Torque transmitting and torsion damping apparatus for use in motor vehicles

a torsion damping and transmission device technology, applied in the direction of machines/engines, couplings, bearing units, etc., can solve the problems of affecting the operation and useful life of bearings, the torsion damping device failed to gain widespread acceptance, and the torsion damping device failed to gain popularity in the automotive and other industries
USRE37465E1Inactive Publication Date: 2001-12-11LUK LAMELLEN & KUPPLUNGSBAU BETEILIGUNGS KG
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US · United States
Current Assignee / Owner
LUK LAMELLEN & KUPPLUNGSBAU BETEILIGUNGS KG
Publication Date
2001-12-11
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

A torsion damping apparatus between the crankshaft of the engine and the input shaft of the change-speed transmission of a motor vehicle has two flywheels one of which is driven by the crankshaft and the other of which drives the input shaft by way of a friction clutch which generates heat. In order to prevent the transfer of heat from the friction clutch to the antifriction bearing between the flywheels, which are rotatable relative to each other against the opposition of a damper, the bearing is at least partially surrounded by a thermal barrier of synthetic plastic, ceramic or metallic material which prolongs the useful life of the bearing and enhances the torsion damping action of the damper. The thermal barrier can constitute or form part of the damper. The bearing can be disposed radially inwardly of the location of engagement between the clutch and the other flywheel and can be cooled by streams of air flowing through an annulus of passages each having a first end disposed radially inwardly of the friction surface of the other flywheel and a larger second end in a second surface of the other flywheel opposite the friction surface. Heat barriers in the other flywheel can alternate with the passages in the circumferential direction of the other flywheel.
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONThe present invention relates to torque transmitting and torsion damping apparatus, especially to improvements in torque transmitting and torsion damping apparatus which can be utilized in motor vehicles to compensate for fluctuations of torque which is transmitted between driving and driven components, particularly between the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine and the input shaft of the change-speed transmission in a passenger car or another motor vehicle.It is already known to provide a torsion damping apparatus, which is installed in a motor vehicle between the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine and the input shaft of the change-speed transmission, with several flywheels which are rotatable relative to each other within certain limits and against the opposition of one or more dampers. Such apparatus are disclosed, for example, in commonly owned copending patent application Ser. No. 669,657 of Oswald Friedmann as well as in several o...

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