Patent ID: 8297422
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: F16D

Abstract:
1. A multiple clutch device for a drive train which has a drive unit with a drive shaft and a following transmission, the device comprising: a transmission housing, which is not corotatable with the drive shaft of the drive unit, the device being connectable to the drive shaft of the drive unit and received in the transmission housing; two multi-plate clutches each have an input-side plate carrier, an output-side plate carrier and plates alternating in an axial direction; an actuating device having a housing supported radially on the transmission housing via a bearing block; and a support sheet or a support pot and a supporting hearing arranged so as to connect the input-side plate carrier of at least one of the multi-plate clutches to the housing of the actuating device such that a force flux of an actuating force generated by the actuating device is returned to the housing of the actuating device by the support sheet or the support pot and the supporting hearing, so that the force flux, which is closed within the multiple clutch device, is present.