Patent ID: 6681654
Filing Date: 2004-01-27
Classification: F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
A locked differentials for motor vehicles including, for each of oppositely positioned axles for wheels of a vehicle, an axle coupler, and a driver, each being co-axially aligned with a respective axle, a plurality of teeth on each respective axle, a plurality of teeth on respective mutually facing faces of each respective coupler and driver for effecting an interlocking drive coupling therebetween, a transverse driving shaft extending between the respective drivers and arranged to effect rotational drive against the respective drivers, resilient means extending between the drivers to urge these apart and toward an interlocking engagement with their respective couplers, and a means providing a camming interrelationship between the respective drivers such that, with relative rotation between the two drivers, the effect, at least as a result from one respective relative direction, will result in the two drivers being urged toward each other against the opposite pressure of the resilient means so as to release at least one of the drivers from a driving coupling through the mutually engaging teeth with at least one of the axle couplers.