| 摘要 |
A compound transmission comprising a main section and an auxiliary section is disclosed. The auxiliary section includes includes an auxiliary drive gear, an output shaft, and at least one auxiliary countershaft. The auxiliary drive gear is rotatably mounted on a mainshaft, and the output shaft has a splitter gear rotationally fixed thereto. An annular strut is fixed to the input shaft, while an auxiliary section clutch is mounted to a distal end of the strut beyond the root diameters of the auxiliary drive gear and the splitter gear. The auxiliary section clutch is movable between a first position wherein rotation of the mainshaft is transmitted to the auxiliary drive gear and a second position wherein rotation of the mainshaft is transmitted to the splitter gear. |
