Patent ID: 7810625

Claim:
A sintered clutch ring with a clutch ring axis and a rim of clutch teeth, each clutch tooth having a respective longitudinal axis and comprising respective first and second wedge-like face surfaces intersecting in a respective axial plane, the clutch ring axis lying in each of said axial planes, a respective tooth back, a respective tooth root, and respective first and second flanks, each of said first and second flanks sloping at an angle of inclination from the tooth back towards the tooth root, with the first and second flanks being relieved starting from respective first and second reentrant shoulders axially normal to the longitudinal axis, wherein each axial plane between the respective first and second wedge-like face surfaces extends offset from a respective tooth center along the longitudinal axis of the clutch tooth in a circumferential direction and wherein the first and second reentrant shoulders are axially offset from each other and separate the relieved first and second flanks from respective first and second substantially triangular, axially parallel flank portions adjacent to the first and second wedge-like face surfaces, respectively.