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All-wheel drive train

US7399250B2 · kind B2 · utility

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10References

7Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Daimler AG · DE

Inventors

Philip Gansloser · Bad Ditzenbach, DE
Tobias Haerter · Stuttgart, DE
Werner Klein · Schmallenberg, DE
Hartmut Nied · Waiblingen, DE
Rolf Schroeder · Stuttgart, DE
Petra Tennert · Gerlingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 20, 2006
Grant date	Jul 15, 2008
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 31, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T74/19107
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In an all-wheel drive train for a motor vehicle wherein the drive torque of the engine of the motor vehicle is transmitted from the transmission output shaft partially to the rear axle and partially to the front axle via an offset transmission structure and a laterally arranged drive shaft extending from the offset transmission structure past the transmission to the front axle of the motor vehicle extends from the offset transmission forwardly at a certain opening angle in close proximity to the transmission structure which narrows down toward the rear so that the rear end of the lateral drive shaft is relatively close to the center axis of the transmission.

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