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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2002
Chia-Lung Wu, Kaohsiung Hsien, TW;
San-Chi Lee, Kaohsiung, TW;
Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd., Kaohsiung, TW;
Abstract
A clutch device for an electric motor-driven wheeled vehicle includes a clutch shaft coupled with an input shaft of a gearbox and having a spline segment. A tubular coupler includes a clutching segment with spline and non-spline regions on an inner surrounding wall surface, surrounds the spline segment, and is shiftable relative the spline segment between coupled and uncoupled position. A shifter member has a shifting end disposed in a surrounding recess formed in an outer surrounding wall surface of the coupler, and is externally operable to cause movement of the shifting end so as to shift the coupler between the coupled and uncoupled positions.