211 results about "Automatic transmission fluid" patented technology

Automatic transmission fluids are described which contain at least 0.2 wt % of a metal-containing detergent, a dispersant, and a mixture of friction modifiers. The transmission fluids according to the present invention exhibit excellent initial anti shudder properties, excellent anti-shudder durability, and excellent friction durability.

The invention provides an automatic transmission assembly and an automatic transmission type automobile. The automatic transmission assembly includes an input shaft (1), a first-stage deceleration / speed-up mechanism (2), a continuously variable transmission mechanism (3), a two-stage deceleration / speed-up mechanism Speed-up mechanism (7), planetary mechanism (8) and output shaft (14), the automatic transmission assembly is distributed in-line, the input shaft (1) and output shaft (14) are arranged on the same axis, and the axis forms the automatic transmission The input-output main axis of the assembly The center of gravity of the entire transmission falls on or nearly falls on the input-output axis, which greatly enhances the balance performance of the transmission and the car.

An assembly for filtering contaminants from automatic transmission fluid includes a housing including a first inlet and a second inlet, through which fluid enters the housing, and an outlet, through which fluid exits the housing; a first media filter located within the housing in a first fluid flow path between the first inlet and the outlet; and a second media filter located within the housing in a second fluid flow path between the second inlet and the outlet.

Compositions comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity; an amide represented by the formula R1R2N—C(O)R3 wherein R1 and R2 are hydrocarbyl groups of at least 6 carbon atoms and R3 is a hydroxyalkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a group formed by the condensation of said hydroxyalkyl group, through a hydroxyl group thereof, with an acylating agent; a nitrogen-containing dispersant; and a phosphorus-containing compound are suitable for lubricating a transmission.

Provided is an electric motor having improved overall cooling efficiency by enabling a coolant to flow around a stator and around and through a rotor in parallel for the stator and the rotor to allow the stator and the rotor to be cooled in parallel. In the electric motor, after an automatic transmission fluid flowing into a first coolant inflow port (10) passes through a shaft internal flow path and rotor internal flow paths (27), the automatic transmission fluid passes through a coolant exhaust port (20) to flow out of a housing (18). After the automatic transmission fluid flowing into a second coolant inflow port (11) passes through a clearance (31) between the housing (18) and a stator (17) and around coil ends (29) of stator coils (16), the automatic transmission fluid passes through the coolant exhaust port (20) to flow out of the housing (18).

The present invention relates to functional fluids, especially automatic transmission fluids showing surprising low temperature Brookfield viscosities and methods to produce them.

A hybrid electric vehicle is arranged such that a driving force of an engine and a driving force of an electric motor can be transmitted to driving wheels through an automatic transmission having a plurality of forward gears. When it is detected that the vehicle is in a predetermined state in which it is difficult for the electric motor to output an upper limit torque predetermined as a generable maximum torque, a vehicle ECU controls the automatic transmission using a gear shift map configured such that the automatic transmission is downshifted earlier in accordance with a change in the operating state of the vehicle and upshifted later in accordance with a change in the operating state of the vehicle in comparison with a gear shift map that is used when it is not detected that the vehicle is in the predetermined state.

A composition of a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity; a secondary or tertiary amine being represented by the formula R1R2NR3 wherein R1 and R2 are alkyl groups of at least 6 carbon atoms and R3 is hydrogen, a hydrocarbyl group, a hydroxyl-containing alkyl group, or an amine-containing alkyl group; and a dispersant, provides high static coefficients of friction and a durable positive slope during oxidative and mechanical stressing, particularly as a friction component of an automatic transmission.

In a segment-type wet friction material, an inner peripheral left corner of one segment piece and an inner peripheral right corner of another segment piece are respectively cut off at a fixed angle to a center line of an oil groove. The oil grooves have first oil grooves and second oil grooves. The second oil groove has nearly a uniform width. The first oil groove has an inner peripheral corner portion that is broadened to the center line of the oil groove from a fixed height. In case of being assembled in an automatic transmission, when the segment-type friction material rotates in one direction, an automatic transmission fluid supplied from an inner circumference bumps and touches the portion that is broadened at the fixed angle at a rear side in the rotating direction. Thus, the automatic transmission fluid is positively supplied to a friction surface of the segment piece so as to restrain a contact between a separator plate and the friction surface. Consequently, excess automatic transmission fluid is discharged from the second oil groove, thereby reducing largely a drag torque by the automatic transmission fluid.

There is provided an automatic transmission fluid composition comprising a major amount of a base oil; one or more friction modifiers, wherein total nitrogen content provided by the one or more friction modifiers is greater than or equal to about 300 ppm; and one or more ashless dispersants, wherein the total nitrogen content provided by the one or more ashless dispersants is greater than or equal to about 500 ppm. The automatic transmission fluid may have a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of from about 4 cSt to about 6.5 cSt and a Brookfield viscosity at −40 ° C. of from about 4,000 cP to about 20,000 cP.

The invention relates to compositions comprising a blend of Group III basestocks and low volatility, low viscosity PAO basestocks. The blend is particularly useful for preparing finished lubricants that meet or even exceed the criteria for SAE Grade 0 W multi-grade engine oils. The combination of these low volatility, low viscosity PAOs with Group III basestocks provide, in embodiments, the necessary performance criteria in automatic transmission fluids, automotive or industrial gear oils, hydraulic fluids, or any other high performance lubricant requiring a combination of excellent low fluidity and low volatility.

The present invention relates to the use of a high level of a silicon-containing antifoam agent in automatic transmission fluid (“ATF”) applications. More specifically, the invention relates to a formulation and method for the reduction or elimination of pump whine that occurs in high-pressure pumps used to circulate transmissions fluids in vehicles. The invention also relates to fully formulated ATFs, to transmissions lubricated with such ATFs, and to vehicles containing transmissions lubricated with such ATFs.

An additive compound comprising a non-borated and / or borated reaction product, in which the reaction product is obtained by reacting a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated monovalent aliphatic acid having 8 to 22 carbon atoms, urea, and polyalkylenepolyamine, when employed in a lubricating oil composition is favorably employable as an automatic transmission fluid of internal combustion engines.

The invention discloses a wear resistance improvement automatic transmission fluid, relates to an automobile automatic transmission fluid, and mainly aims at solving the problems of non ideal wear resistance and antioxidant properties of automobile automatic transmission fluids in the prior art. The composition comprises base oil accounting for 85.0 to 97.0% of the total weight; a viscosity index improver accounting for 0.2 to 10.0% of the total weight; an anti-wear reagent at extreme pressure, accounting for 0.2 to 2.0% of the total weight; an antioxidant accounting for 0.05 to 2.0% of the total weight; an antioxidant anticorrosion anti-wear agent accounting for 0.02 to 1.0% of the total weight; a dispersant accounting for 0.1 to 3.0% of the total weight; a detergent accounting for 0.05 to 2.0% of the total weight; an anti rust agent accounting for 0.05 to 3.0% of the total weight; a metal deactivator accounting for 0.02 to 3.0% of the total weight; a pour point depressant accounting for 0.2 to 8.0% of the total weight; and an antifoaming agent accounting for 0.0001 to 0.02% of the total weight. The wear resistance improvement automatic transmission fluid has the advantages of good wear resistance and antioxidant properties.

The invention relates to compositions comprising a blend of Group II basestocks and low volatility, low viscosity PAO basestocks. The blend is particularly useful for preparing finished lubricants that meet or even exceed the criteria for SAE Grade 0W multi-grade engine oils. The combination of these low volatility, low viscosity PAOs with Group II basestocks provide, in embodiments, the necessary performance criteria in automatic transmission fluids, automotive or industrial gear oils, hydraulic fluids, or any other high performance lubricant requiring a combination of excellent low fluidity and low volatility.

A control apparatus for a vehicle having an engine and an automatic transmission includes a rotational speed detection unit that detects the engine speed; a temperature detection unit that detects the temperature of automatic transmission fluid; an calculation unit that calculates a degree of agitation of the automatic transmission fluid based on the detected engine speed and the automatic transmission fluid temperature; an adding unit for adding the calculated degree of agitation to a previously calculated degree of agitation; and a control unit for controlling the automatic transmission based on the sum degree to prevent increasing the degree of agitation.

An improved method and apparatus for detecting end-of-fill at a hydraulic clutch in an automatic transmission with a variable force solenoid are provided. The method includes: initiating clutch fill mode by commanding a high current to the solenoid whereby a high fluid pressure is delivered to the clutch apply volume; monitoring clutch fill time; determining if the fill time is greater than a threshold fill time; monitoring the current (e.g., actual and filtered) being actively drawn by the solenoid during clutch fill mode in response to the fill time being greater than the threshold fill time; detecting if an aberration occurs in the current; and stopping distribution of fluid to the hydraulic clutch in response to the current aberration. Detecting if an aberration occurs preferably includes determining a change in instantaneous armature velocity, and determining if the change in instantaneous velocity is greater than a threshold change in armature velocity.

The automatic transmission fluid filter includes a plastic upper case having an outlet port, a plastic lower case having an inlet port, and a filter element including a filter medium and a plastic holder frame holding the periphery of the filter medium and held between the upper case and lower case, at least one of the upper case and lower case including a pair of joint portions respectively joined to opposite walls a of the holder frame, and a connecting wall connecting the pair of joint portions and having a circular arc longitudinal cross section protruding outward of one case.

A pump assembly includes an electric motor and different selectable pump covers, and is suitable for mounting within a transmission fluid reservoir for transferring automatic transmission fluid. The pump assembly includes a stator housing having a cylindrical cavity for receiving ATF contained in the transmission fluid reservoir. A rotor is rotatably coupled within the cylindrical cavity and has a plurality of magnets arranged about a rotational axis thereof. A flux collector is coupled with the stator housing adjacent to the cylindrical cavity for transferring magnetic flux from one of the plurality of magnets from a first portion to a second portion thereof. A hall sensor is disposed proximate the second portion for sensing magnetic flux in the flux collector, such that the magnetic flux is used to determine a rotated position of the rotor.

The invention relates to a testing method related to an oil pump assembly for an automatic gear box, which comprises the following steps: preparation stage on testing platform; set the preliminary working status; set oil temperature, rotation speed and oil pressure; check a singlechip to determine if all-round data collection is needed; if not, return to the said condition; if yes, collect data from all sensors; the singlechip processes all the sensing information in digital signal; the singlechip compares various temperature-flow rate curve, rotate speed-flow rate curve and pressure-flow rate curve with the theoretical ones, so as to test whether the deviation between the two is no more than 1 percent or not; the testing result can be output and the testing shall be finished if the parameters for all the oil pump have been qualified in the testing. Therefore, the invention verifies and improves the designed oil pump, as well as improves the performance and service life of automatic gear box and the hydraulic system.

The invention provides an automatic transmission fluid combination comprising base oil of main amount and additive of minor amount. The combination comprises the following components by taking the gross weight of the combination as benchmark: (a) at least one amine salt of organic phosphate; (b) at least one dispersant; (c) at least one antioxidant; (d) at least one detergent; (x) allowance of the base oil of synthesized lubricating oil. Due to the combined use of the amine salt of organic phosphate of a new structure with the ashless dispersant, the antioxidant and the detergent, the automatic transmission fluid provided by the invention has good antiwear performance and friction property, thus according with Dexron VI and Allison C-4 specification requirements.

An integrated design for dispensing lubricants and similar fluids from bulk containers incorporates a dispense valve (8), a meter (1), a hose (7), a DC powered electric pump (2), power cord (18) and adjustable fluid suction tube (5), all packaged in one portable unit. The unit is capable of dispensing fluids such as standard SAE grade automotive motor oils, automatic transmission fluid, gear lube, hydraulic oil and engine coolant (antifreeze). The pump motor will shut down at completion of dispense; and emergency shut-off to be provided.

Compositions comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity; an amide represented by the formula R1R2N—C(O)R3 wherein R1 and R2 are hydrocarbyl groups of at least 6 carbon atoms and R3 is a hydroxyalkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a group formed by the condensation of said hydroxyalkyl group, through a hydroxyl group thereof, with an acylating agent; a nitrogen-containing dispersant; and a phosphorus-containing compound are suitable for lubricating a transmission.

An engine idle speed control device set a target idle speed NsetN for a non-traveling range is set to a high value to activate the catalytic converter early, after the engine is started. Upon detecting that the automatic transmission has been shifted from a non-traveling range to a traveling range, the target idle speed is lowered to a first traveling idle speed Nset1. A feedback gain G used for feedback control of the ignition timing is then set to a larger gain value. The larger gain value is set such that it varies based on the temperature of the automatic transmission fluid or other parameter indicative of the engine friction and / or automatic transmission friction. As a result, the ignition timing is retarded in a precise manner, the engine speed is reduced, and the clutch engagement shock is reduced.

A rubber composition contains an antifoam compound that leaches out of the rubber composition when placed in contact with a functional fluid. The antifoam compound is delivered into a functional fluid such as an automatic transmission fluid or an engine oil by contacting the functional fluid with the rubber composition. In addition to the antifoam compound, the rubber composition contains one or more elastomers, which may be selected from a wide variety of natural or synthetic rubbers. In a preferred embodiment, the elastomer comprises a high temperature elastomer such as acrylic elastomer and ethylene acrylic elastomer.

An automatic transmission fluid (ATF) filtration system that combines both coarse filtering mesh and microfine depth filtering elements simultaneously to remove a wide range of particulate matter, but also maintains an unrestricted flow of ATF to the pump to ensure its volumetric efficiency is disclosed. In the present invention ATF at system pressure is delivered via a hydraulic circuit to a microfine depth filtering element for depth filtration (i.e. several layers of filter media) and, thereafter, is passed into the intake of the coarse filter element or, alternatively, between the intake of the coarse filter element and the pump intake. Because ATF flow through the coarse filter element is continuous and independent of the microfine depth filter element, the volumetric efficiency of the pump is maintained in all phases of operation even at the highest demand points such as at cold start-up, hot idle, and high volume / demand situations.

A phthalic acid such as terephthalic acid is made soluble in an oil of lubricating viscosity by first mixing it with at least one phosphorus compound. The resulting product is useful for reducing corrosion in a transmission lubricant.