Hydrodynamic torque converter for vehicles, especially for motor vehicles

US3986356A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Eberhard Frotschner
• Hans Merkle · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 6, 1976
• Grant date: Oct 19, 1976
• Expiry date: Feb 6, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16H61/52
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A hydrodynamic torque converter for vehicles, particularly for passenger motor vehicles, with at least one pump wheel, one turbine wheel and one guide wheel supported on a free-wheeling device, in which the guide blades are automatically adjustable, when the guide wheel rotates, in dependence on the centrifugal force in the sense of a cascade opening with an increasing rotational speed.