	US 12,085,129 B2
	Friction clutch with a cover made from sheet metal with folded anti-friction bearing seats, transmission arrangement and production method
Viktor Wiege, Bühl (DE)
Assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & CO.KG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Appl. No. 17/915,503
Filed by Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 22, 2021, PCT No. PCT/DE2021/100170 § 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 29, 2022, PCT Pub. No. WO2021/197532, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 108 818.3 (DE), filed on Mar. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0341005 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. F16D 13/58 (2006.01); F16C 35/06 (2006.01); F16D 13/46 (2006.01)

CPC F16D 13/58 (2013.01) [F16C 35/06 (2013.01); F16C 2361/43 (2013.01); F16D 13/46 (2013.01); F16D 2250/0023 (2013.01); F16D 2250/003 (2013.01); F16D 2300/26 (2013.01)]

15 Claims

1. A friction clutch for a drive train of a motor vehicle, with a cover which, in order to be mounted in a transmission housing or in order to mount a shaft, has an inner bearing seat or an outer bearing seat for respective receiving of an anti-friction bearing, wherein the cover is a sheet metal component having a contour with folds in the region of the inner bearing seat or the outer bearing seat and the contour with folds is machined on its inside to form the inner bearing seat and on its outside to form the outer bearing seat.