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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 24, 2019
Kabushiki Kaisha F.c.c., Hamamatsu, JP;
Kaoru Aono, Shizuoka, JP;
Yuta Yokomichi, Shizuoka, JP;
Yuta Kine, Shizuoka, JP;
Makoto Kataoka, Shizuoka, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha F.C.C., Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a centrifugal clutch configured so that tilt of a clutch weight can be more effectively reduced to reduce occurrence of uneven wear of the clutch weight and a clutch shoe and smoothly swing the clutch weight. A centrifugal clutchincludes clutch weightsand plate-side cam bodieson a drive plateto be rotatably driven by drive force of an engine. The clutch weightturnably displaces to a clutch outerside, and includes a weight-side cam bodyconfigured to climb on the plate-side cam body. In the clutch weight, each of a center portion CCP in a cam contact area CE between the plate-side cam bodyand the weight-side cam body, the positions FP, FPof action of force F, Fof a coupling spring, and a center portion SCP of a clutch shoein a thickness direction thereof is coincident with a barycentric position WCP of the clutch weight