General Electric Company

Eric Lorin Letterman

Thomas Joseph Farineau

Andrew J Lammas

Siddharth Navinchandra Ashar

Jason Winfred Jewett

Paul Richard Stukenborg

Chad Duncan Munkres

Mateusz Wojciech Golebiowski

Eric Paul Knopf

A clutch system configured to transmit torque between an input shaft and an output shaft. The clutch system may include a clutch and a lubrication supply system. The clutch may include: an input portion disposed at an end of the input shaft; an output portion disposed at an end of the output shaft; and a sliding component that slides axially between the input and output portions to engage the clutch. The lubrication supply system may include: one or more lubricant feeds for delivering a lubricant to the clutch; and one or more lubricant drains for draining the lubricant from the clutch. The one or more lubricant feeds may include one or more respective valves. The one or more valves each may be configurable between settings that vary an amount of the lubricant delivered to the clutch via the respective one of the one or more lubricant feeds.

Clutch with variable lubrication supply

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Glenville, NY, United States of America

Eric Lorin Letterman