The axially movable pressure plate of a friction clutch for motor vehicles is non-rotatably secured to the housing by a set of leaf springs each of which has an end portion overlying that surface of the pressure plate which faces away from the clutch plate. The end portion of each leaf spring has an opening in register with the open end of a blind bore in the surface of the pressure plate. Such en...

A friction clutch wherein the leaf springs which confine the pressure plate to axial movement relative to the housing are secured to the pressure plate by fastening devices having solid or tubular connecting elements a first portion of each of which is anchored in a discrete blind bore of the pressure plate and each of which extends outwardly through and beyond an opening in the respective leaf sp...

PURPOSE:To reduce a clutch apparatus for cars to compact size and light weight by providing the first and second friction plates which are pressed to each other by the sliding of a piston caused by pressurized oil and a direction changing valve which is switched by operating a clutch lever and adapted to control the supply and discharge of pressurized oil. CONSTITUTION:The clutch apparatus include...

The device (10), mounted elastically for example on a projecting part (30) of the caliper adjacent a projecting part (8) of the fixed support (5), incorporates a flat leaf surface (15) intended to be interposed between the cooperating slide surfaces of the caliper (31) and the support (82) and formed at the end of an intermediate leaf zone forming a flexible ramp surface (14) which cooperates, whe...

An automatic stepless transmission including a high speed gear system and a distribution gear train. An input of the high speed gear system is distributed by the distribution gear train. A high speed counter gear train and a junction gear train are provided. An output of the high speed gear system is produced through the distribution gear train, the high speed counter gear train and the junction g...

PURPOSE:To always ensure breathing action in a gear case housing a bevel gear mechanism, by providing a set of breather passages communicated into the gear case in each side position of side face internal and external diametrical parts of a ring gear. CONSTITUTION:A gear case 5 houses a bevel gear mechanism consisting of a ring gear 6, having a diagonally toothed part 6a in a side face external di...

In packings for hydraulic pistons or piston rods with a packing ring comprised of a tough elastic synthetic material as the contact packing between a stationary machine part comprising an annular groove and a moving machine part comprising an initial slope and of a rubber clamping ring clamping the packing ring radially and providing a sealing action with respect to the annular groove in the stati...

A measuring scale carrier for a longitudinal or angle measuring system is stretched and contracted in a localized manner in order to bring about a desired error correction course through the generation of localized longitudinally extending forces in the carrier. A number of approaches for generating these localized longitudinally extending forces are described, including the use of spring elements...