Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Jefferson Perkins, Esq.
  • Patent number: 6267704
    Abstract: A multiple-speed transmission wheel hub for imparting torque to a drive wheel includes a hub shell formed around a wheel axis and a clutch wheel formed around the wheel axis and axially movable between at least first and second speed positions. First gearing couples the clutch wheel to the hub shell when the clutch wheel is in the first position producing a first transmission speed. Second gearing couples the clutch wheel in the second speed position with the hub shell producing a second transmission speed. A speed-shifting cam is disposed on the axis and axially rotatable between at least first and second speed positions, with helical segments formed on a surface of the clutch wheel facing the cam, the helical segments coupling to the cam to translate rotation of the cam into axial displacement of the clutch wheel both from the second speed position to the first speed position and from the first speed position to the second speed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: SRAM Corporation
    Inventors: Sam H. Patterson, Werner Steuer