Hydrodynamic torque converter
AssigneeLuK Getriebe-Systeme GmbH
InventorsJean-Francois Heller, Thomas Heck, Steven Olsen, Rudolf Hönemann
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AssigneeLuK Getriebe-Systeme GmbH
InventorsJean-Francois Heller, Thomas Heck, Steven Olsen, Rudolf Hönemann
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The hydrodynamic torque converter (1) comprises a pump wheel (4) in a casing (2,3), a turbine wheel (5) and a turbine distributor (6). There is also a bypass coupling (70) including an axially moving piston, a torsional oscillations absorber (40) with input and output parts rotating relative to each other in opposition to force accumulators. Its turbine wheel comprises a hub (13) housed axially on the torque converter output hub (15). A connection with the rotational clearance, the splines (32,34), is provided between the two hubs. A fixed connection, by splines (34,41a) is between the input part of the absorber and the turbine wheel hub. The two sets of splines are in the same axial position radially one in the other.
Hydrodynamic torque converter having a pump wheel mounted inside a housing, a turbine wheel, a turbine hub, a stator, an output hub, and a torque converter lock-up clutch with an axially displaceable piston and a torsional vibration damper with an input part and output part which are able to rotate relative to each other at least against the resetting force of energy accumulators arranged between same, wherein the turbine hub is mounted in an axially fixed position on the output hub by means of at least one axial bearing and constrained in the radial direction by means of a radial bearing, a connection with backlash is provided between the turbine hub and the output hub by means of a first pair of toothed profiles allowing rotational play, a rotationally secured connection is provided between the input part of the torsional vibration damper and the turbine hub by means of a second pair of toothed profiles in rotationally rigid engagement, the first and second pairs of toothed profiles are mounted substantially at the same axial position and one of the first and second pairs of toothed profiles is mounted radially inside the other.
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