Dual transmission system and its power shift mechanism
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTsutomu Hayashi, Masaie Katoh
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Abstract
A transmission system including a main transmission and an auxiliary transmission. The main transmission includes at least two transmission trains of multiple gears mounted on respective parallel shafts so that the gears of different trains are selectively engageable. The auxiliary transmission includes a planetary system having an offset pinion gear, mounted on a carrier, engaged between an inner gear and an internally toothed outer gear. The carrier, inner gear and outer gear are coaxial with one of the shafts of the main transmission. The planetary gear system can be controlled so as to fix the rotation of the inner gear or to rotationally link the inner gear to the carrier, thereby providing two speed steps. All the shifting is controlled by one shifting drum.
Claims5
A transmission system, comprising:
- a main transmission, comprising:
- first and second parallel shafts, said first shaft comprising an input shaft mounting a first plurality of gears, and said second shaft comprising a counter shaft mounting a second plurality of gears respectively in mesh with said first plurality of gears;
- at least one of said first plurality of gears being rotationally fixed to said first shaft, at least another of said first plurality of gears being axially slidable along said first shaft to engage another of said first plurality of gears;
- an auxiliary transmission comprising;
- a planetary gear set coupled to said counter shaft, and comprising:
- a ring gear having an internally toothed surface and being coaxial with and rotationally fixed to said counter shaft;
- a sun gear coaxial with said counter shaft and having toothed inner and outer circumferential surfaces;
- a carrier coaxial with said counter shaft;
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- at least one pinion gear rotatably supported on an outer portion of said carrier and engaging said ring gear and said sun gear;
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- a rotatable control shaft longitudinally slidable within said counter shaft and said sun gear, and being non-rotatable with respect to said sun gear, said control shaft being movable between a first longitudinal position where said control shaft engages a stopping member for braking said control shaft and said sun gear, and a second longitudinal position where said control shaft locks said sun gear to said carrier and disengages from said stopping member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.