Motor oil pump assembly, steering system, and vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11035386-B2
Application number	US-201716336056-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 26, 2017
Priority date	Sep 28, 2016
Publication date	Jun 15, 2021
Grant date	Jun 15, 2021

Abstract

A motor oil pump assembly includes: a motor component; an oil pump component, where the oil pump component is supported on an end cover of the motor component; an inner sound insulation enclosure, where the inner sound insulation enclosure encloses the oil pump component, and the inner sound insulation enclosure and the oil pump component define an inner sound insulation cavity filled with low-pressure oil; and a pre-tightening buffering component, where the pre-tightening buffering component is pressed between an upper end cover of the oil pump component and the inner sound insulation enclosure, and the pre-tightening buffering component is in communication with a high-pressure cavity of the oil pump component.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A motor oil pump assembly, comprising: a motor component; an oil pump component, wherein the oil pump component is supported on an end cover of the motor component; an inner sound insulation enclosure, wherein the inner sound insulation enclosure encloses the oil pump component, and the inner sound insulation enclosure and the oil pump component define an inner sound insulation cavity filled with low-pressure oil; and a buffer, wherein the buffer is pressed between an upper end cover of the oil pump component and the inner sound insulation enclosure, wherein the upper end cover is provided with an end cover cavity that runs through the upper end cover and that is in communication with a high-pressure cavity of the oil pump component, the end cover cavity is constructed as a stepped hole to form a stepped surface, and the buffer is in communication with the high-pressure cavity of the oil pump component, the buffer comprises: a piston, wherein the piston fits within the end cover cavity to isolate the high-pressure cavity from the inner sound insulation cavity, and presses against the inner sound insulation enclosure, and an elastic member, wherein the elastic member is elastically sandwiched between the piston and the stepped surface.

2. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the end cover cavity is in communication with an upper end of the high-pressure cavity, and an oil outlet passage of the oil pump component is in communication with a lower end of the high-pressure cavity.

3. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 2 , wherein the oil outlet passage is disposed on the end cover of the motor component, and the oil outlet passage is connected to the lower end of the high-pressure cavity through a lower passage running through a lower end cover.

4. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 2 , wherein an energy absorption portion is disposed on the oil outlet passage of the oil pump component.

5. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 4 , wherein the energy absorption portion is an energy storage cavity, a gas storage tank, or a damping hole.

6. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 1 , wherein an end surface of the piston facing the inner sound insulation enclosure has a protrusion portion, and the protrusion portion presses against the inner sound insulation enclosure.

7. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the elastic member is a spring.

8. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 1 , wherein a piston seal ring is disposed between the piston and a circumferential wall of the end cover cavity.

9. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the inner sound insulation enclosure comprises:
a top cover; and
a side skirt, connected to the top cover and the end cover of the motor component.

10. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 9 , wherein the top cover is connected to the side skirt by using a threaded fastening member, and the end cover of the motor component and the side skirt are integrally formed.

11. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 9 , wherein the top cover has a groove opened downward, and the buffer presses against a top wall of the groove.

12. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the inner sound insulation cavity is in communication with a low-pressure cavity of the oil pump component.

13. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 1 , further comprising: an outer sound insulation enclosure, wherein the outer sound insulation enclosure encloses at least a part of the inner sound insulation enclosure, and an outer sound insulation cavity filled with low-pressure oil is defined between the outer sound insulation enclosure and the inner sound insulation enclosure.

14. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 13 , wherein the inner sound insulation cavity is in communication with the outer sound insulation cavity.

15. The motor oil pump assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the motor component is of a liquid cooling type, and a motor cavity of the motor component is in communication with a low-pressure cavity of the oil pump component.

16. A steering system, provided with the motor oil pump assembly according to claim 1 .

17. A vehicle, provided with the steering system according to claim 16 .

Assignees

• Byd Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Shenglin
• Li Jun
• Yang Kunzhen
• Liu Yan
• Rao Guojie
• Wang Tao
• Xue Hui
• Li Yanzi
• Chen Taiji

Classifications

• B60R13/0884 Primary

  for mounting around noise sources, e.g. air blowers · CPC title

• F04B17/03

  driven by electric motors · CPC title

• F04C2/00

  Rotary-piston machines or pumps (with non-parallel axes of co-operating members F04C3/00; with the working-chamber walls at least partly resiliently deformable F04C5/00; with fluid ring or the like F04C7/00; rotary-piston pumps specially adapted for elastic fluids F04C18/00; rotary-piston machines or pumps in which the working-fluid is exclusively displaced by, or exclusively displaces, one or more reciprocating pistons F04B) · CPC title

• F04C11/008

  Enclosed motor pump units · CPC title

• B62D5/064 Primary

  Pump driven independently from vehicle engine, e.g. electric driven pump (B62D5/065 takes precedence) · CPC title