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Continuously variable vehicle transmission

  • US 20020045511A1
  • Filed: 05/07/2001
  • Published: 04/18/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A drivetrain for a motor vehicle, comprising:

  • a drive shaft, an output shaft arranged coaxially with the drive shaft with a continuously adjustable variator which has two drive toroidal disks rotating together and two output toroidal disks rotating together, with an epicycloidal gear train having at least two gears, one being first sun gear and at least one planet gear supported by a planet carrier, the drive toroidal disks or the output toroidal disks being torsionally fixed or connectable to the first sun gear of the epicycloidal gear train, and the disks (output toroidal disks;

    drive toroidal disks) that are unconnected to the first sun gear being torsionally fixed or connected by at least one planet carrier of the epicycloidal gear train, wherein a second planet gear moved by or with the first planet gear has a diameter such that for a transmission ratio of the variator at on operating point thereof the contact point of the second planet gear with an output element of the epicycloidal gear corresponds to the instantaneous center of the second planet gear.

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