Patent ID: 7850181
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: B60G,B62D

Abstract:
1. An adjustable carrier housing for receiving a drive shaft that is drivingly coupled to a drive axle and attaching the drive shaft and drive axle to a vehicle chassis, comprising: a sub-frame connected to the vehicle chassis, the sub-frame including a pair of side walls extending downward from the vehicle chassis and perpendicular to the drive axle, and each of the side walls including an aperture; a pair of cover gears having a plurality of splines on the outside periphery thereof, where each of the cover gears is attached to an opposite sides of the carrier housing and positioned within the apertures located on the respective side walls; a pair of ring gears, each ring gear positioned proximate to one of the apertures and coupled to the sub-frame and each ring gear having a plurality of splines on the inside of the ring gear for cooperating with the splines on the cover gears; wherein the ring gears are coupled to the cover gears; and wherein the carrier housing is fixedly coupled to the sub-frame by the interlocking relationship between the splines on the cover gears and ring gears.