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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2003
Reinhold Weidinger, Unterspiesheim, DE;
Reinhold Weidinger, Unterspiesheim, DE;
ZF Sachs AG, Schweinfurt, DE;
Abstract
A pressure plate assembly for a friction clutch comprises a housing arrangement; a pressure plate, which is inside the housing arrangement and which can rotate along with it around an axis of rotation; a force-exerting arrangement, preferably a force-storing device, supported against the housing arrangement and the pressure plate; and a wear take-up device in the path of force transmission between the force-exerting arrangement and the pressure plate. At least one wear take-up element can be moved in order to compensate for wear, and an adjusting element is able to make an adjusting movement which causes the minimum of one wear take-up element to move and thus to compensate for wear, where the adjusting element can be caused to execute its adjusting movement by the action of centrifugal force.