An isolator comprising a pulley having a pulley stop, a plate attached to the pulley, a shaft, the pulley journalled to the shaft, a torsion spring attached to the shaft, a damping member attached to the torsion spring, the damping member disposed between the plate and the pulley, and the damping member compressing a damping fluid against the pulley stop.

A power transmission system is provided, which includes a biasing member configured to bias a second power-transmission member in a rotational direction with respect to a first power-transmission member by a spline part of the biasing member being engaged with a spline part of the second power-transmission member while the biasing member is locked by the first power-transmission member and a spring part thereof is in a first elastically displaced state, and a temporarily fixing member having a temporarily fixing part which temporarily fixes the biasing member to the first power-transmission member in a second elastically displaced state with greater elastic displacement than in the first state. The second power-transmission member is provided, on a first axial side of the spline part, with a canceling part configured to cancel the temporary fixing of the biasing member to the first power-transmission member by the temporarily fixing part.

A torque converter, including: a cover; an impeller including an impeller shell connected to the cover and at least one impeller blade; a turbine in fluid communication with the impeder and including a turbine shell and at least one turbine blade; stator including at least one stator blade; and a vibration damper including a first cover plate, a second cover plate non-rotatably connected to the first cover plate, an intermediate flange axially disposed between the first cover plate and the second cover plate, at least one spring directly engaged with the first cover plate, the second cover plate, and the intermediate flange, and a resilient element directly engaged with the first cover plate and the intermediate flange and urging the intermediate flange in an axial direction, parallel to an axis of rotation of the torque converter, away from the first cover plate and into contact with the second cover plate.

Provided is a damper device enabling to exert stable vibration damping performance over a wide range of rotational speed regardless of environmental changes. A damper device attached to a rotating shaft to suppress amplitude at resonance of the rotating shaft, includes: a damper housing formed annularly and concentrically with the rotating shaft; a plurality of mass bodies annularly arranged around the rotation shaft inside of the damper housing and configured to be movable in the diameter direction by centrifugal force; an annular elastic body, formed of a circular spring-shaped elastic body abutting on the outside of the plurality of the mass bodies, so as to bias the mass body inward; and a biasing member, being a leaf spring-shaped elastic body abutting on the outside of the annular elastic body, so as to bias the annular elastic body inward.

A filtering pulley for an accessory drive of an internal combustion engine, having a hub suitable for connection to an engine accessory, an annular crown provided with a profile configured to cooperate with a drive belt, a coil spring able to transmit torque between the crown and the hub, a first carrier constrained to a first end of the spring and a second carrier constrained to a second end of the spring. The annular crown is externally coaxial to the hub and supported in a rotationally free manner on the hub, and each of the carriers is rotationally coupled to both the hub and the crown with a limited possibility of relative rotation with respect to each of them.

The invention relates to a torque transmission device, more particularly for a motor vehicle, comprising a torque input element (15, 17) and a torque output element (8) able to pivot about an axis (X) with respect to one another, at least one elastic leaf (22), rotationally coupled to the torque output element (8) or to the torque input element (15, 17) respectively, the elastic leaf (22) being able to be elastically and radially held to rest on a supporting member (18) carried by the torque input element (15, 17) or the torque output element (8) respectively, the elastic leaf (22) being able to bend upon rotation of the torque input element (15, 17) with respect to the torque input element (8).

A torque converter, including: a cover to receive torque; an impeller including an impeller shell non-rotatably connected to the cover and an impeller blade; a turbine including a turbine shell and a turbine blade; a first vibration damper including a drive plate to receive torque from the cover, a first cover plate including first and second portions, a first spring directly engaged with the drive plate and the first portion of the first cover plate, and a second cover plate non-rotatably connected to the first cover plate, surrounding a portion of the first spring in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis for the first spring, and including an opening; and a second vibration damper including a cover plate non-rotatably connected to the turbine shell, and a second spring directly engaged with the cover plate for the second vibration damper and with the second portion of the first cover plate.

A torque converter, including: a cover to receive torque; an impeller including an impeller shell non-rotatably connected to the cover and an impeller blade; a turbine including a turbine shell and a turbine blade; a first vibration damper including a drive plate to receive torque from the cover, a first cover plate including first and second portions, a first spring directly engaged with the drive plate and the first portion of the first cover plate, and a second cover plate non-rotatably connected to the first cover plate, surrounding a portion of the first spring in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis for the first spring, and including an opening; and a second vibration damper including a cover plate non-rotatably connected to the turbine shell, and a second spring directly engaged with the cover plate for the second vibration damper and with the second portion of the first cover plate.

An actuator arrangement for applying a torque to a shaft of a machine, in particular a reciprocating piston engine, includes: a) at least one actuator device for applying the torque; and b) at least one rotatable seismic mass coupled to the shaft. The at least one actuator device is designed to apply the torque to the shaft between the seismic mass and the shaft. A corresponding method is provided for active damping of torsional vibrations of the shaft having the actuator arrangement.

A hybrid drive module (110) which is constructed to transmit a torque from an input side (120) to an output side (130) includes a torsional vibration damper (180) which is coupled to the input side (120) and which works at least partially on the principle of power splitting, a disconnect clutch (280) which is coupled to the torsional vibration damper (180) and to the output side (130) and which is constructed to interrupt a torque flow from the input side (120) to the output side (130), and an electric drive component (320) which is coupled to the output side (130) and which is arranged so as to introduce a torque component provided by the electric drive component (320) into the torque flow downstream of the disconnect clutch (280).