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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2003
Giovanni Tornatore, S. Benigno Canavese, IT;
Cesare Sola, Valperga, IT;
Fabrizio Girola, Chatou, FR;
Giovanni Tornatore, S. Benigno Canavese, IT;
Cesare Sola, Valperga, IT;
Fabrizio Girola, Chatou, FR;
Abstract
A dual clutch transmission unit for a motor vehicle is adapted to transmit the movement to an automatic gear change provided with two ranks of gears; the transmission unit has a rotary movement input member adapted to be driven in rotation by the engine of the motor vehicle and two output shafts which are adapted to be rigidly connected to respective input shafts of the gear change and bear respective clutch devices which are adapted to receive the movement from the rotary member and are each associated with a relative rank of gears of the gear change; one of the clutch devices is disengaged and the other is engaged in sequence by an actuator device provided with a single actuator and a movement sleeve coaxial with one another.