Patent ID: 8628443

Claim:
A cage for facilitating the support and guidance of a ball assembly in a continuously variable transmission, the cage comprising: a first stator disc comprising a first plurality of angularly spaced apart radial curves, the first plurality of radial curves extending perpendicularly from a longitudinal axis; and a second stator disc comprising a second plurality of angularly spaced apart radial curves, the second plurality of radial curves extending perpendicularly from the longitudinal axis, wherein the first and second stator discs are positioned such that the first plurality of radial curves is angularly offset relative to the second plurality of radial curves, wherein the first and second stator discs are adapted to be mounted coaxially with a longitudinal axis of the continuously variable transmission, and wherein the first stator disc and the second stator disc each comprise a bore adapted to engage a main shaft of the continuously variable transmission.