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US 4,301,886 AGranted
Front wheel drive
AssigneeKubota Corporation
InventorsMikio Kinoshita, Mitsuhiro Kutomi
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Abstract
In a drive for driving front wheels through transmissions disposed at the ends of front axles to be drivingly rotated, a cylindrical front axle case for enveloping and rotatably supporting the front axles is integrally formed with transmission cases for enveloping and rotatably supporting the transmissions.
Claims3
A front wheel drive comprising:
- a cylindrical front axle case (10) housing front axles (20) and having transmission cases (23) integral therewith, a transmisson (27) rotatably journaled in each of said transmission cases (23) and driven by one of said front axles for driving a front wheel (2), and a transmission case cover (24) removably attached to each of integrally formed said front axle case (10) and said transmission cases (23), said transmission case cover (24) supporting one of said front axles (20) and said transmission (27) at positions adjacent one end thereof respectively.
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