CENTRIFUGALLY ACTIVATED ROLLER CLUTCH/OVERRUNNING CLUTCH

摘要

CENTRIFUGALLY ACTIVATED ROLLER CLUTCH/OVERRUNNING CLUTCHABSTRACT:A centrifugally-actuated roller clutch (18) oroverrunning clutch acting to engage two shafts rotatingindependently at different speeds to bring them intoengagement in one or both directions at a predeterminedrpm. The clutch assembly includes an outer race, a wavehub (44) or inner race, clutch rollers (52), a spacerring or spacer blocks to separate the rollers and agarter spring encompassing the rollers. If a freewheel-ing mode is required in one direction, the spacer ringor blocks are not required, and the wave form of theinner hub controls the overrunning action.