Patent ID: 7341134

Claim:
A torque transfer device having at least three components that can rotate relative to each other with each component having at least one disk connected therewith and fixed against relative rotation thereto, where the disks can be brought selectively into a frictional locking engagement, wherein at least one first disk is connected and fixed against relative rotation, to a first component which can be brought into frictional engagement with a second disk connected and fixed against relative rotation to at least a second component, over at least one radially outer friction lining, and which can be brought into frictional engagement with a third disk connected and fixed against relative rotation to at least a third component, over at least one radially inner friction lining, the at least one first disk being capable of being brought into engagement with both the second disk and the third disk at the same time wherein each of the first, second, and third components can rotate independently of one another when the respective first, second and third disks are not engaged and the first, second, and third components rotate as one unit, if all of the first, second, and third disks are engaged with one another.