Abstract: A method for repairing an electric generator having a rotor that rotates about a vertical axis, the rotor including a spider having a number of spider arms extending radially away from the axis, and a rim surrounding the spider. The weight of the rim is normally carried at least in part by rim support ledges of the spider arms. The method for repair includes supporting the rim from the top of the spider and thereby relieving some or all of the weight of the rim being supported by the rim support ledges.

Abstract: A core ring for a torque converter comprising: an annular body portion including an inner concave surface, an outer convex surface, an inner circumferential edge, and an outer circumferential edge; a plurality of blade tab slots for receiving a plurality of blades; and at least one positioning element including material protruding axially inward from the inner concave surface to form a tip of the positioning element for aligning a stator. A method for installing a torque converter onto a transmission is also provided.

Abstract: A torque converter impeller has a hemispherical wall with a plurality of vanes attached thereto. An improvement comprises a deflector adjacent the ends of the vanes to deflect fluid during rotation of the impeller such that the fluid is directed to the turbine vanes of the torque converter without overshooting the turbine. The deflector is preferably mounted to the inside surface of the impeller wall and extends 360°.

Abstract: A torque converter for a motor vehicle drive train is provided. The torque converter includes a damper including a first cover plate and a drive flange; and a stator assembly. The first cover plate is sealingly rotatable with respect to the stator assembly at a sealed interface and the first cover plate and the drive flange form a fluid flow gap therebetween. Fluid flows through the fluid flow gap during operation of the torque converter. The sealed interface prevents the fluid from flowing therethrough. A method of forming a torque converter is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for transcutaneous measurement of glucose in a host.

Abstract: A fluidic torque transfer device is configured such that the attachment angle of a turbine blade at a fluid outlet of a turbine runner is smaller than the attachment angle of the turbine blade at a fluid inlet of the turbine runner. Furthermore, the turbine runner is structured so that a cross-sectional area St of a turbine flow path defined by the turbine shell, adjacent turbine blades, and the turbine core, which is perpendicular to a centerline of the turbine flow path, satisfies |St?Sref|/Sref?0.2, where a reference area Sref is an average of maximum and minimum values of a cross-sectional area of a pump flow path defined by the pump shell, adjacent pump blades, and the pump core of the pump impeller, which is perpendicular to a centerline of the pump flow path.

Abstract: A fluidic torque transfer device configured with a pump impeller that includes a pump shell, a pump blade attached to the pump shell, and a pump core attached to the pump blade; a turbine runner that includes a turbine shell, a turbine blade attached to the turbine shell, and a turbine core attached to the turbine blade; and a stator that includes a stator blade, and rectifies a flow of a hydraulic fluid from the turbine runner to the pump impeller. The outer contour line of the turbine blade extends outward in an extending direction of a rotation center axis of the pump impeller and the turbine runner on the fluid outlet side of the turbine runner more than an outer contour line of the pump blade on the pump shell side.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stamped centering plate (10) for a torque converter with a first annular surface (12) having at least one arcuate slot (16), a second annular surface (14) opposite the first annular surface, and at least one arcuate segment (20) axially protruding downward from the second annular surface. The slot has an inner radius and an outer radius, the segment has an inner radius and an outer radius, and at least one of the slot radii is equal to at least one of the segment radii. In an example embodiment of the invention, the segment comprises material displaced to form the slot.

Abstract: A torque converter including a turbine, a vibration damper, a cover, the cover having blades, and a clutch pack, the blades increasing a fluid flow toward or away from the clutch pack.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hydrodynamic torque converter comprising an impeller (12) arranged. inside a housing and a turbine (14) and at least one stator blade (18) of a stator (16) arranged between the impeller and the turbine, the rear blade surface of the stator blade having a flat section (30).

Abstract: A blade for a stator in a torque converter, including: a first blade segment connected to an inner circumferential section of the stator; at least one second blade segment, separately formed from the first blade segment, and connected to the inner circumferential section; and a third blade segment, separately formed from the first and second blade segments, and connected to the inner circumferential section. In some aspects, the first, second, and third blade segments include respective outer radial portions and the outer radial portions are fixedly connected. In some aspects, the first and second blade segments are in contact and the second and third blade segments are in contact. In some aspects, the first, second, and third blade segments include respective edges and the first and second blade segments are in contact along the respective edges and the second and third blade segments are in contact along the respective edges.

Abstract: The present invention broadly comprises a blade for a torque converter stator including a first blade segment connected to inner and outer circumferential sections of the stator and a second blade segment, separately formed from the first blade segment, and connected to the circumferential sections. In some aspects, the blade segments are: in contact along edges, overlapped, circumferentially misaligned, at least partially folded, stamped, or cast. Configurations of the blade segments can be selected to modify performance characteristics of the stator such as torque ratio, efficiency, and capacity. In some aspects, the blade segments are in a circumferential alignment, and the stator includes an alignment element operatively arranged to control the circumferential alignment, for example, in response to pressure from fluid in the stator upon the blade. In some aspects, the stator includes axial halves, separately formed and fixedly connected and the blade segments are connected to respective halves.

Abstract: A torque converter in which the inner turbine output diameter or the inner pump input diameter is smaller than the inner stator passage diameter.

Abstract: A torque converter in which a plurality of output openings of the pump form a cone-shape so that a plurality of input openings of the turbine are substantially parallel to the plurality of output openings of the pump.

Abstract: A torque converter with torus shape that is sheared such that imagined axial sections through the torus shape, starting from the inner stator passage diameter, are shifted increasingly axially in one direction as the effective radius increases.

Abstract: A system is provided for monitoring glucose in a host, including a continuous glucose sensor that produces a data stream indicative of a host's glucose concentration and an integrated receiver that receives the data stream from the continuous glucose sensor and calibrates the data stream using a single point glucose monitor that is integral with the integrated receiver. The integrated receiver obtains a glucose value from the single point glucose monitor, calibrates the sensor data stream received from the continuous glucose sensor, and displays one or both of the single point glucose measurement values and the calibrated continuous glucose sensor values on the user interface.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to shorten the axial dimension at and around the radially inner portion of the hydrodynamic torque transmitting device by devising structures at and around the thrust washer in a hydrodynamic torque transmitting device. A torque converter 1 transmits torque from the engine to an output extending toward the transmission through fluids. The torque converter 1 includes a front cover 2, an impeller 3, and a turbine 4. The turbine 4 includes a turbine shell 11 that is located opposite the impeller 3 and is provided with a plurality of blades, and a turbine hub 13 located at a radially inner end of the turbine shell 11 to couple the turbine shell 11 with the output shaft.

Abstract: A torque converter includes an impeller and a turbine. The impeller has a substantially constant flow area from a radially inward inlet to a radially outward outlet through a toroidal path. The torque converter turbine has an inlet flow area substantially equal to the impeller outlet flow area and an outlet flow area substantially equal to the impeller inlet flow area. The flow area of the turbine along a toroidal path decreases in size from the turbine inlet to a point substantially midway through the flow path from which point the flow area increases so that the outlet flow area is substantially equal to the inlet flow area.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a blade of a stator, where a passage is formed in the blade of a conventional stator which constitutes a torque converter and thereby generates stable torque and prevents sag in the stall state and at low speed ratios. The present invention is characterized in that an oil flow passage is newly formed between the pressure side and the suction side of the blade of the stator. The present invention avoids the occurrence of flow separation and recirculation regions at low speed ratios through modification of the structure of the blade of the stator and thereby prevents performance deterioration and may improve the overall performance of the torque converter.

Abstract: In a fluid coupling with a baffle plate protruding on the side of an inner peripheral surface of a circulating circuit, a clutch chamber is defined between a back of a turbine impeller and a side cover covering the back of the impeller, to communicate with an outer periphery of the circulating circuit. The clutch chamber is divided by a clutch piston into an inner chamber portion on the side of the turbine impeller and an outer chamber portion on the side of the side cover. The clutch piston is axially movably connected to the turbine impeller, thereby constituting a lock-up clutch, so that a first oil passage leading to the outer chamber portion and a second oil passage leading to an inner periphery of the circulating circuit are put into alternate communication with a discharge portion of an oil pump and with an oil reservoir in a switched manner.

Abstract: A torque converter includes a pump impeller, a turbine impeller, a stator impeller disposed between the pump impeller and the turbine impeller, and a free wheel which is interposed between the stator impeller and a stationary case and operable to lock the stator impeller in order to allow the stator impeller to bear a reaction force generated with the amplification of torque between the pump and turbine impellers. In this torque converter, a stator shaft connected to the stator impeller is disposed with its tip end being passed through a turbine shaft to protrude outside the turbine shaft. The free wheel is interposed between the tip end of the stator shaft and the stationary case. Thus, it is possible to reduce the diameter of the stator impeller and thus, the diameter of the entire torque converter, irrespective of the presence of the free wheel inhibiting the rotation of the stator impeller.

Abstract: An oil passageway 102 for suppling oil to a torque converter 30 having a pump impeller, a turbine runner and a stator 33, or removing it therefrom is formed between the shaft member 41 of a stator shaft 40 and the boss portion 42a of its flange member 42 and extends along a transmission input shaft 20, while a pump impeller boss member 31a has an outer periphery supported facing the pump impeller boss member 31a and situated closer to the stator 33 than that portion of the pump impeller boss member 31a which is supported by the bearing and the oil passageway 102 has its openings 40b and 40c situated closer to the stator 33 than that portion of the pump impeller boss member 31a which is supported by the bearing.

Abstract: A hydrokinetic torque converter, which exhibits important advantages regarding the consumption of fuel and the operation at low RPM in the power train of a motor vehicle, has a stator, a pump and a turbine which jointly form a toroidal structure having a meridian cross-sectional outline which is asymmetrical with reference to at least one axis other than the rotational axis of the housing of the torque converter.

Abstract: A stator wheel for a hydrodynamic torque converter comprises a stator wheel hub arrangement and a plurality of stator wheel blades arranged successively in the circumferential direction of the stator wheel hub arrangement. Each stator wheel blade has a radial inner flow-around profile area and a radial outer flow-around profile area such that a flow-around profile in the radial outer flow-around profile area differs from a flow-around profile in the radial inner flow-around profile area.

Abstract: A turbine wheel arrangement for a hydrodynamic torque converter comprises an outer shell connected with a turbine wheel hub for common rotation and a plurality of blades arranged successively along the circumferential direction at the outer shell. A side of the blades remote from the outer shell is connected to an inner shell so that fluid flow channels are formed between adjacent ones of the blades together with the outer shell and the inner shell. At least one of the blades has an outer blade area lying closer to the outer shell that has a blade contour adapted to a first operating state, especially a starting operation, of a torque converter and an inner blade area lying closer to the inner shell that has a blade contour adapted to a second operating state, especially a driving state, of the torque converter.

Abstract: A torque converter is provided with a stator assembly having a nonrotatable body portion and a plurality of blades pivotally attached to the body portion. The plurality of blades are pivotable between a first position for providing torque multiplication and a second position out of the fluid flow.

Abstract: A torque converter includes a front cover, an impeller, a turbine, a stator and a lockup clutch piston. The lockup clutch piston is located between the front cover and the turbine and is engaged and dis-engaged in response to changes in hydraulic pressure around the piston. The turbine shell is provided at the outer peripheral portion with a flange or projection (61) that extends radially outward toward an inner wall surface (66) and (67) of an impeller shell (22) for limiting fluid flow from around the piston into an area between the turbine and impeller.

Abstract: Described is a viscous damper for a hydraulic power transmission with a lockup clutch. The viscous damper is composed of at least one blade mounted on at least one element of the hydraulic power transmission so that said at least one blade is located in an oil filled in said hydraulic power transmission and controls occurrence of self-excited vibrations. Preferably, plural blades are mounted on a wall of at least one of mutually opposing two elements of the hydraulic transmission, said wall of said at least one element being locate opposite a wall of the other element.

Abstract: A vaned element of a fluid coupler such as a torque converter includes vanes having a depression extending from a leading surface area to a trailing edge of the vane. The depression avoids multiple surface layer changes which introduce turbulence to flow of fluid past the vane. The depression also forms reinforcing ribs in the form of raised walls which dimensionally stabilize the mounting tabs for the vane. In addition the vane construction is light weight since it permits the use of simple cross-sectionally shaped vanes while improving the speed capability of the torque converter and the strength of the vaned elements. The blade construction permits automated assembly techniques for the vaned elements.

Abstract: A fluid coupling has capacity coefficients in forward and reverse driving which can be arbitrarily selected to comply with demand for a wide variety of characteristics in accordance with the intended application. Pump blades Bp and/or turbine blades Bt are inclined in the direction of rotation of pump impeller P and a turbine runner T with inclination angles .theta..sub.2p and .theta..sub.2t with respect to normal lines Lp and Lt of the pump and turbine, respectively. Transfer of working fluid between the pump impeller P and the turbine runner T is thereby smoothened or suppressed in accordance with the inclination angles .theta..sub.2p and .theta..sub.2t, and thus the capacity coefficients in both forward and reverse driving can be arbitrarily selected and fixed.

Abstract: A torque converter has a turbine and a pump with elastomeric linings on its core and shell surfaces proximate to the blades. The elastomeric linings are deformed where the blades engage the core and shell surfaces. This localized deformation effects a seal between the blades and the core and shell surfaces. This seal eliminates leakage between the blades and the cores and the shells, thereby increasing torque converter efficiency.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is a fluid coupling which comprises: a pump impeller connected to the output shaft of an engine; and a turbine runner for transferring a working fluid to and from the pump impeller. On the pump impeller and the turbine runner, respectively, there are arranged a pump blade and a turbine blade without any inner core for guiding the flow of the working fluid inside of the pump impeller and the turbine runner. By bending at least one of the working fluid outlet side of the pump blade and the working fluid inlet side of the turbine blade, there is formed transfer limit means for limiting the transfer of the working fluid when the fluid coupling is in a stalling state.

Abstract: In a torque converter of a coreless type allowing and utilizing a fluid flow in a central core region, the impeller blade exit angle is made smaller in the central core region than in an outer region surrounding the core region so as to increase the velocity and amount of the fluid flow circulating in the outer region and participating in torque multiplication, and decrease the velocity and amount of the fluid flow circulating in the core region like the fluid flow in a fluid coupling.

Abstract: A hydraulic torque converter having an impeller, a turbine and a stator form a torus which has a median section of radial size larger than its axial size. The impeller and the turbine are configured to satisfy the relationship of R.multidot.b=K. The stator has vanes each of varying cross-section thickness and shaped in the form of a wing, and the stator is configured so as to satisfy the relationship R.multidot.b>K, whereR indicates the distance of the converter axis from the center of a circle located in each of the impeller, turbine and stator touching the inner and outer wall of the torus,b indicates the diameter of each circle,K equals a constant,whereby a meridian velocity on the median line is maintained substantially constant.

Abstract: A torque converter apparatus having a sprag-type stator is improved by grinding the fluid directing vanes to have a substantially flat surface and by replacing the one-way rotating sprag with a non-rotating solid sprag billet.

Abstract: In a fluid clutch of the type comprising cooperating pump and turbine elements between which toroidal power-transmitting liquid vortices can be established, control of the clutch by an operator is effected by moving a baffle within the working chamber between a clutched position in which the vortices can be established and maintained, and a declutched position in which it is interposed in the path taken by such vortices and prevents their establishment and maintainence. The baffle is operative to produce the required de-clutching and clutching action by changing the operative volume of the clutch element in which it is mounted. In a preferred structure a radially-slotted annular baffle is mounted on a cylindrical sleeve slidable on the output shaft and moves within the turbine chamber toward and away from the pump element, the turbine vanes entering the slots in the baffle; a spring urges the sleeve and the baffle toward the clutch engaged position further from the pump element.