Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

Zoltan Brassai

Vladimir Premiski

Mark Robert Silk

Wilhelm Wehren

Bjoern Schneider

A planet gear carrier arrangement is provided for an automatic transmission having axial support. The planet carrier arrangement comprises a planet gear hub member, a plurality of planet gear pins carried by said hub member, a plurality of planet gears rotatably carried by said pins and an oil collecting ring carried by said hub member. The ring has formed at its inner circumference a truncated cone. The ring further has a thrust surface provided on a side of said ring axially opposite the hub member.

Planet gear carrier arrangement with axial support

In a planet carrier (1) comprising two carrier parts (2 and 3), connected together axially, at least one of which is provided with axially extending posts (8) and the other with fitting openings (12) corresponding to the posts (8), and wherein the posts (8) engage in the openings (12) in a form-fitting manner and in addition are connected to one another, the posts (8) extending axially from the one carrier part (2) have a triangular cross-section making use of the maximum amount of free space; the posts (8) are provided at their ends facing the fitting openings (12) with a step (10) of height substantially corresponding to the thickness of the other carrier part (3) in the region of the openings (12); and the fitting openings (12) formed in the other carrier part (3) have a triangular shape (11) cut back by a radius (9), which is connected to the openings (12) by a force fit.

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Zoltan Brassai