Jatco Corporation

Masao Arimatsu

Kenichi Watanabe

Kazuo Oguri

Kazuya Numata

Hirohisa Yukawa

Masakazu Tamura

Shogo Fujii

Shoji Sugaya

Kazuyoshi Kobayashi

Masayuki Furuya

Jun Shinozaki

Kenichi Yamamoto

Yoshiaki Hatano

A continuously variable transmission includes a variator having a belt wound around a pair of pulleys, and a case forming a container chamber for the variator. The pulleys include fixed pulleys and movable pulleys. The belt includes elements stacked to be arranged in an annular form, and rings binding the element stacked. A circumference wall portion of the case is provided with a monitoring hole enabling flank faces of the elements to be monitored.

Continuously variable transmission

An automatic transmission for a vehicle includes: the input shaft being constantly connected to the second element, arranged to be connected to the second sun gear by an engagement of the first clutch, and arranged to be engaged with the third sun gear by an engagement of the second clutch, the output member being constantly connected to the second ring gear, the first element being arranged to be fixed to the stationary portion by an engagement of the first brake, the third element being constantly connected to the second pinion carrier, and arranged to fixed to the stationary portion by an engagement of the second brake, and the third sun gear being arrange to be fixed to the stationary portion by an engagement of the third brake.

Automatic transmission for vehicles

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Atsugi, Japan

Masao Arimatsu