Vehicle drive system
A vehicle is described having driving wheels both on the left and right sides of the chassis frame thereof comprising: a power unit including an engine and a transmission system for transmitting the power from an output shaft of the engine to the driving wheels independently. The power unit has a casing constructed as a rigid member for supporting the driving wheels and pivotally connected through a pivot shaft to the chassis frame so as to permit vertical movement of the driving wheels, the transmission system including a differential gear means having a case connected through speed reduction gears to the output shaft. The differential gear means include left and right side output gears, the transmission system including left and right input drive shafts extending laterally from the left and right side output gears of the differential gear means. The transmission system includes left and right output sections to which the input drive shafts are drivingly connected and output shafts connected to the respective driving wheels, and the output section including V-belt type automatic transmissions connected between the input drive shafts and the output shafts.
- Assignee:
- Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki, Kaisha, Tokyo
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4606429
- OSTI ID:
- 5284580
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 18 Apr 1984
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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