Hybrid drive device

• US 8,636,091 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2008
• Issued: 01/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Sanji, Hiroaki, Ike, Nobukazu
• Primary Examiner(s): OLSZEWSKI, JOHN
• Application Number:
  US12/252,755
• Publication Number:
  US 20090100965A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,930 Days
• Field of Search: 180/65.21, 180/65.22, 180/65.25, 180/65.225, 180/65.23, 180/65.235, 475/5, 477/3
• US Class Current: 180/65.235
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 5/04 with the engine main axis, e.g. crankshaft axis, transversely to the longitudinal centre line of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/26 characterised by the motors or the generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/387 Actuated clutches, i.e. clutches engaged or disengaged by electric, hydraulic or mechanical actuating means
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/405 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/48 Parallel type
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/2186 Gear casings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/2189 Cooling

Abstract

A hybrid drive device including a drive device input shaft coupled to an engine, a rotary electrical machine, a transmission shifting and outputting rotary drive transferred from the rotary electrical machine or the drive device input shaft or the both of them, a transmission case accommodating the transmission, and a rotary electrical machine case having a joint surface joining with the transmission case, a step portion with a diameter which is reduced when seen from an input shaft input end side is provided in an inner peripheral portion of the rotary electrical machine case, and a partition wall supporting the rotary electrical machine from the input shaft input end side is fixed to the step portion.

Claims

1. A hybrid drive device, comprising

a drive device input shaft coupled to an engine,

a rotary electrical machine,

a transmission, which shifts and outputs rotary drive force transferred from at least one of the rotary electrical machine and the drive device input,

a transmission case accommodating the transmission,

a rotary electrical machine case having a joint surface joined to the transmission case,

a step portion having a reduced diameter as compared to a portion of the rotary electric machine case located closer to an input end side of the drive device input shaft when seen from the input end side, is provided in an inner peripheral portion of the rotary electrical machine case,

a partition wall through which the drive device input shaft penetrates and which supports the rotary electrical machine from the input shaft input end side,

a differential gear having an axis that is different from an axis of the rotary electrical machine, and

a stator of the rotary electrical machine is fixed to the partition wall,

wherein a partition wall/rotary electric machine structure, in which the partition wall and the rotary electrical machine are substantially combined into a unit, is fixed to the step portion,

wherein the partition wall comprises a cylindrical portion covering the stator from an outer peripheral side and engaging with an inner surface of the rotary electrical machine case and the cylindrical portion of the partition wall has a part which is shorter in a circumferential direction than in an axial direction, and

wherein a length of the cylindrical portion in the axial direction is shortened in a portion of the cylindrical portion adjacent the differential gear.

2. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1, wherein the rotary electrical machine case and partition wall form an oil-tight space nearer to a transmission side, opposite the input end side, than the partition wall,

wherein a cooling oil supply mechanism which supplies oil to cool the rotary electrical machine is provided therein.

3. The hybrid drive device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a transmission input shaft concentric with the drive device input shaft,

a counter shaft, which receives transmission output and which has an axial center different from the transmission input shaft, and

a differential gear, which receives output from the counter shaft,

wherein the differential gear is supported by both the transmission case and the rotary electrical machine case, said transmission case and rotary electrical machine case forming a single case.

4. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1, further comprising

a transmission input shaft concentric with the drive device input shaft,

a counter shaft, which receives transmission output and which has an axial center different from the transmission input shaft, and

a differential gear, which receives output from the counter shaft,

wherein the differential gear is supported by both the transmission case and the rotary electrical machine case, said transmission case and rotary electrical machine case forming a single case.

5. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1, wherein a rotor support member supporting a rotor of the rotary electrical machine comprises:

an input shaft side radially extending part having an inside diameter side portion rotatably supported by the drive device input shaft and extending in a radial direction;

an intermediate shaft side radially extending part having an inside diameter side portion coupled to a transmission input shaft as an intermediate shaft and extending in a radial direction; and

a coupling part coupling outside diameter sides of the input shaft side radially extending part and the intermediate shaft side radially extending part in an axial direction,

wherein laminates comprising the rotor are provided on an outside diameter portion of the coupling part.

6. The hybrid drive device according to claim 5, wherein a clutch drum coupled to the drive device input shaft enters an inside space surrounded by the input shaft side radially extending part, the intermediate shaft side radially extending part and the coupling part,

wherein the intermediate shaft side radially extending part is structured as a clutch hub, and

wherein a friction plate and a piston are disposed between the clutch drum and the clutch hub so as to form a clutch which engages/disengages drive transfer from the drive device input shaft to the transmission.

7. The hybrid drive device according to claim 6, wherein a part of the rotary electrical machine is disposed at an outside diameter side position overlapping in an axial direction the clutch.

8. The hybrid drive device according to claim 5, wherein a fixing member different from the partition wall is provided on a transmission side opposite the input end side from the partition wall, and

the rotor support member is supported at one side by a first rotary bearing fixed to the partition wall, and is supported at another side by a rotary shaft bearing provided between the rotor support member and the fixing member.

9. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1, further comprising a damper, which absorbs rotary vibration of the engine and which transfers motive power to the drive device input shaft,

wherein an outside diameter side portion of the partition wall, which accommodates a part of the rotary electrical machine, is disposed at an outside diameter side position overlapping in an axial direction a part of an inside diameter side portion of the damper.

10. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1, wherein an oil-tight space is formed by the rotary electrical machine case and the partition wall nearer to a transmission side, opposite the input end side, than the partition wall, and a cooling oil supply mechanism, which supplies oil to cool the rotary electrical machine is provided therein.

11. The hybrid drive device according to claim 10, further comprising:

a transmission input shaft concentric with the drive device input shaft,

a counter shaft, which receives transmission output and which has an axial center different from the transmission input shaft, and

a differential gear, which receives output from the counter shaft,

wherein the differential gear is supported by both the transmission case and the rotary electrical machine case, said transmission case and rotary electrical machine case forming a single case.

12. The hybrid drive device according to claim 11, wherein a rotor support member which supports a rotor of the rotary electrical machine comprises:

an input shaft side radially extending part having an inside diameter side portion rotatably supported by the drive device input shaft and extending in a radial direction;

an intermediate shaft side radially extending part having an inside diameter side portion coupled to a transmission input shaft as an intermediate shaft and extending in a radial direction; and

a coupling part coupling outside diameter sides of the input shaft side radially extending part and the intermediate shaft side radially extending part in an axial direction,

wherein laminates comprising the rotor are provided on an outside diameter portion of the coupling part.

13. The hybrid drive device according to claim 12, wherein a clutch drum coupled to the drive device input shaft enters an inside space surrounded by the input shaft side radially extending part, the intermediate shaft side radially extending part and the coupling part,

wherein the intermediate shaft side radially extending part is structured as a clutch hub, and

wherein a friction plate and a piston are disposed between the clutch drum and the clutch hub so as to form a clutch which engages/disengages drive transfer from the drive device input shaft to the transmission.

14. The hybrid drive device according to claim 13, wherein a fixing member different from the partition wall is provided on a transmission side opposite the input end side from the partition wall, and

the rotor support member is supported at one side by a first rotary bearing fixed to the partition wall, and supported at another side by a rotary shaft bearing provided between the rotor support member and the fixing member.

15. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1, wherein the rotary electrical machine case and the partition wall form an oil-tight space on a side nearer a transmission side, opposite the input end side, than the partition wall, and a cooling oil supply mechanism, which supplies oil to cool the rotary electrical machine is provided therein.

16. The hybrid drive device according to claim 15, further comprising:

a transmission input shaft concentric with the drive device input shaft,

a counter shaft which receives transmission output and which has an axial center different from the transmission input shaft, and

a differential gear, which receives output from the counter shaft,

wherein the differential gear is supported by both the transmission case and the rotary electrical machine case, said transmission case and rotary electrical machine case forming a single case.

17. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a transmission input shaft concentric with the drive device input shaft,

a counter shaft, which receives transmission output and which has an axial center different from the transmission input shaft, and

a differential gear, which receives output from the counter shaft,

wherein the differential gear is supported by both the transmission case and the rotary electrical machine case, said transmission case and rotary electrical machine case forming a single case.

18. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a transmission input shaft concentric with the drive device input shaft,

a counter shaft, which receives transmission output and which has an axial center different from the transmission input shaft, and

a differential gear receiving output from the counter shaft,

wherein the differential gear is supported by both the transmission case and the rotary electrical machine case, said transmission case and rotary electrical machine case forming a single case.

19. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1, wherein the stator and the partition wall are fixed by a first bolt from the transmission side to the partition wall, and partition wall/rotary electric machine structure and the step portion are fixed by a second bolt from the engine side to the partition wall.