Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
VEHICLE DIFFERENTIAL APPARATUS

Abstract:

A vehicle differential apparatus including a pair of side gears arranged side by side along an axial line so as to rotate about the axial line, a set of pinion gears disposed on a radial outside of the side gears so that one pinion gear engages with one of side gears, and the other pinion gear engages with the other of the side gears the one pinion gear, and a housing accommodating the side gears and the pinion gears and including a substantially cylindrical circumferential wall and a side wall extended radially inward from an end of the circumferential wall. The housing includes a space formation portion forming a housing space accommodating the pinion gears so as to rotate integrally with the pinion gears, and the side wall is provided with an opening connecting the housing space and a space outside the housing.