ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,862, issued on June 24, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Booster clutch with a rotational axis for a drive train" was invented by Alain Rusch (Gambsheim, France), Martin HaBler (Graben-Neudorf, Germany), Sebastian Kaiser (Starkenburg, Germany) and Marc Finkenzeller (Gengenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A booster clutch includes a pilot-control clutch, a booster output side, a booster input side, a rocker element, a first energy storage element and a drum. The pilot-control clutch has a friction pack and a torque is frictionally transmittable when the friction pack is in a p...