Patent ID: 8191699
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: F16D

Abstract:
1. A friction clutch comprising: a compression plate, a housing, a pressure plate that is rotatably fixed and axially displaceable relative to the compression plate and the housing, a disk spring supported against the housing for displacing the pressure plate, the disk spring having an annular body and a plurality of radially-inwardly-extending and circumferentially spaced disk spring tongues, an annular part having a radially-outwardly-extending flange in contact with a side of the disk spring tongues that axially face the pressure plate, wherein the flange extends radially over radially inner ends of the disk spring tongues and is axially clamped thereto, and wherein the annular part is clamped to the disk spring by a spring part that is supported axially on an opposite side of the disk spring tongues from that facing the pressure plate and that includes spring part tongues that extend axially through respective axial openings in the annular part and extend over a portion of the flange that faces the pressure plate to clamp the annular part axially against the disk spring tongues.