Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Kent E Flory

Lev Pekarsky

Jau-Wen Tseng

Carl Garbacik

Michael Alan Brockway

Ronald P Kepner

A transmission oil filter includes a housing having a bottom cover defining a top side, a bottom side, and an inlet. A filter is disposed in the housing to filter contaminates and fines from the oil passing therethrough. One or more magnets is disposed on the top side surrounding the inlet so that oil passes by the one or more magnets when exiting the inlet to remove and trap fines from the passing oil. The bottom side has ridges disposed under the magnets to trap fines flowing under the housing.

Transmission oil filter with internal magnets

A clutch assembly includes a hub rotatable about an axis and at least partially surrounding a cavity, a damper ring within the cavity, able to revolve about the axis, rotatable relative to the hub, a spring, a friction disc, forced elastically by the spring into contact with the damper ring, and a second friction disc contacting the damper ring and providing a reaction to the force of the spring.

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Commerce Township, MI, United States of America

Kent E Flory