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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1998
Eugen Schmidt, 98673 Merbelsrod/Thuringen, DE;
Other;
Abstract
A controllable motor vehicle coolant pump driven by an internal combustion engine via a belt pulley connected to a driving shaft. The pump does not require a shaft seal for sealing the flow chamber against the bearing casing of the driving belt pulley, and reduces fuel consumption and exhaust gas emission during the entire operating range of the engine. The pump comprises two opposing clutch halves mounted on two clutch shafts. The impeller of the coolant pump is driven by a permanently magnetic clutch. One clutch half is comprised of a multipole magnetic disc magnetized in sectors on one of the two clutch shafts. The other clutch half comprises a disk made of hysteresis material or a disk with a copper disc arranged therein mounted on the other clutch shaft. The width of the air gap between the two clutch halves is variable depending on the given operational condition of the engine.