Patent ID: 8617025

Claim:
A planetary gear set, comprising: a gear set housing having an interior; a drive shaft and a driven shaft mounted in the gear set housing; first and second planetary stages having ring gears; a gear set housing casing placed in surrounding relationship to the first and second planetary stages and having opposite end faces; housing covers closing the end faces of the gear set housing casing in one-to-one correspondence; at least one separating wall dividing the interior of the gear set housing into at least two subchambers, said subchambers accommodating the first and second planetary stages in one-to-one correspondence, with the ring gears of the planetary stages being directly fastened with their end faces to the separating wall and being radially separated from the radially outermost region of the housing casing; and a shaft guided through an opening in the separating wall and connecting the first and second planetary stages.