AUTOMATIC INFINITELY VARIABLE MECHANICAL TRANSMISSION Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: mechanical engineering; transport engineering; machine tool manufacture. SUBSTANCE: drive central gear wheel 3 and driven central gear wheel 4 thrown into engagement with locked main satellites 8 and 9 are mounted on drive shaft 1 and driven shaft 2; satellites 8 and 9 are located on different sides from axis 0-0 of transmission; they are fitted on axles 6 of carrier 5 mounted for rotation on drive shaft. Flywheels 11 locked with satellites 10 are mounted on other radial axles 7 of carrier on opposite sides from axis 0-0 of transmission; satellites 10 are thrown into engagement with bearing wheel 12 secured on hollow intermediate shaft 13 mounted coaxially relative to drive for independent rotation. Intermediate shaft is connected with drive of bearing wheel which includes gear wheels 13 and 14 mounted respectively on drive and intermediate shafts and thrown into engagement with intermediate wheel 16 whose axle is mounted in transmission housing 17. Central wheels 3 and 4 are located on different sides from radial axes O₁-O₁ of carrier. During rotation of flywheels and all satellites (8, 9, 10) simultaneously around axis 0-0 of transmission and axes O₁-O₁ of radial axles 6 and 7 of carrier, they rotate around central point O¹, thus causing braking of rotation of carrier due to constant change indirection of vectors of moment of momentum of flywheels and satellites relative to central point O¹. EFFECT: extended range of automatic control of torque depending on load. 8 cl, 2 dwg