Transmission fluid nozzle
AssigneeFord Motor Company
InventorsDengfu ZHANG, Dongmin LI, Vignesh SURESH, Chin-Yuan PERNG
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Abstract
An apparatus is provided. The apparatus may include an elongated shaft including a passage terminating at a nozzle including a dispersion plate and tapered sidewalls between the dispersion plate and the elongated shaft. The tapered side walls may define a single opening, an outer surface of the sidewalls may define a tapered exit for the opening, an inner surface of the sidewalls may define a non-tapered entrance into the opening, the nozzle is sized to be received by a transmission case inlet, and an internal diameter of the passage is less than the tapered exit.
Claims18
An apparatus comprising:
- an elongated shaft defining a passage terminating at a nozzle including a dispersion plate and tapered sidewalls sandwiched between the dispersion plate and the elongated shaft, wherein the tapered sidewalls define a single opening, an outer surface of the sidewalls define a tapered exit for the opening, an inner surface of the sidewalls define a non-tapered entrance into the opening, the nozzle is sized to be received by a transmission case inlet, and an internal diameter of the passage is less than a width of the tapered exit.
A transmission fluid fill system comprising:
- a hollow shaft terminating at a tapered nozzle, that has a single opening on a side thereof sandwiched between a dispersion plate and the shaft, sized to be received by a transmission case inlet, the dispersion plate and an outer surface of the nozzle defining a tapered exit of the opening and the dispersion plate and an inner surface of the nozzle defining a non-tapered entrance of the opening.
A method of filling a transmission comprising:
- inserting a transmission nozzle including a hollow shaft terminating at a tapered nozzle that has a single opening on a side thereof sandwiched between a dispersion plate and the shaft, the dispersion plate and an outer surface of the nozzle defining a tapered exit of the opening and the dispersion plate and an inner surface of the nozzle defining a non-tapered entrance of the opening;
- orienting the nozzle so that the single opening faces away from a wall of a transmission case;
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- filling the transmission case with transmission fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.