Electric motor unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12101016-B2
Application number	US-201917790073-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2019
Priority date	Dec 30, 2019
Publication date	Sep 24, 2024
Grant date	Sep 24, 2024

Abstract

An electric motor unit includes: a case; a stator accommodated in the case; a rotor that is rotatably held inside the stator; a rotation shaft that is provided in the rotor and is rotatably supported by the case; a cooling device configured to inject a cooling liquid toward the stator; a gas passage that has a respiratory membrane that allows air to pass through and penetrates from an inner wall surface to an outer wall surface of the case; and a predetermined electrical component arranged between an injection port of the cooling device and an inner wall surface side opening of the gas passage. The gas passage is opened at the inner wall surface of a wall portion on one side of the case in an axial direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric motor unit comprising:
a case;
a stator accommodated in the case;
a rotor that is rotatably held inside the stator;
a rotation shaft that is provided in the rotor and is rotatably supported by the case;
a cooling device configured to inject a cooling liquid toward the stator;
a gas passage that has a respiratory membrane that allows air to pass through and penetrates from an inner wall surface to an outer wall surface of the case; and
a predetermined electrical component arranged between an injection port of the cooling device and an inner wall surface side opening of the gas passage; wherein:
the gas passage is opened at the inner wall surface of a wall portion on one side of the case in an axial direction; and
the injection port of the cooling device is arranged at a top surface in a usage state of the case, the injection port being arranged such that the cooling liquid injected from the injection port flows radially in a dispersed manner on an outer peripheral surface of the stator.

2. The electric motor unit according to claim 1 , wherein:
the inner wall surface side opening is arranged on the wall surface of the case which is orthogonal to the rotation shaft in the usage state of the case.

3. The electric motor unit according to claim 1 , wherein:
the inner wall surface side opening is arranged at a position higher than the top surface of the stator in the up-down direction in the usage state of the case.

4. The electric motor unit according to claim 1 , wherein:
the inner wall surface side opening is arranged at a position facing a central portion of the predetermined electrical component in the horizontal direction.

5. The electric motor unit according to claim 1 , wherein:
the predetermined electrical component is bus bars for supplying electric power to the stator.

6. The electric motor unit according to claim 5 , further comprising:
a bus bar unit accommodating a plurality of the bus bars corresponding to the number of phases of the stator,
wherein the bus bar unit is configured to expose at least a part of the surface of the bus bars on the stator side.

7. An electric motor unit comprising:
a case;
a stator accommodated in the case;
a rotor that is rotatably held inside the stator;
a rotation shaft that is provided in the rotor and is rotatably supported by the case;
a cooling device configured to inject a cooling liquid toward any of the stator, the rotor, and/or the rotation shaft;
a gas passage that has a respiratory membrane that allows air to pass through and penetrates from an inner wall surface to an outer wall surface of the case; and
a predetermined electrical component arranged between positions where the cooling liquid injected from the cooling device collides and an inner wall surface side opening of the gas passage.

8. The electric motor unit according to claim 7 , wherein:
the inner wall surface side opening is arranged above an injection port of the cooling device in a usage state of the case.

Assignees

• Nissan Motor
• Ampere Sas

Inventors

• Asakura Daisuke
• Mikati Karim

Classifications

• H02K2205/09

  Machines characterised by drain passages or by venting, breathing or pressure compensating means · CPC title

• Y02T10/64

  Electric machine technologies in electromobility · CPC title

• H02K9/19 Primary

  for machines with closed casing and closed-circuit cooling using a liquid cooling medium, e.g. oil · CPC title