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Gkn Driveline North America, Inc.

Kevin M Walker

Eric James LaMothe

Eric J Lamothe

An automotive driveline unit housing can be that of a power transfer unit (PTU), a final drive unit (FDU), or a rear drive unit (RDU). The automotive driveline unit housing has a lubricant feed passage spanning from an inlet to an outlet. The outlet can be situated near a seal of the automotive driveline unit, near a bearing of the unit, near both the seal and bearing, or near another component. The lubricant feed passage can have a flow restrictor located near its outlet. When the unit is in a connected state, lubricant is received in the lubricant feed passage via a spinning gear of the unit. The received lubricant trickles through the flow restrictor. And when the unit is in a disconnected state, lubricant continues to trickle through the flow restrictor, even though lubricant may no longer be received in the lubricant feed passage via the gear.

Automotive driveline unit housing with lubricant feed passage and flow restrictor

A gameboard assembly is disclosed which comprises an inclined gameboard including a hole and a tab at the rearward edge for insertion through a horizontal slot near the base of a vertically standing backboard which connection is maintained by wedge pieces inserted in slots in the gameboard tab portion extending through the horizontal slot in the backboard.

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Rochester Hills, MI, United States of America

Kevin M Walker