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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1982
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A gear assembly for an automobile gear transmission includes a pair of driving and driven gears permanently in meshing engagement with each other, an additional gear axially slidable and rotatable on a hub projection of the driven gear and being permanently in meshing engagement with the driving gear to rotate at a gear ratio different from that of the driving and driven gears, a synchronizer mechanism assembled adjacent to the additional gear and having a spline piece fixed to the hub projection, and a compression spring in surrounding relationship with the hub projection and being engaged at its one end with the additional gear and at its other end with the spline piece to be positioned in place without provision of a conventional snap ring.