Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Oil container for cooling and/or lubricating bearings of a drive train of a vehicle, in particular of a motor vehicle
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Application No.: US16784546Application Date: 2020-02-07
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Publication No.: US11054019B2Publication Date: 2021-07-06
- Inventor: Eugen Lamm , Bjoern Becker
- Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
- Applicant Address: DE Wolfsburg
- Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
- Current Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
- Current Assignee Address: DE Wolfsburg
- Agent Laurence A. Greenberg; Werner H. Stemer; Ralph E. Locher
- Priority: DE102019201586 20190207
- Main IPC: F16H57/04
- IPC: F16H57/04 ; F16H37/04 ; F16H57/037 ; F16H57/02

Abstract:
An oil container for cooling and/or lubricating bearings of a drive train of a vehicle. The drive train has a driveshaft, a gear mechanism, a differential and a wheel driveshaft. The differential has a final drive gearwheel in engagement with a gearwheel of the gear mechanism and they splash at least partially in an oil sump region. The gearwheels of the gear mechanism and/or the final drive gearwheel form at least two gear stages. The structural complexity of a drive train is reduced or the efficiency of a drive train is increased when the oil container is functionally configured and/or arranged such that the oil container is arranged in the region between the two gear stages and substantially on the side of the driveshaft and/or the wheel driveshaft lying opposite the oil sump region.
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