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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2003
Applicants:
Rudolf Neumüller, Büchlberg, DE;
Stefan Häubler, Passau-Patriching, DE;
Inventors:
Rudolf Neumüller, Büchlberg, DE;
Stefan Häubler, Passau-Patriching, DE;
Assignee:
ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a gantry axle for low-platform vehicles, the gantry transmission consists of one input spur gear () operatively connected with a first intermediate spur gear () non-rotatably connected with a second intermediate spur gear () operatively connected with an output spur gear (). The vertical distance of the axis of rotation () of the input spur gear to the ground () is smaller than the vertical distance of the intermediate spur gears () to the ground ().