Daimler Ag

Mercedes-benz Aktiengesellschaft

Hartmut Nied

Tobias Haerter

Philip Gansloser

Rolf Schroeder

Heinz Alber

Werner Klein

Petra Tennert

Guenter Woerner

Wolfgang Oetken

Ulrich Scholz

Friedhelm Nebel

In a bearing unit for a drive shaft mounted cantilevered in a housing by means of two rolling bearings and having a driving bevel gear wherein the drive shaft is mounted in the drive housing via a bearing bush and the bearing bush is axially supported at one end by a bearing bush support part and the rolling bearings are supported in the bearing bush spaced from the one end thereof so that, during heating, the bearing bush expands inwardly toward the driving bevel gear mounted on the shaft whereas the drive housing expands outwardly away from the driving bevel gear, the gear drive housing and the bearing bush consist of a light metal alloy and the bearing bush support part consists of an iron material.

Bearing unit

In an all-wheel drive train for a motor vehicle wherein the drive torque of the engine of the motor vehicle is transmitted from the transmission output shaft partially to the rear axle and partially to the front axle via an offset transmission structure and a laterally arranged drive shaft extending from the offset transmission structure past the transmission to the front axle of the motor vehicle extends from the offset transmission forwardly at a certain opening angle in close proximity to the transmission structure which narrows down toward the rear so that the rear end of the lateral drive shaft is relatively close to the center axis of the transmission.

All-wheel drive train

In a multi-disk clutch comprising a rotary body having splines formed thereon so as to extend helically along the surface thereof, with a number of disks having central openings with inwardly projecting teeth via which the discs are in rotationally positively locking engagement with the rotary body, the teeth are twisted so as to extend in a plane normal to the surface of the helically extending splines of the rotary body so that the end face areas of the teeth are in planar contact with the spline surfaces of the rotary body for the transmission of torque between the rotary body and the disks.

Disk for a multi-disk clutch and production method thereof

A shift device for the gear change transmission of a motor vehicle has a jib supporting an additional mass pivotably on a housing part. The jib is connected by a link to a shift lever which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to a rotatably and axially displaceable selector shaft. The shift lever can be actuated by a manual shift lever via a kinematic connection.

Shift device for a motor vehicle gear change transmission

In a gearbox of a motor vehicle, a shift console is installed with a shifter shaft unit as a preassembled module in a housing opening of a transmission housing that houses a driveshaft. The shift housing part has a mounting flange extending transversely to a geometric bearing axis with a flange opening flush with the geometric bearing axis. One bearing system is located in the vicinity of the flange opening, and the other bearing system is located on an end of shift console opposite the mounting flange. A shaft end of the shifter shaft adjacent the bearing system located in the vicinity of flange opening includes the connection for operating the shifter shaft. The transmission housing has a housing opening coverable externally by the mounting flange for inserting the shift console into the transmission housing. The shift console with the shift finger and the shift rail which has the shifting groove are located inside the transmission housing, with the geometric bearing axis being perpendicular to a rotational axis of the driveshaft.

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Waiblingen, Germany

Hartmut Nied