Transmission speed sensor arrangement

Patent · Tue May 06 00:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5757370

Nogle, T D

In an engine driven vehicle having an engine extending transversely with respect to the vehicle at one end thereof, a pair of wheels at the same end of the vehicle, and automatic drive transmission means connecting the engine to the wheels, the automatic drive transmission means includes a housing attached to the vehicle. The housing has a torque converter section, a speed change section adjacent the torque converter section, and a differential and transfer section; the engine having a crankshaft, a torque converter in the torque converter section of the housing rotatable on the same axis as the crankshaft and adapted to be driven by the engine crankshaft, the torque converter drivingly connected to one outer end of a transmission input shaft, the input shaft having its other inner end located about midway through the speed change section, a speed change section output shaft mounted coaxial with the input shaft in the speed change section with its inner end adjacent the input shaft inner end and its outer free end extending beyond the speed change section, an output gear having peripheral teeth formed thereon, the output gear connected on the output shaft outer free end such that the output shaft and the output gear rotate on the input shaft axis, a transfer shaft having a transfer gear engaged with the output gear, the output shaft having a bore extending axially therethrough, the improvement wherein; a speed sensor shaft having a speed sensor wheel with peripheral teeth formed thereon fixed on the free outer end thereof, means journally supporting the speed shaft concentrically within the output shaft bore such that the speed wheel is axially spaced closely adjacent to the output gear.

• Assignee: Chrysler Corp., Highland Park, MI
• Patent Number(s): US 4586401
• OSTI ID: 5757370
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 16 Apr 1984
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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REMOTE SENSING
ROTATION
SHAFTS
SIGNALS
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VELOCITY
WHEELS
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