ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,627, issued on March 31, was assigned to GKN Automotive Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).
"Differential assembly and actuator assembly for friction disk clutch" was invented by Jan Haupt (Lohmar, Germany), Hanspeter Putzer (Bruneck, Italy) and Thomas Messner (Bruneck, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator assembly comprises a housing part with a sleeve-shaped portion and a flange-shaped portion, a ball ramp mechanism with a support ring and an setting ring, wherein at least the support ring is radially spaced from an outer face of the sleeve-shaped portion; an actuating element which is held axially movably coaxially to t...