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US 2018/0119812 A1Published application
Traction Path Oil Control For A Ball Variator Continuosly Variable Transmission
OwnerJoseph J. Horak, Michael E. Stoneinventors
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Abstract
Provided herein is a variator including: a first traction ring assembly and a second traction ring assembly in contact with a plurality of balls, wherein each ball of the plurality of balls has a tiltable axis of rotation; and a traction patch oil control member coupled to the first and/or second traction ring assembly.
Claims5
A variator comprising:
- a first traction ring assembly and a second traction ring assembly in contact with a plurality of balls, wherein each ball of the plurality of balls has a tiltable axis of rotation;
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- a traction patch oil control member coupled to the first traction ring assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.