Axle assembly having a moveable clutch collar

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9109635-B2
Application number	US-201313761787-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 7, 2013
Priority date	Feb 7, 2013
Publication date	Aug 18, 2015
Grant date	Aug 18, 2015

Abstract

An axle assembly having a clutch collar. The clutch collar is moveable between a first position in which the clutch collar couples the spider housing to the hub and a second position in which the clutch collar decouples the spider housing from the hub.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An axle assembly comprising:
a spindle;
an axle shaft that extends through the spindle and is configured to rotate about an axis;
a hub that is rotatably disposed on the spindle;
a spider assembly that is configured to be rotated by the axle shaft, wherein the spider assembly has a set of hub reduction gears that are operatively connected to a spider housing;
a thrust bearing disposed between the hub and the spider housing that inhibits axial movemen…

Assignees

• Arvinmeritor Technology Llc

Inventors

• Boothby Timothy J
• Kunert Jerome M

Classifications

• H04L12/40045

  Electricity · mapped topic

• F16H48/08

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• F16H48/32

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic

• H04B3/50

  Electricity · mapped topic

• F16D11/14 Primary

  Mechanical Engineering · mapped topic