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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2021
Applicant:
Zf Friedrichshafen Ag, Friedrichshafen, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 45/02 (2006.01); F16H 57/04 (2010.01); F16H 45/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 45/02 (2013.01); F16H 57/0423 (2013.01); F16H 57/0473 (2013.01); F16H 2045/002 (2013.01); F16H 2045/0215 (2013.01); F16H 2045/0221 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hydrodynamic torque converter () with a pump wheel () and with a turbine wheel (), and with a torsion damper () and with an intermediate space () located between the turbine wheel () and the torsion damper (), and with a torus formed by the pump wheel () and the turbine wheel () for hydraulic fluid. A flow-guiding wall () is provided, which deflects a radially outward flow of hydraulic fluid coming from the torus, back radially inward to the intermediate space ().