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The following reference(s) may be useful when improving this article in the future: Jauch, Friedemann (1999-03-01)."Model-Based Application of a Slip-Controlled Converter Lock-Up Clutch in Automatic Car Transmissions".SAE Technical Paper.doi:10.4271/1999-01-1057.

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Wdl1961,this edit appears to have been an error on your part. Torque converter lockup — when the lockup clutch isapplied, not when it is released — occurs under the stated conditions of steady-speed cruise without substantial torque multiplication. If your edit was intentional, please providesolid support for your assertion, which appears to contradict every reliable text on the subject. Thanks. —Scheinwerfermann^T·_C22:06, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have created a section on manufacturers. Are the Buick and Chevrolet torque converters made in-house or bought from outside manufacturers?Biscuittin (talk)12:35, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have not read through the actual version of the article, but skimmed over the last discussion archive and looked in the commons category.

I would appreciate some color coded / iso-line maps, where the x and y axis are input and output RPM respectively and the color denotes the efficiency.It is important that negative RPMs are included.In further maps input torque, output torque, torque multiplication could be plotted.

I think such a map would allow people who use torque converters to do so efficiently and the world would be a better place.Also the text about torque converters seem to be a problem and images are even more important therfore. --Arnero (talk)13:03, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"As with a basic fluid coupling the theoretical torque capacity of a converter is proportional to${\displaystyle r{N}^2{D}^5}$, where${\displaystyle r}$ is sity of the fluid,${\displaystyle N}$ is the impeller speed (rpm), and${\displaystyle D}$ is the diameter."

obviously wrong${\displaystyle r{N}^2{D}^5}$,${\displaystyle r{N}^5{D}^2}$is correctsee fluid coupling also .try basic eng handbooks.Wdl1961 (talk)00:21, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No. Not "obviously wrong" and theWP:RS handbook ref I've just added agreed with ω^2 D^5, as it read before, and as I understand it to be. Ifyou can show that it's "obviously wrong", then please do so. If you have a reliable ref that supports your claim, then please do so.Andy Dingley (talk)00:40, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've just checked (and fixed)Fluid coupling to N^2D^5. That only claimed N^5D^2 (incorrectly) becauseyouchanged it last January. Please stop introducing errors into Wikipedia like this. You have a track record for this sort of error, incorrect and unsupported by references. Please stop.Andy Dingley (talk)00:46, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

see Revision as of 06:36, 24 December 2006 (edit) (undo)Bigdumbdinosaur .also p=kv^2.//pump.turbine.flow = kv^2.kv^2.v=kv^5.Wdl1961 (talk)01:21, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No matter what the article may or may not have claimed, you can't use it as aWP:RS for itself! Cite a _real_ reference.Andy Dingley (talk)01:32, 9 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bernoulli's equation:${\displaystyle q=\frac{1}{2}\rho v^2}$ isdynamic pressure,the reverse applies to a turbine .fluid flow gives the final v^5 = kn^5.Wdl1961 (talk)16:05, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

So does a torque converter act like a continuous transmission? It seems so seeing as it changes the RPMs and torque to other RPMs and torque.—Precedingunsigned comment added by66.21.83.34 (talk)14:34, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not quite. A torque converter has its own behaviour that varies mechanical advantage in response to conditions like power, angular velocity and load, while a continuous transmission varies mechanical advantage according to a control setting. If a continuous transmission is part of a larger (sub)system that adjusts that control setting the same way in response to conditions like power and load, then that larger (sub)system acts like a torque converter - but that trick doesn't work the other way around, to choose the mechanical advantage of a torque converter the way you can with a continuous transmission.PMLawrence (talk)16:47, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, a torque converter isexactly like a CVT. The name "torque converter" is historical: it is generally applied to fluid couplings that can offer torque multiplication, as acontrast to the early fluid couplings that couldn't do this, and were known asfluid flywheels. Both of these can math varying speeds for input & output, but the simple fluid flywheel does this by slipping (obviously wasteful of power), Föttinger's hydraulic 'torque converter' could do this and also (by multiplying torque) also match power at different speeds, thus avoiding this wasteful slippage.

A "coned pulley" CVT does the same. Power is conserved (with a small waste owing to friction) even when the speeds differ, because there is torque multiplication.Andy Dingley (talk)19:30, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't there be a section on this, or perhaps a distinct article if it's too disparate to belong with the main material? At presentConstantinesco torque converter just redirects to the car that used it, without giving any detail on the device itself.PMLawrence (talk)16:38, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think there should be a separate article, not a section. "Torque converter" means (to all practical purposes) a fluid coupling that offers torque multiplication (i.e. the very commonly known Föttinger type) rather than any general principle applied to a range of devices.

Constantinesco torque converter is a redirect because so far I've lacked the time to write anything more. I've scanned a fair bit on it at Commons, but it's a highly obscure device and few people have even heard of it. I don't understand your edit summary of "not a continuously variable transmission but a true torque converter" for AFAIK itwas a CVT (albeit of limited range) and I don't knwo what makes one torque multiplying device a "true" torque converter whilst another is presumably a "false" torque converter.Andy Dingley (talk)19:35, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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The introduction to this article is a mess and appears to have been edited by someone whose command of technical English is limited.— Precedingunsigned comment added by38.69.12.5 (talk)08:53, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

So no one knows who invented this thing that allowed the 20th century to work? No inventor, group of designers, or patent holders?L3X1◊distænt write◊20:09, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Some people useimpeller andpump interchangeably in the context of torque converters. This article describes the impeller, and later switches to calling it the pump, without any explanation of the term. An easy solution would be to change the first occurrence of 'impeller' to also refer to 'pump', with either a non-essential clause, such as "...the impeller, also known as the pump, which is..."; or a parenthetical clause, such as "...the impeller (also known as thepump), which is..."

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