ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,127, issued on May 27, was assigned to BorgWarner Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Clutch device" was invented by Viren Narendra Saxena (Mannheim, Germany), Christopher Anton Stein (Walldorf, Germany) and Matthias Gerhard Veit (Oftersheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clutch device includes a wet-running multiple disc clutch that has a first multiple disc carrier, a second multiple disc carrier, and a multiple disc pack assigned to the first and second multiple disc carrier. The clutch device further includes a first power transmission element on a first axial side of a wall facing away from the multiple disc pack, and a seco...