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Planetary gear transmission systems or components June invention type 06/10

20100160103 - Clutching method and mechanism for electrically variable transmissions: An electrically variable transmission includes an input member, an output member, two planetary gear sets, two electric motors, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the planetary gear sets includes first, second and third members. The torque transmitting devices include a rotating clutch... Agent: Vivacqua Law, PLLC

20100160104 - Epicyclic gearbox for a wind power installation: A first planet stage of an epicyclic gearbox revolves in a gearbox housing and includes a planet support having two interconnected side pieces. Planet gears are borne in the planet support via planet gear bearings and engage a central sun gear shaft and a hollow gear secured to the gearbox... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20100160105 - Oil baffle for gas turbine fan drive gear system: A gas turbine engine includes an epicyclic gear train that drives a turbo fan. The epicyclic gear train employs a one-piece carrier in which the spaced side walls are interconnected with circumferentially spaced apart mounts to form a unitary structure. Baffles are secured to the carrier near the mounts and... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20100160106 - Continuously variable transmission: This invention relates to a transmission system for transmitting a driving force from a driving unit D to a driven unit F, a transmission adjustment system for adjusting the transmission system to obtain a continuous shift ratio, a guide cone system for maintaining a concentric circle of a rotation radius... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20100160107 - Compact planetary transmission: The transmission includes a housing, input and output shafts, and four planetary gear trains each having at least three members including a ring gear, at least one carrier, and a sun gear. The input and output shafts are is continuously interconnected with gear(s) and/or carrier(s). Links continuously interconnect the carrier(s)... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20100160108 - Universal gear train: A gear train includes a first planetary gear set including a first sun gear, a first ring gear, and a first carrier and a second planetary gear set including a second sun gear, a second ring gear, and second carrier. The gear train also includes a first clutch configured to... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20100160109 - Fixed gear internal gear hub: A fixed internal gear hub comprising a fixed axle, an input member and an output member each rotatably mounted about the axle, an epicyclic gear system comprising at least one sun gear, rotatably mounted about the axle, planet pinions disposed in a planet cage and a gear ring. The gear... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20100151980 - Flywheel drive control arrangement: In an energy storage and recovery system suitable for a hybrid vehicle 1 and incorporating a flywheel 9, parasitic losses are minimised, thereby permitting a rotating flywheel to retain energy for a longer period of time. The flywheel is driven via an epicyclic gearset 13. An electro-hydraulic clutch 14 serves... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20100151981 - Control of the flow rate in a transmission oil cooler: A system for controlling a flow rate in a vehicle transmission includes a source of fluid exiting a torque converter, an oil cooler, a source of control pressure, and a valve for regulating a rate of fluid flow from the torque converter to the cooler in response to the control... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20100151982 - Helical differential assembly with preloaded adjustment mechanism: A vehicle differential assembly includes a differential housing rotatable about an axis. A first output assembly includes a first side gear positioned within the differential housing and a first output member coupled to the first side gear and having an aperture aligned with the axis. A second output assembly includes... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100151983 - Spider-less vehicle differential: A differential case has a plurality of spaced apart recesses on an internal surface for receiving a plurality of side pinions within the recesses. The side pinions are driven by the case without a differential spider or differential pin.... Agent: Marshall & Melhorn, LLC

20100151984 - Transmission module and transmission assembly method: There is provided transmission module (10) for a tractor which is selectively configurable between a CVT arrangement and a multi-ratio powershift transmission arrangement. The module comprises an epicyclic unit (13) in which a first gear element of the epicyclic is driven mechanically from the input shaft (11) and a second... Agent: Agco Corporation, Legal Department

20100151985 - Coupling assembly: A coupling assembly for transmitting torque between a first body and a second body is disclosed herein. The coupling assembly includes a diaphragm plate extending radially between a radially inner periphery fixed for rotation with the first body. The diaphragm plate extends to a radially outer periphery and is operable... Agent: Meiers Law Office

20100151986 - Planetary carrier pinion pin retainer plate: A shaft retainer for a planet gear carrier of a planetary gear assembly both retains the pinion shafts within the carrier and maintains their angular orientation to achieve improved oil flow to the pinion bearings. Each of the pinion shafts includes an opening and an axial passageway that communicates with... Agent: Vivacqua Law, PLLC

20100144476 - Hydrostatic regenerative braking transmission for motor vehicles: A transmission for a vehicle including a hydrostatic regenerative braking system includes a first rotatable shaft having a first end adapted to be driven by a first prime mover and a second end adapted to be coupled to a vehicle driveline. A second shaft selectively drives the first shaft and... Agent: Magna International, Inc.

20100144477 - A continuous variable transmission assembly: A variable ratio drive assembly (10) including: a planetary gear device (13) having an input shaft (15), an output shaft (17), with the shafts having a common rotational axis (21), an input gear (16) attached to the input shaft, an output gear (18) attached to the output shaft, a carriage... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20100144478 - Differential lock structure: A differential lock structure includes a differential and a lock ring, wherein the case of the differential has at least one locking through hole, and an output gear inside the differential having a recess, and the lock ring has a locking through bolt for passing through the locking through hole... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100144479 - Lubrication of a planetary gearset: In a planetary gearset and an automatic transmission according to the invention, a pinion shaft on which a pinion gear is rotatably supported includes a bearing portion on which a bearing is attached and a polygonal portion having a polygonal outer periphery. An axial oil passage and radial oil passages... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100144480 - Drive axle assembly with gear mesh lubrication systems for lubricating gear mesh and/or differential bearings: An axle assembly having an axle assembly with first and second sumps for holding a lubricant. A rotating ring gear associated with a differential can rotate through the lubricant in the first sump to cause a portion of the lubricant to cling to the ring gear. A portion of the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100144481 - Hinged fitting: The invention relates to a hinged fitting for two components of a vehicle seat which can pivot with respect to each other about an axis (8). A first gear (1) is fixed on the first pivotable component, and a second gear (3) is fixed on the second pivotable component, and... Agent: Clark Hill, P.C.

20100144482 - Continuously variable transmission: The invention concerns a continuously variable transmission having a transmission input (60) and a transmission output (114). The transmission has a variator (56). This is a device which transmits drive at steplessly variable ratio. It further comprises an epicyclic gear arrangement (58) incorporating a clutch arrangement (152). The epicyclic gear... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20100144483 - Yaw assembly for a rotatable system and method of assembling the same: A yaw drive assembly for a rotatable system includes an input shaft configured to receive a torque from a yaw drive motor coupled within a body of the rotatable system, wherein the torque facilitates rotating the rotatable system about a yaw axis. The yaw drive assembly includes at least two... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22402) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20100144484 - Torque proportioning differential: A differential gear mechanism including a gear case having a body defining a gear chamber having a pair of opposed openings with a pair of output gears rotatably supported in the gear chamber adjacent to the openings. At least one of the output gears has a hub with a tapered... Agent: Gerald E. Mcglynn, Iii Bliss Mcglynn, P.C.

20100144485 - Transmission: A transmission (10) for converting an input rotational motion having an input angular speed into an output rotational motion having an output angular speed. The transmission (10) includes a transmission body (12); a first rotating component (14) rotatably mounted to the transmission body (12); a second rotating component (18) mounted... Agent: Louis Tessier

20100144486 - Multi-speed transmissions: The transmission has a plurality of members that can be utilized in powertrains to provide at least nine forward speed ratios and one reverse speed ratio. The transmission includes four planetary gear sets, six torque-transmitting devices, and four fixed interconnections. The powertrain includes an engine and torque converter that is... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20100137090 - Electrically variable transmission with modular construction: An electrically-variable transmission is provided with substantially identical motor modules to simplify assembly and realize economies of scale in purchasing and testing the motor modules. First and second motor modules are packaged within a transmission casing and are operatively connecting the input member and the output member and coaxially arranged... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20100137091 - Power train of hybrid vehicle: The present invention provide a power train of a hybrid vehicle that can be mounted in plug-in hybrid vehicles as well as environment-friendly vehicles, while reducing the cost and weight with less parts and a simple structure, ensuring good mounting characteristics in a vehicle, and improving fuel efficiency and power... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100137092 - Variable ratio gear: A variable ratio gear system is configured for use with a constant speed generator (104) being driven by a variable speed rotor (102). The variable ratio system includes three shafts: The first shaft (144) is mechanically coupled to the rotor (102); the second shaft (160) is mechanically coupled to a... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao LLP

20100137093 - Automatic transmission with closed loop pressure electro-hydraulic control module: v

20100137094 - Electric traction drives: Inventive embodiments are directed to components, subassemblies, systems, and/or methods for electric traction drives employing a continuously variable transmission (CVT) having a variator provided with a plurality of tilting traction planets and opposing traction rings. In one embodiment, an electric traction drive is provided with an electromotive device configured to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100137095 - Variable ratio transmission for distributing a drive torque to at least two output shafts: A variable-ratio transmission for distributing a drive torque to at least two drive output shafts (8, 9), comprising a conventional differential (1) is proposed, which comprises an electric motor (5) for distributing the drive torque directly between the drive output shafts (8, 9) and a plus planetary gearset (2) that... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20100137096 - Component having inner and outer gearing: It is recommended that one of the two sets of teeth, particularly the inner teeth (4a), be configured as one piece with the base body (4b) and the other set of teeth, particularly the outer teeth, be configured as an added part (6), which can be joined to the base... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.