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Kurt Hornung

Markus Schäfer

Andrej Merz

Markus SCHÄFER

A differential gear including a rotatably mounted differential housing and a final driven gear mounted rotationally fixed to the differential housing. The differential housing, on the outer circumferential surface thereof, includes two mating surfaces and that the final driven gear, on the inner circumferential surface thereof, includes two radially opposite mating surfaces. The mating surfaces formed on the outer circumferential surface of the differential housing and the mating surfaces formed on the inner circumferential surface of the final driven gear are each designed as separate mating surfaces which, when viewed in axial direction (a), are arranged geometrically separated from each other by a spacing.

Differential gear for a motor vehicle

A differential gear assembly, in particular for a motor vehicle, includes a gearwheel, driven by a pinion and arranged on a differential case that is rotatably mounted in a gearbox case via rolling-contact bearings on both sides. Planet gears are supported in the differential case on at least one driving pin and meshing with axis-parallel output gears on output half-shafts. The gearwheel is attached to the differential case without form fit in circumferential direction and has recesses into which the at least one driving pin formfittingly projects in circumferential direction.

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Forchheim, Germany

Kurt Hornung