Drive unit with lubricant cooling cover

Details Drive unit with lubricant cooling cover Drive unit with lubricant cooling cover

1998-11-23

2000-12-05

Bucci, David A.

Machine element or mechanism

Elements

Gear casings

1841041, 165 47, F16H 5704

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06155135&

ABSTRACT:
A final drive unit for a motor vehicle has a differential gear set rotationally mounted in a gear housing that has a rearward facing cover. The differential gear set includes a differential case driven by a ring gear. The ring gear dips into lubricant in the bottom of the gear housing and pumps a portion of the lubricant through a lubricant cooling passage in the cover having a plurality of vertical parallel open ended conduits connected to a manifold having an inlet at the bottom of the cover.

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patent: 4932469 (1990-06-01), Beatenbough
patent: 5072784 (1991-12-01), Stenlund
patent: 5540300 (1996-07-01), Downs et al.
patent: 5737922 (1998-04-01), Schoenman et al.

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