Patent ID: 6892595
Filing Date: 2005-05-17
Classification: B60T,F16D,F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A transmission of a working vehicle having a prime mover and a continuously variable transmission, comprising: a housing, whose interior serves as a fluid sump; an input shaft supported by the housing so as to receive power of the prime mover through the continuously variable transmission; a reversing mechanism for changing the traveling direction of the vehicle; an intermediate shaft drivingly connected to the input shaft through the reversing mechanism; an axle supported by the housing; a deceleration gear train drivingly connecting the intermediate shaft to the axle, the deceleration gear train including a pinion, wherein the reversing mechanism is disposed on one end portion of the intermediate shaft, and the pinion of the deceleration gear train is disposed on the other end portion, a brake chamber formed on an outer surface of a sidewall of the housing oppositely to the pinion with respect to the sidewall, and a wet brake constructed on an end portion of the intermediate shaft in the brake chamber, wherein the end portion of the intermediate shaft projects through the sidewall of the housing into the brake chamber, and wherein the fluid in the fluid sump is splashed by a gear of the deceleration gear train so as to flow into the brake chamber through the sidewall of the housing, and is returned from the brake chamber to the fluid sump.