Hybrid drive device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9586468-B2
Application number	US-201414911605-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 25, 2014
Priority date	Sep 26, 2013
Publication date	Mar 7, 2017
Grant date	Mar 7, 2017

Abstract

A hybrid drive device that includes an input member drivably coupled to an internal combustion engine; a speed change device; a rotary electric machine disposed side by side with the speed change device in an axial direction and including a rotary shaft coupled to an input shaft of the speed change device; a case that houses the rotary electric machine and the speed change device; an intermediate support member disposed between the rotary electric machine and the speed change device in the axial direction and configured to rotatably support the rotary shaft and the input shaft; and a fastening bolt that fixes the intermediate support member to the case.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hybrid drive device comprising:
an input member drivably coupled to an internal combustion engine;
a speed change device;
a rotary electric machine disposed side by side with the speed change device in an axial direction and including a rotary shaft coupled to an input shaft of the speed change device;
a case that houses the rotary electric machine and the speed change device;
an intermediate support member disposed between the rotary electric machine and the speed change device in the axial direction and configured to rotatably support the rotary shaft and the input shaft; and
a fastening bolt that fixes the intermediate support member to the case, wherein:
the rotary electric machine includes a stator disposed on a radially outer side of a rotor that rotates together with the rotary shaft, and the stator includes a coil end portion that projects in the axial direction from a stator core;
the case includes a peripheral wall that covers outer peripheries of the rotary electric machine and the speed change device, and an intermediate wall provided between the rotary electric machine and the speed change device in the axial direction to extend from the peripheral wall to a location on a radially inner side of the coil end portion;
the intermediate support member includes a bearing support portion that supports a bearing configured to rotatably support the rotary shaft and the input shaft, a boss portion in a tubular shape, and a flange portion that extends radially outward from the boss portion;
an outer peripheral surface of the boss portion abuts against a radially inner end surface of the intermediate wall;
the flange portion extends in a radial direction on a side of the rotary electric machine with respect to the intermediate wall in the axial direction, and an outer peripheral surface of the flange portion is disposed on a radially inner side of the coil end portion; and
the fastening bolt is inserted into the flange portion and the intermediate wall from a side of the rotary electric machine in the axial direction, and a head portion of the fastening bolt is disposed at a position at which the head portion overlaps the coil end portion as seen in the radial direction.

2. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1 , wherein
the flange portion is disposed so as to overlap the coil end portion as seen in the radial direction.

3. The hybrid drive device according to claim 2 , wherein
the bearing, the bearing support portion, the head portion of the fastening bolt, and the coil end portion are disposed at positions at which they overlap each other as seen in the radial direction, and the bearing, the bearing support portion, the head portion of the fastening bolt, and the coil end portion are disposed in this order from the radially inner side.

4. The hybrid drive device according to claim 3 , wherein:
a thrust bearing is provided between the boss portion and a rotary member of the speed change device in the axial direction; and
the radially inner end surface of the intermediate wall includes a projecting surface portion that projects toward the speed change device, in the axial direction, with respect to a first axial surface which faces a side of the speed change device and which is a surface among axial end surfaces of the boss portion, and the thrust bearing abuts against the first axial surface in the axial direction and abuts against the projecting surface in the radial direction.

5. The hybrid drive device according to claim 4 , wherein:
the intermediate wall includes an intermediate wall oil passage that extends in the radial direction inside the intermediate wall and that opens in the radially inner end surface;
the intermediate support member includes a support member oil passage that extends in the radial direction inside the boss portion and that opens in an outer peripheral surface of the boss portion to be connected to the intermediate wall oil passage; and
working oil supplied from a hydraulic control device is supplied to the speed change device or the rotary electric machine via the intermediate wall oil passage and the support member oil passage.

6. The hybrid drive device according to claim 5 , wherein:
the rotary electric machine is a first rotary electric machine;
the hybrid drive device further includes a second rotary electric machine and a differential gear device that includes three rotary elements;
the input member, the second rotary electric machine, and the rotary shaft of the first rotary electric machine and the input shaft of the speed change device are coupled to different rotary elements of the differential gear device; and
the intermediate wall and the intermediate support member, the first rotary electric machine, the differential gear device, and the second rotary electric machine are disposed in this order from a side of the speed change device in the axial direction.

7. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1 , wherein
the bearing, the bearing support portion, the head portion of the fastening bolt, and the coil end portion are disposed at positions at which they overlap each other as seen in the radial direction, and the bearing, the bearing support portion, the head portion of the fastening bolt, and the coil end portion are disposed in this order from the radially inner side.

8. The hybrid drive device according to any one of claim 1 , wherein:
a thrust bearing is provided between the boss portion and a rotary member of the speed change device in the axial direction; and
the radially inner end surface of the intermediate wall includes a projecting surface portion that projects toward the speed change device, in the axial direction, with respect to a first axial surface which faces a side of the speed change device and which is a surface among axial end surfaces of the boss portion, and the thrust bearing abuts against the first axial surface in the axial direction and abuts against the projecting surface portion in the radial direction.

9. The hybrid drive device according to any one of claim 1 , wherein:
the intermediate wall includes an intermediate wall oil passage that extends in the radial direction inside the intermediate wall and that opens in the radially inner end surface;
the intermediate support member includes a support member oil passage that extends in the radial direction inside the boss portion and that opens in an outer peripheral surface of the boss portion to be connected to the intermediate wall oil passage; and
working oil supplied from a hydraulic control device is supplied to the speed change device or the rotary electric machine via the intermediate wall oil passage and the support member oil passage.

10. The hybrid drive device according to any one of claim 1 , wherein:
the rotary electric machine is a first rotary electric machine;
the hybrid drive device further includes a second rotary electric machine and a differential gear device that includes three rotary elements;
the input member, the second rotary electric machine, and the rotary shaft of the first rotary electric machine and the input shaft of the speed change device are coupled to different rotary elements of the differential gear device; and
the intermediate wall and the intermediate support member, the first rotary electric machine, the differential gear device, and the second rotary electric machine are disposed in this order from a side of the speed change device in the axial direction.

11. The hybrid drive device according to any one of claim 2 , wherein:
a thrust bearing is provided between the boss portion and a rotary member of the speed change device in the axial direction; and

Assignees

• Aisin Aw Co

Inventors

• Kubo Rikiya
• Shimizu Katsutoshi
• Horie Ryuta
• Yoshida Masaki
• Kojima Yusuke

Classifications

• F16H2057/02043

  for vehicle transmissions · CPC title

• F16H2200/2082

  one freewheel mechanisms · CPC title

• B60K6/365 Primary

  with the gears having orbital motion · CPC title

• F16H57/031

  characterised by covers or lids for gearboxes · CPC title

• B60K6/405

  Housings · CPC title