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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2006
Katsumoto Mizukawa, Amagasaki, JP;
Donald Wieber, Morristown, TN (US);
Katsumoto Mizukawa, Amagasaki, JP;
Donald Wieber, Morristown, TN (US);
Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Abstract
A transaxle is provided for a lawn tractor. The lawn tractor includes a prime mover, a mower unit having a grass-discharging duct disposed at a substantially lateral center portion of the mower unit, left and right drive wheels disposed on lateral opposite sides of the grass-discharging duct, and left and right final transmission devices disposed on lateral opposite sides of the grass-discharging duct. The transaxle is disposed above the grass-discharging duct. The transaxle comprises: a transaxle housing; an input shaft having a lower portion extended downward from the transaxle housing; an input pulley provided on the lower portion of the input shaft so as to be disposed between the transaxle housing and the grass-discharging duct; and left and right output shafts projecting laterally from the transaxle housing opposite to each other so as to be drivingly connected to the respective left and right drive wheels through the respective left and right final transmission devices.