Patent ID: 7677996

Claim:
A transmission comprising: a housing; a bearing mounted in said housing; a differential gear provided with a case having at least one longitudinally disposed fluid passageway, disposed in said case; a pair of axially aligned driven shafts disposed coaxially with said bearing, drivingly connected to said differential gear disposed therebetween; a hollow drive shaft receiving one of said driven shafts therein, provided with a fixed pulley and an axially displaceable pulley thereon; a guide member affixed to said drive shaft, journaled in said bearing and drivingly connected to said differential gear case, provided with means including an expandable chamber for displacing said displaceable pulley, and at least one fluid passageway communicating with said chamber; and a conduit inserted in openings in said guide member and said differential gear case, intercommunicating said passageways therein, wherein said conduit extends through the inner opening of said bearing.