Patent ID: 6766707
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: F16D,Y10T

Abstract:
A shaft clutch with a rotational axis for alternately positively coupling one of two motor vehicle transmission members to a rotatable shaft having shaft teeth, the shaft clutch comprising:(a) a shift sleave rotationally fixed to the rotatable shaft end axially displaceable with respect to the shaft teeth, wherein said shift sleeve is disposed concentrically to the rotational axis of the shaft clutch; (b) at least one shift dog disposed on an inner circumference of said shift sleeve, wherein said at least one shift dog comprises two axial and regions and at least one axial middle region with a circumferential protuberance; and (c) a plurality of shift teeth rotationally fixed to the motor vehicle transmission member, wherein said at least one shift dog is intermeshed with said plurility of shift teeth; wherein when a torque-transmitting positive coupling between the motor vehicle transmission member and the rotatable shaft is made, one of said two axial end regions of said at least one shift dog engages said plurality of shift teeth, another of said two axial end regions of said at least one shift dog engages the shaft teeth, and said circumferential protuberance is located in an axial clerance between said plurality of shift teeth and the shaft teeth.