Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle wheel arrangement
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Application No.: US17754186Application Date: 2019-10-01
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Publication No.: US11945301B2Publication Date: 2024-04-02
- Inventor: Jan Zachrisson , Pär Öhrfeldt , Ingemar Dagh
- Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: SE Gothenburg
- Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: SE Gothenburg
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Agent Jeffri A. Kaminski
- Priority: WO TEP2019076083 2019.09.26
- International Application: PCT/EP2019/076640 2019.10.01
- International Announcement: WO2021/058118A 2021.04.01
- Date entered country: 2022-03-25
- Main IPC: B60K17/04
- IPC: B60K17/04 ; B60K7/00 ; F16H57/04

Abstract:
The invention provides a vehicle wheel arrangement (4) comprising a drive shaft (401), and a hub (402), the wheel arrangement further comprising a gear cavity (411) housing a gear arrangement (412) between the drive shaft and the hub, wherein the wheel arrangement comprises a container (42), and wherein a circulation passage (431, 441) extends from the gear cavity (411) to the container (42), and a feeding passage (451) extends from the container to the gear cavity, the wheel arrangement further comprising a pump (421), the pump being located along the circulation passage, the pump (421) being arranged to pump lubricant from the gear cavity to the container.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220289022A1 A VEHICLE WHEEL ARRANGEMENT Public/Granted day:2022-09-15
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