Provided is a speed-switchable reduction gear including: an input shaft; an output shaft; a plurality of output-side geared-wheels mounted on the output shaft; a shifter for selecting the output-side geared-wheel to be used; a shifter-side first bearing and a non-shifter-side second bearing provided to each the output-side geared-wheel; and a plurality of dividing walls each provided in each cell between the first and second bearings. The output shaft has an axial lubricating-oil flow path and a plurality of supply flow paths. Each dividing wall divides each cell into a first cell adjacent to the first bearing and a second cell adjacent to the second bearing and allows lubricating oil to be supplied from the supply flow paths into the first and second cells so as to make pressure of lubricating oil in the first cell higher than that in the second cell.

A constant mesh type transmission for a straddled vehicle includes an input shaft; a plurality of drive gears; an output shaft; a plurality of driven gears; and a gear stage setting mechanism, including a ratchet mechanism. The ratchet mechanism includes a n-th speed accelerating pawl, a n-th speed decelerating pawl, a (n+1)-th speed accelerating pawl, a (n+1)-th speed decelerating pawl, a rotary cam, and a plurality of sliders. The rotary cam has a plurality of cam portions on an outer peripheral surface thereof which position the respective guide object parts such that the plurality of sliders raise an accelerating pawl and a decelerating pawl corresponding to a selected gear stage and lower an accelerating pawl and a decelerating pawl corresponding to a non-selected gear stage.

A constant-mesh type transmission for straddled vehicle with a ratchet mechanism is configured to be mounted on a straddled vehicle and has five or more gear stages in addition to a neutral position. The transmission includes an input shaft; five or more drive gears; an output shaft; an odd-numbered stage hub and an even-numbered stage hub; a plurality of odd-numbered stage driven gears; a plurality of even-numbered stage driven gears; a dog engagement mechanism; and a ratchet mechanism. The ratchet mechanism has an odd-numbered stage accelerating pawl, an odd-numbered stage decelerating pawl, an even-numbered stage accelerating pawl, an even-numbered stage decelerating pawl, and a ratchet control mechanism.

A bicycle transmission hub includes: a hub shaft to input a rotation force is input, the hub shaft having first pawls arranged on the outer peripheral surface thereof; a transmission controller for controlling the first pawls to appear and disappear; driving gears, each having a ratchet formed on the inner peripheral surface thereof to receive a rotation force by the first pawls, the driving gears having a different number of teeth, the hub shaft extending through the center of each driving gear; driven gears engaged with the driving gears, respectively, having a different number of teeth, and rotating; an output wheel rotating while being coupled to a driving gear adjacent thereto among the driving gears and having a second pawl disposed on the outer peripheral surface thereof; and a hub shell having a ratchet formed on the inner peripheral surface thereof to receive a rotation force by the second pawl.

A gearbox includes an input gear supported for rotation about an input axis and includes first and second idler gears fixedly coupled to each other and supported for rotation about a transfer axis. The first idler gear is fixedly coupled to the input gear. A planetary gear set is supported for rotation about an output axis of the gearbox and has a first component fixedly coupled to the second idler gear. A differential is supported for rotation about the output axis, co-axial with the planetary gear set, and fixedly coupled to a second component of the planetary gear set.

A drive unit includes: a pedal crankshaft to which a pedal stepping force of a rider is applied; an electric motor that detects a torque input to the pedal crankshaft and generates a drive force; and a transmission that changes shift of the drive force of the electric motor and delivers the drive force to the pedal crankshaft, the transmission includes a main shaft that supports a plurality of drive gears and a counter shaft that supports a plurality of driven gears that engage with the plurality of respective drive gears, and the transmission selects one torque delivery gear among the plurality of drive gears, delivers the drive force of the electric motor to the counter shaft, and shifts the torque delivery gear without inverting a rotational direction of the drive gear.

Provided is a transmission for a motor including: an input shaft rotating by driving force transmitted from the motor and having a plurality of pawls disposed on the outer circumferential surface; controller for controlling protrusion and retraction of the pawls; a plurality of driving gears through the centers of which the input shaft passes, which have ratchets formed on the inner circumferential surfaces thereof so as to be engaged with the pawls, and which are different in the number of gear teeth; a plurality of driven gears which are externally meshed with the driving gears and are different in the number of gear teeth; and an output unit for outputting rotary speed changed in speed by the driving gears and the driven gears.

Gear arrangement for a vehicle, having an input shaft, a layshaft, an output shaft connected to a drive wheel of the vehicle, a plurality of shiftable first gear wheel sets which connect the input shaft and the layshaft and which are each associated with at least one gear stage, and a machine gear connected to one of the shafts and into which the drive torque of an electric machine can be introduced. The first gear wheel sets form a first part-gear mechanism, wherein at least one second shiftable gear wheel set connects the layshaft and the output shaft and forms a second part-gear mechanism, wherein the at least one second gear wheel set is associated with at least one gear stage and wherein the machine gear is arranged in an axial direction between the first part-gear mechanism and the second part-gear mechanism.

A gear shift device for a mobility machine has a plurality of gears between a first gear referred to as gear No. 1 and a top gear. The gear shift device includes a series of input pinions arranged so as to turn freely around a selection shaft with an axis X.sub.2, said selection shaft accommodating a worm screw and a shuttle. The gear shift device also includes a series of output pinions with an axis X.sub.3 that rotate conjointly with a hollow shaft a gear shift actuator arranged so as to displace the shuttle along the worm screw between a plurality of positions and to engage a selected gear. A mobility machine can include the gear shift device.

A transmission, in particular for a motor vehicle, is provided. The transmission has a hydraulically or electrically operable gearshift sleeve, a dutch pack, an input shaft, and an output shaft, which are rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation, a first ramp element, and a second ramp element. The gearshift sleeve has a gearshift sleeve claw, and the output shaft has an output claw, which is arranged so as to lie opposite. The gearshift sleeve can be moved from an initial position into a first position, in which the gearshift sleeve transfers an axial force by way of the first ramp element and the second ramp element to the clutch pack for synchronization of the disks, and into a second position, in which the gearshift sleeve claw is connected to the output claw interlockingly in the direction of rotation and thus the input shaft and the output shaft are interlockingly coupled. A method for shifting such a transmission is also provided.