Disclosed is an automatic speed changing device in which speed is
automatically changed according to a predetermined amount of rotation
without user's arbitrary manipulations. The automatic speed changing
device of the present invention comprises a hub unit including a hub
shaft formed with a sun gear, and a hub shell surrounding the sun gear
and having a first ratchet ring and an inner gear formed on an inner
peripheral surface of the hub shell; a first travel unit including a
driver for rotating the hub shell while closing the other side of the hub
shell, and a driven sprocket for rotating the driver by receiving power
from a driving sprocket; a second travel unit including a first carrier
disposed within the hub shell and mounted at one side thereof with a
plurality of planetary gears engaged with the sun gear and the inner gear
to rapidly rotate the hub shell, and a second carrier extending from the
other side of the first carrier to the driver; and a conversion unit
including a second ratchet ring interposed between the driver and the
second carrier to transmit rotational force from the rotating driver to
the second carrier and the planetary gears of the first carrier, and a
conversion spring interposed between the first and second carriers to
return the second ratchet ring when pedals of a bicycle are not operated
and the bicycle is stopped.