Parallel-axis gear differential with pinion mounted brake shoes
CA 2298818 A1 · Owner: American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. · Inventors: Zinke, James R. Ii; Gage, Garrett W.
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Parallel-axis gear differentials include a housing rotatable about a common axis of a pair of output shafts and a planetary gearset mounted in the housing for interconnecting the output shafts. The gearset includes a pair of side, gears positioned within the housing and fixed for rotation with the output shafts, and, two or more pairs of meshed pinions journally mounted in gear pockets formed in the, housing, with each pinion having a gear segment meshed with a gear segment of the, other pinion and with one of the side gears. An anti-tipping mechanism includes, brake shoes that are journalled on stub shaft segments of the pinions. Each brake, shoe has a first support surface which …
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- Filed February 16, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended February 16, 2020.
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