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3-Group Commercial Vehicle Transmission Design and Power Flow in a Three-Group Transmission Conversion Characteristic of a CVT Control Strategies for different Opimization Criteria Classification of Mechanical CVTs Force transmision in Modern U-Transmissions Force Transmission Concepts in Pitch Transmissions Classification of Hydraulic CVTs Trilok Converter with accompanying Blade Principle Characteristic of a Trilok Converter Interaction between Combustion Engine and Trilok C. Characteristic Conversion of an IVT Classification of Automatic Transmissions Delivery Map of an Automatic Trasnmission Passenger Car 3-Speed Automatic Transmission Power Flow Diagram of a Passenger Car 5-Speed Automatic Transmission Shifting Strategy for a 4-Speed Automatic Transmis. Functional Structure of an Adaptive transmission C. U Trasnmission U Transmission with Hydrodynamic Clutch Assessment of Various Propulsion Principles Comparision of Trasnmission Efficiency Assessment of Various Propulsion Principles Assessment of Various Propulsion Principles Summary of Transmissions Topic 6 Topic 7 Topic 8 Topic 9 Topic 10 Topic 11 miscHYDROGEN pardCRAFT crashBIOMECH Fatigue Materials Simulation and Models Production Management Kurse auf Deutsch Cursos en Espanol Cours en Francais. Standard transmissions are starting to fade away in recent years because of a combination of advances in automatic transmission technology as well as general laziness. I personally believe that everyone with a drivers licence should be required to learn how to drive a manual. If you are given a licence to drive any passenger car on the road, then you should be able to drive every passenger car on the road. By definition, a transmission is responsible for gear shifting only while a transaxle shifts gears and houses the differential. A transmission is commonly found on rear-wheel drive vehicles with the engine mounted longitudinally, as long as the transmission is in the front of the vehicle, bolted to the engine.http://www.zulassungsservice4you.de/bilder/bosch-maxx-4-manual-cz.xml A transaxle is found on all front-wheel drive, transverse mounted engine setups, as well as many vehicles with mid or rear mounded engines. Some manufactures mount the engine in the front of the vehicle and the transaxle in the rear of the vehicle and connect the two with a drive shaft to provide better weight distribution. Four-wheel drive and All-wheel drive vehicles can use either. Some will use a transmission connected to a transfer case which directs power to the differentials. Others will use a transaxle that houses the middle and front differentials and sends rotational torque to the rear differential through a drive shaft. The 1st, 2nd and 4th gears on the output shaft ride on the shaft but are not connected to the shaft. They may freewheel when the corresponding counter shaft gear drives them but do not transmit torque until its synchro engages the gear. The synchro’s hubs are the only pieces that are splined to the output shaft. (Synchro operation will be explained later in the article.) It acts as the input for rotational torque for the transmission. The input shaft sits on the same plane as the output shaft and even with the transmission apart, it may look like they are one piece. They are two separate pieces that need to rotate at different speeds in all gears except 3rd. They will support each other using needle bearings that allow the two shafts to rotate at different speeds. The input shaft gear meshes with the counter shaft driven gear. Any time the input shaft rotates, the counter shaft rotates. The input shaft gear is smaller than the counter shaft driven gear. This causes a slight underdrive to increase torque and decrease RPM. It is one solid piece, when the input shaft gear drives the counter shaft driven gear all the counter shaft gears rotate. The counter shaft gears mesh with the all the output shaft gears except reverse. When the counter shaft gears rotate, the output shaft gears rotate.http://www.bouwdata.net/evenement/02-mitsubishi-lancer-manual-transmission The only thing that splines to the output shaft is the synchros hub. All the output shaft gears are driven by the counter shaft gears. Since they all produce a different ratio, only one can be engaged at a time. It is the synchro’s job to smoothly engage a gear based on the inputs of the operator. When a gear is engaged, rotational torque is transmitted from the output shaft gear, through the synchro at the ratio of the selected gear, to the output shaft. The output shaft can then transmit rotational torque to the next component in the driveline (drive shaft or transfer case).If two gears are engaged at the same time, the output shaft will try to be driven at two different speeds. This will cause the transmission to lock up. This locks the output shafts 1st gear to the output shaft. The clutch disk transfers rotational torque to the input shaft. The input shaft gear transfers torque to the counter shaft driven gear. The counter shaft gears rotate all the output shaft’s gears but only 1st gear is locked to the output shaft. The output shaft rotates at 1st gears ratio to the input shaft. A typical 1st gear ratio could be 2.5:1. Power flow through 2nd gear is very similar too 1st gear except that the output shaft second gear is locked to the output shaft. So the output shaft rotates at the 2nd gears ratio. A typical 2nd gear ratio could be 1.4:1. This locks the input and output shaft together. Rotational torque is transferred from the input shaft, to the 3-4 synchro, to the output shaft. There is no change in gear ratio so the ratio is 1:1 or direct drive. The counter shaft is still driven by the input shaft gear, but since none of the output shaft gears are engaged, they simply freewheel. Power flow through 4th is similar to 1st and 2nd gear. The output shaft’s 4th gear is locked to the output shaft by the synchro. The output shaft turns at 4th gears ratio. 4th gear is an overdrive gear so the counter shaft 4th gear will be bigger than the output shaft 4th gear.https://www.dulamari.com/images/4-speed-manual-transmission-muncie.pdf A typical 4th gear ratio could be 0.8:1. The output shaft rotates faster than the input shaft. To turn our example into a 5-speed, it would just be a matter of adding a 5th gear counter shaft gear, a 5th gear output shaft gear and another synchro to engage 5th gear. To go from a 5-speed to a 6-speed, the transmission would already have enough synchros, it would simply be a matter of adding another counter shaft gear and another output shaft gear. To do this a reverse idler gear is moved between a counter shaft gear and an output shaft gear that is splined to the shaft. A synchro with teeth along the outside is commonly used as the output shaft reverse gear. These teeth will be straight cut teeth and not helical cut. It is much easier to engage and disengage straight cut gears than it is helical cut gears. Straight cut gears make a whining noise when rotating quickly. This is why many people notice a whining noise in reverse only on manual transmission vehicles. This does not necessarily indicate a problem. It is important to come to a complete stop before engaging or disengaging reverse gear, even with the clutch pedal to the floor. Shifting in a and out of reverse with a manual transmission, without coming to a complete stop, will damage the teeth on the reverse idler gear as well as it’s driving and driven components. This damage can cause reverse gear to become even louder. If the input shaft is rotating, the counter shaft is also rotating, which means that the output shaft gears are rotating. Since no synchro has locked a gear to the output shaft, that is the end of power flow. This is important for synchro operation. (explained later in this article) The biggest differences are that there is no counter shaft which means that all gear reduction (from the gearbox) needs to be done in one gear set. The other difference is the internal differential and final drive. A manual transaxle must get a lot more done than a manual transmission in a smaller amount of space. Gear ratios must be achieved without the additional gear reduction that a transmission has from the input shaft gear and the counter shaft driven gear. It acts as the input for rotational torque for the transaxle. In this example the input shaft is a solid piece that transfers rotational torque to all of the output shaft gears. The synchro’s hubs are the only pieces that are splined to the shaft. All the output shaft gears rotate when the input shaft rotates, but only the gear engaged by the synchro transmits rotational torque to the output shaft, at that gear’s ratio. The output shaft then transfers that rotational torque to the final drive pinion and differential assembly. This locks the output shafts 1st gear to the output shaft. The clutch disk transmits rotational torque to the input shaft which drives all the output shafts gears. Since only the output shaft 1st gear is locked to the output shaft, the output shaft is driven at 1st gears ratio. The output shaft then drives the final drive ring gear. The only difference is which gear is engaged by witch synchro, similar to the operation of 1st, 2nd and 4th gear of a manual transmission. Since a direct drive is impossible in a transaxle, 3rd gear must actually have an input shaft gear and an output shaft gear. It can still be a 1:1 ratio but most are a slight underdrive or slight overdrive. To turn our example into a 5-speed, it would just be a matter of adding a 5th gear input shaft gear, a 5th gear output shaft gear and another synchro to engage 5th gear. To go from a 5-speed to a 6-speed, the transmission would already have enough synchros, it would simply be a matter of adding another input shaft gear and another output shaft gear. The reverse idler gear will be moved between the input and output shaft reverse gears to mesh with them. These gears will be splined to the shafts or a synchro with teeth along the outside will be used for reverse. It is much easier to engage and disengage straight cut gears than it is helical cut gears. If the input shaft is rotating, it is driving the output shaft gears, but since neither synchro has engaged a gear, torque is not transmitted to the output shaft. This is important for synchro operation. (explained later in this article) Some transmissions have synchros on the counter shaft in a transmission or on the input shaft in a transaxle. Also, many transmission’s or transaxle’s gears are not in order. This means that there could be a 1-3 synchro and a 2-4 synchro for example. This could be done where space is an issue, or for another reason that the engineers decide on. This is necessary to engage gears as well as for proper synchro action when shifting gears. The clutch assembly must be able to fully disconnect the engine from the transmission when the clutch pedal is pressed, but also transmit full engine torque to the input shaft when the clutch pedal is out.It is much heavier than a flexplate on an automatic transmission application. This is because the entire clutch assembly is much lighter than a torque converter. The engine needs the extra weight to provide momentum between powerstrokes. The flywheel also provides one of the two surfaces that transfer the engine’s rotational torque to the clutch disc. Many manufacturers now use a dual-mass flywheel. This type of flywheel is made up of two separate pieces that transfer torque to each other through one or several springs. This absorbs the firing pulses of the engine and reduces shock from sudden engine acceleration. These flywheels are much heavier than a single-mass flywheel but can save the transmission from damage. It provides the other surface that transfers the engine’s rotational torque to the clutch disk. It is also the component that disengages the clutch to disconnect the engine and transmission as well as the component that applies the pressure necessary to grab and hold on to the clutch disc. The diaphragm type of pressure plate is the most common. It has many fingers that provide the clamping force that grabs the clutch disc as well as provide a way to disengage the clutch using the fingers lever action. It has friction material on each side of it that contacts and tries to grab on to either the flywheel or pressure plate. When the clutch pedal is out, the pressure plate, the flywheel and the clutch disc all turn as a unit. The clutch disc has 2 types of springs. The obvious springs located near the centre of the disc are the torsion coil springs. The other type of spring is the wave spring. It is less obvious and is located in the friction material. It allows the friction material to squish a small amount when the clutch is engaged and also soften clutch engagement. There are two common ways of doing this. The older way is by a cable. A clutch cable connects the clutch pedal to the clutch fork. When the clutch pedal is pressed the clutch fork and release bearing disengage the clutch. The modern way to disengage the clutch is with a hydraulic system. The clutch pedal is connected to the clutch master cylinder. Brake fluid will transmit pressure from the clutch master cylinder to the clutch slave cylinder. The clutch slave cylinder will use the fluid pressure to push the clutch fork and release bearing to disengage the clutch. It will pivot when the clutch pedal is pressed to move the release bearing. When the clutch pedal is pressed, the release bearing pushes the inner surface of the pressure plate fingers. Since the pressure plate will most likely be rotating, the release bearing allows the fingers remain in motion while the release bearing contacts the fingers. The action of the release bearing pushing on the inside of the pressure plate’s fingers cause the pressure plate to let go of the clutch disc. This disengages the engine from the transmission. When the clutch pedal is not in use, the release bearing sits just off of the pressure plates fingers.It is easier to think of a transaxle when learning synchro operation. When the vehicle is stationary and the driver selects 1st gear, the wheels are not turning, which means the output shaft is not turning. If the clutch is engaged, the input shaft and the output shaft gears are being rotated by the engine. The clutch needs to be disengaged before 1st gear can be selected. When the driver disengages the clutch, the input shaft and output shaft gears are freewheeling. It is the synchro’s job to bring the output shaft gears to the same speed as the shaft, in this case stationary. Once 1st gear has been selected, the driver can let the clutch out slowly to get the vehicle rolling. When vehicle speed increases, it is time to shift into second gear. The driver will disengage the clutch and shift through neutral into 2nd gear. This causes a few things to happen inside the transmission. When the clutch pedal is pressed, the engine is disengaged from the transmission. When the shifter is going through the neutral position, once again the output shaft gears and the input shaft are freewheeling. As 2nd gear is engaged the synchro must slow down the output shaft 2nd gear to the speed of the output shaft and slow down the input shaft through the input shaft 2nd gear. Then the shifter and synchro will pop into 2nd gear position smoothly, and the driver can re-engage the clutch and continue driving in 2nd gear. This is how all up-shifts happen. The only difference for down-shifts is that the synchro will need to speed up the output shaft gear and input shaft instead of slow it down. This of coarse all happens very quickly. The only difference in a manual transmission compared to a transaxle is the action of the counter shaft between the input and output shaft. They are controlled by the shift forks that receive input from the shifter inside the cabin through cables or linkages. The hub is the piece that is splined to the output shaft and always turns with the shaft. The sleeve has teeth that are splined to the hub, so it also rotates with the shaft. The blocker ring is usually a brass (softer metal) cone shaped piece with teeth on the outside. The blocker ring is the piece that contacts the output shaft gear to change its speed. If a synchro operates two gears, it needs two blocker rings. The gears that the synchro controls have a cone that can mate with the cone of the blocker ring and “dog teeth” that can mesh with the teeth of the sleeve. The inserts are held in place, in the hub, by a spring and push the blocker ring into the output shaft gear as well as rotate the blocker ring at the same speed as the output shaft. Lets assume that a vehicle is rolling down the road in 1st gear. When the driver disengages the clutch and shifts into second gear, the shifter fork will move the synchro sleeve towards the second gear position. As the sleeve begins to move towards the applied position, the sleeve pushes the inserts towards the gear. The inserts push the soft blocker ring into the gears cone and drive the blocker ring at the same speed as the output shaft. When this happens, the selected gear is locked to the shaft. The gears dog teeth are meshed with the sleeves teeth, which are meshed with the hub, which is splined to the shaft. If a synchro fails to change the speed of the gear, or the driver shifts to quickly and does not give the synchro enough time, a loud crunch or grinding noise can be heard. This is the sound of the sleeves teeth trying to mesh with the gears dog teeth while they are spinning at different speeds. This action causes damage to both sets of teeth. It has small cut-out areas for the inserts to ride in. The outer edge of the hub has teeth that mesh with the sleeve. These teeth can also mesh with the dog teeth on the drive gears to lock the gear to the shaft when the sleeve is moved by the shift fork. The sleeve also controls the insert’s pressure on the blocker rings. There are usually 3 of them per synchro and they are all held in place by the spring. When the sleeve meshed with the dog teeth on the drive gear, the inserts are pushed into the hub and out of the way of the sleeve. The cone shape of the contact surface has a wedge action that grabs the gear. The blocker rings contact surface has sharp rings that are designed to cut through gear oil and cushion the grabbing of the gear. They have the cone surface that the blocker ring contacts to change the speed of the gear.They ride on the shift rails and are controlled by the shift lever. For the synchro’s sleeve to engage the dog teeth of the output shaft gear, they need to be rotating at the same speed. The output shaft gear is meshed with the input shaft, which is driven by the engine through the clutch assembly. Engine RPM can be used to get the gear to rotate at the correct speed. When up-shifting, the driver will release the accelerator pedal allow the engine to slow down. This should allow a brief moment where the shifter can be moved into neutral without grinding. Then when the engine slows down to the correct RPM to engage the next gear, the shifter should pop into place without much force. Down-shifting is also possible but it is harder to do. This involves popping the shifter into neutral and revving the engine up to the RPM that will allow the lesser gear to engage. This takes some practice and can cause severe and immediate damage to the transmission if done incorrectly. Also, some manual transmissions will do this easier than others. Even if you do get good at this, I do not recommend you do this all the time. Many people think that this “saves the clutch.” The clutch suffers the most wear when the clutch is slowly engaged as the driver gets the vehicle moving, especially on a steep hill. The clutch does not get worn down from a proper, smooth shift using the clutch. Shifting without the clutch will however wear out the synchros very quickly. As a gear is trying to be engaged, the blocker ring is trying to change the speed of the gear. Since the clutch is engaged, that gear is connected to the engine. The synchro is not strong enough to change the speed of the engine so the soft blocker ring gets worn down until it is useless. At this point the transmission will need to be replaced or rebuilt. This will cost more than replacing the clutch that you were not helping anyway. Many transport truck drivers shift without the clutch but their engines have a much more limited RPM range, their big diesel engines rev down much faster than our little gasoline and light duty diesel engines and they have much tougher manual transmissions. Not to mention the fact that they spend most of their work day behind the wheel of their trucks. In the end, this is a good way to impress other car guys but not something you should be doing in your every day driving. They do not have a pump like an automatic, they rely on the gears splashing oil alone. Most manual transmissions do not have a dipstick or any other way of easily checking fluid level or condition. Most drivers completely forget to check or change their manual transmission fluid. If you are going to service your own manual transmission, I would recommend that you find out where fluid is drained from and where fluid is added. Make sure that the fill plug can be opened before you drain the fluid. One of the worst things that can happen in servicing a manual transmission is draining the fluid with no way of getting new fluid back in. Look in your owners manual or online to find out what kind of gear oil your transmission requires. Most manual transmissions take high viscosity gear oil (eg. 80W90). They also have an GL rating that must be taken into consideration when selecting gear oil (eg. GL-4). Always use the viscosity and GL rating that the manufacturer recommends. The manufacturer may also specify a synthetic gear oil only. Using the wrong gear oil can interfere with the synchro action, leading to gear crunch or accelerated transmission wear. Last updated: July 14, 2020 But do you know what’s going on beneath the hood whenever you shift gears? By the time you finish reading this piece, you should have a basic understanding of this vital part in your vehicle’s drivetrain. To move the car, we need to transfer that rotational power to the wheels. That’s what the car’s drivetrain — of which the transmission is a part of — does. First, it only delivers usable power, or torque, within a certain range of engine speed (this range is called an engine’s power band). Go too slow or too fast, and you don’t get the optimal amount of torque to get the car moving. Second, cars often need more or less torque than what the engine can optimally provide within its power band. And to understand the first problem, you need to understand the difference between engine speed and engine torque. This is measured in revolutions per minute (RPMs). If you were hammering really fast, you probably noticed that you weren’t striking the nail with much force. What’s more, you probably exhausted yourself from so much frantic swinging. Not too fast, not too slow, but just right. We want it to spin at the speed that allows it to deliver the needed torque without working so hard that it destroys itself. We need the engine to stay within its power band. If it goes above its power band, torque starts dropping off and your engine starts sounding like it’s about to break due to stress (sort of like what happens when you try hammering too fast — you hit the nail with less power and you get really, really tired). If you’ve revved your engine until the tachometer gets into the red, you understand this concept viscerally. Your engine sounds like it’s about to die, but you’re not moving any faster. If you floor the gas pedal, you’re going to make the engine’s crankshaft spin really fast, causing the engine to go way above its power band, and possibly destroy itself in the process. And the kicker is you won’t even move the car all that much because torque drops off on an engine as it goes above its power band. In this situation, we need a lot more torque, but to get that, we’ve got to sacrifice some speed. Well, that’s probably not going to cause the engine to spin fast enough to get into its power band in the first place so that it can deliver the torque to get the car moving. You don’t need to send as much power from the engine to the wheels, because the car is already moving at a brisk pace. Sheer momentum is doing a lot of the work. So you can let the engine spin at a higher speed without worrying as much about the amount of power being delivered to the wheels. We need more rotational speed going to the wheels, and less rotational power. It’s able to do this effective transmitting of power through a series of different sized gears that leverage the power of gear ratio. Because the gears that interact with each other are different sizes, torque can be increased or decreased without changing the speed of the engine’s rotational power all that much. This is thanks to gear ratios. When different sized gears mesh together, they can spin at different speeds and deliver different amounts of power. Say you have an input gear with 10 teeth (by input gear, I mean a gear that is generating the power) connected to a larger output with 20 teeth (by output gear, I mean a gear that is receiving the power). To spin that 20-toothed gear once, the 10-toothed gear needs to turn twice because it’s half as big as the 20-toothed gear. This means that even though the 10-toothed gear is spinning fast, the 20-toothed gear is turning slowly. And even though the 20-toothed gear is turning more slowly, it’s delivering more force, or power, because it’s larger. The ratio in this arrangement is 1:2. This is a low gear ratio. They’d both spin at the same speed, and they’d both deliver the same amount of power. The gear ratio here is 1:1. This is called a “direct drive” ratio because the two gears are transferring the same amount of power. To spin the 10-toothed gear once, the 20-toothed gear would only need to turn half way. This means that even though the 20-toothed input gear is spinning slowly and with more force, the 10-toothed output gear is spinning fast, and delivering less power. The gear ratio here is 2:1. This is called high gear ratio. A typical gear ratio when a car is in first gear is 3.166:1. When first gear is engaged, low speed, but high power is delivered. This gear ratio is great for starting your car from a standstill. A typical gear ratio is 1.882:1. Speed is increased and power decreased slightly. A typical gear ratio is 1.296:1. In many vehicles, by the time a car is in fourth gear, the output shaft is moving at the same speed as the input shaft. This arrangement is called “direct drive.” A typical gear ratio is 0.972:1 This allows the fifth gear to spin much faster than the gear that’s delivering power. A typical gear ratio is 0.78:1. This spins at the same speed and power of the engine. The countershaft connects directly to the input shaft via a fixed speed gear. Whenever the input shaft spins, so does the countershaft, and at the same speed as the input shaft. This is the shaft that delivers power to the rest of the drivetrain. The amount of power the output shaft delivers all depends on which gears are engaged on it. The output shaft has freely rotating gears that are mounted on it by ball bearings. The speed of the output shaft is determined by which of the five gears are in “gear,” or engaged. Each of these gears is constantly enmeshed with one of the gears on the countershaft and are constantly spinning.