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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
LuK Getriebe-Systeme GmbH, Buhl/Baden, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 5/556 ; F16G 5/900 ; F16G 6/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 5/556 ; F16G 5/900 ; F16G 6/300 ;
Abstract
An infinitely variable transmission has a pair of driving conical flanges arranged on a first shaft and a pair of driven conical flanges arranged on a second shaft. Each pair has one axially movable conical flange and one axially fixed conical flange. The transmission is equipped with a locking device which when necessary can frictionally lock at least one driving conical flange to a driven conical flange.