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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2002
Jürgen Wafzig, Eriskirch, DE;
Jürgen Wafzig, Eriskirch, DE;
ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen, DE;
Abstract
A vehicle gearbox having an input shaft, an output shaft and a countershaft, which is arranged to parallel to the axis of shafts and can be drivingly connected by gear sets to shafts via separating clutches, wherein four gear sets and a reversing gear set having an idler and a fixed gear form a main gearbox group and two gear sets having an idler and a fixed gear form a downstream area gearbox. The separating clutches and the idlers of the main gearbox group are arranged on the input shaft while the idlers of the area gearbox group rest on the countershaft, wherein the gearbox diagram, the switchgear and the gearbox housing for a vehicle gearbox with six forward gears are the same as those for a vehicle gearbox with eight forward gears.