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US 10,119,597 B2Granted
Transmission assembly
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsSteven Isaac Klurfeld, Gregory Daniel Goleski, Jeffrey Edward Maurer, David Allen Janson
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Abstract
The output gear of a transmission is externally supported from an interior support by two ball bearings. The output gear is fixed to a shell. A carrier of a simple planetary gear set and a ring gear of a stepped pinion planetary gear set are splined to the shell. A brake includes a piston supported by the bell housing and clutch plates splined to the interior support.
Claims18
A transmission comprising:
- a transmission case;
- an interior support fixed to the transmission case;
- a shell fixed to an output gear and externally supported from the interior support by two ball bearings;
- and
- a plurality of clutch plates splined to the interior support.
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A transmission comprising:
- a transmission case;
- an interior support fixed to the transmission case;
- a shell fixed to an output gear and externally supported from the interior support by two ball bearings;
- and
- a first simple planetary gear set having a first sun gear, a first ring gear, and a first carrier splined to the shell.
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A transmission comprising:
- a transmission case;
- an interior support fixed to the transmission case;
- a shell fixed to an output gear and externally supported from the interior support by two ball bearings;
- and
- a stepped pinion planetary gear set having a first sun gear, a second sun gear, a first ring gear splined to the shell, and a first carrier.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.