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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2015
Valeo Embrayages, Amiens, FR;
Alexandre Depraete, Bloomfield, MI (US);
Xuexian Yin, Troy, MI (US);
Valeo Embrayages, Amiens, FR;
Abstract
A hydrodynamic coupling arrangement (), comprising an impeller () linkable to a drive shaft, a turbine () linkable to a driven shaft via a hub () and able to hydrodynamically coupled with the impeller (), a lockup clutch () able to short-circuited the hydrodynamically coupling between the impeller () and the turbine (), a torsional vibration damper arrangement () located between the lockup clutch () and the hub (), said torsional vibration damper arrangement comprising an input element (), an output element () and a plurality of elastic elements () disposed between the input element and the output element, the output element of the torsional vibration damper arrangement forms a part of the hub, wherein the coupling arrangement comprises an absorber device () being linked in rotation to the hub, said absorber device comprising a unique resonance frequency.