	US 12,384,241 B2
	Differential gear arrangement
Eva Barrientos Blanco, Gothenburg (SE)
Assigned to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd., Ningbo (CN); and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP CO., LTD., Zhejiang (CN)
Filed by Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co., Ltd., Ningbo (CN); and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd., Zhejiang (CN)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/893,035.
Application 18/893,035 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2023/085134, filed on Mar. 30, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 22168916 (EP), filed on Apr. 19, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2025/0010706 A1, Jan. 9, 2025
Int. Cl. F16H 48/40 (2012.01); B60K 17/16 (2006.01); B60K 23/08 (2006.01); B60K 1/00 (2006.01); F16H 48/00 (2012.01); F16H 48/08 (2006.01); F16H 48/20 (2012.01); F16H 48/30 (2012.01); F16H 48/38 (2012.01)

CPC B60K 17/16 (2013.01) [B60K 23/08 (2013.01); B60K 2001/001 (2013.01); F16H 48/00 (2013.01); F16H 2048/085 (2013.01); F16H 48/20 (2013.01); F16H 48/30 (2013.01); F16H 48/38 (2013.01); F16H 48/40 (2013.01)]

14 Claims

1. A differential gear arrangement for a vehicle, comprising a ring gear, a spindle gear, a spindle gear carrier, a side gear and an output shaft, the ring gear being supported on the output shaft by a bearing such that the ring gear can rotate relative to the output shaft, the spindle gear being carried by the spindle gear carrier and rotatable relative to the spindle gear carrier, the spindle gear and the side gear being engaged with each other, the side gear being rotationally connected to the output shaft, the ring gear being arranged to drive the output shaft by rotating the spindle gear carrier when the ring gear and the spindle gear carrier are rotationally connected to each other, wherein the ring gear and the spindle gear carrier are rotationally disconnectable from each other by axial displacement of the spindle gear carrier relative to the ring gear and the output shaft.