Variable transmission
AssigneeTurbo Trac USA, Inc.
InventorPaul Okulov
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Abstract
A drive system suitable for use in a variable transmission with a plurality of rotatable and adjustable disk members, gear means adapted for contact with the plurality of disk members, carriage means for mounting the gear means and configured for axial movement along the axis of a rotatable drive shaft and a rotatable cone adapted for contact with the plurality of disk members, the cone and the conical gear means connected for relative rotation by the plurality of disk members, the disk members being adjustable transversely relative to the axis of rotation for maintaining positive contact with said rotatable cone.
Claims22
A drive system suitable for use in a variable transmission, comprising:
- a plurality of rotatable and adjustable disk members;
- gear means adapted for contact with said plurality of disk members;
- carriage means for mounting said gear means and configured for axial movement along the axis of a rotatable drive shaft;
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- a rotatable cone adapted for contact with said plurality of disk members, said cone and said gear means connected for relative rotation by said plurality of disk members, said disk members being adjustable transversely relative to the axis of rotation for maintaining positive contact with said rotatable cone.
A variable transmission, comprising:
- a drive shaft;
- a plurality of elastically deformable disk members;
- gear means adapted for contact with said plurality of disk members;
- carriage means for mounting said gear means and configured for axial movement along the axis of said drive shaft;
- a plurality of rotatable cones mounted in coaxial relation about said plurality of disk members, said cones and said conical gear means connected for relative rotation by said plurality of disk members, said disk members being elastically and dynamically deformable transversely relative to the axis of rotation for maintaining positive contact with said cones for generating output power during rotation;
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- differential gear means for receiving said output power.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.