One-way clutch assembly and coupling member for therein wherein locking member dynamics with respect to strut laydown speed are enhanced

A one-way clutch assembly having a central axis, the assembly comprising:

• an annular pocket plate having a centerline through the central axis, the pocket plate including an annular coupling face having a plurality of pockets spaced from each other about the central axis, each of the pockets being sized and shaped to receive and nominally retain a locking member of a plurality of locking members that lays down in its pocket during an overrunning condition of the assembly at a laydown angular velocity of the pocket plate about the central axis and wherein each pocket has an inner pocket wall and an outer pocket wall, the inner pocket wall is parallel to a normal to the centerline, and the outer pocket wall is angled at an acute angle outwardly with respect to the normal to the centerline to improve locking member dynamics with regards to the laydown angular velocity during the overrunning condition;
• an annular notch plate that extends around the central axis and includes notches spaced from each other about the central axis;
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• the plurality of locking members received within the pockets, the locking members each having a center axis angled at the acute angle with respect to the normal to the centerline when the locking members are in both a raised and overrun condition.