US Patent Issued to CVTECH-IBC on May 5 for "Double cam actuation system for CVT" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,457, issued on May 5, was assigned to CVTECH-IBC INC. (Drummondville, Canada).

"Double cam actuation system for CVT" was invented by David Levasseur (Drummondville, Canada), Samuel Paul (Drummondville, Canada), Pierre Lebel (Drummondville, Canada) and Pascal Thibodeau (Drummondville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new scissor-ramp mechanism for a Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) provides smooth transmission of variation to the width of the groove for the V-belt of the CVT. The scissor-ramp mechanism consists in driving rings that are coaxial, concentric to each other, and rotatable relative to one another, each having ...