US Patent Issued to GKN Automotive on April 21 for "Driveline component with a selective connection assembly" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,234, issued on April 21, was assigned to GKN Automotive Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).

"Driveline component with a selective connection assembly" was invented by Varadarajan Balaraman (Oxford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driveline component with a selective connection assembly includes a first rotary component having splines, a second rotary component having splines, a coupling body arranged to be mated with the first rotary component splines and the second rotary component splines, an actuator, a drive cam and a follower cam. The drive cam is rotated about an axis by the actuator, has first and second drive surfaces b...