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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2001
Toshio Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A power transmission apparatus for use with a four-wheel drive vehicle, which distributes a driving force output from a transmission coupled to a transverse layout engine to the front and rear wheels, through a transfer disposed on the rear side of the engine. The transfer includes a pair of direction-changing gears for changing a transmission direction of a driving force, first and second gears for displacing in parallel the center axis of a pinion shaft whose direction is changed by the direction-changing gears, and an output shaft, rotatably inserted through the second gear, for transmitting a driving force to the rear wheels. In the transfer, an electromagnetic clutch for coupling the second gear to the output shaft in a decoupling manner is disposed at a position closer to the engine than the second gear and on the center axis of the second gear.