Patent ID: 6860102

Claim:
A stator adapted to be disposed between an impeller and a turbine of a torque converter, the stator comprising: an annular shell; an annular core disposed radially outside the shell; and a plurality of stator blades connecting the shell and the core, each blade comprising a leading edge adjacent the turbine, a trailing edge adjacent the impeller, a streamlined concave surface extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and substantially facing the turbine, and a streamlined convex surface extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and substantially facing the impeller, wherein a cross-sectional area of the stator blade increases as it approaches the shell, and a predetermined gap in a range of from about 1.5 mm to about 2.5 mm is formed between the neighboring stator blades such that the neighboring stator blades do not overlap with one another.