ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,262, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MCLAREN ENGINEERING CRIMMITSCHAU TECH CENTER GMBH (Crimmitschau, Germany).
"Switchable clutch unit" was invented by Bastian Stockner (Zwickau-Polbitz, Germany), Robert Schuster (Zwickau-Polbitz, Germany), Josia Buchert (Chemnitz Altchemnitz, Germany) and Evan Swinger (Farmington Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switchable clutch unit for coupling a drive component, wherein the clutch unit comprises: a primary side and a secondary side, which can be positively connected to one another for rotary driving, wherein the secondary side has driving recesses distributed around the circumfe...