Patent ID: 8568265

Claim:
A clutch device, comprising: a housing (H 100 ); an epicyclic gear set (EG 101 ) installed within the housing (H 100 ), wherein: said epicyclic gear set includes an input wheel (W 101 ), and output wheel (W 102 ), and an epicyclic wheel (W 103 ) that rotatably engages the input wheel (W 101 ) and the output wheel (W 102 ), said input wheel (W 101 ), output wheel (W 102 ), and epicyclic wheel (W 103 ) each includes one of a bevel gear and a bevel friction wheel, and said input wheel (W 101 ) is mounted on a first rotation shaft (S 101 ), said output wheel (W 102 ) is mounted on a second rotation shaft (S 102 ) coaxial with the first rotation shaft (S 101 ), and said epicyclic wheel is mounted on a rocker arm (Al 01 ) having a sleeve-shaped rotation shaft (AS 101 ) that coaxially surrounds and is rotatable relative to at least one of said first rotation shaft (S 101 ) and said second rotation shaft (S 102 ); and at least one controllable brake device (BK 101 , BK 102 , or BK 103 ) having one side fixed to the housing; (H 100 ) and an action side that is fixed to one of the sleeve-shaped rotation shaft (AS 101 ) or rocker arm (A 101 ), the first rotation shaft (S 101 ), and the second rotation shaft (S 102 ) for controlling operation of the clutch device by locking or releasing said one of the sleeve-shaped rotation shaft (AS 101 ), first rotation shaft (S 101 ), and second rotation shaft (S 102 ).