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US 11,614,148 B2Granted
Axle assembly having a shift collar
AssigneeArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
InventorSupreeth Chandrashekar
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Abstract
An axle assembly having a drive pinion, a transmission, and a shift collar. The transmission may include a set of drive pinion gears. The shift collar may be rotatable about an axis with the drive pinion and may be moveable along the axis with respect to the drive pinion to selectively connect a member of the set of drive pinion gears to the drive pinion.
Claims20
An axle assembly comprising:
- a drive pinion that is rotatable about an axis;
- a transmission that includes:
- a set of drive pinion gears that is spaced apart from the drive pinion and is rotatable about the axis;
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- a first countershaft gear set that is rotatable about a first countershaft axis, wherein each member of the first countershaft gear set meshes with a different member of the set of drive pinion gears;
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- a shift collar that is rotatable about the axis with the drive pinion and moveable along the axis with respect to the drive pinion to selectively connect a member of the set of drive pinion gears to the drive pinion.
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An axle assembly comprising:
- a drive pinion that is rotatable about an axis;
- a first countershaft gear set that includes first, second, third, and fourth countershaft gears that are fixedly positioned with respect to a first countershaft such that the first, second, third, and fourth countershaft gears are rotatable about a first countershaft axis with the first countershaft;
- a set of drive pinion gears that includes first, second, third, and fourth gears that are rotatable about the axis and that mesh with the first, second, third, and fourth countershaft gears of the first countershaft gear set, respectively;
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- a shift collar that is rotatable about the axis with the drive pinion and is moveable along the axis with respect to the drive pinion to selectively connect the second gear, the third gear, or the fourth gear to the drive pinion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.