VEHICLE DRIVING AXLE Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: transport engineering.

SUBSTANCE: proposed driving axle has shaft and two overrunning mechanisms. The latter are made of outer housing accommodating ratchet teeth, inner housing on outer surface of which ratchet teeth are made and intermediate housing rigidly secured on shaft on outer and inner surfaces of which opposite pawls are fitted in umber less by one or greater by one than number of corresponding teeth of outer and inner housings. Intermediate housing consists of two rigidly interconnected parts relatively turned relative to common axle through half of pawl arrangement pitch.

EFFECT: increased service life of driving axle.

2 dwg