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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2023
Valeo Embrayages, Amiens, FR;
Benoit Perry, Cergy Pontoise, FR;
Bernard Dubois, Cergy Pontoise, FR;
VALEO EMBRAYAGES, Amiens, FR;
Abstract
A clutch mechanism for a motorized vehicle includes a cover, a pressure plate coupled in rotation with the cover and movable axially relative thereto, and a diaphragm spring bearing against the cover and the pressure plate. The diaphragm spring is held in axial preload against the cover by a support washer provided with axial protuberances passing through the diaphragm spring and the cover. Each axial protuberance has an axial stop able to transmit the axial preload force to the cover. A plurality of elastic segments, distributed angularly about the axis of rotation (X) of the clutch mechanism, exert the axial preload on the diaphragm spring.