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Drive system with an 8-gear gearbox

US8360913B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 8, 2008
Grant dateJan 29, 2013
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Expiry dateNov 8, 2028

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T74/19614
  • WIPO fieldMechanical elements
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A drive system with an 8-gear gearbox for a motor vehicle with a driving machine 11, more particularly an internal combustion engine, comprising a distribution gearbox 12 which is drivingly connected to the driving machine 11 and comprises three members, as well as two 2-gear partial gearboxes 17, 18, wherein a first member of the distribution gearbox 12 is drivingly connected to the internal combustion engine 11 and the two other members of the distribution gearbox 12 are each connected to an input shaft 20, 28 of one of the two 2-gear partial gear-boxes 17, 18 and wherein, between two members of the distribution gearbox 12, there is provided a switchable bridging coupling 19 and wherein one output element of each of the two 2-gear partial gearboxes 17, 18 is permanently drivingly connected to a driven gear 38, 39 or to a driven shaft 40.

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