US 12,208,645 B2Granted

Front axle for mining machines

AssigneeCaterpillar Inc.

InventorsDinesh Sivakumar, Regini Selvapalace Ehuraj, Steven J. Fujan, Scott M Shaffer

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Abstract

An axle, for a mining machine, includes one or more segments, each defining a first wall portion, a second wall portion disposed opposite to the first wall portion, a third wall portion, and a fourth wall portion. The third wall portion extends between the first and the second wall portions to meet the first wall portion at a first corner portion and the second wall portion at a second corner portion. The fourth wall portion extends between the first and the second wall portions to meet the first wall portion at a third corner portion and the second wall portion at a fourth corner portion. The second thickness of the second corner portion and the third thickness of the third corner portion are greater than each of the first thickness of the first corner portion and the fourth thickness of the fourth corner portion.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An axle for a mining machine, the axle comprising:

one or more segments, each segment of the one or more segments defining:
a first wall portion and a second wall portion disposed opposite to the first wall portion;
a third wall portion extending between the first wall portion and the second wall portion to meet the first wall portion at a first corner portion and the second wall portion at a second corner portion, the first corner portion having a first thickness and the second corner portion having a second thickness;
and
a fourth wall portion disposed spaced apart from the third wall portion and extending between the first wall portion and the second wall portion to meet the first wall portion at a third corner portion and the second wall portion at a fourth corner portion, the third corner portion having a third thickness and the fourth corner portion having a fourth thickness,
wherein the second thickness and the third thickness are greater than each of the first thickness and the fourth thickness.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.