Differential gear for a motor vehicle

US11353100B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AUDI AG · DE

Inventors

• Kurt Hornung · Leinburg, DE
• Markus Schäfer · Horterhof, DE
• Andrej Merz · Ingolstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 2019
• Grant date: Jun 7, 2022
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16H2048/385
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A differential gear including a rotatably mounted differential housing and a final driven gear mounted rotationally fixed to the differential housing. The differential housing, on the outer circumferential surface thereof, includes two mating surfaces and that the final driven gear, on the inner circumferential surface thereof, includes two radially opposite mating surfaces. The mating surfaces formed on the outer circumferential surface of the differential housing and the mating surfaces formed on the inner circumferential surface of the final driven gear are each designed as separate mating surfaces which, when viewed in axial direction (a), are arranged geometrically separated from each other by a spacing.