Patent ID: 8033944
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: F16H

Abstract:
1. A differential gear having a differential housing ( 10 ) in which two conical compensating gears ( 16 ) are rotatably supported about a first axis of rotation ( 20 ) and two conical output gears ( 22 ) meshing with the compensating gears ( 16 ) are rotatably supported about a second axis of rotation ( 24 ) oriented at right angles to the first axis of rotation ( 20 ), wherein a spring device is arranged between the differential housing ( 10 ) and at least one of the output gears and/or compensating gears ( 16 , 22 ) to load it with a spring force, the spring device comprising a washer disk including a plurality of bent over spring sections extending in a circumferential direction and distributed along an outer margin of the washer disk.