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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
James E Hansen, Northville, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H / ; F16D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
192-325 ; 192-329 ; 192 57 ; 192208 ;
Abstract
A bypass clutch for use in an hydrodynamic torque converter (10) includes a viscous coupling (30) driveably engaged with the torque converter input shell (12) and turbine (18), and a friction clutch (24) driveably engaged with said input shell (12) and turbine (18) in parallel to the viscous coupling (30).