Patent ID: 8356827

Claim:
A support structure for an axle housing of a towing tractor comprising: a leaf spring forming a part of a suspension; an axle housing which has a contact surface and is supported at opposite ends of the axle housing by the suspension; and a spring seat which is separately provided from the leaf spring and the axle housing and disposed between the leaf spring and the axle housing, and the spring seat has a support surface, wherein the axle housing is supported by the spring seat in plane surface contact between the contact surface and the support surface, and wherein the axle housing has a pair of projections which are formed so as to extend outward in opposite directions from outer peripheral surface of the axle housing and has a pair of contact surfaces formed on lower surfaces of the pair of the projections, wherein the spring seat has a pair of support surfaces which are formed on a pair of upper surfaces of the spring seat.