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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2000
Daniel Jason Bongard, Kew, AU;
ARB Corporation Limited, Kilsyth, AU;
Abstract
A locking differential including a differential carrier or housing closed by a flange cap engaging locking gear A, the housing and flange cap supporting side gears and which mesh with pinion gears supported by cross shafts and , the cross shafts engaging mounting holes in the housing , each pinion gear having an even number of teeth, and each side gear having a number of teeth which is a multiple of two where two pinions are at 180° to each other, three where three pinion gears are at 120° to each other, four where three or four pinion gears are at 90° to each other, or five where five pinions are at 72° to each other, the locking means further including a clutch gear which slidably engages the locking gear A and the teeth on side gear in the locked position, the cross shafts and being in a fixed relationship to the locking gear A.