A vehicle drive device includes: a first oil passage that supplies oil discharged from the first hydraulic pump to the second transmission system; a second oil passage that supplies oil discharged from the second hydraulic pump to the first transmission system; a third oil passage that supplies the oil discharged from the second hydraulic pump to the first rotating electrical machine; and a fourth oil passage that supplies the oil discharged from the second hydraulic pump to the second rotating electrical machine.

A device (1) for cooling and lubricating components of a vehicle (2) may include a housing (3), a coolant sump (4), a coolant pump (5) for pumping coolant (6) from the coolant sump (4), a heat exchanger (7) for cooling coolant (6) from the coolant pump (5), and a coolant line system (8) including a coolant reservoir (9) having a single coolant inlet (10) and multiple coolant outlets (11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5). The coolant line system (8) fluidically connects the coolant pump (5) to the heat exchanger (7), and the heat exchanger (7) to the single coolant inlet (10) of the coolant reservoir (9). The coolant reservoir (9) receives coolant (6) from the heat exchanger (7) via the single coolant inlet (10) and directs coolant (6) via the multiple coolant outlets (11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5) onto components in the housing (3) requiring cooling and lubrication.

A drive device (2) for an at least partially electrically driven vehicle (1) includes an electric machine (3) having a rotor shaft (8) extending longitudinally along an input axis (4). The drive device further includes a first output shaft (6a) extending longitudinally along an output axis (7) and parallel to the rotor shaft (8). Moreover, the drive device includes a gear stage (5) having a first gearwheel (9) rotationally fixed to the rotor shaft (8), and a second gearwheel (10) meshed with the first gearwheel (9) and drivingly connected to the first output shaft (6a). Additionally, the drive device includes a housing (11) having a shared housing cavity (12), wherein the first output shaft (6a) and the electric machine (3) are parallel to one another in the housing cavity (12), and wherein an air gap (18) extends radially between the electric machine (3) and the first output shaft (6a).

In a vehicle including a first MG serving as a driving source, a power transmission mechanism configured to transmit power of the first MG to a drive wheel, and an oil circulation mechanism for cooling the power transmission mechanism and the first MG, it is determined that oil is short when a temperature of the first MG is higher than a temperature of the oil and a difference between the temperature of the first MG and the temperature of the oil is greater than a prescribed value.

An electric wheel drive system, an electric generator, a hybrid internal combustion electric vehicle, and associated methods are described that include sleeve bearings rotating on support cylinders. Fluid pumps provide lubrication and cooling. Examples include hydraulic cylinders for steering one or more electric wheel drive systems independently. Suspension is also provided to individual electric wheel drive systems independently in some examples.

An in-wheel motor vehicle drive device includes an electric motor driving a drive gear, and the drive gear provided with a gear portion configured to receive drive force of the drive gear and a first wall surface extending along a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of a rotation center axis of the gear portion, the first wall surface for forming a pump chamber. The in-wheel motor vehicle drive device further includes a hub configured to transmit the drive force to the wheel, and an oil pump driven by the electric motor. The oil pump includes an oil pump cover including a second wall surface facing the first wall surface of the pump chamber, and a pump rotator arranged at a space between the first wall surface of the driven gear and the second wall surface of the oil pump cover, the pump rotator integrally rotating with the driven gear.

A housing of a drive device includes a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The refrigerant flow path includes a first flow path, a second flow path, and a connection flow path. The refrigerant to be sent from a pump flows through the first flow path. The refrigerant to be supplied to the motor portion flows in the second flow path. The first flow path and the second flow path are connected to the connection flow path. At least a part of the connection flow path is disposed in the motor accommodation space for accommodating the motor portion.

A transmission mechanism device includes a transmission mechanism including gears, a first shaft, and a first bearing supporting the first shaft, a housing accommodating the transmission mechanism and having a first bearing holder portion on the inner face, oil collected in the lower region of the housing, and a catch tank disposed in the housing and opens upwards. The first bearing holder portion has a holding tubular portion that holds the first bearing from radially outside. The holding tubular portion has a cutout portion that connects the inside and outside of the holding tubular portion. A flow passage including a cutout portion is provided on the inner face of the housing. The catch tank includes a reservoir and a feed portion extending from the inside of the reservoir to the holding tubular portion. The distal end portion of the feed portion is inserted into the flow passage.

A vehicle transmission (1) which comprises a lubrication system and a connection for attaching a power take-off module (9) to the vehicle transmission. The lubrication system is designed to lubricate the vehicle transmission and the power take-off module (9). The lubrication system has a pressure feed (13) and a lubricant line (12) fed with lubricant from the pressure feed. By way of a first section (12A), the lubricant line (12) leads to at least one lubrication point of the vehicle transmission and, by way of a second section (12B), to a lubricant tapping point (15) of the vehicle transmission for the power take-off module. A throttle (17) and a first valve (18), connected parallel to the throttle, are arranged in the second section (12B). The first valve (18) is designed to open toward the lubricant tapping point if the lubricant pressure rises to a first pressure level.

A traveling device (11) is provided with an electric motor (16) provided in a vehicle body (2) of a dump truck (1), an output shaft (17) an axial base end of which is connected to the electric motor (16) and which outputs rotation of the electric motor (16), a bottomed hole spline (53) formed in an axial front end of the output shaft (17), and an input shaft (42) which has a shaft spline (54) spline-coupled to the hole spline (53), and inputs the rotation of the output shaft (17) to a reduction gear mechanism (27). The output shaft (17) is provided with an oil reservoir space (55) formed in the innermost part of the hole spline (53), an annular oil groove (56) and an oil path (57) providing communication between the oil reservoir space (55) and the annual oil groove (56). Lubricant oil (100) supplied to the annular oil groove (56) is supplied via the oil path (57) to the oil reservoir space (55), and is supplied to a spline joint between the hole spline (53) and the shaft spline (54) with rotation of the output shaft (17).