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Cast Component: Hybrid H40/50 EP System Stator Housing.
Material: Aluminum. Process: Nobake.
Application: Hybrid bus stator housing.
Casting Supplier: Eck Industries, Manitowoc, Wis.
Customer: Allison Transmission, Indianapolis
• T e housing holds the two-mode parallel stator assembly used in Allison Transmission’s H40/50 EP hybrid system.
• T e casting is a complex aluminum design that off ers tight concentricity tolerances across multiple large core assemblies, cast-in features, and zero- porosity and no-leak customer requirements.
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The customer tasked Eck Industries to assist in making a transmission with all the durabil- ity of a standard transmission but with hybrid capabilities added.
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