Patent ID: 7089820

Claim:
A support arrangement for an engine and transmission in a motor vehicle with said engine being arranged at the front end of said motor vehicle, said engine ( 1 ) having a drive shaft ( 3 ′) rotatable about a drive shaft axis ( 3 ), a drive wheel ( 2 ) mounted on said drive shaft and a torque converter unit ( 6 ) having an input shaft ( 5 a ) with an input shaft axis ( 5 ), an input wheel ( 4 ) mounted on said input shaft ( 5 a ) for rotation therewith, said drive shaft axis ( 3 ) and said input shaft axis ( 5 ) being displaced vertically by an amount V, and intermediate power transmission wheels ( 8 , 9 ) having parallel axes of rotation ( 10 , 11 ) and each said intermediate transmission wheel being disposed in engagement with said drive wheel ( 2 ) of said engine and said input wheel ( 4 ) of said torque converter unit ( 6 ) for transmitting the power of said engine ( 1 ) to said torque converter unit ( 6 ) via the intermediate transmission wheels ( 8 , 9 ) on which said drive wheel ( 2 ) and said input wheel ( 4 ) are rolling.