| 摘要 |
Providing a vehicular torque converter in which a stator impeller is offset from a one-way clutch supporting the stator impeller, toward the side of vanes of a pump impeller, and which makes it possible to eliminate a need of re-designing one of a pair of side bearings located on the side of the vanes of the pump impeller, which side bearings are fitted in an annular space between inner and outer circumferential surfaces of respective outer and inner races of the one-way clutch, to center the one-way clutch. A first thrust bearing 44 is provided between the stator impeller 20 and a turbine impeller, to bear thrust loads. The first thrust bearing 44 has a sliding surface with respect to the stator impeller 20, and the sliding surface has a position PB which is radially outward of the one-way clutch 16 and offset in a direction of an axis C from an end face PA-1 of each of sprags of the one-way clutch 18 toward the output side, so that a compression load acting on a side bearing 18f located on the offsetting side is reduced. |
