disposed adjacent the reaction plate for frictionally engaging the reaction plate to transfer a driving torque between the reaction plate and... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080087519 - Locking system for a spindle of a power tool: A mechanism for locking and cushioning a spindle of a power tool includes a driving disk, a combination of a cam and a plurality of elastic components, and a plurality of roller pairs. The combination of the cam and the elastic components is accommodated in a body. The driving disk... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20080083594 - Force transmission device: The connection between the turbine shell and the output, or an element coupled torque proof with the output, is performed through the intermediary element connected with the turbine shell in a first coupling section and coupled in a second coupling section with the output, or with the element coupled torque... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, Llc

20080083593 - Shaft unit with sealing function relative to two axial pressure chambers and force transmission device with shaft unit: A shaft unit with two coaxial channels for coupling with two pressure chambers, disposed coaxial with the rotation axis of the shaft unit, which are sealed relative to each other through a seal device including a first hollow cylindrical element, forming a first channel; a second hollow cylindrical element enclosing... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, Llc

20080083596 - Clutch arrangement for a motor vehicle: A clutch device including a housing connected to a drive for rotation in common around an axis of rotation and fillable with a fluid; first friction elements connected to the housing by a first friction element carrier for rotation in common around the axis of rotation; second friction elements connected... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080083595 - Multi-tooth pawl type gearing mechanism: A multi-tooth pawl type gearing mechanism for a freewheel of a bicycle wheel hub includes a cassette body having an inner rotor member with an axis. A gear ring shaped and dimensioned for attachment to a wheel hub of a bicycle wheel is also provided allowing for the transferring of... Agent: Welsh & Flaxman Llc

20080078638 - Power transmission device: A power transmission device, in particular for use in vehicles, having one input and at least one output, comprising a hydrodynamic component and a lockup clutch. The lockup clutch includes at least one friction surface arrangement which is coupled at least indirectly in a rotationally fixed manner with the input... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20080078639 - Power transmission device: A power transmission device for transmitting power of an internal combustion engine of a saddle-ride type vehicle such as a motorcycle to an output side by way of a transmission includes a start clutch for connecting power transmitted from the transmission to an output side when the saddle-ride-type vehicle starts... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080078645 - Fixed clutch for a turbocharger: A clutch assembly permanently fixed between a rotary input member and a rotary output member to produce a driving connection between the members, the clutch assembly comprising a plurality of elements wherein every element of the clutch assembly is permanently fixed together so that the clutch assembly does not rotate.... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20080078646 - Torque fluctuation absorbing apparatus: A torque fluctuation absorbing apparatus includes a first component member, a second component member, a third component member being movable relative to at least either one of the first component member and the second component member, an elastic member biasing the third component member in a direction to contact either... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080078647 - Torque limiter-incorporating one-way clutch: A length of each pocket of a cage in a circumferential direction is smaller than the sum of an outer diameter of a roller and a free length of a coil spring. The cage can rotate relative to an inner ring having cam surfaces in accordance with revolution of the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080078641 - Clutch device: A clutch device is configured to include a clutch mechanism, a clutch actuator operatively engaging and disengaging the clutch mechanism, a clutch lever, and an assist pressure generator which generates assist hydraulic pressure by driving an electric motor. The assist hydraulic pressure is supplied to the clutch actuator to operatively... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080078640 - Sprag: A sprag for a sprag-type freewheel clutch having a profile composed of multiple profile sections, the sprag having at least the profile sections of an inner engagement curve, an outer engagement curve and a first and a second lateral curve, characterized in that the outer and inner engagement curves (7,... Agent: Hedman & Costigan P.C.

20080078642 - Clutch unit: A clutch unit including a housing fixed to a flywheel, in which two axially displaceable pressure plates are housed fixed to the housing to form a first and a second clutch, each provided with a clutch disk, whereby the clutches may be independently operated by means of lever arrangements, mounted... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080078643 - Clutch component: A clutch spring kit that is particularly suited to replacing a standard motorcycle pressure plate in a diaphragm spring biased clutch assembly. The clutch assembly is activated by centrifugal force acting on spherical deflection elements. A plurality of pocket elements are generally arranged in an annular array formed in the... Agent: Bruce A. Jagger

20080078644 - Electromotive actuator for deflecting a motor vehicle part: An electromotive actuator for deflecting a motor vehicle part includes a rotatable component and a non-rotatable component. The rotatable component can be driven by an electric motor in such a way that it can be moved linearly relative to the non-rotatable component between a first position and a second position.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.