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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2001
Andreas Dau, Würzburg, DE;
Andreas Orlamünder, Schweinfurt, DE;
Albert Kammermeier, Sulzheim, DE;
Hartmut Bach, Schweinfurt, DE;
Cora Carlson, Hambach, DE;
Matthias Dörfler, Schweinfurt, DE;
Günther Esly, Wasserlosen, DE;
Reinhard Feldhaus, Poppenhausen, DE;
Ingrid Hoffelner, Knetzgau, DE;
Christoph Kleuker, Gochsheim, DE;
Paul Kraus, Niederwerrn, DE;
Bernd Peinemann, Niederwerrn, DE;
Michael Peterseim, Bergrheinfeld, DE;
Gerhard Röll, Eisenheim, DE;
Ralf Till, Euerbach, DE;
Sebastian Vogt, Bad Neustadt, DE;
Mannesmann Sachs AG, Schweinfurt, DE;
Abstract
A pressure plate assembly for a friction clutch includes a housing arrangement and a pressure plate arrangement, which is held by at least one leaf spring arrangement with freedom of axial movement relative to the housing arrangement. The at least one leaf spring arrangement is fixed by a first attachment area to a first fastening area of the pressure plate arrangement and by a second attachment area to a second fastening area of the housing arrangement. The end area of the first fastening area and/or the second fastening area curves away from the minimum of one leaf spring arrangement, this end area being located in the area along which the at least one leaf spring arrangement extends.