China-made CVT to be produced next year

The first China CVT project, which owned independence knowledge property right, has been started at Luoyang city Henan province last Thursday. With a total investment of 220 million yuan, the first batch of products will go on production line starting the first quarter of 2008. Scheduled annual output for the transmission is 50,000 units.

Luoyang Sanming Industry Co., Ltd is one of the 100 main private corporations in Henan Province. Spending five years, from 1997 to 2002, the company has successfully developed the CVT Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT). The CVT technique Sanming Company owned is the only one independence knowledge property right in the high automobile technique field. It had gained one national invention patent, more than six other patents. The CVT had successfully assembled in 7 style cars.  The use of the CVT will make China become the third country which owned independence knowledge property right after German and Japan level of equipment.

Experts from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers have said that the CVT and traditional automatic transmission are different in the way the gear mechanism operates. CVT operates on an ingenious pulley system that allows an infinite variability between highest and lowest gears with no discrete steps or shifts. This eliminates the impact caused by shift changing and transmission torque and greatly enhances driving comfort. Moreover, CVT is able to solve the high fuel consumption problem compared with manual gearbox transmission (MT), automatic transmission (AT).