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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2002
Donald Klemen, Carmel, IN (US);
Michael Roland Schmidt, Carmel, IN (US);
Ahmed Mostafa El-Antably, Indianapolis, IN (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A procedure to assemble a vehicular transmission from modular components. One determines the type of transmission to be assembled within a prefabricated housing sub-assembly, and then selects a central shaft sub-assembly from a family of modular shaft assemblies. A modular shaft sub-assembly appropriate to the transmission to be assembled is selected and then operatively connected to the housing sub-assembly to provide a housing assembly. An input sub-assembly is selected and operatively connected to the housing assembly. An output sub-assembly is selected from a family of modular output sub-assemblies, the selected output sub-assembly to be appropriate to the transmission to be assembled. The selected output subassembly is operatively connected to the housing assembly to provide a transmission of the type desired.