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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2007
Applicants:
Bhaskar Marathe, Copley, OH (US);
Joachim Hoffmann, Wooster, OH (US);
Inventors:
Bhaskar Marathe, Copley, OH (US);
Joachim Hoffmann, Wooster, OH (US);
Assignee:
LuK Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KG, Buehl, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 41/26 (2006.01); F16H 45/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A torque converter with torus shape that is sheared such that imagined axial sections through the torus shape, starting from the inner stator passage diameter, are shifted increasingly axially in one direction as the effective radius increases.