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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Harald Jeppe, Schweinfurt, DE;
Assignee:
Fichtel & Sachs AG, Schweinfurt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D / ; F16D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1921061 ; 1921062 ; 464 68 ;
Abstract
A friction clutch, in particular for a motor vehicle, the friction clutch comprising a clutch plate, the clutch plate comprising a hub with a hub plate and two cover plates disposed on opposite sides of the hub plate. A plastic ring is disposed on one side of the hub plate. The inner portion of the plastic ring is disposed at the hub plate, the outer portion of the plastic ring is disposed at a central opening of the first cover plate. The outer portion of the plastic ring comprises a resilient biasing member which resilient biasing member is disposed to resiliently bias the first cover plate away from the outer portion of the plastic ring.