Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lock-up device for torque converter
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Application No.: US14894344Application Date: 2014-05-16
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Publication No.: US09784352B2Publication Date: 2017-10-10
- Inventor: Naoki Tomiyama
- Applicant: EXEDY Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: EXEDY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: EXEDY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: United IP Counselors, LLC
- Priority: JP2013-117889 20130604; JP2013-154506 20130725
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/063076 WO 20140516
- International Announcement: WO2014/196339 WO 20141211
- Main IPC: F16H45/02
- IPC: F16H45/02 ; F16F15/123 ; F16F15/14

Abstract:
A lock-up device for a torque converter is disposed between a front cover coupled to an engine-side member and a torque converter body and directly transmits a torque from the front cover to a turbine of the torque converter. The lock-up device includes a clutch portion to transmit the torque from the front cover to an output side. The lock-up device includes an intermediate member in a power transmission path between the clutch portion and the turbine. An input-side damper mechanism mounted between the clutch portion and the intermediate member attenuates variation in rotational speed. An output-side damper mechanism mounted between the intermediate member and the turbine generates a hysteresis torque larger than a hysteresis torque of the input-side damper mechanism and attenuates variation in rotational speed. The lock-up device also includes a dynamic damper device coupled to the intermediate member and that attenuates variation in rotational speed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160116043A1 LOCK-UP DEVICE FOR TORQUE CONVERTER Public/Granted day:2016-04-28
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