JPH05322003A - Torque converter - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To shorten the axial dimension of a torque converter having a power cut-off clutch and a lock-up clutch. CONSTITUTION:A torque converter is provided with a torque converter body 1, a power cut-off clutch 2 and a lock-up clutch 3. The torque converter body 1 takes a torus shape and transmits power through fluid from a front cover 8 to a main drive shaft 10. The power cut-off clutch 2 is arranged on the side of the torque converter body 1 to transmit and cut off power between the torque converter body 1 and the main drive shaft 10. The lock-up clutch 3 is arranged outside of the torque converter body 1 in its radial direction and inside of an axial space including, the torque converter body 1 and the power cut-off clutch 2 so as to connect/disconnect the front cover 8 to/from the power cut-off clutch 2.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a torque converter, and more particularly to a torque converter having a power cutoff clutch and a lockup clutch.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A torque converter is a device having three types of impellers (pump, turbine, stator) inside and transmitting power by the fluid inside. When the torque converter is used with a manual transmission (for example, Japanese Utility Model Application Laid-Open No. 64-38355), a power cutoff clutch is provided between the torque converter main body and the output side member. Further, some conventional torque converters are equipped with a lock-up clutch that transmits power without directly going through the torque converter body by directly connecting the input side rotating body and the power cutoff clutch.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned conventional example, since the power cutoff clutch is already disposed on the side of the torque converter main body, if the lockup clutch is installed, the axial dimension of the entire torque converter becomes large. turn into. An object of the present invention is to shorten the axial dimension of a torque converter including a power cutoff clutch and a lockup clutch.

[0004]

A torque converter according to the present invention includes a torque converter body, a power cutoff clutch, and a lockup clutch. The torque converter has a torus shape and is for transmitting power from the input side rotating body to the output side member via a fluid. The power cut-off clutch is a clutch arranged laterally of the torque converter main body for transmitting and cutting off power between the torque converter main body and the output side member. The lockup clutch is arranged on the outer peripheral side of the torque converter main body and in the axial space including the torque converter main body and the power cutoff clutch, and is for connecting and disconnecting the input side rotating body and the power cutoff clutch. It is a clutch.

[0005]

In the torque converter according to the present invention, power is transmitted or cut off between the torque converter body and the output side member by the power cutoff clutch. In addition, the lockup clutch transmits or cuts off power between the input side rotating body and the power cutoff clutch.

Here, since the lockup clutch is arranged on the outer peripheral side of the torque converter main body and in the axial space including the torque converter main body and the power cutoff clutch, the axial dimension of the torque converter is short. Is becoming

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Structure FIGS. 1 to 4 show a torque converter as an embodiment of the present invention. Here, OO is the center of rotation. In FIG. 1, this torque converter is mainly composed of three types of impellers, and has a torus-shaped torque converter main body 1, and a power cutoff for transmitting and cutting off the power from the torque converter main body 1 to the main drive shaft 10. The clutch 2 and the lockup clutch 3 for directly transmitting power to the clutch 2. The torque converter main body 1 is composed of a pump 5, a turbine 6 arranged to face the pump 5, and a stator 7 arranged between the pump 5 and an inner peripheral portion of the turbine 6. The pump 5 has a bolt 2 on its outer peripheral portion.
It is fixed to the front cover 8 by 1. Rotational force is input to the front cover 8 from the engine side (left side in FIG. 1). Further, below the torque converter main body 1, an oil supply unit 4 for supplying hydraulic oil and lubricating oil to the power cutoff clutch 2 and the lockup clutch 3 is provided.

The housing 9 is arranged so as to cover the torque converter, and is located on the transmission side (see FIG. 1).
It is fixed to a mission housing (not shown) on the right side of FIG. A main drive shaft 1 connected to a transmission (not shown) is provided at the center of the housing 9.
0 is placed. A plurality of oil passages 10a are provided in the main drive shaft 10.
The working oil and the lubricating oil are supplied to the entire torque converter via a. An outer shaft 65 fixed to the housing 9 is fitted around the main drive shaft 10. The outer shaft 65 fixes the inner race of the stator 7 and rotatably supports the inner peripheral portion of the pump 5 via a bearing 66.

The oil supply section 4 is composed of an oil pump 11 fixed to the housing 9 and an oil suction section 12. The drive gear 11 a of the oil pump 11 meshes with an oil pump gear 47 fixed to the pump 5, and is driven as the pump 5 rotates. The oil suction portion 12 is provided below the torque converter, and includes a tank 12a in which the working oil and the lubricating oil discharged from the torque converter are accumulated, a suction portion 12b for sucking the oil accumulated in the tank 12a, and a control valve 12c. ing. The oil accumulated in the tank 12a is sent from the suction part 12b to the control valve 12c by the oil pump 11, and is supplied from there to each part of the torque converter through the oil passage 10a.

The power cut-off clutch 2 is a space A formed between the torque converter body 1 and the front cover 8.
It is located inside. This power cutoff clutch 2 is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 2, the hub 22, the clutch portion 23, and the damper coupling portion 24 are mainly configured. Hub 22
The main drive shaft 10 is rotatably fitted and has a hole 22f for supplying lubricating oil into the space A from the oil passage 10a. Further, the hub 22 is integrally provided with a flange 22a extending radially outward. A radially inner portion of the flange 22a is fixed to the shell 6a of the turbine 6 by a plurality of rivets 26. A cylindrical portion 22b extending toward the front cover 8 is integrally formed at the outer peripheral end of the flange 22a in the radial direction. As shown in FIG. 3, a seal ring 61 is arranged between the cylindrical portion 22b and the cylindrical portion 8a of the front cover 8. The space A is shielded from the space on the torque converter body 1 side by the seal ring 61, and as a result, the hydraulic oil in the torque converter body 1 is prevented from entering the space A.

As shown in FIG. 4, in the hub 22 including the flange 22a, an oil passage 22c is provided for communicating the oil passage 10a with the oil chamber 31a arranged on the rear surface of the piston 31. Further, the flange 22a is smoothly curved along the back surface of the shell 6a, and as a result, as shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. It is designed to be smoothly guided along the outer periphery.

As shown in FIG. 3, the power cutoff clutch 2 is provided.
The clutch portion 23 is mainly composed of an annular first plate 25, 26, 27 provided on the inner peripheral side of the cylindrical portion 22b,
Annular second plates 28 and 29 provided on the damper connecting portion 24 side, and an annular first piston 31 that presses both plates
It consists of and. First plate 25, 26, 27
The outer peripheral side in the radial direction is spline-fitted inside the cylindrical portion 22b, and is movable in the axial direction. The first plates 25, 26, 27 are restricted from moving in the axial direction by stop rings 30, 50 fixed to the inside of the cylindrical portion 22b. On the other hand, the second plate 28 is the first plate 2
The second plate 29 is arranged between the first and second plates 26 and 27. Annular facing members are attached to both surfaces of the second plates 28 and 29.

The first cone springs 44, 45 are provided between the radially outer portions of the first plates 25, 26, 27, respectively.
Are arranged. First cone spring 44, 45
Presses each of the first plates 25, 26, 27 so as to be isolated from each other. First cone spring 44, 4
The outer peripheral portion of 5 has a spline structure that meshes with the spline portion of the cylindrical portion 22b.

Holes 22d are formed at a plurality of positions at intervals in the circumferential direction between the first plates 25 and 27 of the cylindrical portion 22b. Further, the cylindrical portion 8a of the front cover 8 corresponding to the outside of the hole 22d in the radial direction has a recessed portion 8d whose inner wall surface is recessed outward in the radial direction, and a plurality of discharge holes 8b are formed therein. .. That is, the first plate 25,
The lubricating oil supplied between 26 and 27 is discharged to the outside through the hole 22d and the discharge hole 8b. Further, the lubricating oil in the space A moves outward in the radial direction by the centrifugal force, is concentrated in the inner wall surface recessed portion 8d of the cylindrical portion 8a, and is efficiently discharged.

The first piston 31 is arranged between the first plate 27 and the flange 22a. The first piston 31 is pressed toward the flange 22a by a second cone spring 32 as a return spring.
The first piston 31 moves to the left side in the drawing by the hydraulic oil supplied from the oil passage 22c (FIG. 4) formed in the flange 22, and the first plates 25 to 27 and the second plate 28,
29 is connected.

As shown in FIG. 2, the damper connecting portion 24.
Is mainly composed of a driven hub 32, a driven plate 33, and a torsion spring 34. The driven hub 32 has a spline 32a on the inner peripheral side that is spline-fitted with the main drive shaft 10. The driven hub 32 has a flange portion extending outward in the radial direction. The flange portion of the driven hub 32 and the driven plate 33 are provided with a torsion spring 34 arranged in a window hole formed in the driven hub 32 and extending in the circumferential direction.
Are elastically connected in the circumferential direction. The torsion spring 34 is supported by disc-shaped retaining plates 35 and 36 so as not to come off from both window holes. The retaining plates 35, 36 are fixed to the driven plate 33 by a plurality of stud pins 37, 38 radially outside and inside. Driven hub 32
In the part where the stud pins 37 and 38 penetrate,
A long hole extending in the circumferential direction is formed. This allows
The relative rotation of the driven plate 33 with respect to the driven hub 32 is allowed.

As shown in FIG. 3, the driven plate 33.
A cylindrical locking portion 33a extending toward the torque converter body 1 is integrally formed at the outer peripheral end of the. Locking part 33
On the outer side of a, a spline is formed that locks the inner peripheral ends of the second plates 28 and 29 described above so as to be movable only in the axial direction. Further, the locking portion 33a is formed with a plurality of through holes 33c penetrating in the radial direction. Locking part 33a
An annular protruding portion 33b protruding inward in the radial direction is formed at the tip end in the axial direction of. As a result, the lubricating oil guided to the inside of the locking portion 33a is dammed by the protruding portion 33b and efficiently supplied to the clutch portion 23 through the through hole 33c. In addition, the wall surface 22e of the flange 22a of the hub 22 projects toward the projecting portion 33b so as to approach the inner surface of the locking portion 33a efficiently.

Next, the lockup clutch 3 will be described. The lockup clutch 3 has a front cover 8
Is arranged in an annular space between an annular groove provided in the cylindrical portion 8a and a flange fixed to the shell of the turbine 5. As shown in FIG. 1, the lockup clutch 3
Is arranged radially outside of the radial dimension L of the torus composed of the pump 5, the turbine 6 and the stator 7, and between the axial dimension X including the torque converter body 1 and the power cutoff clutch 2. The arrangement helps reduce the axial dimension of the torque converter as a whole.

As shown in FIG. 3, the lockup clutch 3 is mainly pressed by an annular second piston 41 provided axially movably in an annular groove of the front cover 8 and the second piston 41. Annular third plate 42
And an annular fourth plate 43 movably provided in the cylindrical portion 22b in the axial direction. An annular friction member is fixed to both surfaces of the fourth plate 43.
Between the second piston 41 and the front cover 8, a plurality of spring pins 44 serving as rotation preventing members are arranged. As a result, the second piston 44 is prevented from rotating with respect to the front cover 8 and is movable in the axial direction. An oil chamber 41 a is formed between the second piston 41 and the front cover 8. When hydraulic oil is supplied to the oil chamber 41a from the oil passage 8c (FIG. 4) provided in the front cover 8, the second piston 41 moves to the right side in the drawing,
The third plate 42 and the fourth plate 43 are pressed.

When power is transmitted to the front cover 8 from the operating engine side, the pump 5 is rotated together with the turbine 6 via the hydraulic oil. The rotation of the turbine 6 is generated by the hub 22, the flange 22a, the clutch portion 23, and the damper connecting portion 2
4 is transmitted to the main drive shaft 10.

When the pump 5 rotates, the oil pump gear 47 fixed to the pump 5 is driven. As a result, the oil pump 11 is driven, the oil accumulated in the tank 12a is sucked, and is supplied as a working oil and a lubricating oil to a predetermined location through the oil passage 10a in the main drive shaft 10 by the control valve 12c. As shown by the arrow in FIG. 2, the lubricating oil is the main drive shaft 1
No. 0 oil passage 10a is supplied to the space where the power cutoff clutch 2 is arranged through the oil passage 22f. The lubricating oil supplied to this space moves radially outward by the centrifugal force. At this time, as shown in the enlarged view of FIG.
It is smoothly supplied to the inside of the locking portion 33a along the wall surface 22e of the flange 22a. Here, the protrusion 33b
Since the dispersion is prevented by the lubricating oil,
The oil is efficiently supplied to the clutch portion 23 through the above and lubricates the first plates 25, 26, 27 and the second plates 28, 29. Further, the lubricating oil is the first cone spring 4
It passes through the hole 22d from the spline fitting portions 4 and 45 and concentrates in the inner wall surface recessed portion 8d of the cylindrical portion 8a. Further, the other lubricating oil in the space A moves radially outward due to centrifugal force,
Similarly, it concentrates on the inner wall surface recessed portion 8d of the cylindrical portion 8a. The concentrated lubricating oil is efficiently discharged to the outside of the space A from the discharge hole 8b. The lubricating oil discharged to the outside moves downward,
It is stored in the tank 12a.

Here, since the seal ring 61 prevents the hydraulic oil in the torque converter body 1 from flowing into the space A in which the power cut-off clutch 2 is arranged,
Lubricating oil supply and drain control is accurately performed.
Therefore, the lubricating oil is smoothly and efficiently supplied to the clutch portion 23, and the lubricating oil can be discharged quickly and efficiently. As a result, a required amount of lubricating oil can be reliably supplied when needed, and when the power cut-off clutch 2 is disengaged, the second plates 28, 29 and the first plates 25, 26, 27 are separated. The drag torque generated in the is reduced.

Moreover, when the power shut-off clutch 2 is disengaged, the first cone springs 44 and 45 cause the first plate 2 to move.
5 to 27 are separated from each other, and each first plate 25 to 2
The space between 7 is maintained at a predetermined gap. Therefore, the drag torque of the power cutoff clutch 2 can be further reduced. Furthermore, when the clutch is engaged, the first cone springs 44 and 45 elastically deform together with the second cone spring 32. Therefore, the shock when the clutch is engaged is reduced. Further, the shock generated at the time of connection is relieved by the torsion spring 34, and is less likely to be transmitted to the main drive shaft 10 side.

When the lockup device 3 is operated, the oil chamber 4 is moved from the control valve through the oil passage 8c.
Supply hydraulic oil to 1a. Then, the second piston 41 moves to the right side of the drawing, and the third plate 42 and the fourth plate 4 are moved.
3 is sandwiched between the outer peripheral wall of the pump 5 and the wall of the shell 5. As a result, the rotation input to the front cover 8 is transmitted to the power cutoff clutch 2 without passing through the torque converter body 1.

Here, the power cutoff clutch 2 is arranged outside the radial dimension of the torus of the torque converter body 1, and within the axial dimension X including the torque converter body 1 and the power cutoff clutch 2. It is located in. Therefore, the lockup device 3 can be provided without increasing the axial dimension X occupied by the torque converter body 1 and the power cutoff clutch 2.

[0026]

In the torque converter according to the present invention, the lockup clutch is arranged radially outside the torque converter main body and within the axial dimension including the torque converter main body and the power cutoff clutch. The axial dimension of the converter becomes shorter.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a vertical cross-sectional view of a torque converter that employs an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged partial view of FIG.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged partial view of FIG.

FIG. 4 is an enlarged partial view of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Torque converter main body 2 Power shutoff clutch 3 Lockup clutch 5 Pump 6 Turbine 7 Stator 8 Front cover 10 Main drive shaft

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A torque converter body, which has a torus shape and is used to transmit power from an input side rotating body to an output side member through a fluid, and a torque converter body which is arranged laterally of the torque converter body. A power cutoff clutch for transmitting and cutting off power to and from the output side member, and an outer peripheral side of the torque converter main body and arranged in an axial space including the torque converter main body and the power cutoff clutch. And a lockup clutch for connecting and disconnecting the input side rotating body and the power cutoff clutch.