Automatic transmission device for automobile
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshihiro Mizuno, Koichi Tanaka, Yusuke Ogata
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Abstract
An automatic transmission device for an automobile includes a torque converter accommodated in a torque converter housing, a stator shaft supporting a stator of the torque converter, a torque converter housing, a stator shaft supporting a stator of the torque converter, a torque converter sleeve provided concentrically with the stator shaft and coupled with an inner periphery side of an impeller shell of the torque converter, a first bearing provided between an inner peripheral surface of the torque converter sleeve and an outer peripheral surface of the stator shaft, and a second bearing provided between an outer peripheral surface of the torque converter sleeve and an inner surface of the torque converter housing.
Claims5
An automatic transmission device for an automobile, said device comprising:
- a torque converter accommodated in a torque converter housing;
- a stator shaft supporting a stator of the torque converter;
- a torque converter sleeve provided concentrically with the stator shaft and coupled with an inner periphery side of an impeller shell of the torque converter;
- a first bearing provided between an inner peripheral surface of the torque converter sleeve and an outer peripheral surface of the stator shaft;
- a second bearing provided between an outer peripheral surface of the torque converter sleeve and an inner surface of the torque converter housing;
- an oil pump placed in a position separated outwardly in a radial direction from an input shaft of the torque converter;
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- a drive sprocket fitted to an outer periphery of the torque converter sleeve to drive the oil pump,
- wherein the first bearing is provided on an inner diameter side of a fitting portion of the torque converter sleeve, the fitting portion being fitted to the drive sprocket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.