Vehicle power train structure

Details Vehicle power train structure Vehicle power train structure

1992-11-20

1994-02-22

Mitchell, David M.

Motor vehicles

Power

Having specific motor-to-body-frame relationship

123 57R, B60K 504

Patent

active

052879429

ABSTRACT:
This invention has as its object to provide a vehicle power train structure, which can decrease the total height and the total length of the entire power train as a combination of an engine, a transmission, a drive shaft, and the like. In order to achieve this object, a power train structure according to this embodiment includes an engine which has a plurality of cylinders arranged in series with each other, and is mounted in a vehicle body with a bore center axis of the cylinder inclining downwardly towards a cylinder head of said cylinder with respect to horizontal plane of the vehicle, such that a crankshaft as an output shaft extends in the widthwise direction of the vehicle body, a transmission, arranged at a position neighboring the engine to be substantially parallel to the extending direction of the crankshaft, for receiving a rotating force of the engine, and a drive shaft, arranged behind the transmission to extend in the widthwise direction of the vehicle body, for receiving the rotating force of the engine from the transmission.

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patent: 2782864 (1957-02-01), Fessia
patent: 4412515 (1983-11-01), Fritzenwenger
patent: 4446828 (1984-05-01), Bauder et al.
patent: 4716984 (1988-01-01), Hiramatsu et al.
patent: 5129476 (1992-07-01), Kikuchi et al.

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