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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1994
Kozo Yamamoto, Daito, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Daikin Seisakusho, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The device relates to a viscous torsional vibration dampening device for a flywheel mechanism and includes a flywheel (1), drive plates (14), driven plates (15), and a fluid filled chamber housing 18. The drive plates 14, the chamber housing and the flywheel are coupled to one another and rotate together. Within the chamber housing is a first slider cap (30) that forms a first choke between an inner surface of the chamber housing and is arranged to freely move circumferentially inside the liquid chamber. With the first slider cap (30) is a second slider cap (31). The second slider cap (31) is arranged to freely move circumferentially within the confines of the first slider cap (30). A second choke is defined between an inner surface of the first slider cap and an outer surface of the second slider cap that has a fluid path area smaller than that of the first choke. Another surface of the second slider cap (31) and an outer surface formed on the driven plates (15) defines a third choke that has a fluid path area larger than the second choke. The second slider cap (31) is also provided with a mechanism to prohibit relative rotation between the cap (31) and the driven plates (15) beyond an angular displacement range.