China-Made CVT Transmission To Be Produced Next Year
SHANGHAI - July 24, 2007: Luoyang Sanming Industry Co. announced
their plans last Thursday to initiate production of China's first
independently patented CVT transmission. Production will begin by
the first quarter of 2008 with a total investment of 220 million
yuan. The planned annual output will be 50,000 units.
Luoyang Sanming Industry Co., Ltd is one of the main private
corporations in Henan Province. Having spent five years, from 1997
to 2002, to successfully develop the Continuously Variable
Transmission (CVT). The CVT technique owned by Sanming Company is
China's only independent intellectual property in the field of
advanced automobile technique to be awarded a national invention
patent. The use of CVT will make China the third country to have an
independent CVT transmission patent behind Germany and Japan.
Experts from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers say
CVT transmissions use different gear mechanism which differentiates
them from an automatic transmission. CVT operates on an ingenious
pulley system that allows an infinite variability between the
highest and the lowest gears with no discrete steps or shifts. This
eliminates the impact caused by shift changing and transmission
torque, thus greatly enhances driving comfort. Moreover, CVT solves
the high fuel consumption problem compared with manual gearbox
transmission (MT) and automatic transmission (AT).
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