Article: Patent No. 7,472,617 Issued on Jan. 6, Assigned to Getrag Getriebe- und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer for Motor Vehicle Variable Transmission System (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 7 -- Oliver Nicklass of Kronau, Germany, has developed a step-by-step variable transmission for motor vehicles. The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,472,617 on Jan. 6.

The patent has been assigned to Getrag Getriebe- und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer GmbH & Cie KG, Untergruppenbach, Germany.

According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A step-by-step variable transmission has a housing, a drive input shaft device, a drive output shaft and a countershaft. A plurality of gearwheel sets are mounted on the drive input shaft and on the countershaft. The gearwheel sets can ...

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