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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2021
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Tatsuhiko Iwasaki, Aki-gun, JP;
Keiichi Nakamura, Aki-gun, JP;
Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima, JP;
Abstract
An automatic transmission includes a clutch having a drum section, a hub, a friction plate, a piston that presses the friction plate, a hydraulic chamber to which hydraulic oil is supplied to urge the piston in a direction toward the friction plate, and a cancellation chamber to which hydraulic oil is supplied to cancel a centrifugal hydraulic pressure applied to the hydraulic oil in the hydraulic chamber, and the piston is interposed between the hydraulic chamber and the cancellation chamber. The drum section includes communication passages that extend in a radial direction and respectively communicate with the hydraulic chamber and the cancellation chamber. Of the communication passages, in the communication passage that communicates with the cancellation chamber, an adjustment member is provided at an end portion on a radially inner side, and can adjust an atmospheric air release position of the communication passage in the radial direction.