US 11,772,702 B2
Steering knuckle gearbox assembly
Pierre-Yves Pepin, Drummondville (CA); Steve Frechette, St-Liboire (CA); Keven Boutin, Trois-Rivieres (CA); Charles St-Arnaud, Trois-Rivieres (CA); Frederik Martel, Laval (CA); Nicolas Dubuc, Mercier (CA); Andre Leger, Drummondville (CA); and Pascal Lafreniere, Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover (CA)
Assigned to SOUCY INTERNATIONAL INC., Drummondville (CA)
Appl. No. 16/639,026
Filed by SOUCY INTERNATIONAL INC., Drummondville (CA)
PCT Filed Aug. 16, 2017, PCT No. PCT/IB2017/054986
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 13, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/034913, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 21, 2019.
Application 16/639,026 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/IB2017/050721, filed on Feb. 9, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/293,199, filed on Feb. 9, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2020/0223480 A1, Jul. 16, 2020
Int. Cl. B62D 11/00 (2006.01); B62D 7/20 (2006.01); B62D 7/18 (2006.01); B62D 55/24 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 11/001 (2013.01) [B62D 7/18 (2013.01); B62D 7/20 (2013.01); B62D 55/24 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A steering knuckle gearbox assembly for a vehicle, comprising:
a body having,
a housing portion having a cavity defined in the housing portion, the housing portion having an interior vehicle-facing side,
a mating portion connected to the housing portion and being positioned on the interior vehicle-facing side of the housing portion, the mating portion being pivotably mountable to a distal end of an axle frame supported by and extending away from the vehicle so as to pivot about a steering axis between a first angular position and a second angular position, and
a mounting portion positioned relative to the body such that a steering link extending away from the vehicle is pivotably mountable to the mounting portion for actuating pivoting of the body about the steering axis between the first angular position and the second angular position;
an input shaft rotationally supported by the housing portion for rotation about an input axis defined by the input shaft, the input shaft having an inner end positioned inside the cavity of the housing portion and an outer end opposite the inner end, the outer end of the input shaft being connectable to a drive axle of the vehicle so as to be drivable by the drive axle when the body is in any one of a range of angular positions between the first angular position and the second angular position; and
an output shaft rotationally supported by the housing portion for rotation about an output axis defined by the output shaft, the output axis being upwardly offset from the input axis, the output shaft having an inner end positioned inside the cavity of the housing portion and an outer end being opposite to the inner end of the output shaft, the inner end of the output shaft being operatively connected to the inner end of the input shaft to be driven by the input shaft.