Torus shapes for torque converters

A torque converter for a motor vehicle, comprising a housing and a pump located therein, a turbine, a stator, and a bridging clutch, wherein the pump, the turbine and the stator together form a torus and wherein a torus shape is sheared such that imagined axial sections through the torus shape, staffing from an inner stator passage diameter, are shifted increasingly axially in one direction as an effective radius increases and wherein the torus shape is sheared such that input and output openings for the stator passage are substantially parallel and are each disposed, with respect to a vertical line, at a first acute angle.