Power transmission device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9309959-B2
Application number	US-201214234846-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 22, 2012
Priority date	Sep 29, 2011
Publication date	Apr 12, 2016
Grant date	Apr 12, 2016

Abstract

A power transmission device having a shift device in a case; and a pump sucking and discharges oil, including: a gear receiving power from the shift device; a gear shaft with a breather chamber having at least one end side in an axial direction being opened, and attached to the gear; a bearing supporting the gear shaft rotatably relative to the case on the breather chamber one end side; a vent pipe communicating with the breather chamber opening and outside of the case; a passage in the case with an outlet port opening to the case inside, and allowing pump leakage oil to flow from the outlet port; a member receiving flowing from the outlet port of the passage; a passage guiding the leakage oil from the receiving member to the bearing; and a portion suppressing entry of oil thrown up with rotation of the gear into the receiving member.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A power transmission device that comprises: a shift device accommodated in a case; and an oil pump that sucks and discharges hydraulic oil, comprising:
a gear to which power is transmitted from the shift device;
a gear shaft which has a breather chamber having at least one end side in an axial direction being opened, and to which the gear is attached;
a bearing that supports the gear shaft rotatably with respect to the case on the one end side of the breather chamber;
a vent pipe that communicates with the opening of the breather chamber and outside of the case;
a leakage oil passage that is formed in the case, that has an outlet port opening to inside of the case, and that allows leakage oil of the oil pump to flow out from the outlet port;
a receiving member that receives the leakage oil flowing out from the outlet port of the leakage oil passage;
a guide passage that guides the leakage oil received by the receiving member to the bearing; and
an inflow suppressing portion that suppresses entry of thrown-up oil thrown up with rotation of the gear into the receiving member.

2. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein
the inflow suppressing portion includes a scattering suppressing portion that suppresses scattering of the thrown-up oil near the receiving member, and an inflow blocking portion that blocks entry of the thrown-up oil into the receiving member.

3. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein
the inflow suppressing portion is a wall formed in at least one of the case and the receiving member.

4. The power transmission device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a counter drive gear to which the power is transmitted from the shift device;
a counter driven gear that meshes with the counter drive gear; and
a differential ring gear which is attached to a differential mechanism and to which power from the counter driven gear is transmitted, wherein
the gear is the counter driven gear.

5. The power transmission device according to claim 4 , wherein
each of the counter drive gear and the counter driven gear is a helical gear, and a hand of helix of the counter driven gear 53 may be such that the distance between each tooth of the counter driven gear 53 and the counter drive gear 51 increases in a direction toward an inner wall surface of the case.

6. The power transmission device according to claim 4 , wherein
the receiving member is fixed to the case so as to be located above a meshing part between the counter drive gear and the counter driven gear.

Assignees

• Ishikawa Tomoyuki
• Ito Tatsuaki
• Aisin Aw Co

Inventors

• Ishikawa Tomoyuki
• Ito Tatsuaki

Classifications

• F16H57/043 Primary

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

• F16H57/0493

  Gearings with spur or bevel gears  (axle or inter-axle differentials with spur or bevel gears F16H57/0483) · CPC title

• F16H57/0423

  Lubricant guiding means mounted or supported on the casing, e.g. shields or baffles for collecting lubricant, tubes or pipes · CPC title

• F16H57/0471

  Bearing · CPC title

• Y10T74/19991

  Lubrication · CPC title