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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1998
Rudiger Hinkel, Heidenfeld, DE;
Mannesmann Sachs AG, Schweinfurt, DE;
Abstract
A converter housing of a hydrodynamic torque converter with a driver, is formed with a converter cover which is rotatable about a center axis. The driver is arranged at a side of the cover facing a drive in an area preferably extending substantially radially. The driver is in an operative connection with a receptacle of a drive element which is associated with the drive and having a center axis aligned with that of the converter cover. The driver has a platform which is fastened to the converter cover at a predetermined radial distance to the center axis of the converter cover without consideration of the radial distance of the receptacle of the drive element from the center axis of the drive element. At a side of the driver remote from the converter cover, a driver member projects in the direction of the drive element. The radial position of the driver member at the platform is determined so that its radial distance to the center axis of the converter cover corresponds to the radial distance of the receptacle from the center axis of the drive element.