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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7179193 | Arrangement for driving a wheel of a vehicle Method and arrangement for driving a wheel of a vehicle in which the arrangement includes a planetary gear transmission (6) which in turn has a sun gear (7) connected to a driving axle (4), a planet carrier (11) on which at least one plan... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7112157 | Gear unit for the drive of a rotation tube A gear unit for the drive of a rotating tube is provided with a drive shaft and a power distributing gear unit stage that is configured as a helical gear unit with an intermediate shaft having mounted thereon two helical pinions. A load-summing gear unit stage with ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7090608 | Wheel transmission A wheel transmission for a heavy construction vehicle, which can be applied to specially-equipped vehicles as well as heavy construction vehicles such as a forklift truck and a mechanical shovel. The wheel transmission (200) is intended to drive a pair of rig... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7051777 | Pressure transmitting axle assembly An axle assembly has a fixed axle housing, a rotating axle body rotatably mounted in said axle housing, and a first chamber which surrounds the axle body. The first chamber is partially bounded by a ring member which rotates with the axle body. An annular disc is mo... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7044883 | Device for driving a vehicle wheel The invention relates to a device for driving a wheel of a vehicle. The device includes a hub for carrying the wheel in a rotationally fixed manner, a planetary gear connected between a driving axle and the hub, which planetary gear includes a planet carrier which i... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6904987 | Electrical drive for a vehicle An electric drive for an electric or hybrid vehicle has an electric motor, with which a vehicle wheel is drivable, for instance via an articulated shaft. The the electric drive is embodied additionally with a mechanically actuatable wheel brake, which is actuatable ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6582339 | Wheel drive with integrated dynamic service brake In order to achieve a repair-friendly and maintenance-friendly arrangement with improved conduction away of heat to the outside in a wheel drive, in particular for mobile machines, having a carrying axle (2) which is mounted fixed in terms of rotation to ... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6443290 | Hydrostatic hub drive A hydrostatic hub drive with an integrated axial piston machine utilizing a swashplate design, in particular a wheel hub drive, has a stationary hub carrier in the form of a machine housing of the axial piston machine, a hub formed by a machine shaft and ... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6290048 | Wheel hub with integral planetary gear mechanism and multidisk brake A wheel hub with integral planetary gear mechanism and multidisk brake, in which the outer plates of the brake are actively connected directly to the wheel hub and the inner plates are connected to the axle body via a brake carrier, is to be of simple des... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6135259 | Hub drive A hub drive is provided with a hub which is mounted on a hub support and with a brake device. The hub can be driven by a drive shaft with the interposition of a transmission preferably realized in the form of a planetary gear train. To be able to use the ... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6090006 | Planetary transmission apparatus including vehicle-wheel hub A planetary transmission for a vehicle, comprising a planet carrier, on which at least one planet wheel is mounted, a hub arranged for a vehicle wheel and connected to the planet carrier, and a static housing which is connected to the vehicle and in which... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5645148 | Transmission with built-in brake, particularly for vehicles A transmission with built-in brake, particularly for vehicles, comprising an oil bath inside a containment and supporting casing, an epicyclic reduction unit kinematically connected to a power unit by means of at least two gears, of which the driven gear ... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5460578 | Transmission with integrated brake particularly for vehicles Transmission with integrated brake particularly but not exclusively usable for vehicles. The transmission includes, in an oil bath inside a containment and support casing, an epicyclic reduction unit which is kinematically connectable to a drive unit by m... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5407033 | Brake unit and spring energy accumulator for it An improved spring energy accumulators are used to actuate brake units mounted to either end of a transmission for a track laying vehicle drive train. The housing of the spring energy accumulator is directly mounted to the housing of the brake unit. The s... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5358454 | Temperature and pressure compensated geared traction unit A geared torque transfer device is provided having a planetary type gear arrangement disposed within a sealed housing that is filled with a viscous fluid. In operation, rotation of the planet gears within the housing in response to a speed differential be... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5174419 | Spur gear transmission for a drive unit of an industrial truck with lever mounted hydraulic cylinder A spur gear transmission for a drive unit of an industrial truck having an integrated wet running disk brake. A first disk carrier is arranged on one of the spur gears. First braking disks are mounted on the disk carrier. A second disk carrier is fastened... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5147255 | Spur gear transmission, in particular for a drive unit of an industrial truck A spur gear transmission for a drive unit of an industrial truck having an integrated wet running disk brake. A first disk carrier is arranged on one of the spur gears. First braking disks are mounted on the disk carrier. A second disk carrier is fastened... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5088967 | Planetary assembly with wet disk brake The planetary assembly with wet disk brake of the invention comprises a hollow spindle (3) rigidly fixed to an axle house (1) of a running gear of a vehicle, a hollow wheel hub (5) carrying a wheel (7), the wheel hub (5) being rotatably supported in a rol... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5000281 | Slip control system for a vehicle When a slip value of the driven wheel of a vehicle on a road surface reaches a predetermined value, the braking force is applied to the driven wheel by way of slip control. The slip control by application of the braking force to the driven wheel is inhibi... | 03/19/1991 |
| 5000056 | Internal disc brake for transaxle A gear drive unit with an internal disc brake is disclosed. The brake disc is mounted for non-rotatable movement on a driven shaft in a housing of the drive unit. The housing has internal pockets for holding brake pucks at sides of the brake disc. An actu... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4961485 | Oil circulation in wheel head transmission A drive wheel with a friction brake having a circulating coolant in which feeding and draining take place in a non-rotational axle pipe (1) and the ring-gear carrier (2), attached thereto, without the heated coolant flowing through a planetary transmissio... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4893879 | Fail-safe wheel service brake system A hydraulic wheel braking system for a vehicle includes wet disc wheel brakes that are applied by a single spring-activated piston within each brake housing. Each piston is selectively and variably disengaged from the brake discs by variable hydraulic pre... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4811811 | Brake system for four-wheel drive vehicles A clutch control system for the front wheel drive clutch of a four-wheel drive vehicle engages the front wheel drive clutch when both service brakes are simultaneously released or simultaneously applied, but disengages the clutch when only the left or the... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4784236 | Four-wheel drive vehicle A four-wheel drive vehicle has a permanently driven axle. A planetary gear set and viscous clutch are located in the power train leading to the second axle. The annular gear of the planetary gear set is mounted rotatably and can be stopped by a brake band... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4723638 | Wheel angular acceleration sensor for a vehicle antilock control device A wheel angular acceleration sensor for a vehicle anti-lock control device wherein the tendency of the wheel going toward a locked state resulting from an excessively great braking force of the brake applied thereto is detected by overrun rotation of the ... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4679663 | Transmission anti-clash and anti-rattle brake An anti-clash and anti-rattle brake for a multiple speed ratio transmission is engageable to apply a frictional braking force to the constantly meshed gears when a shift control device is in a free neutral position. The brake is spring biased toward engag... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4660683 | Brake device for vehicles A brake device for vehicles comprises a master cylinder, a wheel brake adapted to be operated by the output hydraulic pressure from the master cylinder to apply a braking force to a wheel, and an antilock control unit, having therein an inertia type wheel... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4616520 | Arrangement of a brake in a wheel head equipped with reducing gear An axially segmented brake arrangement in a hub-shaped planetary gear wheel head for a driven axle has a sleeve which couples the two central shaft sections nonrotatably together so that the sun wheel section can be replaced or be interchangeable to enabl... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4591019 | Detector responsive fluid actuated auxiliary braking system An auxiliary air brake system is provided for a mobile vehicle which has a drive selector having reverse and other positions and which has a main air brake system which includes a plurality of compressed air tanks, main conduit including a foot brake line... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4546844 | Front wheel assist drive for a vehicle machine A front wheel assist drive for a vehicle having a rear wheel main drive includes a hydraulic fluid pump. The pump is connected to a hydraulic motor. The motor is connected to an output shaft. An overrunning clutch is interposed between the motor and outpu... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4540073 | Wheel hub with reduction gear and multiple disc brake A wheel hub suitable for industrial vehicles, having, in a hollow body a uction gear and a brake being located at the end of the shaft of the reduction gear. The brake has, alternating with interpolated discs rotationally fast on the hollow body, a plura... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4520911 | Vehicle attitude responsive brake control device A brake control device (16) includes a control member (70) cooperating with a housing (36) to partially define separate brake circuits. The control member is operable by an actuator (68) to close one way communication in the separate brake circuits via va... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4487301 | Combined live axles and disc brake assemblies for vehicles A live axle is combined with a brake which is disposed outboard of bearings on which a hub is journalled for rotation. The bearings are mounted on a relatively stationary axle tube, and a drive shaft is mounted within the axle tube for limited movement in... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4465169 | Wheel brake and lubrication system for a vehicle A combined lubrication and brake actuating fluid system for a drive axle, separate from the transmission hydraulic system of the vehicle, which utilizes the differential housing as a reservoir and uses the extreme pressure gear lubricant therein as the op... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4461373 | Drive axle assembly A drive axle assembly including a housing structure having a fixed spindle, a nonrotatable spacer ring disposed about the spindle and a drive hub rotatably mounted on the spindle by bearings, one of which abuts the spacer ring. The spacer ring has a brake... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4339154 | Vehicle brake system A vehicle brake system for operating a spring applied, fluid pressure released brake. In order to assure that the brake is fully released before the vehicle is operated, the system requires the operator to perform two operations. He must move a manually o... | 07/13/1982 |
| 4223769 | Device for braking a vehicle wheel This device, which is intended to brake a wheel of a vehicle rotated by a ive shaft carrying at its free end an epicyclic train reducer housed in a casing, is characterized in that it is fixed on the outer face of the bottom of the casing and comprises a ... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4160497 | Transmission assembly with a braking device, particularly for vehicles A transmission assembly with braking device, particularly for vehicles, of the type comprising a speed reduction gear system between a driving shaft and a driven shaft. The braking device is constructed so as to be able to brake, on the one hand, the driv... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4142615 | Wheel drive assembly A wheel driven by a planetary reduction gear train has a disc brake pack acting between a fixed member and a rotating member for stopping or slowing the rotation of the wheel. The disc brake pack is mounted between the fixed and rotatable members before t... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4037694 | Drive axle outer end with brake and gearing A multiple disc friction brake assembly for a drive axle outer end of the planetary reduction type. A plurality of axially movable brake discs are provided internally of a wheel hub with alternate discs being fixed against rotation relative to the axle ho... | 07/26/1977 |
