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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:
Feb. 10, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nathan A Everett, Canton, MI (US);
Timothy Raphael Allen, Livonia, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, Inc., Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
192 4892 ; 192 702 ; 403279 ;
Abstract
An assembly of components that includes a sun gear having several radial shoulders as a reference for the location of other components, an overrunning coupling having a surface contacting one of the shoulders, a spline engaging a spline formed on the sun gear, and a clutch hub having tabs that are elastically deformed from an inclined position to a substantially radial position in order to seat within a groove and to contact the second and third shoulders of the sun gear.