Patent ID: 9664257
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: F16H

Claim:
1. A change-speed transmission for a motor vehicle, having a plurality of forward gears and a reverse gear, comprising: at least one input shaft, an output shaft and a layshaft operatively connected by idler gear wheels and fixed gear wheels of gear sets which form the plurality of forward gears and the reverse gear, wherein at least one of the at least one input shaft, the output shaft and the layshaft is comprised of two subshafts defined by respective rotation axes and is supported in a housing of the transmission so that the rotation axes are offset to each other by an axial offset, wherein one of the two subshafts has a greater distance to another one of the at least one input shaft, the output shaft and the layshaft than the other one of the two subshafts and carries gear wheels of lower ones of the forward gears and optionally gear wheels of the reverse gear; and a ring gear stage operatively connecting the two subshafts, and having an internally splined ring gear and an externally splined spur gear meshing with the ring gear.