Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Motor unit with oil cooling passage
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Application No.: US16323933Application Date: 2017-08-07
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Publication No.: US11616419B2Publication Date: 2023-03-28
- Inventor: Yasuo Yamaguchi , Yuki Ishikawa
- Applicant: Nidec Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto
- Assignee: Nidec Corporation
- Current Assignee: Nidec Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto
- Agency: Keating & Bennett
- Priority: JP2017-073133 20170331
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/028601 WO 20170807
- International Announcement: WO2018/030346 WO 20180215
- Main IPC: H02K9/19
- IPC: H02K9/19 ; F16N31/00 ; H02K7/116 ; H02K5/04 ; F16H57/04

Abstract:
A motor unit includes a motor including a rotor and a stator, a gear connected to the rotor, a housing including a housing space to house the motor and the gear, oil in a vertically lower region of the housing space, and an oil passage to lead the oil from the vertically lower region of the housing space to be fed to the motor. The housing space includes a motor chamber to house the motor; and a gear chamber to house the gear. The housing includes a partition to divide the motor chamber and the gear chamber. A bottom portion of the motor chamber is higher than a bottom portion of the gear chamber. A portion of the oil fed to the motor is in a vertically lower region of the motor chamber. A vertically lower region of the partition includes a partition opening to bring the gear chamber and the motor chamber into communication with each other. The partition opening is structured such that a rise in a liquid surface of the oil in the vertically lower region of the motor chamber causes an increase in an amount of transfer of the oil from the motor chamber to the gear chamber through the partition opening.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190181720A1 MOTOR UNIT Public/Granted day:2019-06-13
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