US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Actuating element for a clutch, with at least one spring element, and clutch" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,003, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Actuating element for a clutch, with at least one spring element, and clutch" was invented by Manuel Falk (Baden Baden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuating element for a clutch includes an annular piston, a plurality of finger elements arranged for displacing a sliding sleeve, and an annular spring element arranged to couple the plurality of finger elements to the annular piston. The annular spring element may have a circumference and a plurality of recesses arranged along the circumference. Each of the plurality of...