Patent ID: 7291082

Claim:
An automatic transmission for a motor vehicle comprising: one drive shaft ( 7 ), one driven shaft on an axis different than the drive shaft ( 7 ), one planetary gear co-axial to the drive shaft ( 7 ) and having at least one planetary gear set ( 14 ) and at least one switch element ( 10 ) for selective transmission of an input rotational speed of the drive shaft ( 7 ) to an output element of the planetary gear; and one chain drive ( 18 ) of constant ratio abutting in an axial direction directly on a transmission housing wall ( 2 ) and whose drive wheel ( 19 ) is connected with the output element of the planetary gear and situated co-axially to the drive shaft ( 7 ) and whose driven wheel ( 22 ) is operatively connected with a driven shaft via a constant ratio; the drive wheel ( 19 ) of the chain drive ( 18 ) radially overlaps at least partly, in the axial direction, the switch element ( 10 ) axially directly abutting on a side thereof remote from the transmission housing wall ( 2 ); and the drive wheel ( 19 ) of the chain drive ( 18 ) radially overlaps, at least partly in the axial direction, at least one of a plurality of discs ( 13 ) of the switch element ( 10 ) that abut on the drive wheel ( 19 ) of the chain drive ( 18 ).