Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Driveline component including multi-function actuator
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Application No.: US17599655Application Date: 2020-03-31
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Publication No.: US11701966B2Publication Date: 2023-07-18
- Inventor: Brent M. Peura , Matthew R. Schmalenberg
- Applicant: GKN Automotive Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Birmingham
- Assignee: GKN Automotive Limited
- Current Assignee: GKN Automotive Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Birmingham
- Agency: Bejin Bieneman PLC
- International Application: PCT/US2020/025981 2020.03.31
- International Announcement: WO2020/205876A 2020.10.08
- Date entered country: 2021-09-29
- Main IPC: F16H63/30
- IPC: F16H63/30 ; B60K17/02 ; B60K17/346 ; F16H3/54 ; F16H48/08 ; F16H61/32 ; F16H63/08

Abstract:
A driveline component includes a first plate and a second plate. A motor is engaged with the first plate. The first plate and the second plate include ramped grooves that ramp toward the other of the first plate and the second plate. Balls are disposed between the first plate and the second plate and are engaged with the ramped grooves. A shifter is engaged with the second plate. Relative rotation of the first plate and the second plate causes the balls in the ramped grooves to move the first plate and the second plate axially relative to each other. This relative rotation may be used to make one type of mode selection, and operation of the shifter by the second plate may be used to make another type of mode selection. This allows the single motor to make both selections.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220194219A1 DRIVELINE COMPONENT INCLUDING MULTI-FUNCTION ACTUATOR Public/Granted day:2022-06-23
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