Patent ID: 8033372
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: F16D

Abstract:
1. An overrunning clutch having a first race, a second race rotatable relative to the first race about an axis, a set of pawls between the first race and the second race and a set of ribbon springs between the first race and the second race, one ribbon spring for each pawl and each ribbon spring biasing the corresponding pawl into a position in which the first race and the second race are engaged with each other in a driving direction and are disengaged from each other in a free wheeling direction, the improvement wherein each ribbon spring biases a rearward portion of the corresponding pawl radially inwardly relative to the axis into a pawl receiving recess of one of the two races in which the pawls are received and each ribbon spring is received in a spring receiving recess of the one race.