Abstract: A control system for the clutch of a torque converter to allow direct drive operation of the torque converter in more than one transmission drive train speed level. The fluid pressure normally causing coupling of the clutch is interrupted by a blocking device when a change in drive trains occurs resulting in a lower fluid pressure on one of the drive train operating clutches, and that interruption is prolonged by delaying either the imposition of the high fluid pressure on the blocking device in one embodiment or the imposition of the fluid pressure on the clutch in another embodiment.

Abstract: A control system for a hydraulic transmission for a vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine has a low speed clutch and a high speed clutch, both actuated hydraulically. An oil draining line is connected to a low speed clutch when a control valve assembly is in its high speed position. The control valve assembly has an orifice and a drain oil control valve arranged in parallel. The valve is moved toward closed position when there is an increase in the throttle valve opening of the engine driving the hydraulic transmission. The drain oil control valve includes a valve having an intermediate throttling position between open and closed positions. The drain oil control valve is moved to its open position when oil pressure fed to the high speed clutch increases to a predetermined pressure, which pressure varies in response to the opening of the engine throttle valve.

Abstract: A damper apparatus for a clutch for a torque convertor wherein an opening and closing member for opening and closing a communication hole through a clutch plate comprises a pressure regulating valve having a set pressure for opening and closing and a device for adjusting the set pressure in accordance with the amount of relative turning displacement between the clutch plate and a turbine blade wheel of the torque convertor. The torque convertor generally includes an input casing connected to an input shaft, a pump blade wheel, a turbine blade wheel interposed in an internal space between the pump blade wheel and the input casing, and a clutch plate interposed between the turbine blade wheel and the input casing. The turbine blade wheel is connected to an output shaft. The clutch plate is axially movable to be engaged with or disengaged from the input casing according to a difference in fluid pressures acting on both side surfaces thereof.

Abstract: An operation control system for a hydraulically operated clutch of a fluid torque converter wherein the clutch mechanically couples the input and output of the torque converter under certain conditions. Pressure chambers on either side of the clutch plate are pressurized to operate the clutch. An orifice through the clutch plate allows flow from one chamber to the other. A regulator valve is connected to both pressure chambers and is responsive thereto. The regulator valve is also responsive to external signals such as vehicle speed and throttle opening to regulate the pressure difference in the two chambers for operation of the clutch.

Abstract: Hydraulically operated friction clutches mounted on a rotary shaft within a stationary case receive hydraulic fluid through a longitudinal bore in the shaft communicating with a pressure chamber in each of the clutches. Concentric stationary oil feeding pipes extend axially into one end of said bore, and bushings are provided in the bore for an end portion of each pipe. Stationary supporting members are provided for each pipe, these supporting members each comprising a thin annular plate having inner and outer portions in the same plane and the central portion axially offset therefrom. Sealing rings are clamped between the outer periphery of each supporting member and the case, and additional sealing rings are clamped between each pipe and the supporting member, respectively.

Abstract: An hydraulic transmission interposed between an engine and the wheels of a vehicle is controlled by hydraulic circuits and hydraulically-operated clutches. A shift valve assembly is supplied with oil pressure in accordance with the extent of opening of the throttle of the engine, as well as vehicle governor pressure acting as a vehicle speed signal. The shift valve assembly not only functions to control operation of hydraulic clutches but also acts as a malfunction-preventive valve which operates to impede engagement of the reverse transmission clutch during forward running of the vehicle at a speed higher than a predetermined vehicle speed, irrespective of the throttle valve opening.

Abstract: A control apparatus for a vehicle transmission is provided which has at least two transmission trains, which includes a high speed transmission train and a low speed transmission train. The low speed transmission train includes a one-way clutch. Each of the transmission trains have a clutch therein. The control apparatus comprises a hydraulic circuit coupled to the clutch and a creep-preventer which is coupled to the hydraulic circuit for operating in response to the idling of the vehicle engine when the vehicle is stopped, and to make the one-way clutch inoperative to prevent transmission of power through the low speed transmission when the clutch of the high speed transmission is engaged, to thereby permit operation of the clutch of the low speed transmission train without the transmission of power therethrough.

Abstract: A control device for a torque converter in an automatic speed change gear for vehicles having an input shaft connected to a driving shaft of the engine through a torque converter having a pump disc associated with the driving shaft and a turbine disc associated with the input shaft. Between the pump disc and the turbine disc there is interposed a hydraulically operated direct coupling clutch which is capable of directly coupling the pump and the turbine discs and wherein between an oil pressure cylinder of the direct coupling clutch and a high pressure oil passage connected to an oil pressure source and a low pressure oil passage connected to an oil reservoir there is disposed a centrifugal valve operatively connected with the turbine disc for placing the oil pressure cylinder in communication with the low pressure oil passage at the time of low speed rotation and with the high pressure oil passage at the time of high speed rotation.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an oil-pressure-operated transmission for a vehicle, with a transmission having at least two forward speeds driven by oil pressure clutches, a reverse speed using one of these clutches, and a selector for shifting from forward speed to reverse to engage any of the forward and reverse trains. A manual valve is placed in the transmission hydraulic circuit so that when the manual valve is in automatic shift range on the forward running side, the selector is shifted to its forward running side and the oil pressure clutches in the forward driving trains receive pressure oil from an oil pressure source through a shift valve. When the manual valve is in its reverse position, the selector is shifted to its reverse side and oil is ported to the oil pressure clutch used jointly by the forward and reverse driving trains. The manual valve is located in an oil passage between the shift valve and the jointly used oil pressure clutch.

Abstract: An operation oil supply apparatus in oil pressure operated type transmission of such an arrangement that there are contained, in a transmission casing, high speed and low speed driving trains having therein high speed and low speed oil pressure clutches mounted on a pair of rotary shafts, and a valve block having a manual valve and a shift valve, and the manual valve has a 1st forward running range in which oil supply is given selectively to any of the oil pressure clutches and a 2nd forward running range in which oil supply to the high speed oil pressure clutch is cutoff and oil supply is given to the low speed oil pressure clutch. The high speed oil pressure clutch is arranged to be given oil supply by such an arrangement that an oil supply pipe projecting from the transmission casing is inserted in a center opening made in the rotary shaft supporting the clutch.

Abstract: There is disclosed a relief valve apparatus for an oil pressure operated clutch having an oil pressure operation chamber, the apparatus comprising a weight in combination with a leaf spring wherein the weight, during rotation of the clutch, is subjected to a centrifugal force and, under the influence thereof, promotes a valve opening force of the leaf spring itself to permit the discharge or dumping or oil contained within the chamber.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a control apparatus for an oil pressure operated transmission in an automotive vehicle. The apparatus comprises a transmission with at least two stages of low speed and high speed forward driving trains and it is so arranged that, in an automatic shift range of a manual valve connected through first oil passage to an oil pressure source, low speed and high speed oil pressure clutches are selectively supplied with pressure oil through a shift valve in communication with the manual valve through a second oil passage. In a hold range of the manual valve, the valve is interposed between the low speed oil pressure clutch and the shift valve means for dividing the oil passage into third oil passage on its upstream side and fourth oil passage on its downstream side, having no communication between third and fourth passage and establishing a communication between fourth and first oil passage without through the shift valve means.

Abstract: An automatic transmission comprising a plurality of speed-change hydraulic clutches selectively operated in dependence of various speeds separately carried by an input shaft and an output shaft, and wherein working oil is supplied from a hydraulic oil source to the hydraulic clutches through (a) fixed oil passages provided in a casing, (b) conduction pipes arranged in coaxially spaced relation within one another in a central bore in the input shaft and/or the output shaft, and (c) communicating passages formed in the input shaft and/or output shaft and connected to the hydraulic clutches. The conduction pipes are respectively connected at one end with the fixed oil passages in a fixed or pivotal manner and at the other end with the communicating passages with seals arranged between the outer peripheries thereof and the inner periphery of the bore in the shaft.

Abstract: A hydraulically actuated lockup clutch is arranged between the cores of the pump and turbine elements of a torque converter for directly coupling them together for operation above the clutch point. For engagement and disengagement of the lockup clutch, which can be of the multiplate type, the turbine element is moved toward and away from the pump element under the control of a control valve which selectively communicates a clutch actuating chamber within the converter with an external pump assembly and with a fluid drain. Alternatively, a clutch actuating chamber can be formed between the core of the pump or turbine element and a movable pressure plate, so that the latter may travel toward and away from the former for engagement and disengagement of the clutch.