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US 4,620,626 AGranted
Clutch driven plate assembly with an anti-rattle damper
AssigneeBorg-Warner Automotive, Inc.
InventorsThaddeus Lech, Jr., Bruce A. Mullard
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AssigneeBorg-Warner Automotive, Inc.
InventorsThaddeus Lech, Jr., Bruce A. Mullard
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A clutch driven plate assembly for use in an automotive vehicle adapted to dissipate the irregular impulses of the vehicle internal combustion or diesel engine with the transmission in neutral, the clutch engaged and the engine at idle rpm. The assembly includes a clutch plate, a spring retainer plate secured to the clutch plate, and a hub assembly including an inner hub in operative engagement with the transmission input shaft and an outer hub having an integral hub flange with damper spring windows axially aligned with spring windows in the clutch and spring retainer plates, and a backlashing splined connection between said hubs to allow limited relative rotation thereof. A cam retainer is mounted on the inner hub to rotate therewith and has a plurality of spaced camming recesses facing the outer hub; the outer hub having axial passages receiving compression springs and plungers biased by the springs into engagement with the complementary recesses formed in the cam retainer. Rotation of the clutch and spring retainer plates, damper springs and outer hub relative to the inner hub causes the plungers to be cammed out of the recesses against the force of the compression springs.
A clutch driven plate assembly for an automotive vehicle clutch driving a transmission input shaft, comprising a hub assembly having an inner hub with a barrel splined onto the input shaft and external backlashing splines, and an outer hub having a barrel with internal backlashing splines and an integral radial flange, a clutch plate carrying friction facings at the outer periphery thereof, a spring retainer plate secured to the clutch plate to sandwich said outer hub flange therebetween, said plates and outer hub flange having axially aligned coinciding sets of circumferentially spaced windows therein, and damper springs received in each set of windows, the improvement comprising a cam retainer received on said inner hub to rotate therewith and having a plurality of camming recesses facing said outer hub, and a plurality of plungers yieldably biased in said outer hub barrel such that rotation of said plates, damper springs and outer hub relative to said inner hub and retainer causes said plungers to cam out of said cam retainer recesses.
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