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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1996
Pavinder Ahluwalia, Manlius, NY (US);
David Brown, Hopton Diss, GB;
New Venture Gear, Inc., Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
A compact manual transaxle includes an input shaft having five fixed input gears, a first intermediate shaft rotatably supporting four speed gears meshing with four of the input gears, a second intermediate shaft rotatably supporting a speed gear meshed with the other input gear and a reverse gear meshed with a speed gear on the first intermediate shaft, and a differential. A transfer gear on each intermediate shaft is meshed with a final drive gear fixed to the differential. The transaxle further includes a pair of synchronizer clutches for establishing four forward gears by selectively coupling the four speed gears to the first intermediate shaft and a synchronizer clutch for establishing one additional forward gear and the reverse gear by selectively coupling the speed gear and reverse gear to the second intermediate shaft.