| US 7,588,259 B2 | ||
| Reduction gear and vehicular active stabilizer system | ||
| Yoshitomo Azekatsu, Saitama (Japan); Takehiko Hakui, Saitama (Japan); and Atsushi Yuta, Saitama (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 31, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/981,802. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2006-346612 (JP), filed on Dec. 22, 2006. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0150241 A1, Jun. 26, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. B60G 21/055 (2006.01); F16H 1/28 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 280—124.107 [280/5.502; 280/5.511; 280/124.106; 475/162] | 10 Claims |
| 1. A reduction gear comprising:
a carrier which is rotatable about a first axis and has a circular supporting hole about a second axis offset from the first
axis;
a ring gear which is rotatably fitted in the supporting hole of the carrier and has inner teeth on an inner peripheral surface
thereof;
a first sun gear which is rotatably supported about the first axis and has first outer teeth meshed with the inner teeth of
the ring gear; and
a second sun gear which is rotatably supported about the first axis and has second outer teeth meshed with the inner teeth
of the ring gear, the number of the second outer teeth being different from that of the first outer teeth,
wherein rotation of the carrier is outputted as relative rotation of the first and second sun gears.
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