OMG: New From Honda, Developing 11-Speed Triple-Clutch Transmission | What Do You Think?

Just when you thought 8- and 9-speed automatic transmissions were ridiculous, Ford and General Motors (GM) announced a 10-speed. As if that's not enough, then Honda takes the lead as of late patent a 11-speed, triple clutch transmission. Though many car makers are adding more gears to transmission for improve fuel economy, and swapping in dual-clutch units for conventional torque-converter automatics. With this announcement the Japanese company is surely ready to take the lead , as it recently applied to patent an 11-speed transmission with three clutches.

The application was filed with the Japan Patent Office on May 27, according to AutoGuide, which first spotted it. In the depiction, Honda says that by utilizing a third clutch, it will have the capacity to lessening torque expulsion that happens with double clutch transmissions. The patent application, which is interpreted from Japanese, also stated that the new transmission will allow “speed change to be more effectively restricted and a speed change response to be increased.”

It's conceivable that Honda expects to utilize the third clutch to lessen shift times, and in addition the interference in force that comes amid movements in every geared transmissions. The twofold digit number of gears would expand efficiency by permitting Honda to introduce higher gear proportions for low-stack interstate cruising. That advantage is the reason numerous car makers have steadily expanded the number of gears in transmissions in the course of recent years.

Eight-speed automatics are not phenomenal today, and certain models like the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque and Chrysler 200 even offer nine-speed units. Ford and GM are planning to launch a 10-speed automatic that they co-created. Ford will utilize it in various versions of the F-150 pickup truck, while GM's first distribution of the transmission will be in the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 muscle car.

Honda could be the principal carmaker to offer a 11-speed transmission, despite the fact that Ford connected for a patent for its own particular 11-speed outline a year ago. The Honda application gives no sign of what sort of vehicle would utilize this transmission, or what motors it would be matched with, but it sounds like it is being develop to improve efficiency, so a small fuel economy-minded car could be ideal.