Hydrokinetic torque converter with stabilizer ring on the blade wheels

US5813227A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Fichtel & Sachs · DE

Inventors

• Uwe Dehrmann · Würzburg, DE
• Wilfried Glock
• Rudiger Hinkel · Schweinfurt, DE
• Ruthard Schneider · Eisenberg, DE
• Peter Volland · Rannungen, DE
• Reinhold Weckesser · Schweinfurt, DE
• Hans-Wilhelm Wienholt · Schweinfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 25, 1996
• Grant date: Sep 29, 1998
• Expiry date: Oct 25, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16H2045/0294
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Hydrodynamic torque converter which comprises blade wheels in the form of a reactor, a pump wheel and a turbine wheel with individual blades which are connected to an outer wall, whereby a torque can be transmitted from the pump wheel to the turbine wheel by means of pressure medium which flows along a flow path from the pump wheel to the turbine wheel, and is transported via the reactor back to the pump wheel, whereby at least one blade wheel comprises at least one stabilizer ring which creates a connection of the individual blades on their exposed sides, and by means of which stabilizer ring the flow path of the pressure medium can be influenced to reduce the flow losses.