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US 7,730,992 B1Granted
Off road heavy duty transmission/transfer case mount
OwnerRandy Randallinventor
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Abstract
A mounting unit is mounted to the frame cross member of a vehicle. The mounting unit includes a bottom unit which is bolted to the frame cross member and a top unit which is bolted to the transmission/transfer case adapter. The top and bottom units are bolted to one another. The mounting unit allows the motor, transmission, and transfer case to move freely with respect to each other during hard use conditions, including extreme four-wheeling, without damaging the mounting unit.
Claims3
A mounting unit comprising:
- A) a transmission case of an automobile;
- B) a frame cross member for the automobile;
- and
- C) a mount unit coupling the transmission case to the frame cross member and which includes
- (1) a top unit having a U-shaped body which includes two side elements connected to a planar bight section, the bight section having a fastener-accommodating hole defined therethrough through which a fastener extends to couple the bight section of the top unit to the transmission case, and a fastener-accommodating hole defined in each side element, and
- (2) a bottom unit having
- (a) a bottom wall,
- (b) a threaded fastener threadably attached to the bottom wall and to the frame cross member to threadably attach the bottom unit to the frame cross member,
- (c) two pentagonal shaped sides each of which includes an apex that is located to be spaced apart from the bottom wall of the bottom unit,
- (d) a fastener-accommodating unit on each pentagonal side, each fastener-accommodating unit on each pentagonal side including a fastener-accommodating holed defined therethrough and located adjacent to the apex of the side and a washer mounted on the side in surrounding relation to the fastener-accommodating hole defined through the pentagonal side,
- (e) the fastener-accommodating unit on each pentagonal side being located to have the fastener-accommodating hole thereof aligned with a corresponding fastener-accommodating hole of a side element of the top unit whereby a fastener extending through the aligned holes couples the top unit to the bottom unit, and
- (f) a V-shaped top element on the pentagonal sides of the bottom unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.