Clutch
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorsJong Yun PARK, Yeon Ho KIM, Sung Wha HONG, Kyung Ha KIM, Jae Young CHOI
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Abstract
A clutch may include a hub configured to be constrained to a rotation shaft; a sleeve configured to be straight slidably disposed on an external circumferential surface of the hub; a clutch gear configured to be disposed to be relatively rotatable with respect to the rotation shaft; a first friction ring configured to be mounted between the clutch gear and the hub; a key configured to be mounted between the sleeve and the hub; and a displacement changing portion configured to change a relative rotation displacement of the first friction ring with respect to the hub to an axial linear displacement of the first friction ring.
Claims9
A clutch apparatus, comprising:
- a hub configured to be constrained to a rotation shaft;
- a sleeve configured to be straight slidably disposed on an external circumferential surface of the hub;
- a clutch gear configured to be disposed to be relatively rotatable with respect to the rotation shaft;
- a first friction ring configured to be mounted between the clutch gear and the hub and pressed toward the clutch gear to form a frictional force between the clutch gear and the hub to transfer a torque;
- a key configured to be mounted between the sleeve and the hub and transfer a linear displacement of the sleeve to the first friction ring before the sleeve is straight slid toward the clutch gear to contact the first friction ring;
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- a displacement changing portion configured to change a relative rotation displacement of the first friction ring with respect to the hub to an axial linear displacement of the first friction ring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.