The invention provides a wheel drive apparatus and a forklift. The maintainability of the wheel drive apparatus driving the wheels of the forklift is ensured or the degree of freedom in the disposition of other devices is improved. Wheel drive apparatuses (10) are provided on left and right wheels of a forklift and drive the respective wheels. Each of the wheel drive apparatuses (10) includes a brake (14) on the inside of a vehicle body of the forklift. The brake (14) includes a brake shaft (70), friction plates (78A, 78B), and a brake cover (58). The brake cover (58) is removable from the wheel drive apparatus while the wheel drive apparatuses (10) are mounted on the vehicle body. The friction plates (78A, 78B) are assembled with the brake shaft (70) so as to be movable in an axial direction, and are removable from the wheel drive apparatus, while the wheel drive apparatuses are mounted on the vehicle body, by sliding along the brake shaft (70) toward the inside of the vehicle body in the axial direction when the brake cover (58) has been removed.
WHEEL DRIVE APPARATUS AND FORKLIFT
2015-04-15
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60K Anordnung oder Einbau von Antriebseinheiten oder von Kraft- bzw. Drehmomentübertragungen in Fahrzeugen , ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES |