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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2018
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Matthew P. Woolston, Hilliard, OH (US);
Scott D. Batdorf, Raymond, OH (US);
Dustin M. Schroeder, Milford Center, OH (US);
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of securing a yoke to a clutch includes arranging a circlip in a circumferential channel in an outer surface of a tool and inserting the tool inside a bore in the clutch. Legs arranged in the channel extend to expand the circlip to an expanded state to arrange the circlip outside of the channel in a circumferential groove in the bore. A spacer is snapped onto a portion of the clutch and arranged between two ends of the circlip to secure the circlip in the expanded state. The tool is then removed from the bore, and a yoke is inserted into the bore. The spacer is then removed from the bore allowing the circlip to contract such that the spacer partially occupies both the groove and a circumferential depression in the yoke. This secures the yoke to the clutch.