Idea for new type car transmission, what next?

Its the 1st idea draft & suppose guys in white suits could figure out the cv agnle stuff.
The shafts would be perminently touching the cone & just move along it, which I think would be the hardest bit to 'crack' due to material contraints.

I've no idea if it could work if built, though the thought of its capabilities are thoughtfull as there would be almost no loss of power through the transmission.
 
Looks like its been done before on wilkos anyway, you wanna see my idea for a new style jet engine.

Very well dressed guys in white suits lol, unlike the guy on 11k / year who came up with the idea lol.
 
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I was about to suggest getting a patent and then approaching either a few engineering companies or even a few car companies. If it really is new (which it probably isn't) then that would protect you but allow you to sell the idea. While it's not as profitable as licensing a working product it can still be lucrative.

but...

you've now put the idea and diagrams onto a public forum. If it doesn't already exist then you've just blown your chance of getting a patent and it becomes prior art.
 
i saw the pics before you removed it.
sorry to rain on your parade but here are a few problems with it.

firstly the only bit you really created was the idea of driving each driveshaft from one single cone. that was it.
i don't think that's enough to say you invented a new transmission.

for a start i am pretty sure that someone would have already invented something which used a cone to drive a wheel with a variable ratio, and most likely it's a really really old invention anyway where the patent has run out so everyone can use that idea.

secondly you haven't invented the complicated part of the gearbox. namely how do you make the driveshafts stay engaged with the cone and take power from it? you can't just have a little rubber wheel on the end with a spring pushing down on it cos that's never gonna have enough grip. if you had created some clever way of making both those driveshafts engage with that cone then you might have something (assuming it wasn't already invented)

there is no differential in this gearbox

so in summary the idea of driving a wheel off a rotating cone with a variable ratio is either already invented by someone else, or is too obvious to be patentable.

and you haven't invented the rest of the gearbox.

so you haven't really got anything worth patenting.

sorry
 
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