Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle differential device
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Application No.: US15997210Application Date: 2018-06-04
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Publication No.: US10527153B2Publication Date: 2020-01-07
- Inventor: Kengo Okumoto , Osamu Shimizu , Takahide Kobayashi
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2017-129944 20170630
- Main IPC: F16H48/40
- IPC: F16H48/40 ; F16H57/04 ; F16H48/08

Abstract:
A vehicle differential device includes: a differential casing having a pair of axle supporting holes; a pinion gear; a pair of side gears; and a pair of washers each interposed between a contact surface of the differential casing and a back surface of each side gear. The differential casing defines first lubrication grooves provided in an inner circumferential surface of each axle supporting hole, and second lubrication grooves and third lubrication grooves provided in the contact surface. Each second lubrication groove communicates at its end with the corresponding first lubrication groove, and communicates at another end with a space. Each third lubrication groove communicates at its end with the corresponding first lubrication groove, and is closed at another end, without the third lubrication groove being in communication with the space.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190003571A1 VEHICLE DIFFERENTIAL DEVICE Public/Granted day:2019-01-03
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