A continuously variable transmission includes a case member including an outer surface on the side where a torque converter is disposed and an inner surface on the side where a driving force transmission mechanism is disposed. The case member includes a supporting hole by which a bearing that supports a third shaft is supported, a supporting hole by which a bearing that supports a fourth shaft is supported, and an oil path through which an lubricant, to be supplied to the bearing and the bearing, is supplied. The oil path protrudes from the outer surface from the case member and has a straight line shape connecting between the supporting hole and the supporting hole. Thus, components can be appropriately lubricated even when it is difficult to provide lubrication pipes.

Transmission having a housing composed of at least one first and second component for accommodating transmission components, wherein one of the components has at least one bore for the supply of oil, wherein one component has a bore, and a second component has a guide device for oil, which both open in the direction of a sealing surface between the first and second components, wherein the guide device engages axially around a sleeve which is under spring preload, or a sleeve which is under spring preload engages axially around the guide device.

Embodiments are directed to a front end accessory drive (FEAD) and power modulating devices (PMD) which can be used in a FEAD. In one embodiment, a continuously variable transmission (CVT) is coupled directly to a crankshaft of a prime mover, and the CVT is used to regulate the speed and/or torque delivered to an accessory. A compound drive device includes a motor/generator subassembly cooperating with a CVT subassembly to provide a motor functionality with torque multiplication or division, or alternatively, a generator functionality with torque multiplication or division. In some embodiments, a FEAD includes a PMD having a sun shaft configured to couple to a sun of the PMD and to an electric motor component, such as an electrical armature or an electrical field. In one embodiment, the electrical armature the electrical field are placed concentrically and coaxially and configured to rotate relative to one another in opposite directions.

A multi-component fluid distribution system includes a first substrate component having an inlet for receiving fluid and an internal channel for communicating lubricant. A second substrate component is interlocked to the first substrate component. The second substrate component includes an inlet to receive fluid from the first component. The fluid distribution system also includes an over-molded portion sealing a joint between the first and second substrate components. The fluid distribution system further includes at least one outlet nozzle connected to the second substrate component to discharge fluid to a predetermined fluid receiving component.

A gearbox assembly includes a housing with a housing interior. A sump is disposed within a lower region of the gearbox housing. A lubricated transmission element is arranged in the housing interior above the sump. A lubricant impoundment is arranged within the housing and in series between the transmission element and the sump such that lubricant flowing in a primary lubricant flow path between the transmission element and the sump is impounded in the lubricant impoundment, thereby providing a supply of lubricant for a secondary lubricant flow path disposed within the gearbox housing.

An epicyclic gear train component includes spaced apart walls with circumferentially spaced mounts that interconnect the walls. The mounts provide circumferentially spaced apart apertures between the mounts at an outer circumference of the walls. Baffles are arranged between the walls near the mounts. Gear pockets are provided between the baffles and the baffles include a lubrication passage that terminates at least one of the gear pockets. One of the walls includes a hole which has a tube that extends through the hole and is received in an opening in the baffle. The tube is in communication with the lubrication passage.

A turbine engine mechanical reduction gear, for example, of an aircraft, the reduction gear comprising: a sun gear having an axis of rotation; a ring gear which extends around the sun gear and which is configured to be immobile in rotation about the axis; planetary gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear and which are supported by a planetary carrier which is configured to be mobile in rotation about the axis; at least one lubrication oil distributor which comprises a stator portion immobile in rotation and a rotating integral rotor portion of the planetary carrier; and an annular oil deflector which is integral with the ring gear, wherein the stator portion of the distributor is integral with the deflector.

The present invention includes a bypass apparatus for lubricant in an unregulated pressurized gearbox including: a block including a lubricant inlet in fluid communication with a pressure relief valve, wherein the pressure relief valve diverts lubricant into the gearbox or into an oil filter, wherein lubricant is returned to the gearbox when the lubricant is cold and/or pressure at the pressure relief valve is high to reduce damage to the gearbox caused by high pressure during a cold start, and when the lubricant temperature increases and the pressure is reduced the pressure relief valve closes and lubricant enters the oil filter.

A vehicle axle housing having a lower bowl portion with a bottom portion connected to a bottom portion of an axle half shaft housing at a first connection portion. A second connection portion connects a first wall of the lower bowl to a first wall of the axle half shaft housing and a third connection portion connects a second wall of the lower bowl to a second wall of the axle half shaft housing. Disposed in the second and third connection portions is one or more first and second attachment holes. A lubrication fluid baffle including a first end portion having a first bent portion, a middle portion having a second bent portion and a second end portion having a third bent portion. Extending from each side of the second bent portion is a first tab and a second tab that are disposed within the first and second attachment holes.

A motor unit includes a motor including a rotor to rotate about a motor axis, and a stator radially outside of the rotor, a reduction gear connected to the motor, a differential connected to the motor through the reduction gear, a housing including a housing space to house the motor, the reduction gear, and the differential, and an oil passage to lead an oil to the motor. The oil passage includes an electric pump and a cooler. The electric pump and the cooler are fixed to the housing. The electric pump includes a portion located vertically below the cooler.