Machine element or mechanism – Gearing – Plural power paths to and/or from gearing
Patent
1984-05-11
1988-08-16
Braun, Leslie A.
Machine element or mechanism
Gearing
Plural power paths to and/or from gearing
74794, F16H 374
Patent
active
047635444
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein are two embodiments of transmissions. In a first embodiment, a transmission is provided in which the input shaft and output shafts are mounted for rotation with respect to each other on a common shaft, and power is transmitted from the input shaft to the output shaft utilizing the gear on the output shaft meshed with an idler gear, the idler gear being coupled to the input shaft through a wobble plate mounted on the input shaft and the connecting rod coupled between the wobble plate and the idler gear. In one aspect of this embodiment, a plurality of idler gears are meshed with the gear on the output shaft and each of the idler gears is coupled to the wobble plate through a connecting rod and a one-way gear or brake. In a second embodiment of the present invention, a transmission is provided which may transmit power from an input shaft to an output shaft in a direct manner or alternatively through a predetermined low gear ratio, or through the use of a unique variable hydraulic torque converter at gear ratios continuously variable between unity and the aforesaid low gear ratio. The torque converter of this embodiment utilizes the interaction of variably extensible pawls with a static fluid to vary the torque responsive to the sensed output load as well as to the speed of rotation of the input shaft.
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Braun Leslie A.
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