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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1982
Eugen Svab, Cologne, DE;
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A gear unit for vehicles comprising an input shaft 3 driven by the driving shaft 1 of a drive motor by means of a start-up clutch unit 2, an input shaft extending coaxially through a primary shaft 4 of a continuously variable gear unit 5, the traction member 6 driving a secondary shaft 7 arranged parallel to the primary shaft; an epicyclic gear unit 8, which drives the primary shaft 4 in different rotational directions by means of a forward and reverse clutch unit being disposed on the input shaft 3, the secondary shaft 7 driving by means of a reduction gear unit 10 an output shaft 11, which is in driving connection with a differential gear unit 12, the start-up clutch unit is a hydraulically controlled one-disk-wet clutch which has a housing 13, 14 and 15 and forms the flywheel for a driving internal-combustion engine and which receives a starter ring 23 and drives a hydraulic fluid pump 28 arranged on a partition wall 29 of the gear housing.