Torque transmission device
AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorsEugen Kombowski, Dominique Engelmann, Bruno Mueller, Thorsten Krause, Ralf Stopp
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Abstract
A torque transmission device comprising a torque converter disposed in a drive train of a motor vehicle, in particular a hydrodynamic torque converter or a fluid clutch, wherein the converter or the fluid clutch comprises a turbine shell and a pump shell which can be coupled through a pump clutch and at least one pump damper with a converter cover, and comprising at least one converter damper and at least one converter lock up clutch.
Claims13
A torque transmission device comprising a torque converter disposed in a drive train of a motor vehicle, wherein the torque converter comprises:
- a turbine shell;
- a pump shell;
- a pump clutch with an input and an output;
- at least one pump damper with an input directly connected to a converter cover and an output directly connected to the input of the pump clutch;
- at least one converter damper with:
- an output;
- and
- an input directly connected to the output of the pump clutch;
- and,
- at least one converter lock up clutch with an input directly connected to the output of the at least one converter damper, wherein when the pump clutch is closed and the at least one converter lock up clutch is open:
- a torque path passes through in sequence, the cover, the pump damper, the pump clutch, the pump shell and the turbine shell;
- and,
- the torque path does not pass through the at least one converter damper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.