Electromagnetic friction clutch
AssigneeLicos Trucktec GmbH
InventorsRainer Krafft, Jürgen D'Angel
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Abstract
The invention discloses an electromagnetic friction clutch for driving a fan impeller in the engine compartment of a vehicle. The clutch includes a disk rotor consisting of a plane flat part, a further clutch element which is supported so that it is freely rotatable and which can be driven by the rotor through controllable friction contact, and elements for transmitting a rotational movement according to a principle of an eddy current drive with an eddy current ring fitted to the outer edge area of the disk rotor of the clutch.
Claims9
An electromagnetic friction clutch, comprising a disk rotor consisting of a plane flat member having two planar main sides and apertures passing therethrough from one main side to the other main side, a further clutch element which is supported to be freely rotatable and which can be driven by the rotor through controllable friction contact, and eddy current elements for transmitting a rotational movement from the disk rotor to the further clutch element, wherein one of the eddy current elements is attached to an outer edge area of the disk rotor.
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