Patent ID: 8360913

Claim:
A drive system with an 8-gear gearbox for a motor vehicle with a driving machine, more particularly an internal combustion engine, the drive system comprising: a distribution gearbox ( 12 ) which is drivingly connected to the driving machine ( 11 ) and having three members, as well as two 2-gear partial gearboxes ( 17 , 18 ), wherein a first member of the distribution gearbox ( 12 ) is drivingly connected to the internal combustion engine ( 11 ) and a second member and a third member of the distribution gearbox ( 12 ) are each connected to an input shaft ( 20 , 28 ) of one of the two 2-gear partial gearboxes ( 17 , 18 ) and wherein, between two of said members of the distribution gearbox ( 12 ), there is provided a switchable bridging coupling ( 19 ) and wherein one output element of each of the two 2-gear partial gearboxes ( 17 , 18 ) is permanently drivingly connected to a driven gear ( 38 , 39 ) or to a driven shaft ( 40 ) and a first of the two 2-gear partial gearboxes ( 17 ) constitutes a planetary gearbox with the following members: a sun gear ( 43 ), a planetary carrier ( 44 ) with at least one planetary gear ( 45 ) and a hollow gear ( 46 ), wherein a first member of said members of the planetary gearbox is connected to the input shaft ( 20 ), a second member of said members of the planetary gearbox is connected to an output shaft ( 21 ) and a third member of said members of the planetary gearbox is connected to a brake disc/brake carrier which can be fixed relative to a stationary part ( 53 ), wherein a switchable bridging coupling ( 55 ) is provided between two of said members of the planetary gearbox.