Double or multiple disk coupling device and disk arrangement therefor

US7114605B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ZF Sachs AG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Grosspietsch · Schweinfurt, DE
• Wolfgang Kundermann · Schweinfurt, DE
• Volker Stampf · Schweinfurt, DE
• Angelika Ebert · Schonungen, DE
• Wolfgang Reisser · Schweinfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 8, 2001
• Grant date: Oct 3, 2006
• Expiry date: Nov 8, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16D2021/0661
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A multiple disk clutch device for arrangement in a drivetrain of a motor vehicle between a drive unit and a transmission, includes at least an inner and an outer disk clutch arrangement that are radially staggered and associated with a transmission input shaft of the transmission. Each of the plural clutch disk arrangements includes a set of disks, the set of disks have an outer disk associated with an outer disk carrier and an inner disk associated with an inner disk carrier. The outer disks are operable to mutually engage the inner disks in a driving arrangement. Each of the plural disk sets includes at least one disk having a lining and at least one disk being unlined where one of the inner and outer disks of the inner and the outer disk clutch arrangements of the plural disk clutch arrangements is the lined disk.