Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Drive mechanism for infinitely variable transmission
- Patent Title (中): 无级变速器的驱动机构
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Application No.: US11816023Application Date: 2006-02-10
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Publication No.: US07955210B2Publication Date: 2011-06-07
- Inventor: Christopher John Greenwood , Andrew Damian De Freitas , Robert Andrew Oliver
- Applicant: Christopher John Greenwood , Andrew Damian De Freitas , Robert Andrew Oliver
- Applicant Address: GB Lancashire
- Assignee: Torotrak (Development) Limited
- Current Assignee: Torotrak (Development) Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Lancashire
- Agency: Brooks Kushman P.C.
- Priority: GB0502929.3 20050211
- International Application: PCT/EP2006/050860 WO 20060210
- International Announcement: WO2006/084905 WO 20060817
- Main IPC: F16H37/02
- IPC: F16H37/02 ; F16H15/36

Abstract:
A variator transmission comprises an input shaft (18), an input disc (10) mounted on the input shaft for rotation therewith and an output disc (12) facing the input disc and arranged to rotate coaxially therewith, the input and output discs defining between them a toroidal cavity. Two rollers (14, 16) are located in the toroidal cavity and first and second roller carriage means are provided upon which the first and second rollers respectively are rotatably mounted and end load means (34, 36) urge the rollers into contact with the input and output discs to transmit drive. The two roller carriage means are mounted on opposite sides of the pivotal axis of a lever (50) and the pivotal axis of the lever (50) is movable in the radial direction with respect to the rotational axis of the input and output discs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080269001A1 Drive Mechanism for Infinitely Variable Transmission Public/Granted day:2008-10-30
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