Hydrokinetic torque converter with lock-up clutch

US5553693A · 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
• Friedrich Schramm · Schweinfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 22, 1994
• Grant date: Sep 10, 1996
• Expiry date: Jun 22, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/4933
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Hydrokinetic torque converter with a lock-up clutch, which is equipped with one or more friction plates to increase the transmission capacity or to reduce the internal pressure, whereby at least a portion of the wall of the turbine wheel and the components holding the corresponding friction plate are designed as one piece.