Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshitake Suzuki

Toshiyuki Asada

Naoki Moriguchi

Akiharu Abe

Yasunori Nakawaki

Yasuhiko Higashiyama

Fumihiro Ushijima

Susumu Oda

Norio Komoda

Yasuhiko Higushiyama

Motoo Harata

A speed changing gear device for an automatic transmission, comprising a main gear assembly for providing a plurality of operating positions, and an auxiliary gear assembly for providing a direct drive position and a speed changing drive position. The main gear assembly includes a single-pinion type first planetary gear unit having a first sun gear, a first planetary gear, a first ring gear and a first carrier, and a single-pinion type second planetary gear unit having a second sun gear, a second planetary gear, a second ring gear and a second carrier. The auxiliary gear assembly includes a third planetary gear unit having a third sun gear, at least one third planetary gear, a third ring gear and a third carrier. The first carrier and second ring gear are fixed to each other, or selectively connected to each other by a first clutch. The first and second sun gears, and the first sun gear and second carrier are selectively connected to each other by a second and a third clutch, respectively. The first sun gear, second sun gear and second carrier are selectively inhibited from rotating by a first brake, and the second carrier is inhibited from rotating by a second brake.

Speed changing gear device having two independent gear assemblies

A speed changing gear device for an automatic transmission, comprising a main gear assembly for providing a plurality of operating positions, and an axiliary gear assembly for providing a direct drive position and a speed changing drive position. The main gear assembly includes a single-pinion type first planetary gear unit having a first sun gear, a first planetary gear, a first ring gear and a first carrier, and a single-pinion type second planetary gear unit having a second sun gear, a second planetary gear, a second ring gear and a second carrier. The auxiliary gear assembly includes a third planetary gear unit having a third sun gear, at least one third planetary gear, a third ring gear and a third carrier. The first carrier and second ring gear are fixed to each other, or selectively connected to each other by a first clutch. The first and second sun gears, and the first sun gear and second carrier are selectively connected to each other by a second and a third clutch, respectively. The first sun gear, second sun gear and second carrier are selectively inhibited from rotating by a first brake, and the second carrier is inhibited from rotating by a second brake.

A planetary gear device having a first and a second single-pinion planetary gear unit and a third double-pinion planetary gear unit, which are coaxially disposed so as to provide different speed reduction ratios. The three gear units have respective first, second and third sun gears, respective first, second and third ring gears, and respective first, second and third carriers rotatably supporting planetary pinions. The first and second sun gears are fixed together or selectively connectable to each other, and the first carrier, second ring gear and third carrier are fixed together or selectively connectable to each other. Further, the second carrier and the third sun gear are fixed together or selectively connectable to each other. The present arrangement allows shifting operations of the gear device, without concurrent disengagement and engagement of different clutches.

Automatic planetary gear transmission

A gear train for changing the rotational speed of an input shaft to transmit the resultant rotation to an output shaft consists of single pinion type first and second planetary gear sets and a double pinion type third planetary gear set. A sun gear of the first planetary gear set is normally or selectively connected to a carrier and a sun gear of the second planetary gear set, a carrier of the first planetary gear set is normally or selectively connected to a carrier of the third planetary gear set, the carrier of the second planetary gear set is normally or selectively connected to a sun gear of the third planetary gear set, a ring gear of the second planetary gear set is normally or selectively connected to a ring gear of the third planetary gear set, the input shaft is selectively connected to either one or both of the sun gear and the ring gear of the first planetary gear set, and the output shaft is connected to the sun gear of the third planetary gear set, whereby at least five forward speeds and one reverse are permitted to be set.

Automatic transmission

An automatic transmission including gear trains, which are constructed of at least three planetary gear sets each having three rotating members. A first clutch is arranged closer to an input shaft than the first planetary gear set for connecting any one of the rotating members of the first planetary gear set arranged adjacent to the input shaft. A second clutch is also arranged closer to the input shaft than the first planetary gear set for connecting another of the rotating members of the first planetary gear set and the input shaft. A third clutch is interposed between the first planetary gear set and the second planetary gear set for connecting any one of the rotating members of the second planetary gear set arranged at the opposite side to the input shaft across the first planetary gear set and the any one or the another of the rotating members of either one of the first clutch and the second clutch or the first planetary gear set. A fourth clutch is interposed between the first planetary gear set and the second planetary gear set for connecting the another of the rotating members of the second planetary gear set and the any one or the another of the rotating members of the first clutch, the second clutch or the first planetary gear set.

A linear expansion or contraction of a piezoelectric element (150) is converted into a corresponding magnified linear movement of an output member (120) along a central axis (34) by a series combination of a pair of magnifying lever arms (100, 102) supported from a retainer structure (52) via a pair of elastic integral hinges (96, 98) and a pair of links (110, 112; 206, 208) wherein the retainer structure is enclosed in a housing (38) and adjustably fastened thereto so as to be adjustably shiftable relative thereto along the central axis.

Piezoelectric actuator having parallel arrangement of a single

A planetary gear type speed change device having two simple planetary gear mechanisms positioned axially adjacent with one another with each carrier thereof being connected with each ring gear of the other, three clutches and three brakes assembled together between an input rotational member and an output rotational member so as to provide six monotonously changing gear ratios between the input and the output rotational members according to combinations of engagement and disengagement of the three clutches and the three brakes.

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