Eaton Corporation

Loren H Uthoff, Jr

Daniel Vern Gochenour

Michael Lee Bassett

Darwin C Olson

Kevin F Schlosser

David S Densel

John David Conrad

Jason Dahms

Andrzej P Szadkowski

Philip C Van Riper

Roger E Knueve

Steven D Haubert

Greg W Batterton

A quick-connect cartridge assembly includes a ring, a collar disposed within the ring, and an annular seal coaxially disposed with respect to the ring and the collar. A plug having a shank with an outer diameter substantially similar to the inner diameter of the collar is slidably received within the collar and is held within the collar by a friction fit. The plug is also received through the annular seal so as to establish a coaxial relationship with the ring, the collar and the annular seal. The plug includes one or more features for facilitating installation of the ring, the collar and the annular seal into a port and subsequent removal of the plug from the components after installation.

Quick connect cartridge assembly with plug

A coupling assembly includes a female member having a receiving end with an axially extending passageway and inwardly facing groove extending outwardly from said passageway in a position spaced from the receiving end. A split metal locking ring is positioned in the groove. A male member is sized to be received in said receiving end and includes a rib having a ramp where the ramp in a first embodiment curves outwardly to an apex and in a first alternate embodiment curves outwardly to a flat and in a second alternate embodiment increases in height in a linear fashion until a relatively short distance from the flat where it curves outwardly to meet the flat, the rib also has a shoulder tapering away from the forward end and inwardly toward the axis. Upon insertion of the male member into the female member, the split metal ring is expanded as it rides over the ramp, engages the cylindrical surface and retracts to a smaller diameter approaching its original size to engage the shoulder thereby locking the male member into engagement with the female member. A release sleeve is mounted on the male member and is axially movable relative thereto to push the split locking ring up and off of the tapering shoulder to thereby disengage the male member from the female member.

Coupling assembly with profiled ramp

A clutch button is provided including a friction pad having first and second surfaces. The friction pad has a radial outer and inner edges. The friction pad also has first and second upper outward circumferential edges adjacent to the radial outer edge. The friction pad has first and second lower outward circumferential edges adjacent to the radial inner edge. The friction pad has first and second inward circumferential outer edges joining the respective first and second outward upper and lower circumferential edges. The friction pad has a first groove formed in the first surface extending from the first upper outward circumferential edge to one of the second upper and lower outward circumferential edges. A second groove is formed in the first surface extending from the first lower outward circumferential edge to the other one of the second upper or lower circumferential edges the first groove does not extend to. A backing plate is bonded to the second surface.

Clutch friction button

A clutch driven disc assembly includes a hub, an annular spring plate, an annular disc assembly, a plurality of drive springs, and a disc assembly. The hub has an axis of rotation. The annular spring plate rotatably is fixed to the hub. The annular disc assembly is mounted concentric with the axis of rotation for rotation relative to the spring plate. The plurality of drive springs is operably disposed between the spring plate and the disc assembly. The disc assembly has a reinforcing plate with spring pockets which receive the drive springs. The reinforcing plate has oppositely facing faces. The annular disc has a friction element fixed thereto and also has a plurality of attachment apertures passing therethrough. The weld bead is disposed in each of the attachment apertures and fixes the annular disc to one of the reinforcing plate faces.

Welded annular disc and reinforcing plate assembly

A method for making a carbon composite material includes coating a carbon-fiber meshed cloth substrate with a liquid form of a carbon source and carbonizing the coating on the coated substrate by heating the coated substrate to a carbonizing temperature. The thickness of the coating on the substrate is such that, upon carbonization of the coating, the carbonized coated substrate retains porosity and a discernible surface texture.

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Northville, MI, United States of America

Loren H Uthoff, Jr