Motor vehicles – Compensating devices
Patent
1981-07-01
1983-12-20
Pekar, John A.
Motor vehicles
Compensating devices
180297, 384255, B60K 1724
Patent
active
044211872
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle has two axially opposed driven wheels which are driven by two drive shafts of equal length, each flexibly drivingly coupled at its outer end to one of the wheels. A differential, which has a preferred power output line, is located closer to a first one of the wheels and further from the other wheel. A short power output shaft extends from the differential towards the first wheel and is flexibly drivingly coupled at its outer end to the inner end of the drive shaft which drives that first wheel. A long power output shaft extends from the differential towards the other wheel and is flexibly coupled at its outer end to the inner end of the other one of the drive shafts, whose outer end is drivingly coupled to that other wheel. The inner race of a bearing supports an outer part of the long power output shaft, remote from the differential, and an outer race rotatably supports the inner race. A support member supports the outer race so that the inner race is rotatable about a rotation axis substantially parallel to the preferred power output line for the differential on the long power output shaft side, and this support member is coupled to a fixed member of the vehicle. A means for alignment is provided, for adjusting the position of the rotation axis of the inner race with respect to the position of the preferred power output line on that side of the differential, in the plane perpendicular thereto, with two degrees of freedom, and for fixing this adjusted position. Accordingly, the long power output shaft is firmly rotatably held in a position which can be adjusted and then fixed.
REFERENCES:
patent: 657381 (1900-09-01), Barnes
patent: 2782864 (1957-02-01), Fessia
patent: 4252059 (1981-02-01), Simeth
Izuta Mitsugu
Matano Tetsuya
Shibata Takuo
Fugate D. Lynn
Pekar John A.
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
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