Drive axle assembly
AssigneeHyundai Wia Corporation
InventorChang Hee JEONG
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Abstract
A drive axle assembly which increases a maximum bending angle by improving a structure of a shaft bearing supported by a drive shaft and makes an assembly structure compact. The drive axle assembly is preferably configured to include, a wheel bearing assembled to an axle housing, a boot having a large diameter portion of one end connected to an outer ring of the wheel bearing, a drive shaft having an orbit formed along a circumferential direction of an outer circumferential surface, and a shaft bearing assembled between a small diameter portion of the other end of the boot and the drive shaft, and configured to restrict the rotation of the boot as a rolling element is rotated along the orbit.
Claims13
A drive axle assembly comprising:
- a wheel bearing assembled to an axle housing;
- a boot having a large diameter portion of one end connected to an outer ring of the wheel bearing;
- a drive shaft having an orbit formed along a circumferential direction of an outer circumferential surface;
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- a shaft bearing assembled between a small diameter portion of the other end of the boot and the drive shaft, and configured to restrict the rotation of the boot as a rolling element is rotated along the orbit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.