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US 9,719,563 B2Granted
Axle assembly having a tapered spline arrangement
AssigneeArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
InventorWagner Hirao
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Abstract
An axle assembly having a tapered spline arrangement. The axle assembly may include a first shaft that may have a first spline and a clutch collar that may have a clutch collar spline that may be disposed in a hole that may receive the first shaft. The first spline and the second spline may be tapered in opposite directions.
Claims19
An axle assembly comprising:
- a first shaft that extends along an axis and that has a first spline, wherein the first spline has a first spline tooth that is tapered in a first direction that extends substantially parallel to the axis;
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- a clutch collar that is moveably disposed on the first shaft, the clutch collar having a hole that receives the first shaft and a clutch collar spline that is disposed in the hole, wherein the clutch collar spline has a clutch collar spline tooth that is tapered in a second direction that extends opposite the first direction wherein the clutch collar spline tooth includes:
- a first clutch collar spline tooth end surface;
- a second clutch collar spline tooth end surface that is disposed opposite the first clutch collar spline tooth end surface and is disposed substantially parallel to the first clutch collar spline tooth end surface;
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- first and second clutch collar spline tooth side surfaces that extend from the first clutch collar spline tooth end surface to the second clutch collar spline tooth end surface, the second clutch collar spline tooth side surface being disposed in a nonparallel relationship with the first clutch collar spline tooth side surface.
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An axle assembly comprising:
- a first shaft that extends along an axis and that has a first spline that includes a first set of spline teeth that are arranged around the axis, wherein each member of the first set of spline teeth includes:
- a first end surface that extends away from the axis;
- a second end surface that extends away from the axis and is disposed opposite the first end surface;
- a first side surface that extends from the first end surface to the second end surface;
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- a second side surface that is disposed opposite the first side surface, wherein the second side surface extends from the first end surface to the second end surface and is disposed in a nonparallel relationship with the first side surface;
- wherein the first end surface and the second end surface are disposed substantially perpendicular to the axis, the first end surface is disposed substantially parallel to the second end surface, and a length of the first end surface from the first side surface to the second side surface is greater than a length of the second end surface from the first side surface to the second side surface;
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- a clutch collar that is moveably disposed on the first shaft, wherein the clutch collar has a hole through which the first shaft extends and a set of clutch collar spline teeth that receive the first set of spline teeth.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.