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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1994
Bernd Schoder, Munnerstadt, DE;
Johannes Sossnitza, Unterspiesheim, DE;
Jurgen Demgensky, Schweinfurt, DE;
Josef Riedmann, Arnstein, DE;
Horst Jadicke, Gochsheim, DE;
Wilfried Glock, Dittelbrunn-Hambach, DE;
Fichtel & Sachs AG, Schweinfurt, DE;
Abstract
Hydrokinetic torque converter, including a housing driven by an internal combustion engine with a housing wall near the drive which is provided with a concentric guide hub, a pump wheel integrated into the housing wall away from the drive, a turbine wheel located between the pump wheel and the housing wall near the drive, which turbine wheel is non-rotationally connected by means of a turbine wheel hub to the output, possibly a stator located between the two, whereby the turbine wheel and/or the pump wheel are provided with axial bearings opposite the stator, and whereby the walls of the pump wheel and/or of the turbine wheel pressurized with axial pressure are provided on their radially inside diameter with mountings for fastening the axial bearings.