Longitudinal four wheel drive train
OwnerPhilip Gansloser, Tobias Harter +4inventors
InventorsPhilip Gansloser, Tobias Harter, Werner Klein, Hartmut Nied, Rolf Schroder, Petra Tennert
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Abstract
In a longitudinally installed four wheel drive train of a motor which includes a front drive shaft, which transmits the engine driving torque to the front axle from the rear end of the vehicle transmission the front drive shaft comprises at least at its rear end two opposite radially projecting pins extending into longitudinal grooves formed in a gear wheel of a front drive structure so as to be axially movably and pivotally supported therein.
Claims16
A longitudinally installed four wheel drive train for a motor vehicle having an engine and a transmission with a transfer gearing and with front and rear drive shafts extending in the longitudinl direction of the vehicle, wherein a driving torque can be transmitted from the vehicle transmission (19) via the transfer gearing (29) and a gear wheel (99) to a front drive shaft (10), the rear end of the front drive shaft (10) being arranged in an articulated manner inside the gearwheel (99) so as to form a first joint (100) and comprising two pins (94a, 94b) arranged diametrically relative to one another and extending into longitudinal grooves (96a, 96b) formed inside the gearwheel (99) so as to be axially displaceable in the gear wheel (99) and pivotably supported therein.
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