Free wheel hub apparatus
AssigneeTochigifujisangyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSakuo Kurihara
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Abstract
A free wheel hub apparatus comprises a drive gear engaged with a drive shaft and having a gear portion on the outer circumferential face thereof; a housing disposed outside the drive gear and fixed to a wheel hub and having a gear portion on the inner circumferential face thereof; a slide gear engaged with the gear portions of the housing and the drive gear and movable in the axial direction; a drive device for moving the slide gear in the axial direction to engage and disengage the gear portions from each other; and a controller for controlling the operation of the drive device.
Claims8
A free wheel hub apparatus, comprising:
- a housing member;
- a drive shaft disposed within the housing;
- a drive gear connected to the drive shaft;
- a slide gear slidably connected to the housing, the slide gear being slidably engageable with the drive gear so as to transmit rotational force to the housing;
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- means for sliding the slide gear into engagement with the drive gear, the sliding means comprising an electric motor having an output shaft and means for converting rotational force of the output shaft into an axially directed force to act on the slide gear, the converting means and the slide gear being arranged axially between the electric motor and the drive gear.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.