Friction disc clutch for a motor vehicle

Claim 1

A friction disc clutch for a motor vehicle driven by an internal combustion engine comprising: (a) a flywheel driveable in rotation by the internal combustion engine about a rotation axis; (b) a clutch cover held on the flywheel; (c) a presser plate connected non-rotatably but axially displaceably with the flywheel; (d) a clutch disc provided with friction linings axially between the flywheel and the presser plate; (e) a clutch spring device braced in between the clutch cover and the presser plate; (f) a rotationally elastic element in a drive path between the internal combustion engine and the flywheel to damp torsional vibrations of the drive path; and (g) a controllable bridge-over clutch for the non-rotatable bridging over of the rotaionally elastic element at rotation rates in the region of or below an idling rotation rate of the internal combustion engine, the flywheel and a starter gear connectible non-rotatably with a crankshaft carry starter toothings arranged side by side and wherein the bridge-over clutch is formed by a starter motor pinion which in the starting of the internal combustion engine engages in common in both starter toothings, and couples them non-rotatably with one another, but otherwise is disengageable from at least one of the two starter toothings.