Machine element or mechanism – Gearing – In series plural interchangeably locked nonplanetary units
Patent
1988-10-28
1990-05-29
Braun, Leslie A.
Machine element or mechanism
Gearing
In series plural interchangeably locked nonplanetary units
192 481, F16H 302, F16D 2100
Patent
active
049285556
ABSTRACT:
In order to provide an automatic transmission for vehicles, having a wide range of transmission ratio, a first transmission unit is provided, with a transmission ratio variable with continuity, connected on its inlet side with a driving shaft, and at least a second transmission unit and a third transmission unit are provided, each with a fixed transmsision ratio, which is different from each other, with each of them being connected, on its inlet side, with said first transmission unit, and on its outlet side, with a driven shaft of the vehicle, which they supply with motion, alternatively to each other; the second transmission unit and the third transmission unit are connected with the first transmission unit by means of two respective automatic couplings, which engage at different actuation speeds.
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Braun Leslie A.
Levi Benjamin
Piaggio & C. S.p.A.
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