US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on May 27 for "Clutch with a piston that can be acted upon from both sides, and stop plate" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,126, issued on May 27, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Clutch with a piston that can be acted upon from both sides, and stop plate" was invented by Markus Heitbaum (Buhlertal, Germany) and Viktor Lichtenwald (Furth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clutch for selectively coupling a motor to a motor vehicle drive train includes a housing, a shift sleeve, an actuating bell arranged to move the shift sleeve, a piston and a stop disc. The housing includes a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber. The piston is connected to the actuating bell and arranged in a pressure-...