A vehicle driving apparatus includes: a rotary shaft having an axial hole that opens in its axial end; a casing storing the rotary shaft; a bearing provided between the casing and the rotary shaft; and a lubrication mechanism for supplying an oil into an opening of the axial hole. The casing is provided with: a recessed portion defined by a wall surface of the casing and located on a side of the axial end of the rotary shaft, such that the axial end of the rotary shaft and the bearing are located in the recessed portion; an oil hole communicating with the recessed portion; and a projecting portion projecting from the wall surface toward the opening and having a distal end located inside the axial hole. The bearing, the wall surface and the projecting portion cooperate to surround a surrounded space that communicates with the opening of the axial hole.

A powertrain arrangement for a transverse mounted motor for an electric powered automotive passenger vehicle including opposing wheel shafts for powering two parallel mounted wheels, the shafts rotating about a first axis, the shafts having at least one end torsionally connected with a differential, an electrical rotor torsionally connected with the wheel shafts via a planetary gear train, an electrical stator surrounding the rotor, a casing supporting the rotor and the wheel shafts, the casing encompassing the stator, the casing having a floor forming a lubricant reservoir, and a baffle located in the lubricant reservoir. The baffle forming a wall with a portal allowing flow through the formed wall, and wherein an increase of fluid pressure throttles flow through the formed wall.

Methods and systems for an electric drive axle of a vehicle are provided. An electric drive axle system includes, in one example a gear train configured to rotationally attach to an electric motor-generator, the gear train includes an output shaft having a clutch arranged thereon and configured to selectively rotationally couple a gear to the output shaft. The gear train further includes a lubrication channel extending between an output shaft and an axle shaft and including an outlet extending through the output shaft and opening into the clutch.

A portal gear box assembly for an all-terrain vehicle includes a portal gear box housing with a set of gears contained therein, and a plurality of heat-radiating fins extending from the housing wall and effective to radiate heat from the housing at a faster rate than would be radiated in the absence of the fins. The fins may extend outward or inward from the housing, and may be formed integrally with one or more of the walls of the housing, or may be removably attached to the housing. Preferred fins comprise a generally rectangular, planer surface extending radially from a wall of the housing.

An oil supply device for an electric vehicle powertrain apparatus, includes an electric oil pump, a motor lubrication flow path connected to the electric oil pump and provided to supply oil from the electric oil pump to a bearing of a motor, a motor cooling flow path branched from the motor lubrication flow path to supply oil for cooling the motor from the electric oil pump, and a cooling control valve apparatus provided in the motor cooling flow path to control oil supplied to the motor through the motor cooling flow path according to an operating state of the electric oil pump.

A lubricant supply system for an electric vehicle includes a lubricant supported electric motor and a lubricant supply line extending from a high pressure source to the lubricant supported electric motor for supplying lubricant to the lubricant supported electric motor. In one arrangement, at least one powertrain component is disposed in fluid communication with the lubricant supply line and fluidly connected in parallel with the lubricant supported electric motor for supplying lubricant to the powertrain component. In an alternative arrangement, the powertrain component is fluidly connected in series with and downstream from the lubricant supported electric motor for supplying lubricant from the lubricant supported electric motor to the powertrain component. In either arrangement, the lubricant supported electric motor is incorporated into an existing lubricant supply system of the vehicle to reduce cost and complexity relative to prior designs which required a dedicated lubricant supply for the lubricant supported electric motor.

A power assembly includes a rotor iron core, a gear set, a rotating shaft, and an oil-pumping system. The rotating shaft is fixedly connected to the rotor iron core and a driving gear in the gear set. The housing has an oil storage pool at a bottom and an oil collection tank at a high location, a part of a structure of a first gear in the gear set is located in the oil storage pool, and the first gear rotates to drive cooling oil in the oil storage pool to be raised and collected by the oil collection tank. The rotating shaft has a cooling oil channel inside. The cooling oil in the oil collection tank flows to the cooling oil channel, to dissipate heat from the rotor iron core.

A vehicle drive device includes: a rotary electric machine; a drive transmission mechanism provided in a power transmission path connecting a rotor shaft of the rotary electric machine and a wheel; a first hydraulic pump driven by a driving force transmitted through the power transmission path; a second hydraulic pump driven by a driving force source independent of the power transmission path; a first oil passage that supplies oil discharged from the first hydraulic pump to a rotor bearing that supports the rotor shaft such that the rotor shaft is rotatable; and a second oil passage that supplies oil discharged from the second hydraulic pump to an inner peripheral surface of the rotor shaft.

In a drive apparatus, a ring gear of a differential device is rotatable about a third axis in a direction opposite to a counter gear of a deceleration device. The inner surface of the gear housing accommodating the deceleration device, the differential device, and the reservoir capable of storing a fluid includes a first curved surface disposed in the +X direction with respect to the third axis and a second curved surface disposed in the +X direction with respect to the second axis. At least a part of the first curved surface faces the radially outer end portion of the ring gear in the radial direction and extends in the circumferential direction. At least a part of the second curved surface faces the radially outer end portion of the counter gear in the radial direction and extends in the circumferential direction. The position of the reservoir in the Y-axis direction overlaps the first curved surface and the second curved surface.

An automotive axle includes a housing including gears and a bath lubricating the gears, the bath including gear oil and about 0.1 to 5 wt. % secondary alcohol ethoxylate based on total weight of the bath such that during automotive operation at temperatures less than a threshold, reverse micelles form to trap air bubbles in the bath, emulsifying the bath, and at temperatures greater than the threshold, the reverse micelles dissipate.