Patent ID: 7051833
Filing Date: 2006-05-30
Classification: B60B,B60K,B60Y

Abstract:
1. A gantry axle comprising a driven differential gear unit which is connected, via an axle shaft ( 1 ) and via a respective gantry transmission, with each vehicle wheel, and each vehicle wheel being rotatable around an axis of rotation ( 12 ) of the vehicle wheel and resting up on ground ( 11 ), each gantry transmission having an input spur gear ( 2 ) driven by the axle shaft ( 1 ), the input spur gear ( 2 ) being operatively connected with a first intermediate spur gear ( 3 ) and the first intermediate spur gear ( 3 ) being non-rotatably connected with a second intermediate spur gear ( 4 ), both the first and the second intermediate spur gears ( 3 , 4 ) rotating around an axis of rotation ( 9 ) of the intermediate spur gears ( 3 , 4 ), and the second intermediate spur gear ( 4 ) being operatively connected with an output spur gear ( 5 ) which is connected with the vehicle wheel and rotates around the axis of rotation ( 12 ) of the vehicle wheel; wherein a vertical spacing ( the input, the first and second intermediate and the output spur gears ( a sloping angle of the helical cut teeth of the first and of the second intermediate spur gears (