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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 05, 1996
Heiko Schulz-Andres, Reinfeld, DE;
Fichtel & Sachs AG, Schweinfurt, DE;
Abstract
A friction clutch has an inertia mass attachable to a drive, a housing that serves to accommodate a pressure spring as well as a pressure plate, and a ring that encompasses the rotational axis of the inertia mass and housing and acts, in connection with a signal receiver, as a pulse generator. This ring, because it is not very thick in the radial direction, can be deformed by even small radial forces, so that its inner diameter can be adapted by enlargement or shrinking to the outer diameter of a component intended for its accommodation, such as an inertia mass or housing, in order to establish a friction locking connection between the ring and the outer diameter of the component.