Patent ID: 7617904

Claim:
A transmission assembly comprising: a housing; a gear selector disposed outside the transmission housing; an input shaft and an output shaft, both shafts being at least partially inside the housing; a plurality of gears mounted on the input shaft and a plurality of gears mounted on the output shaft, each of the plurality of gears being disposed within the housing; a gearshift disposed within the housing and operatively connected to at least one of the plurality of gears mounted on the input shaft and to at least one of the plurality of gears mounted on the output shaft for effecting gear changes; and an energy storing mechanism including a deformable elastic element for storing energy through its deformation, the energy storing mechanism being disposed within the housing and linking the gear selector to the gearshift and limiting a force applied to the gearshift through the gear selector, the deformable elastic element being positioned such that a movement of the gear selector is transferred from the gear selector to the gearshift through the deformable elastic element.