Patent ID: 6422105
Filing Date: 2002-07-23
Classification: F16D,F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
A transmission comprising:a gear; a collar being engagable with said gear; said gear and said collar being rotatable and having a speed of rotation about an axis; an equalizing element movable with one of said gear and said collar, said equalizing element being repeatedly brought into and then out of contact with the other of said gear and said collar during a single shift transient to equalize said speed of rotation of said gear to said speed of rotation of said collar; an electronic monitoring device to comparatively monitor said speed of rotation of said gear and said speed of rotation of said collar; and an engaging system that enables said collar to engage with said gear when said electronic monitoring device indicates that said speed of rotation of said gear and said speed of rotation of said collar are within a predetermined amount of each other.