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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2021
Gkn Automotive Limited, Birmingham, GB;
Kurt Thomaser, Welsberg Bozen, IT;
Peter Raffin, Kiens, IT;
Thomas Messner, Olang, IT;
Hanspeter Putzer, Gais, IT;
GKN Automotive Limited, Birmingham, GB;
Abstract
A fluid guide assembly for a friction disk clutch comprises an inner disk carrier having a carrier portion, a shoulder portion, and a shaft portion. The carrier portion has a connecting structure for receiving inner disks in a rotationally fixed and axially movable manner; and a fluid guide element which is fixedly connected to the inner disk carrier and which comprises an annular catching portion in which inflowing fluid can be caught, and a plurality of circumferentially distributed tab portions which extend in the axial direction and which each have a radial through-opening. The inner disk carrier has, directed radially outwardly, a plurality of longitudinal grooves which extend axially from the shoulder portion into the carrier portion and which are covered by tab portions of the fluid guide element.