Lubricant supply for an electric drive system and motor vehicle with such a lubricant supply

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11231103-B2
Application number	US-201816221786-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2018
Priority date	Jun 23, 2016
Publication date	Jan 25, 2022
Grant date	Jan 25, 2022

Abstract

A lubricant supply for a powertrain in an electrically driven motor vehicle has a hydraulic oil pump, which can be driven by a drive actuator, a lubricant supply point and a lubricant reservoir. The hydraulic oil pump can generate a first lubricant volume flow from the lubricant reservoir to the lubricant supply point and a second lubricant flow volume from the lubricant supply point or an additional lubricant supply point in the lubricant reservoir. The drive actuator is an electric motor. The lubricant supply point is arranged in a traction motor with a rotor shaft and a motor housing. The additional lubricant supply location is disposed in a traction transmission. The lubricant supply points can be supplied with lubricant by way of the first lubricant volume flow.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A lubricant supply for a drive train in an electrically driven motor vehicle, comprising:
a lubricating oil pump configured as a double pump comprising a scavenge pump and a pressurized oil pump, which are drivable commonly by way of an electric motor drive actuator and are couplable to a common drive shaft of the electric motor drive actuator for drive purposes,
a first lubricant supply point arranged in a traction motor having a rotor shaft and a motor housing;
a further lubricant supply point arranged in a traction transmission; and
a lubricant reservoir, wherein
a first lubricant volumetric flow from the lubricant reservoir to the first and further lubricant supply points is producible by the pressurized oil pump,
a second lubricant volumetric flow from at least one of the first or further lubricant supply points into the lubricant reservoir is producible by the scavenge pump, and
the second lubricant volumetric flow which is producible is greater than the first lubricant volumetric flow which is producible.

2. The lubricant supply as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
the first or the second lubricant volumetric flow is guided through a heat exchanger.

3. The lubricant supply as claimed in claim 2 , wherein
the heat exchanger is bypassable by way of a bypass, and
a bypass valve is provided in order to control said bypass.

4. The lubricant supply as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
a transmission arranged between the pressurized oil pump and the scavenge pump for transmitting power from the pressurized oil pump to the scavenge pump, wherein
said transmission is configured such that a drive speed of the scavenge pump in operation as planned of the double pump is greater than a drive speed of the pressurized oil pump.

5. The lubricant supply as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
lubricant delivery volume per revolution of the common drive shaft is greater in the case of the scavenge pump than in the case of the pressurized oil pump.

6. The lubricant supply as claimed in claim 5 , wherein
the scavenge pump and the pressurized oil pump in each case have a pump rotor which is rotatable in order to produce the respective lubricant volumetric flow, and
said pump rotors are arranged concentrically with respect to one another.

7. The lubricant supply as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
a lubricant collecting region is arranged in the traction transmission, and
the second lubricant volumetric flow is dischargeable from said lubricant collecting region to the scavenge pump.

8. The lubricant supply as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
the first and further lubricant supply points are suppliable in each case with a part volumetric flow from the first lubricant volumetric flow.

9. The lubricant supply as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
lubricant from the first lubricant volumetric flow is feedable to the traction motor by way of the rotor shaft,
a lubricant collecting region is arranged in the motor housing, and
the second lubricant volumetric flow is dischargeable from said lubricant collecting region to the scavenge pump.

10. The lubricant supply as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
the traction motor has a stator,
the stator is temperature controllable by way of a cooling jacket in the motor housing, and
lubricant from the first lubricant volumetric flow is feedable to the cooling jacket.

11. The lubricant supply as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
the lubricant reservoir has an overflow line, and
the overflow line is set up to establish a fluid-conducting connection between the lubricant reservoir and one of the first and further lubricant supply points.

12. The lubricant supply as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
an air separator in the second lubricant volumetric flow downstream of the scavenge pump.

13. An electrically driven motor vehicle comprising the lubricant supply as claimed in claim 1 .

Assignees

• Bayerische Motoren Werke Ag

Inventors

• Staake Michael
• Baeumler Richard
• Brk Nikola

Classifications

• F16H57/0441 Primary

  Arrangements of pumps · CPC title

• F16H57/043

  within rotary parts, e.g. axial channels or radial openings in shafts · CPC title

• F16H57/0476

  Electric machines and gearing, i.e. joint lubrication or cooling or heating thereof · CPC title

• F16H57/0417

  Heat exchangers adapted or integrated in the gearing · CPC title

• F16H57/045

  Lubricant storage reservoirs, e.g. reservoirs in addition to a gear sump for collecting lubricant in the upper part of a gear case · CPC title