Electric oil pump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11512774-B2
Application number	US-201816217056-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 12, 2018
Priority date	Dec 21, 2017
Publication date	Nov 29, 2022
Grant date	Nov 29, 2022

Abstract

An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft; a pump part that is positioned on one side of the motor part and is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil; and a control part configured to control an operation of the motor part, wherein the motor part includes a rotor, a stator disposed to face the rotor, and a motor housing, wherein the pump part includes a pump rotor and a pump housing having a housing part, wherein the control part includes a plurality of electronic components and a board, the plurality of electronic components include a heat generating component, wherein the motor housing has a cylindrical part and a plurality of heat dissipating fins that extend from the cylindrical part, wherein the board has a first surface and a second surface, and the heat generating component is mounted on the second surface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electric oil pump comprising:
a motor part having a shaft disposed along a central axis that extends in an axial direction;
a pump part that is positioned on one side of the motor part in the axial direction and is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil; and
a control part configured to control an operation of the motor part,
wherein the motor part includes a rotor fixed to the other side of the shaft in the axial direction, a stator disposed to face the rotor, and a motor housing in which the rotor and the stator are accommodated,
wherein the pump part includes a pump rotor attached to the shaft that protrudes from the motor part to one side in the axial direction and a pump housing having a housing part in which the pump rotor is accommodated,
wherein the control part includes a plurality of electronic components and a board on which the plurality of electronic components are mounted,
wherein the plurality of electronic components include a heat generating component,
wherein the motor housing has a cylindrical part in which the rotor and the stator are accommodated and a plurality of heat dissipating fins that extend from the cylindrical part and radially outward from the motor part and extend from the cylindrical part in a circumferential direction of the cylindrical part,
wherein the motor housing has a support that supports the plurality of heat dissipating fins, and has a rib extending from the support and connecting the plurality of heat dissipating fins,
wherein the board has a first surface and a second surface,
wherein the first surface is a surface that faces the plurality of heat dissipating fins and the support, and the second surface is a surface opposite to the first surface,
wherein the heat generating component is mounted on the second surface,
wherein the plurality of heat dissipating fins are disposed at intervals in the axial direction, and
wherein the length of the plurality of heat dissipating fins in the circumferential direction is longer on a radially inner side than on a radially outer side when seen from the axial direction.

2. The electric oil pump according to claim 1 ,
wherein the support extends in a radially outward direction.

3. The electric oil pump according to claim 1 ,
wherein the support has a heat transfer part that extends toward the board.

4. The electric oil pump according to claim 3 ,
wherein the board has a board through-hole that penetrates from the second surface to the first surface at a position that faces the heat generating component.

5. The electric oil pump according to claim 4 ,
wherein the board through-hole has a thermally conductive member having thermal conductivity on its inner circumference.

6. The electric oil pump according to claim 5 ,
wherein the thermally conductive member is a copper foil.

7. The electric oil pump according to claim 4 ,
wherein the board has a heat dissipation member at a position of the board through-hole of the first surface.

8. The electric oil pump according to claim 7 ,
wherein the heat dissipation member comes in contact with the heat transfer part.

9. The electric oil pump according to claim 1 ,
wherein the plurality of heat dissipating fins extend in a direction crossing the axial direction.

10. The electric oil pump according to claim 9 ,
wherein the plurality of heat dissipating fins extend in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction.

11. The electric oil pump according to claim 1 ,
wherein the heat generating component is a power semiconductor element for controlling power that drives the motor part.

12. The electric oil pump according to claim 11 ,
wherein the power semiconductor element is an FET a field effect transistor.

13. The electric oil pump according to claim 11 ,
wherein the power semiconductor element is an IGBT insulated gate bipolar transistor.

Assignees

• Nidec Tosok Corp

Inventors

• Kataoka Shigehiro
• Kobayashi Yoshiyuki

Classifications

• F16H61/0031 Primary

  using auxiliary pumps, e.g. pump driven by a different power source than the engine · CPC title

• F01M2001/0215

  Electrical pumps · CPC title

• F16H57/0436

  Pumps · CPC title

• F01M1/16

  Controlling lubricant pressure or quantity (rendering machines or engines inoperative or idling on lubricant pressure failure F01M1/22) · CPC title

• F01M11/0004

  Oilsumps · CPC title