INFINITE VARIABLE TRANSMISSION, CONTINUOUS VARIABLE TRANSMISSION, METHOD, ASSEMBLY, PARTIAL ASSEMBLY AND ITS CONSTITUENTS

Japanese Patent JP2017207207

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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide constituents, partial assembly, system and/or method of a transmission and an infinite variable transmission [IVT] including improved variator in view of improvement of efficiency and package flexibility, simplified operation, reduction in expenditure, size and complexity.SOLUTION: This invention relates to a transmission 1 comprising a first disc 14, a second disc 16 and several inclinable balls 8 contacted with both of them. There are provided idlers 18A, 18B arranged inside a radial direction of the inclinable balls and contacted with them and it has cages 10 and 12 operably connected to the balls. There are provided a first clutch assembly 4 and a second clutch assembly 6 that are operably connected to the cages and the first disc. At least two of the first disc, the second disc, idlers and cages are adapted to receive input of power force and at the same time at least one of the first disc, second disc, idlers and cages is adapted for providing the power force output.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

DAVID BRIAN JACKSON
THOMASSY FERNAND A
ROBERT SMITHSON
CHARLES B LOHR III

JP2017134610A

November 24, 2017

July 10, 2017

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FALLBROOK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CO LLC

F16H59/08; F16H15/52; F16H59/18; F16H59/44; F16H59/70; F16H61/02; F16H61/664

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Tachibana Kenji
Yamashita Unknown
Tsuyoshi Masuda

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