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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:
Aug. 12, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NSK-Warner K.K., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
60338 ; 60365 ; 192-329 ; 192208 ;
Abstract
Described is a viscous damper for a hydraulic power transmission with a lockup clutch. The viscous damper is composed of at least one blade mounted on at least one element of the hydraulic power transmission so that said at least one blade is located in an oil filled in said hydraulic power transmission and controls occurrence of self-excited vibrations. Preferably, plural blades are mounted on a wall of at least one of mutually opposing two elements of the hydraulic transmission, said wall of said at least one element being locate opposite a wall of the other element.