US 5,685,796 AGranted

Planetary gearing unit

AssigneeIndustrial Technology Research Institute

InventorsLei-Yi Chen, Huie-Jan Shih

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Abstract

This invention discloses an improved planetary gearing-unit. The device includes: an input shaft; a sun gear, tightly linked to the input shaft, rotatable as driven by the input shaft; several planet gears, engaged with the sun gear; a fixed ring gear, encircling the circumference of the planet gears and engaged with the various planet gears; a planet gear carrier, being rotatable driven by the planet gears' revolving motion; an output shaft; a gearshift device, allowing the output shaft to be connected either to the input shaft or to the planet gear carrier, optionally, and to correspondingly rotate either along with the input shaft or with the planet gear carrier, so as to allow for switching into high or low gear. In this device assembly, both in high and in low gear the ring gear is fixed in the planetary gearing box without motion, thus not developing the stirring of oil and overcoming the problem of temperature rise and mechanical deformation, furthermore reducing the waste of energy.

A planetary gearing unit comprising:

an input shaft;
a sun gear, tightly linked to said input shaft, being able to rotatably driven by said input shaft;
a plurality of planet gears surrounding the periphery of said sun gear, said planet gears being engaged with said sun gear;
a ring gear, encircling the circumference of said planet gears and engaged with said plurality of planet gears;
a planet gear carrier for holding said planet gears, said planet gear carrier being rotatably driven by a revolving motion of said planet gears;
an output shaft, being positioned on the side of said planet gear carrier opposite of said input shaft;
a gearshift device, allowing said output shaft to be connected optionally either to said input shaft of to said planet gear carrier and correspondingly allowing said output shaft to rotate either along with said input shaft of with said planet gear carrier to thereby switch into high or low rear;
wherein said gearshift device further comprises:
a link element, being mount between said output shaft and said sun gear, which is connected with said input shaft, said link element containing a spline on one end thereof close said output shaft to link to said output shaft, said link element furthermore being axially movable back and forth along an axis;
a driving system for driving said link element back and forth along the axis
a first coupling element, being mounted on said sun gear or said input shaft;
a second coupling element, being mounted on said planet gear carrier;
a first and second coupling part, being mounted on said link element such that, when said link element is close to said sun gear with said input shaft, then said first coupling part is engaged with said first coupling element, causing said output shaft to be driven directly by said input shaft, and when said link element is close to said output shaft, then said second coupling part is engaged with said second coupling element, causing said output shaft to be driven by said planet gear carrier.

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