Patent ID: 6997831

Claim:
A vehicular transmission equipped with a continuously variable ratio-change mechanism and a fixed ratio rotational transmission mechanism, which are disposed parallel with each other for transmitting a rotational driving force input from a drive source to wheels; said transmission comprising: first frictionally engaging means, which is provided in said continuously variable ratio-change mechanism for setting a power transmission through said continuously variable ratio-change mechanism; second frictionally engaging means, which is provided in said fixed ratio rotational transmission mechanism for setting a power transmission through said fixed ratio rotational transmission mechanism; and engagement-controlling means, which controls engagement of said first and second frictionally engaging means; wherein: when said transmission is switched from a neutral mode, where both said first and second frictionally engaging means are released, to an in-gear mode, where said rotational driving force of said drive source is transmitted to said wheels for driving said wheels, said engagement-controlling means, at first, brings into engagement one of said first and second frictionally engaging means that sets a power transmission through one of said continuously variable ratio-change mechanism and said fixed ratio rotational transmission mechanism whose speed change ratio is set to achieve a higher speed, and said engagement-controlling means, then, releases said one of said first and second frictionally engaging means and brings another of said first and second frictionally engaging means into engagement.