Abstract: A transmission comprises a casing, an output element, a hydrostatic stepless transmission unit (HST) and a forward/backward traveling direction selecting unit (reverser). The output element is supported by the casing. The HST is disposed in the casing so as to be driven by a drive source disposed outside of the casing. The HST includes a pump shaft and a motor shaft member. The pump shaft is drivingly connected to the drive source. The motor shaft member is fitted around the pump shaft coaxially to the pump shaft so as to be rotatable relative to the pump shaft, thereby constituting a hydraulic pump and a hydraulic motor centered on the pump shaft and the motor shaft member. An axially distal end of the motor shaft member is disposed on the axially proximal side of an axially distal end of the pump shaft so that axial ends of the pump shaft are the axially most distal ends of the HST in the axial direction of the pump shaft.

Abstract: A linear actuator having a linearly extending slider disposed in a body casing, a plurality of magnets fixed to the slider along the axial direction of the slider, and a plurality of coils supported by the body casing so as to surround the slider to which the magnets are fixed, the linear actuator being structured so that a slider shifts in the axial direction relative to the body casing due to interaction between energized coils and magnets, the linear actuator further comprising a plurality of flat springs each supporting one end or the other end of the slider in the axial direction, each flat spring being elastically deformed relative to the axial direction of the slider.

Abstract: An axle driving apparatus, in which a transmission casing thereof is vertically divided into an upper half casing and a lower half casing, the butt joint surfaces therebetween are used as bearing surfaces for axles, a motor shaft and a counter shaft, a center section is disposed in the transmission casing, a hydraulic pump is attached to the center section vertically thereof, a hydraulic motor is attached to the same horizontally thereof, and an HST system transmission, first and second deceleration units and differential gears, are tight enclosed in the transmission casing.