US Patent Issued to MTD Products on May 19 for "Mechanical infinitely variable transmission for outdoor power equipment" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,242, issued on May 19, was assigned to MTD Products Inc (Valley City, Ohio).

"Mechanical infinitely variable transmission for outdoor power equipment" was invented by Jay Maggard (Polk, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanical infinitely variable transmissions (IVTs) and vehicles employing such IVTs are discussed. The IVT can comprise a planetary gearset with a sun gear driven based on an input angular velocity and an annulus gear driven based on a combination of the input angular velocity and a variable gear ratio of a pulley system, wherein the variable gear ratio of the pulley system can be electrically controlled by an actua...