Patent ID: 6273226
Filing Date: 2001-08-14
Classification: F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
An improved hydrokinetic torque converter including a hydraulic pump, a turbine, a stator, a driven hub being rotatable about a common axis, and further including a housing driven by an output element of an engine of a motor vehicle, said housing being coaxial with said pump, said turbine, said stator, and said hub and defining an interior chamber wherein said turbine and a bypass clutch having an axially displaceable piston are disposed in operative relation to a torsion damper having an input member and an output member, said input and output members being axially rotatable relative to one another against the restoring force of a plurality of energy storing elements arranged in operative relation therebetween, said improvements comprising:interlocking means formed between said output member of said torsion damper and said driven hub such that said output member is non-rotatably mounted in a predetermined axial position on a concentric shoulder diameter of said hub.