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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2012
Makoto Kataoka, Hamamatsu, JP;
Naoyuki Miwa, Hamamatsu, JP;
Satoru Kashiwagi, Hamamatsu, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha F.C.C., Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
A power transmitting apparatus can include a clutch housing, a plurality of driving and driven clutch plates, a clutch member, a pressure member, an intermediate member, a plurality of urging devices, and a back-torque limiting cam. The power transmitting apparatus can further include an urging force cut-off device for cutting-off the urging force applied to the pressure member from particular urging devices of the plurality of urging devices by separating the inner ends of the particular urging devices from the pressure member when the intermediate member is moved toward the pressure member by the action of the back-torque limiting cam.