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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2000
Michinori Shimizu, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Kazuhiko Morimoto, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Ohsawa, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Yoshiaki Omata, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Suzuki Motor Corporation, Hamamatsu, JP;
Abstract
A composite power unit designed to permit the inertial moment of a flywheel to be positioned adjacent to one end of a crankshaft, thereby allowing the crankshaft to experience a reduced level of bending stress and torsional vibration. The composite power unit includes a flywheel mounted on a crankshaft at one end thereof, which flywheel is formed by a disk-like first flywheel and a second flywheel in which the former flywheel is positioned toward an engine while the latter flywheel is disposed toward a transmission. A rotational sensor and a dynamotor are both disposed between the first and second flywheels and are arranged in sequence from the side of the engine, a flange-like clutch-receiving surface is disposed on the second flywheel at an end thereof toward the transmission, and a clutch is attached to the clutch-receiving surface and covered by a transmission case of the transmission.