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Transmission for performing reliable continuously-variable-speed operation through gear meshing, and vehicle-use continuously-variable transmission device using it

  • US 6,645,106 B2
  • Filed: 04/22/2002
  • Issued: 11/11/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A continuously variable transmission in which a rotation power is transmitted with non-step from an input shaft to an output shaft, comprising:

  • a carrier means engaged with said input shaft, wherein said carrier means rotates by a turbine shaft;

    a plurality of sets of planetary gears supported by said carrier means, wherein said planetary gear sets freely rotate in one body and wherein the number of teeth of one of said planetary gear sets is smaller than that of the other of said planetary gear set;

    a first output means meshed with said planetary gears having the large number of teeth at an outside thereof;

    a second output means meshed with said planetary gears having the large number of teeth at an inside thereof; and

    a transmission means meshed with said planetary gears having the small number of teeth at an inside thereof and rotating in the same direction as said carrier means.

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