Patent ID: 7490708

Claim:
A bi-directional overrunning clutch comprising: an input gear; a cam gear disposed within the input gear; and a roller assembly, disposed within the cam gear, including a pair of roll cages having recesses, a pair of hubs, each located at least partially within one of the roll cages and each engaged with an end of a shaft segment of a primary drive axle, wherein each hub has a plurality of detents along an inner surface of the hub and a plurality of detents along a base portion of the hub, a plurality of rollers disposed within the recesses in the roll cages, wherein the rollers selectively engage with the plurality of detents along the base portion of the hub, and a spring extending from one of the roll cages and exerting a force on a ball lock for selective engagement with one of the plurality of detents along the inner surface of one of the hubs, wherein the ball lock disengages from the detent along the inner surface of the hub when the hub rotates faster than the roll cage.