Motor-Generator Cooling System of Hybrid-Automobile

• US 20120091835A1
• Filed: 11/22/2010
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Kim, Kyungha, Kim, Min Sung, Kim, Yeonho, Kim, Baekyu, Lee, Jinsook, Bae, Sungik, Kim, Wan Soo
• Application Number:
  US12/951,383
• Publication Number:
  US 20120091835A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/54
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2001/006 the electric motors
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/26 characterised by the motors or the generators
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 57/0476 Electric machines and gearing, i.e. joint lubrication or cooling or heating thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/24 specially adapted for suppression or reduction of noise or vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 9/19 for machines with closed casing and closed-circuit cooling using a liquid cooling medium, e.g. oil

Abstract

A motor/generator cooling system of a hybrid vehicle that has a first and second motor/generator disposed in an axial direction in a transmission, may include a cooling pipe that may be disposed in an axial direction along an upper and outside of the first and second motor/generator in the transmission, a rear cover that may be connected to a downstream side of the cooling pipe such that the cooling pipe may be fixed thereto, an input supporter that may be connected to an upstream side of the cooling pipe, forms a cooling oil passage, and rotatably supports a rotor of the first motor/generator, and a case that the rear cover and the input supporter may be mounted thereon, an oil filter connected to a hydraulic pump may be mounted therein, a penetration hole may be formed therein, and the cooling pipe penetrates the penetration hole to be fixed thereto.

Claims

1. A motor/generator cooling system of a hybrid vehicle that has a first and second motor/generator disposed in an axial direction in a transmission, comprising:

a cooling pipe that is disposed in an axial direction along an upper and outside of the first and second motor/generator in the transmission;

a rear cover that is connected to a downstream side of the cooling pipe such that the cooling pipe is fixed thereto;

an input supporter that is connected to an upstream side of the cooling pipe, forms a cooling oil passage, and rotatably supports a rotor of the first motor/generator; and

a case that the rear cover and the input supporter are mounted thereon, an oil filter connected to a hydraulic pump is mounted therein, a penetration hole is formed therein, and the cooling pipe penetrates the penetration hole to be fixed thereto.

2. The motor/generator cooling system of claim 1, further comprising a steel ball that is disposed at an upper side of the cooling oil passage to prevent cooling oil from being leaked.

3. The motor/generator cooling system of claim 1, further comprising:

an ATF (Automatic Transmission Fluid) cooler that is connected to a lower end of the input supporter to cool cooling oil;

a motor cooling valve that is connected to an upstream of the ATF cooler to control oil supply amount and hydraulic pressure supplied to the first and second motor/generators; and

a line pressure valve that is connected to an upstream of the motor cooling valve to form the oil supply amount and the hydraulic pressure, wherein the line pressure valve is connected to the hydraulic pump.

4. The motor/generator cooling system of claim 1, wherein a groove is formed on the rear cover and a distal end of the cooling pipe is inserted into the groove to be fixed to the rear cover.

5. The motor/generator cooling system of claim 1, wherein a plurality of holes are formed at a predetermined position of the cooling pipe.

6. The motor/generator cooling system of claim 1, wherein a middle portion of the case protrudes inwards of the case to form a case middle part and the case middle part rotatably supports a rotor of the second motor/generator.

7. The motor/generator cooling system of claim 6, wherein a second bearing is interposed between a rotor of the second motor/generator and the case middle part and oil passage is formed between the case middle part and the rotor of the second motor/generator to lubricate the second bearing.

8. The motor/generator cooling system of claim 1, wherein a first bearing is interposed between a rotor of the first motor/generator and the input supporter and oil passage is formed inside the input supporter to lubricate the first bearing.

9. The motor/generator cooling system of claim 1, wherein a bracket is disposed at the penetration hole of the case to fix the cooling pipe.