US Patent Issued to BRP-ROTAX on Feb. 3 for "Driven pulley for a continuously variable transmission" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,665, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BRP-ROTAX GMBH & Co. KG (Gunskirchen, Austria).

"Driven pulley for a continuously variable transmission" was invented by Giacomo Riva (Wels, Austria), Karl Glinsner (Wels, Austria) and Patrick Eisenkoeck (Neukirchen am Walde, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driven pulley for a continuously variable transmission has a fixed sheave; a movable sheave; a spring biasing the movable sheave axially toward the fixed sheave; and at least one roller assembly connected to one of the sheaves. Another one of the sheaves has at least one ramp configured for abutting the at least one roller assembly. E...