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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2018
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc., Detroit, MI (US);
Edgar B. Gostin, Jr., Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Neil R. Maurer, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Joseph S. Balenda, II, Grand Blanc, MI (US);
Ronald P. Silye, Livonia, MI (US);
Kenneth E. Gutelius, Lake Orion, MI (US);
Adam Veldhuis, Windsor, CA;
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc., Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle driveline component that employs a latching actuator to toggle between a first operation mode and a second operational mode. The latching actuator includes first and second actuator structures, a biasing spring, which biases the second actuator structure away from the first actuator structure, a linear motor, which can be operated to drive the second actuator structure toward the first actuator structure, and a plurality of linkages that cooperate with the biasing spring to releasably lock the second actuator structure relative to the first actuator structure in each of an extended position and a retracted position.