Power transmission device

• US 9,528,404 B2
• Filed: 12/04/2013
• Issued: 12/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Takayanagi, Ryota, Kimura, Hiroaki, Nishimine, Akiko, Kuwahara, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): TRUONG, MINH D
• Application Number:
  US14/096,173
• Publication Number:
  US 20140158467A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,119 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 11/02 Arrangements of lubricant conduits
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 11/10 Indicating devices; Other safety devices
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 2005/026 with an auxiliary pump
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 5/002 Cooling
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 57/0424 Lubricant guiding means in the wall of or integrated with the casing, e.g. grooves, channels, holes means for guiding lubricant into an axial channel of a shaft F16H57/0426
• CPC Class Codes: F16N 2250/08 Temperature

Abstract

A power transmission device has a first check valve and a second check valve on the respective discharge passages. An oil temperature sensor is disposed at a position that is vertically lower than an oil-introducing portion of a merging section.

Claims

1. A power transmitting device comprising:

a first discharge passage connected to a mechanical oil pump;

a second discharge passage connected to an electric oil pump;

a merging section connected to the first discharge passage and the second discharge passage such that oil from the first discharge passage is merged with oil from the second discharge passage, wherein the merging section includes an oil sump;

an oil-introducing portion connected to the merging section and an oil cooler, the oil-introducing portion introducing the oil from the merging section into the oil cooler, wherein the merging section is disposed at a position that is vertically lower than the oil-introducing portion;

a first check valve provided on the first discharge passage;

a second check valve provided on the second discharge passage;

an oil temperature sensor disposed in the oil sump; and

wherein the oil sump is located vertically below the entirety of the first and second discharge passages.

2. The power transmitting device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a transmission mechanism; and

a housing accommodating the transmission mechanism, wherein

the mechanical oil pump is driven by an engine,

the electric oil pump is driven by an onboard battery, and

the mechanical oil pump and the electric oil pump pump up oil from inside the housing to supply the oil to the oil cooler, and supply the oil cooled in the oil cooler to the transmission mechanism.