US Patent Issued to The Hilliard on June 17 for "Spring and damper assembly for a centrifugal clutch in a continuously variable transmission" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,798, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Hilliard Corp. (Elmira, N.Y.).

"Spring and damper assembly for a centrifugal clutch in a continuously variable transmission" was invented by John R. Updyke (Big Flats, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spring and damper assembly for a centrifugal clutch for a CVT, the CVT having a clutch hub rotatably located within a drum and a plurality of clutch shoes slidingly disposed within the clutch hub. Each shoe includes a spring cavity, the spring and damper assembly being located within the spring cavity. The spring and damper assembly includes a spring disposed within the spring cavity and ...