Vehicular cooling system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10287964-B2
Application number	US-201615386835-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 21, 2016
Priority date	Dec 21, 2015
Publication date	May 14, 2019
Grant date	May 14, 2019

Abstract

An cooling system including an oil circulation circuit includes a first circuit including an electric oil pump that discharges oil as a coolant to be supplied to an inverter and respective motors, and an HV radiator that cools the oil to be supplied to the inverter and the respective motors, and a second circuit including a mechanical oil pump that discharges the oil to be supplied to a lubrication-required part without passing through the HV radiator.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicular cooling system installed in a vehicle including an electric motor, an inverter electrically connected to the electric motor, and a power transmission mechanism that transmits motive power output from the electric motor to a wheel, the vehicular cooling system comprising:
an oil circulation circuit including
an oil storage portion;
a first circuit including a first oil pump that sucks in oil stored in the oil storage portion and discharges the oil as a coolant to be supplied to the inverter and the electric motor, and an oil cooler provided between the first oil pump, and the inverter or the electric motor, the oil cooler cooling the oil to be supplied to the inverter and the electric motor; and
a second circuit including a second oil pump that sucks in the oil stored in the oil storage portion and discharges the oil to be supplied to a lubrication-required part included in the power transmission mechanism without passing through the oil cooler.

2. The vehicular cooling system according to claim 1 , wherein in the first circuit, the inverter and the electric motor are provided on a downstream side of the first oil pump, the inverter and the electric motor are connected in series, and the electric motor is provided on a downstream side of the inverter.

3. The vehicular cooling system according to claim 1 , wherein in the first circuit, the inverter and the electric motor are provided on a downstream side of the first oil pump, and the inverter and the electric motor are connected in parallel.

4. The vehicular cooling system according to claim 1 , wherein the electric motor includes a stator and a rotor, and in the first circuit, an electric motor cooling pipe for supplying oil to the electric motor includes a discharge hole for discharging oil toward the stator.

5. The vehicular cooling system according to claim 1 , wherein the oil flowing in the first circuit has an insulating property.

6. The vehicular cooling system according to claim 1 , wherein the inverter is configured such that the oil discharged from the first oil pump flows inside as the coolant.

7. The vehicular cooling system according to claim 1 , wherein the oil cooler is an air cooling oil cooler that causes heat exchange between the oil and air.

8. The vehicular cooling system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the vehicular cooling system is installed in the vehicle including the electric motor and an engine as motive power sources;
the first oil pump is an electric oil pump to be driven by the electric motor; and
the second oil pump is a mechanical oil pump to be driven by the engine.

9. The vehicular cooling system according to claim 8 , wherein the second circuit further includes a three phase heat exchanger configured to allow heat exchange between engine cooling water and the oil discharged from the second oil pump, and allows heat exchange between engine oil and the oil discharged from the second oil pump.

10. The vehicular cooling system according to claim 9 , further comprising:
a first switching valve provided in a circuit in which the engine cooling water circulates, the first switching valve switching between an open state in which a flow of the engine cooling water through the heat exchanger is allowed and a closed state in which the flow of the engine cooling water through the heat exchanger is not allowed; and
a second switching valve provided in a circuit in which the engine oil circulates, the second switching valve switching between an open state in which a flow of the engine oil through the heat exchanger is allowed and a closed state in which the flow of the engine oil through the heat exchanger is not allowed.

11. The vehicular cooling system according to claim 10 , further comprising:
a first oil temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the oil;
a water temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the engine cooling water;
a second oil temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the engine oil; and
a control unit configured to control opening-closing of each of the first switching valve and the second switching valve based on the temperature of the oil detected by the first oil temperature sensor, the temperature of the engine cooling water detected by the water temperature sensor and the temperature of the engine oil detected by the second oil temperature sensor,
wherein the control unit is configured to, when the temperature of the oil is lower than a predetermined oil temperature, control at least the second switching valve out of the first switching valve and the second switching valve to be in the open state, and perform warming control to increase the temperature of the oil via heat exchange in the heat exchanger.

12. The vehicular cooling system according to claim 11 , wherein the control unit is configured to, in a case where the control unit performs the warming control, when the temperature of the engine cooling water is higher than a predetermined water temperature, control the first switching valve and the second switching valve to be in the open states.

13. The vehicular cooling system according to claim 11 , wherein the control unit is configured to, in a case where the control unit performs the warming control, when the temperature of the engine cooling water is equal to or below a predetermined water temperature and the temperature of the oil is lower than the temperature of the engine oil, control the first switching valve to be in the closed state and control the second switching valve to be in the open state.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tokozakura Daisuke
• Arakawa Kazuya
• Shiina Takahiro

Classifications

• F01P2060/045

  for transmissions · CPC title

• B60Y2400/73

  Planetary gearings · CPC title

• B60K2001/006

  the electric motors · CPC title

• F01P2007/146

  using valves · CPC title

• B60K6/445

  Differential gearing distribution type · CPC title