Kabushiki Kaisha Daikin Seisakusho

Exedy Corporation

Daikin Clutch Corporation

Mamoru Okubo

Hirotaka Fukushima

Kozo Yamamoto

Koji Kajitani

Mitsuhiko Takenaka

Naoki Yanagida

Mitsuo Touji

Hiroshi Takeuchi

Yasuyuki Hashimoto

Hiromi Tojima

Ikuo Murata

Koji Yoneyama

Hiroshi Minakami

A flywheel assembly comprises a first flywheel connectable to an engine, a second flywheel, and an inter-flywheel viscous damping mechanism, providing viscous damping through a fluid of flywheel torsional vibrations. The second flywheel is rotatably supported on the first flywheel and has a friction facing on which a friction material presses. The second flywheel includes an annular capturing channel provided radially inward of the friction facing for capturing fluid from leakage driven on the friction facing side by centrifugal force, and a plurality of through-holes, extending from the capturing channel to a space between the flywheels, for guiding fluid captured by the capturing channel to the space.

Flywheel assembly

The invention relates to a stator having an inner race 24, a metal outer race 23, a stator carrier 21, a plurality of stator blades, and a one-way clutch 26. The one-way clutch 26 includes rollers 27, plate springs 28, and spring supporters 29. The rollers 27 are disposed in a plurality of clearance gaps defined between the inner and outer races becoming gradually larger in width in radial directions in a first circular direction. The plate springs 28 respectively urge the rollers 27 in the first circular directions. The spring supporters 29 are molded integrally with the stator carrier 21 so as to be fixed in an inner circumferential wall of the outer race 23 and support the plate springs 28.

One way clutch mechanism for a torque converter

A flywheel assembly comprises a first flywheel connectable an engine, a second flywheel, and an inter-flywheel viscous damping mechanism, providing viscous damping through a fluid of flywheel torsional vibrations. The second flywheel, is rotatably supported on the first flywheel and has a friction facing on which a friction material presses. The second flywheel includes an annular capturing channel provided rapidly inward of the friction facing for capturing fluid from leakage driven on the friction facing side by centrifugal force, and a plurality of through-holes, extending from the capturing channel to a space between the flywheels, for guiding fluid captured by the capturing channel to the space.

Clutch cover assembly with annular coned disc spring

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Neyagawa, Japan

Mamoru Okubo