Patent ID: 8857284
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: F16H,Y02T,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A multi clutch transmission, comprising: a first clutch plate mounted on a first input shaft; a second clutch plate mounted on a second input shaft arranged concentrically around the first input shaft; at third clutch plate mounted on a third input shaft arranged concentrically around the second input shaft; a clutch housing comprising a plurality of reaction plates, the first, second, and third clutch plates being individually and selectively engageable and disengageable with reaction plates in the clutch housing; an output shaft non-rotatably coupled to an output gear; and at least three countershafts arranged around the first, second, and third input shafts, at last one countershaft of the at least three countershafts being associated with a respective one of the first, second, and third input shafts, each countershaft being non-rotatably coupled to a countershaft gear meshing with the output gear.