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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 1987
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1985
Eugen Svab, Cologne, DE;
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
In a transmission unit for motor vehicles with a continuously variable traction member transmission and forward-reverse planetary gearing associated therewith, the engine crankshaft being disposed approximately in the longitudinal median plane of the vehicle and directly connected or is connected by way of a hydrokinetic torque converter (3) to the input member (8) of the forward-reverse planetary gearing (7) and the output member thereof being disposed at the driving end and connected by first fixed gearing 15 and 16 to a primary shaft (18) which is connected by way of the traction member (21) to a secondary shaft (24) disposed laterally at approximately the same level as the primary shaft, the secondary shaft (24) being connected by way of second fixed gearing 26 and 27 to the driven shaft (28) which is disposed approximately in the longitudinal median plane of the vehicle.