F16D 45/00
Freewheels or freewheel clutches combined with automatic clutches
F16D45/00 (Freewheels or freewheel clutches combined with automatic clutches) appears on 39 US grants and 30 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16D- Granted patents
- 39
- Published applications
- 30
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 65
- Latest grant
- 5 Aug 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Reverse input blocking clutch and actuator30 Aug 2022US 11,428,278 B2Nsk Ltd.
- One-way clutch for use in a no-back clutch design23 Aug 2022US 11,421,463 B2Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
- Air disc brake adjuster mechanism22 Feb 2022US 11,255,389 B2Mei Brakes Limited
- Centrifugal Force Enabled Clutch and Aircraft8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309196 A1Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Centrifugal clutch device26 Jun 2025US 2025/0207642 A1Exedy Corporation
- Centrifugal force enabled clutch and aircraft23 Jan 2025US 2025/0027542 A1Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Stripper Assembly24 Nov 2022US 2022/0375295 A1Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated
- Motor Vehicle Drive Device7 Oct 2021US 2021/0309094 A1Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
Most cited
By later US patents
- Drive clutch for a centrifuge rotor55US 5,362,293 AE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company · 1994
- Motor vehicle drive arrangement50US 6,863,140 B2DaimlerChrysler AG · 2005
- Hybrid drive19US 6,862,887 B2Daimler Chrysler AG · 2005
- Actuator system for vehicle automated clutches with electric motor actuator and pressurized fluid override17US 5,934,432 AEaton Corporation · 1999
- High production, torque limiting, one-way clutch15US 4,949,824 AHayes Industrial Brake, Inc. · 1990