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All-wheel drive motor vehicle

  • US 7,464,779 B2
  • Filed: 04/27/2006
  • Issued: 12/16/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2005
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An all-wheel drive motor vehicle having at least two wheel axles, comprising:

  • an electrical or hydraulic drive unit having a plurality of electric or hydraulic motors, connected to an electric or hydraulic energy source, wherein each motor is associated with a drive wheel and drives such wheel via a transmission, wherein the motors that are associated with a given one of said wheel axles are adapted to be coupled with one another via shiftable transverse locking means, and wherein at least one of said motors on a first side of the vehicle is adapted to be coupled, via a shiftable longitudinal locking means, with one of said motors that is associated with a different one of said wheel axles on the same side of the vehicle or on a second side of the vehicle.

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