Patent ID: 9551383
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: B60K,F16D,Y10T

Claim:
1. A transaxle, comprising: an input shaft; a brake provided on the input shaft, the brake including layered friction elements; an output shaft; a mechanical transmission configured to transmit power from the input shaft to the output shaft; a transaxle casing including a housing, the housing defining both a brake chamber and a transmission chamber, the brake chamber incorporating the brake, and the transmission chamber incorporating the transmission; and a spacing system configured such that the transaxle casing is provided with a partition wall between the brake chamber and the transmission chamber so as to hold a bearing in the partition wall to journal the input shaft, and so as to provide a spacer for the layered friction elements of the brake, the spacer defining a space in the axial direction of the input shaft corresponding to a thickness of the layered friction elements in the axial direction of the input shaft, wherein the housing is formed with the partition wall having an inner peripheral portion defining a hole through which the input shaft is passed between the brake chamber and the transmission chamber, such that the inner peripheral portion of the partition wall holds the bearing disposed in the hole, and wherein the spacing system includes a member serving as the spacer, the member separated from the housing and disposed in the brake chamber between the partition wall and the layered friction elements.