Process for measuring unbalance of torque converter and process for correcting such unbalance

• US 5,201,116 A
• Filed: 04/23/1991
• Issued: 04/13/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Murakami, Mitsunori, Katsuno, Yasuharu, Kikuchi, Tokio, Kano, Toshiharu, Namiki, Koh, Kumita, Zenichiro, Ichihashi, Satoru
• Primary Examiner(s): Gorski, Joseph M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): VO, PETER DUNG BA
• Application Number:
  US07/689,585
• Time in Patent Office: 721 Days
• Field of Search: 29/407, 29/889.1, 29/889.4, 29/889.5, 29/901, 29/888, 29/888.02, 29/888.021, 73/468, 73/469, 73/470, 73/455, 73/460, 74/603, 74/604, 74/866, 123/192 B, 416/174, 416/180, 416/197
• US Class Current: 29/889.5
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 1/16 by oscillating or rotating the body to be tested
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 1/32 by adding material to the body to be tested, e.g. by correcting-weights
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 29/901 Balancing method
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49238 Repairing, converting, servicing or salvaging
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49318 Repairing or disassembling
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/4933 Fluid coupling device

Abstract

A process for measuring an unbalance of a torque converter, in which an outer member and an inner member of the torque converter are assembled, and oil is filled into the outer member to establish a condition similar to an actual service state of the torque converter. In this condition, the two members are rotated in unison. If the rotational speed of the torque converter reaches a measuring rotational speed, a plurality of measurements are conducted with the phase of the outer and inner members being varied between each measurement through a predetermined angle, thereby correctly detecting only an unbalance due to the outer member, with an unbalance due to the inner member being canceled from the results of the measurements. Cutting a balance weight having a weight sufficient to correct the detected unbalance from a metal tape and attached said cut balance weight to an outer periphery of the outer member of the torque converter at a given position by spot-welding or adhesive-bonding.

Claims

1. A process for measuring an unbalance of an outer member of a torque converter by assembling an inner member within an outer member and rotating the two members in unison, comprising the steps of:

conducting a plurality of measurements of the torque converter with a phase of coupling between the outer and inner members in an assembled state differentiated by a predetermined angle for the respective measurements;

increasing a rotational speed of the outer and inner members in said assembled state to a measuring rotational speed, then conducting said plurality of measurements at the measuring rotational speed, and thereafter reducing the rotational speed of said outer and inner members from said measuring rotational speed, and

processing said measurements thereby calculating unbalance due to the outer member while canceling any unbalance due to the inner member.

2. The process for measuring an unbalance of an outer member of a torque converter according to 1, wherein said measurements are conducted in a condition in which oil is filled within the outer member.

3. A process for correcting an unbalance of a torque converter comprising an inner member and an outer member coupled to the inner member, the process comprising the steps of:

filling oil into the outer member;

conducting a plurality of measurements for an unbalance of the torque converter with a phase of coupling between the outer and inner members differentiated by a predetermined angle for the respective measurements processing and results of said measurements to calculate an unbalance due to the outer member and oil while canceling any unbalance due to the inner member;

cutting a metal tape into a balance weight having a sufficient weight to correct the calculated unbalance and binding said balance weight to an outer periphery of the torque converter at a predetermined location; and

discharging said oil from within the outer member.

4. A process for measuring an unbalance of an outer member of a torque converter by assembling an inner member within an outer member and rotating the two members in unison, comprising the steps of:

conducting a plurality of measurements of the torque converter with a phase of coupling between the outer and inner members in an assembled state differentiated by a predetermined angle for the respective measurements;

setting the number of said plurality of measurements and said predetermined angle such that vectors obtained through the measurements for indicating directions and amounts of the unbalance due to said inner member can be canceled out with respect to each other when said vectors are added together, and

processing said measurements thereby calculating unbalance due to the outer member while canceling any unbalance due to the inner member.

5. A process for measuring an unbalance of an outer member of a torque converter by assembling an inner member within an outer member and rotating the two members in unison, comprising the steps of:

conducting a plurality of measurements of the torque converter with a phase of coupling between the outer and inner members in an assembled state differentiated by a predetermined angle for the respective measurements and in which oil is filled within the outer member, and

processing said measurements thereby calculating unbalance due to the outer member while canceling any unbalance due to the inner member.