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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
May. 02, 2007
William Brees, Wooster, OH (US);
Steven Olsen, Wooster, OH (US);
Edward Smeltzer, Ashland, OH (US);
Luk Lamellen und Kupplungsbau Beteiligungs KG, Buehl, DE;
Abstract
The present invention broadly includes a hub assembly for a torque converter having a hub arranged to rotationally connect to a transmission input shaft and includes first and second radial surfaces, a first plate rotationally connected to a turbine, rotationally connected to the hub, and fixed in a first axial direction by the first surface and a second plate rotationally connected to the first plate and fixed in a second axial direction, opposite the first direction, by the second surface. The hub assembly may include a hub having at least one radially disposed protrusion, the protrusion includes the second radial surface, and the first plate is rotationally connected to the protrusion. The hub may further include a body with a first diameter and the protrusion with a second diameter greater than the first diameter. The first and second radial surfaces may be arranged to axially fix a turbine with respect to the hub, or the first and second radial surfaces may be coplanar. The first plate may be in contact with the first radial surface, or the second plate may be in contact with the second radial surface.