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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2017
Gkn Automotive Limited, Worcestershire, GB;
Toshiaki Komatsu, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
GKN Automotive Limited, Worcestershire, GB;
Abstract
A system for a vehicle differential includes a magnetic field generator, a drive member and a lock member. The drive member is movable in response to a magnetic field between a first position and a second position, and the drive member has at least one contact surface. The lock member adjacent to the drive member and having at least one contact surface that is engaged by at least one contact surface of the drive member so that the lock member is driven by the drive member to engage a gear of the differential when the drive member is in the second position, and the lock member is adapted to be disengaged from the gear when the drive member is in the first position. One or both of the drive member and the lock member has at least one contact surface that is discontinuous.