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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2014
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc., Detroit, MI (US);
Gregory A. Marsh, Ferndale, MI (US);
Matthew T. Blakeman, South Rockwood, MI (US);
American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc., Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
An axle assembly having a carrier housing, a locking differential assembly, a pair of differential bearing and an actuator assembly. The carrier housing includes a cavity. The locking differential assembly includes a differential case that is received in the cavity. The differential case includes a bearing bore into which an outer race of the differential bearing is received. The actuator assembly includes a sleeve that is movable between a first sleeve position, which is configured to cause the locking differential assembly to operate in an unlocked mode, and a second sleeve position that is configured to cause the locking differential assembly to operate in a locked mode. The sleeve is at least partly radially in-line with the differential bearing when the sleeve is in the first and/or second sleeve positions such that a plane taken perpendicular to the axis extends through both the sleeve and the differential bearing.