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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 1984
Filed:
Jan. 17, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hans Merkle, Stuttgart, DE;
Assignee:
Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
60358 ;
Abstract
A hydrodynamic torque converter which includes a booster pressure line for introducing a booster pressure into an internal hydrodynamic circuit. An inlet orifice of the booster pressure line into the circuit, arranged in a zone of the outer torus of the converter, has a radius with respect to the converter axis of rotation which is larger than the smallers radius of the outer torus with respect to the converter axis of rotation. The inlet orifice lies at a turbine wheel of the torque converter.