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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2002
Jean-Francois Heller, Illkirch-Grafenstad, FR;
Urban Panther, Seelbach, DE;
Jan Grabenstätter, Gernsbach, DE;
Thomas Rammhofer, Sasbach, DE;
Roland Welter, Bühl, DE;
LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KG, Buhl/Baden, DE;
Abstract
The piston of a master cylinder in the power train of a motor vehicle is made, at least in part, of a thermosetting plastic material and cooperates with one or more annular seals to ensure that a source of hydraulic fluid is communicatively connected with the chamber in the housing of the master cylinder when the piston is moved by one or more springs or otherwise in a sense to increase the volume of the chamber. When a pedal or another actuator causes the piston to expel pressurized fluid from the master cylinder into a slave cylinder, the seal or seals cooperates or cooperate with the housing and/or with the piston of the master cylinder to seal the source from the chamber of the master cylinder. The slave cylinder can actuate the friction clutch between the prime mover and the transmission in the power train of the motor vehicle. The piston of the master cylinder is reciprocable by or with a piston rod by way of a ball and socket joint wherein the ball of the piston rod is held against unintentional extraction from the socket of a connector forming part of or being anchored in the piston.