Nissan Motor Company Limited

Fujiunivance Corporation

Hideki Sado

Tomoyuki Hara

Masatoshi Maekawa

A lubricating device lubricates various parts of a power transfer system for a vehicle. The lubricating device comprises a gear interconnected with an output shaft and splashes lubricating oil in an oil chamber. The splashed oil is received by a cover member and supplied to a passage for supplying the lubricating oil to a bushing for rotatably supporting an output shaft of the power transfer system. Therefore, even if the direction to which lubricating oil is splashed by the gear is changed according to an operating condition of the vehicle, the cover member securely receives the splashed oil and supplies it to the passage for the bushing.

Lubricating device for power transfer system

The power transmission apparatus comprises a center differential gear, a first inner front wheel drive hub connected to the center differential gear, a second outer rear wheel drive hub also connected to the center differential gear coaxially with the first hub, a ring gear fixed to the second hub, a pinion gear coupled to a propeller shaft and in mesh with the ring gear at a gearing position above the axis of the ring gear, and in particular a lubrication structure including a rotary cover member fixed to the second hub and formed with plural oil stirring projections, an oil sump formed in an inner surface of an apparatus housing, and an oil passage formed in a pinion gear housing. Since the pinion gear is offset upward away from the axial height of the ring gear and further sufficiently lubricated by the lubrication structure, it is possible to dispose a steering rack under the pinion gear housing to improve the steering stability, by always keeping the front wheel alignment at toe-in state under any travelling conditions of a 4WD vehicle.

Power transmission apparatus

In a transfer for use in a transaxle for a four-wheel drive vehicle, a transfer shaft for transmission of power to rear wheels is drivingly connected to a ring gear which is in turn directly connected with a pinion gear in such a manner that a center axis of the pinion gear intersects a center axis of the ring gear at right angles and in such a manner that the center axis of the pinion gear is offset upward from the center axis of the ring gear.

Transfer for four-wheel drive vehicles

A four wheel drive system for a vehicle comprises a transverse power unit, a first (front) differential unit, an angular drive unit for changing the direction of torque path, a propeller shaft, and a second (rear) differential assembly between left and right permanent drive (rear) wheels which are always connected with the power unit through the differential case of the first differential unit, the angular drive unit, the propeller shaft and the second differential assembly. The first differential unit is provided between left and right nonpermanent drive (front) wheels. One of the nonpermanent drive wheels is simply connected with one side gear of the first differential unit by an axle shaft. The other nonpermanent drive wheel is connected with the other side gear of the first differential unit through a coupling unit, such as an orifice coupling, which can vary a driving torque distribution between the front and rear wheels by varying a transmission torque therebetween.

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Hideki Sado