Electric oil pump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9581159-B2
Application number	US-201214238157-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2012
Priority date	Dec 28, 2011
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

Abstract

An electric oil pump includes an electric motor and an oil pump that is driven by the motive power from an electric motor, wherein; the oil pump has an introducing channel that guides a drain oil that has leaked from an interior of the oil pump to an interior of the electric motor; and the electric motor has a discharging channel that discharges the drain oil that has been guided to the interior of the electric motor to a tank.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electric oil pump, comprising:
an electric motor; and
an oil pump that is driven by a motive power from the electric motor, wherein
the oil pump has an introducing channel that guides a drain oil that has leaked from an interior of the oil pump to an interior of the electric motor;
the electric motor has
a discharging channel that discharges the drain oil that has been guided to the interior of the electric motor to a tank; and
a hollow output shaft;

the oil pump has an input shaft that is inserted through the output shaft and linked to the output shaft via a motive power transmission mechanism; and
the drain oil leaked from the interior of the oil pump is guided to the interior of the electric motor and to a gap between the output shaft and the input shaft through the introducing channel that is formed along an outer circumference of the input shaft.

2. An electric oil pump according to claim 1 , wherein
the motive power transmission mechanism has:
an external gear that is integral with the output shaft;
a ring-shaped internal gear that surrounds the external gear and is rotated by a motive power from an engine;
a plurality of planet gears that are arranged between and meshed with the external gear and the internal gear; and
a carrier that is linked to the planet gears and linked to the input shaft; and

the input shaft is selectively rotated by the motive power from the electric motor or the engine.

3. An electric oil pump according to claim 2 , further comprising
a one-way clutch that restricts the rotation of the output shaft when the input shaft is rotated by the motive power from the engine.

4. An electric oil pump according to claim 1 , further comprising a bush interposed between the outer circumference of the input shaft and an inner circumference of the output shaft.

5. An electric oil pump according to claim 1 , wherein
the oil pump includes a pump body having an opening and a pump cover configured to close the opening, and
the introducing channel comprises a channel between an inner circumference of the pump cover and the outer circumference of the input shaft.

6. An electric oil pump according to claim 1 , wherein the oil pump includes a high-pressure chamber from which the drain oil leaks.

7. A hydraulic supply source for a vehicle, comprising the electric oil pump according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Kayaba Industry Co Ltd
• Kyb Corp

Inventors

• Sugihara Masamichi
• Fujita Tomoyuki
• Akatsuka Koichiro

Classifications

• F04B53/18

  Lubricating · CPC title

• F04C15/008

  Prime movers · CPC title

• F04C15/06 Primary

  Arrangements for admission or discharge of the working fluid, e.g. constructional features of the inlet or outlet · CPC title

• F04B17/03 Primary

  driven by electric motors · CPC title

• F04C2210/206

  Oil · CPC title