Patent ID: 8157692

Claim:
A differential assembly in the form of a crown gear differential, comprising: a differential carrier produced in one piece, said differential carrier rotatingly drivable around an axis of rotation (A), said differential carrier including a casing portion comprising two radial openings configured for inserting sideshaft gears and differential gears into the differential carrier, wherein said sideshaft gears are provided in the form of crown gears and said differential gears are provided in the form of spur gears; wherein, in the mounted condition, said sideshaft gears in said differential carrier are rotatably held on said axis of rotation (A) and wherein the said differential gears are rotatably supported on a bearing journal and rotate jointly with said differential carrier around said axis of rotation (A) and meshingly engage said sideshaft gears; wherein a bearing disc is inserted into each of said radial openings, said bearing disc having a central bore in which a journal end of said bearing journal is held; wherein said radial openings are asymmetric with reference to a cross-sectional plane formed by the bearing journal and extending perpendicularly relative to the axis of rotation (A); wherein said radial openings are symmetric relative to a longitudinal central plane which comprises the axis of rotation (A); wherein at each of said radial openings, said differential carrier comprises two supporting faces which are arranged opposite one another in the circumferential direction and with which said associated bearing disc is in contact in a play-free way in the mounted condition; and wherein said two supporting faces are positioned on a plane which extends through a journal axis (B) and which is positioned perpendicularly relative to said longitudinal axis of rotation (A), or adjoins same.