Patent ID: 7357750

Claim:
A transaxle comprising: a housing; a hydraulic pump disposed inside the housing; a hydraulic motor disposed inside the housing; a center section detachably fixed in the housing so as to fluidly connect the hydraulic pump to the hydraulic motor; a pair of axles supported by the housing; and a differential assembly for transmitting power from the hydraulic motor to the pair of axles, the differential assembly including a bull gear drivingly connected to the hydraulic motor, a pair of cylindrical sun gears engaged to the respective axles, a plurality of cylindrical planetary gears interposed between the sun gears so as to frictionally resist power transmitted between the sun gears, a holder relatively rotatably supported on the axles so as to rotatably support the plurality of planetary gears, wherein the holder is provided with a hole opened at an axially outward side thereof, and wherein the bull gear is provided at a rotary axial center portion thereof with an opening into which the holder is inserted in the axial direction of the bull gear so as to engage with the bull gear, and a clutch slider axially slidably and relatively unrotatably fitted on one of the axles so as to be selectively engaged into or disengaged from the hole of the holder.