American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.

Brian McCormick

James Preston Downs

Paul Joseph Valente

Thomas Christopher Bowen

John Clinton Hibbler

Charles G Stuart

Robert J DeGowske

Christopher D Pump

Steven Chinitz

Shawn S Proctor

Adrian M Lenczewski

Paul W Kornosky

Firoz Ali S Jafri

An assembly with a housing, a bearing, which is received in a bearing bore formed in the housing, and an annular compensation member. The housing and the compensation member are formed of materials having a larger coefficient of linear thermal expansion than a material from which the outer bearing race is formed. The compensation member is fixedly coupled to the housing and mounted about an outer bearing race of the bearing. The compensation member is configured to grow in a radial direction into contact with an inside circumferential surface of the outer bearing race when a temperature of the assembly increases from a first predetermined temperature to a second predetermined temperature.

Assembly with a housing and an outer bearing race that are formed of dissimilar metals, the assembly being configured to retain the outer bearing race to the housing over a range of temperatures

The present teachings provide for a power transmitting component including a housing, a clutch, a vent, and a dam. The vent can fluidly couple a first and second cavity. The dam can include a door member. Rotation of the outer carrier through a fluid in the second cavity can sling a portion of the fluid toward the vent to cause the portion of the fluid to be transferred from the second cavity, through the vent, and to the first cavity. When the piston is in a first position, the door member can be in a closed position to limit fluid flow from the first cavity to the second cavity. When the piston is in a second position, the door member can be in an open position to allow fluid to flow from the first cavity to the second cavity.

Power transmitting component with torque transfer device configured with drag reduction system

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Bloomfield Township, MI, United States of America

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