US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Electric vehicle with powertrain having reverse-acting centrifugal clutch" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,352, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electric vehicle with powertrain having reverse-acting centrifugal clutch" was invented by Nicholas Kuhajda (Berkley, Mich.), Kevin Ray Ruybal (Canton, Mich.), Christopher Golecki (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Jacob Gregory Powers (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle includes an electric drive motor, transmission, and centrifugal clutch. The centrifugal clutch is drivingly coupled in a torque transmission path between the electric drive motor and the transmission. The centrifugal clutch includes a first friction plate,...