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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2002
Jatco Ltd., Fuji, JP;
Abstract
In a torque converter comprised of three major rotating elements, namely a pump impeller, a turbine runner to which a driving power is transmitted through a working fluid from the pump impeller, and a stator disposed between the pump impeller and the turbine runner, a flattening ratio L/D of a sum L of an pump-impeller axial length and a turbine-runner axial length to a torque-converter nominal diameter D is set to be less than or equal to 0.21. In order to balance contradictory requirements, namely reduced curvature loss, i.e., enhanced converter efficiency, proper rate-of-change in working-fluid flow passage area, and proper breakaway of working fluid from each turbine blade, a ratio r/R of a radius of curvature r of a turbine-core outer peripheral curved surface to a radius of curvature R of a turbine-shell outer peripheral curved surface being set to satisfy a predetermined inequality 0.3≦r/R≦0.5.