Patent ID: 7665748

Claim:
A driving form switching apparatus for switching driving forms of a four-wheel vehicle, comprising: a steering device having a steering lever connected with a driving shaft of a differential gear mechanism so that rotating motion or swaying motion of said steering lever may be transmitted to two driven shafts; a first connecting means for transmitting the rotation of one of said two driven shafts that constitute said differential gear mechanism to the rotation of a steering shaft of a right-hand wheel, and the rotation of the other of said two driven shafts to the rotation of a steering shaft of a left-hand wheel so that said right-hand steering shaft is rotated in cooperation with said left-hand steering shaft; and a second connecting means connected so that the steering shafts of the right-hand front and rear wheels as well as the steering shafts of the left-hand front and rear wheels may be rotated in mutually reverse phases, respectively.