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Current Assignee
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Patent Number
Patent Inventor Names
Frederick E. Zink2
Date of Patent
August 17, 2010
Patent Application Number
11859348
Date Filed
September 21, 2007
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Patent abstract
An axle assembly with an axle housing with a pair of bearing journals, a differential assembly disposed between the bearing journals, a pair of differential bearings and a pair of hollow adjusters that can be threaded into the bearing journals to preload the differential bearings and control gear lash between a pinion and a ring gear. Retaining members can be non-rotatably engage to the hollow adjusters and can be press-fit into counterbores in the outboard sides of the bearing journals. The axle housing can include an unitarily formed differential housing with a body and an axle tube structure, and a first axle tube that can be discretely formed and coupled to the body.
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