Breather structure of shaft-drive-type drive device

摘要

<Bold>Problem</Bold> To provide the breather structure of a shaft-drive-type drive device which can miniaturize a gear casing as a whole and can exhibit excellent appearance.

<Paragraphs id="pa02" num="0002" xmlns:base="http://www.sipo.gov.cn/XMLSchema/base">Means for Resolution In a shaft-drive-type drive device capable of transmitting an output of an engine mounted on a vehicle body to a wheel 25 by way of a drive shaft by connecting one end of the drive shaft to an output shaft of the engine by way of a universal joint and by connecting the wheel to another end side of the drive shaft by way of gears or the like, a breather mechanism 101 which performs a breathing operation of the inside of a gear casing 81 housing the gears or the like is mounted on the gear casing 81, and an atmosphere opening portion 103 of the breather mechanism 101 is formed to open upwardly in the vertical direction of a vehicle and inwardly in the width direction of the vehicle.