Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hybrid vehicle and lubrication structure of hybrid vehicle
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Application No.: US15841822Application Date: 2017-12-14
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Publication No.: US10557543B2Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Inventor: Yoshiteru Hagino
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2016-252619 20161227
- Main IPC: F16H57/04
- IPC: F16H57/04 ; B60K6/445 ; F16H57/08 ; B60K6/405 ; B60W20/15 ; B60K6/48 ; B60W10/06 ; B60W10/08

Abstract:
A lubrication structure of a hybrid vehicle includes a gear chamber that houses a planetary gear unit and a differential device, and a motor chamber that houses a rotating electric machine, and is separated from the gear chamber by a partition wall. Lubricating oil stored in a bottom portion of the gear chamber is stirred up through rotation of a final reduction gear of the differential device disposed in a lower portion of the gear chamber, so that the lubricating oil is supplied to the planetary gear unit. One end of a cylindrical output member of the planetary gear unit is rotatably supported by a partition wall via a bearing, and a communication hole that communicates the gear chamber with the motor chamber is provided in an opposed portion of the partition wall which is opposed to a vicinity of an outer peripheral edge of the bearing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180180164A1 Hybrid Vehicle and Lubrication Structure of Hybrid Vehicle Public/Granted day:2018-06-28
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