Fichtel & Sachs Ag

Johannes Sossnitza

Wilfried Glock

Bernd Schoder

Horst Jadicke

Josef Riedmann

Jurgen Demgensky

Friedrich Schramm

Hydrokinetic torque converter with a lock-up clutch, which is equipped with one or more friction plates to increase the transmission capacity or to reduce the internal pressure, whereby at least a portion of the wall of the turbine wheel and the components holding the corresponding friction plate are designed as one piece.

Hydrokinetic torque converter with lock-up clutch

Hydrokinetic torque converter, including a housing driven by an internal combustion engine with a housing wall near the drive which is provided with a concentric guide hub, a pump wheel integrated into the housing wall away from the drive, a turbine wheel located between the pump wheel and the housing wall near the drive, which turbine wheel is non-rotationally connected by means of a turbine wheel hub to the output, possibly a stator located between the two, whereby the turbine wheel and/or the pump wheel are provided with axial bearings opposite the stator, and whereby the walls of the pump wheel and/or of the turbine wheel pressurized with axial pressure are provided on their radially inside diameter with mountings for fastening the axial bearings.

Hydrokinetic torque converter

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Unterspiesheim, Germany

Johannes Sossnitza