Luk Lamellen Und Kupplungsbau Gmbh

Helmut Braun

Peter Klein

Stefan Valtwies

A sheave which can be used to transmit motion to belts or chains or as an inertial damper has an input element which can be driven by the output shaft of an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle, an output element which is rotatable relative to the input element and can drive one or more belts or chains to transmit motion to one or more fans, pumps and/or other aggregates in a motor vehicle, and a damping unit which is installed between the input and output elements in an annular chamber defined by a housing which forms part of the input element and/or the output element. The damping unit employs long arcuate coil springs which alternate with the arms of a flange forming part of the input element or of the output element, and with pockets provided on the housing and forming part of the output element or of the input element. One or more antifriction bearings are installed between the input and output elements.

Pulley wheel elastic assembly

A friction clutch wherein the diaphragm spring has two sets of inwardly extending prongs which are axially spread apart by the marginal portion of an axially movable release plate serving to disengage the clutch by pivoting the diaphragm spring relative to a plate-like carrier on the crankshaft of the engine in a motor vehicle to thereby relax the bias upon a pressure plate which normally presses a clutch disc against a counterpressure plate connected to the carrier. The coupling between the marginal portion of the release plate and one set of the prongs is a bayonet lock type connection which can be disengaged by turning the release plate relative to the diaphragm spring against the opposition of male and female detent members to thereby move each prong of the one set into register with a discrete opening in the marginal portion of the release plate. The release plate stresses the two sets of prongs and is clamped between them when it is turned in a direction to move the prongs of the one set out of register with the corresponding openings. At such time, the prongs of the one set move along sloping ramps which guide them into engagement with convex abutments at one side of the release plate. The other side of the release plate has convex abutments for the prongs of the other set.

Friction clutch

The clutch plate of a friction clutch in a motor vehicle has a first damping unit whose input element carries the friction linings and whose output element is a first hub having a radially outwardly extending first flange, and a second damping unit whose input element constitutes the input element of the first damping unit and whose output element has a second hub surrounding a portion of the first hub and having a second flange extending radially outwardly therefrom. The first damping unit has first coil springs in registering openings of the first flange and the input element, and the second damping unit has second coil springs in registering openings of the input element and second flange. The springs of the first unit oppose rotation of the linings relative to the first hub during a first stage of angular movement of the input element relative to the first hub, and the springs of the second unit cooperate with the springs of the first unit to yieldably oppose further rotation of the linings relative to the first hub. The extent to which the springs of the first unit alone oppose rotation of the linings relative to the first hub is determined by the circumferential play between the external teeth of the first hub and the internal teeth of the second hub.

Clutch plate

A clutch plate wherein a hub is rotatable within limits and is movable radially within limits relative to two coaxial discs one of which carries the friction linings. Rotation of the hub and discs relative to each other is opposed by one or more coil springs as well as by a friction generating assembly having a first component which is rotatable with the hub and has a first conical surface, and a second component rotatable with the discs and having a second conical surface which is complementary to or exactly congruent with the first conical surface. A diaphragm spring urges the conical surface of one of the components axially toward or directly against the conical surface of other component whereby the two conical surfaces automatically center the discs relative to the hub.

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Sinzheim, Germany

Helmut Braun