A vehicle wheel drive assembly 40 is mounted completely within a space defined by structural dimensions of a vehicle wheel 10. The drive assembly 40 includes drive means 42 controllable to power the wheel and move the vehicle autonomously on a ground surface, a gear assembly 50 drivingly connected to the drive means and a clutch assembly 52 operatively connected to the gear assembly. The means and gear assembly are located within a cavity between an axle 28 and a tyre 12 and between inboard and outboard sections 18,20 of the wheel. The clutch assembly 52 is operatively mounted with respect to the gear assembly 50 completely within an interior portion of a vehicle wheel axle 28 on which the wheel drive assembly 40 is mounted, thereby maximizing the space functionally available for all of the other components of the wheel drive assembly.
Space-maximizing design for vehicle drive wheel
2016-08-24
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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