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US 10,369,885 B2Granted
Axle assembly having a gear reduction unit and an interaxle differential unit
AssigneeArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
InventorsChristopher Keeney, Dale Eschenburg
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Abstract
An axle assembly having a gear reduction unit and an interaxle differential unit. The gear reduction unit may be operatively connected to an input shaft and may selectively provide gear reduction to a differential assembly and the interaxle differential unit. The interaxle differential unit may operatively connect the gear reduction unit to the output shaft.
Claims20
An axle assembly comprising:
- a housing assembly;
- a case that is received in the housing assembly and is rotatable about a first axis with respect to the housing assembly;
- an input gear that is rotatable about the first axis;
- an input shaft that is received in the input gear and is rotatable about the first axis;
- a gear reduction unit that is received in the case and that operatively connects the input shaft to the input gear;
- a first coupling that is moveable between a first position in which the first coupling prevents rotation of the input gear about the first axis and the input shaft is rotatable with respect to the input gear and a second position in which the first coupling couples the input gear to the case such that the input gear, input shaft, and the case are rotatable together about the first axis;
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- an interaxle differential unit that is at least partially received in the case.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.