US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Clutch with a piston that can be pressurised on both sides and a snap closure having a cantilever-type arm" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,646, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Clutch with a piston that can be pressurised on both sides and a snap closure having a cantilever-type arm" was invented by Viktor Lichtenwald (Furth, Germany) and Knut Erdmann (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clutch for selectively coupling a motor to a motor vehicle drivetrain includes a sliding sleeve, an actuating cap arranged for moving the sliding sleeve, a housing comprising two pressure chambers, and a piston arranged in a pressure-dependent axially movable manner between the two pressure chambers. The act...