FRONT WHEEL DRIVING DEVICE FOR 4-WHEEL-DRIVE VEHICLE FOR TRAVELING RUGGED GROUND

• Main Author: KOTAKE NOBUYUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.06.1987
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS INVEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OFTRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GASEXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS, IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

PURPOSE:To protect a front driving shaft from an obstacle on a road surface by providing said front driving shaft which transmit the output of an engine from the rear side of said engine to a front final reduction gear, in between a lower tube and said engine on the upper and inner part of said lower tube in a body frame. CONSTITUTION:The captioned vehicle has two front wheels 36 and two rear wheels 50 each of which has a wide and super-low pressure tire, an engine 58 loaded on near the center of a body frame 10, a straddle type driver's seat 94 provided in the longitudinal direction on the upper part of the engine 58, and a front final reduction gear 44 which is fixed to the body frame 10 near the middle part in between both the front wheels 36. In this structure, a pair of right and left lower tubes 12 which pass the lower side of the engine 58 in the longitudinal direction, are provided on the body fame 10. And, a front driving shaft 74 which transmits the output of the engine 58 from the rear side of the engine 58 to the front final reduction gear 44, is provided in a space between one lower tube 12a and the engine 58, on the upper part of the lower edge and on the inner part of the outer edge, of the lower tube 12a.