Mounting structure of drive-shaft
AssigneeHyundai Motor Company
InventorsSung-Su Yoo, Won-Jun Choi
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Abstract
A mounting structure of a drive-shaft includes: a shaft; a housing; a spring guide slidably disposed inside the housing having one end facing the shaft; and a spring with one end supported by a spring guide and the other end supported by the housing, in which a transmission has a companion flange with a cup-shaped coupling portion at an end, so when the housing enters the coupling portion, an elastic force of the spring biases the housing into the coupling portion. Since a fixing bolt is not used, it is possible to quickly assemble and disassemble the drive-shaft in maintenance.
Claims8
A mounting structure of a drive-shaft which transmits a driving force of a transmission to a wheel, comprising:
- a shaft including a first end operably connected to a transmission and a second end operably connected to a driven wheel;
- a housing operably coupling the first end of the shaft to the transmission;
- a spring guide slidably disposed inside the housing, including an end facing the first end of the shaft;
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- a spring with one end supported by the spring guide and another end supported by the housing;
- wherein the transmission has a companion flange including a cup-shaped coupling portion, so when the housing enters the coupling portion, with the shaft operably coupled with the driven wheel, an elastic force of the spring biases the housing into the coupling portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.