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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2002
Filed:
May. 15, 2000
Gustave Chasseguet, Taverny, FR;
Frédéric Sauvage, Le Kremlin Bicetre, FR;
Philippe Cossonniere, Jouy en Josas, FR;
Valeo, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The invention concerns a hydrokinetic coupling apparatus comprising a turbine wheel capable of being interlocked with a driven shaft and housed in an impulse starter wheel with which it can co-operate for hydrokinetic transmission of a torque to said driven shaft, from an input shaft capable of being interlocked with said impulse starter wheel, the turbine wheel and/or the impulse starter wheel being constituted in the form of a wheel ( ) including an external doughnut-shaped part ( ) fixed on a hub ( ) and blades ( ) integral with said external doughnut-shaped part ( ) and optionally with an internal doughnut-shaped part ( ). Said blade wheel ( ) is at least partially moulded in one or several parts in synthetic material, in particular a thermoplastic material, a thermosetting material or a synthetic material alloy, said materials being reinforced with resistant fibres.