Hydrokinetic torque converter

US5515956A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Fichtel & Sachs · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Schoder · Münnerstadt, DE
• Johannes Sossnitza · Unterspiesheim, DE
• Jurgen Demgensky · Schweinfurt, DE
• Josef Riedmann · Arnstein, DE
• Horst Jadicke · Gochsheim, DE
• Wilfried Glock

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 22, 1994
• Grant date: May 14, 1996
• Expiry date: Jun 22, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16H2045/0278
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Hydrokinetic torque converter, including a housing driven by an internal combustion engine with a housing wall near the drive which is provided with a concentric guide hub, a pump wheel integrated into the housing wall away from the drive, a turbine wheel located between the pump wheel and the housing wall near the drive, which turbine wheel is non-rotationally connected by means of a turbine wheel hub to the output, possibly a stator located between the two, whereby the turbine wheel and/or the pump wheel are provided with axial bearings opposite the stator, and whereby the walls of the pump wheel and/or of the turbine wheel pressurized with axial pressure are provided on their radially inside diameter with mountings for fastening the axial bearings.