Hydromechanical transmission with compound planetary assembly

Patent · Mon Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:863552

Weseloh, William E ^[1]

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1. San Diego, CA

A power transmission having three distinct ranges: (1) hydrostatic, (2) simple power-split hydromechanical, and (3) compound power-split hydromechanical. A single compound planetary assembly has two sun gears, two ring gears, and a single carrier with two sets of elongated planet gears. The two sun gears may be identical in size, and the two ring gears may be identical in size. A speed-varying module in driving relationship to the first sun gear is clutchable, in turn, to (1) the input shaft and (2) the second sun gear. The speed-varying means may comprise a pair of hydraulic units hydraulically interconnected so that one serves as a pump while the other serves as a motor and vice versa, one of the units having a variable stroke and being the one clutchable to either the input shaft or to the second sun gear. The other unit, which may have a fixed stroke, is connected in driving relation to the first sun gear. A brake grounds the carrier in the first range and in reverse and causes drive to be delivered to the output shaft through the first ring gear in a hydrostatic mode, the first ring gear being rigidly connected to the output shaft. The input shaft is also clutchable to the second ring gear of the compound planetary assembly.

• Research Organization: Orshansky Transmission Corp., San Diego, CA (USA)
• Assignee: Orshansky Transmission Corporation (New York, NY)
• Patent Number(s): US 4196644
• OSTI ID: 863552
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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