Patent ID: 7762917

Claim:
A power transmitting assembly for a vehicle, comprising: a transmission power output for a manual transmission in said vehicle; and, a torque-filling element including: a rotation adjustment element arranged to modify rotational speed associated with said engine; and, a coupling element arranged to integrate said engine torque with torque on said transmission power output, the torque-filling element arranged for connection to an engine in said vehicle, connected to said transmission power output, arranged to modify engine torque from said engine, and arranged to provide said modified engine torque to said transmission power output during a shift to a gear in said manual transmission, said torque-filling element comprising a hydrodynamic torque-transmitting device, wherein: said engine is arranged to rotate at a speed and said rotation adjustment element is arranged to multiply said speed; and, a torque output of the coupling element is transmittable to the transmission power output without passing through shift gears in the transmission.