Gearing Patents (Class 184/6.12)
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Patent number: 11965591Abstract: A lubrication device for a helicopter including: an oil sump in which oil for lubrication is retained; a lubrication pump configured to suck the oil from the oil sump to discharge the oil; and a lubrication passage extending from the lubrication pump to a first lubrication target. The lubrication passage includes: a first supply port that supplies the oil to the first lubrication target; an oil reservoir provided upstream of the first supply port; and an opening provided upstream of the oil reservoir and above the oil reservoir. The first supply port is formed right above the first lubrication target.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Isao Fujii, Yuji Yamazaki, Masatoshi Matsumoto, Kenta Ogasawara
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Patent number: 11940044Abstract: The invention relates to an electric drive unit for a motor vehicle, comprising an electric drive and a multi-stage transmission (6), which is connected downstream of the electric drive and which is arranged, alone or together with the electric drive, in a drive housing (4). The drive housing is composed of a housing shell (11), the interior (11a) of which annularly surrounds the transmission (6), and an end wall (12), which is formed integrally with the housing shell (11). The end wall is provided, at the center thereof, with a transmission opening (17) for the transmission output shaft (18) of the transmission (6). Cooling liquid is conducted through the drive housing in order to cool the components of the transmission.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: BPW Bergische Achsen KGInventors: Marie Kristin Alt, David Schmidt, Frank Löhe, Dominik Brunner, Urs Steiner
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Patent number: 11939917Abstract: An apparatus for oil lubrication of a rotationally fixed connection between two shafts. A first shaft engages with a hollow region of the second shaft. The shafts are operatively connected to each other in a form-fitting manner in the overlapping region. Oil is introduced into a first chamber in the hollow region, which chamber is connected to a second chamber in the hollow region. The second chamber is connectable to a third chamber is arranged in the overlapping region. The fluidic connection between the second chamber and the third chamber is separated above a defined oil volume in the second chamber and above a rotational speed threshold of the shafts via a sealing element. The sealing element is reversibly deformable by the oil volume in the second chamber and the centrifugal force acting thereon and, in the deformed state, seals the connection between the second and third chambers.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KGInventor: Jürgen Beier
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Patent number: 11940043Abstract: A baffle plate (4) including a body portion (5), a cover portion (8, 9) and a seal member (88, 98), a final gear (25) and a driven sprocket (DS) disposed in an accommodating chamber (Sa, Sb) of the baffle plate (4), an oil pump (OP) serving as a source of oil (OL) for lubrication, and an oil pan (16) are provided. At least one of the body portion (5), the cover portions (8, 9) and the seal members (88, 98) includes a material that shrinks as the temperature of the oil (OL) decreases. The baffle plate (4) is dimensioned such that a gap (CL1, CL2) is sealed by the seal member (88, 89) when the temperature of the oil (OL) is equal to or higher than a predetermined oil temperature and an aperture (CL?) is formed when the temperature of the oil (OL) is less than the predetermined oil temperature.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Tsutomu Itou
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Patent number: 11909270Abstract: A hybrid rotor assembly is provided. The assembly utilizes two different types of magnets within the lamination cavities of the lamination stack: sintered permanent magnets and bonded magnets.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Atieva, Inc.Inventor: Emad Dlala
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Patent number: 11906035Abstract: A power transmission device includes a pinion gear having a large pinion gear and a small pinion gear, a wall part that overlaps a revolution orbit of the large pinion gear in an axial direction, a plate that is provided between the wall part and the large pinion gear, and a bottom part provided on a lower part of the plate and a lower part of the revolution orbit of the large pinion gear with a clearance being interposed. A space on a wall part side of the plate and a space on a large pinion gear side of the plate in the axial direction are in communication with each other via the clearance positioned at the lower part of the plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Jatco LtdInventors: Kenjiro Yasui, Takayoshi Urushibata, Yusuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 11906036Abstract: A transmission capable of being assembled as a coolerless transmission and a transmission having an oil cooler includes a housing and a lubrication system. The oil passage system includes an oil passage having an oil outlet opening extending out of the housing and an oil inlet opening extending into the housing. A bypass flow passage is disposed in the housing in communication with the oil outlet opening and the oil inlet opening. In a coolerless configuration a pair of plugs are inserted in the oil outlet opening and the oil inlet opening, respectively, to close off the oil outlet opening and the oil inlet opening so that oil flows from the oil outlet opening to the oil inlet opening through the bypass flow passage. In a transmission configuration having an oil cooler, an exterior oil cooler is connected to the oil outlet opening and the oil inlet opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies, LLCInventors: Adam Christopher Maurer, Graeme Andrew Jackson
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Patent number: 11906033Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a lubricant catching device. In one example, a system may include a device for capturing lubricant flowing in a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction. The device receives lubricant from a lubricated, rotating component.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLCInventors: Jordan M. Houser, Langston H. Corn
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Patent number: 11906034Abstract: 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 first and second curved surfaces disposed in the +X direction with respect to the third and second axes, respectively. 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.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuhei Nakamatsu, Keisuke Aso, Ayumi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 11892074Abstract: A transmission lubricating structure includes a power transmitting shaft, a main lubricating circuit, and an auxiliary lubricating circuit. The power transmitting shaft includes an ejection hole communicating an inside with an outside of the power transmitting shaft. The main lubricating circuit includes: a main nozzle having a nozzle hole through which lubricating oil supplied from a main tank is discharged to the internal space of the power transmitting shaft; and a hydraulic pump configured to supply the lubricating oil by pressure from the main tank to the main nozzle. The auxiliary lubricating circuit includes an auxiliary nozzle arranged lower than an auxiliary tank and higher than a lubrication target at the outside of the power transmitting shaft, the auxiliary nozzle being configured to drop the lubricating oil, supplied from the auxiliary tank by an own weight of the lubricating oil, toward the lubrication target.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kenta Ogasawara
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Patent number: 11885252Abstract: In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a gas turbine engine includes a fan, a first compressor stage and a second compressor stage, a first turbine stage and a second turbine stage, and wherein said first turbine stage drives said second compressor stage as a high spool, and wherein said second turbine stage drives said first compressor stage as part of a low spool, and a gear train driving said fan with said low spool, and such that said fan and said first compressor stage rotate in the same direction, and wherein said high spool operates at higher pressures than said low spool.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: RTX CorporationInventors: William G. Sheridan, Michael E. McCune, Lawrence E. Portlock
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Patent number: 11885409Abstract: Systems and methods for an interaxle differential (IAD). In one example, the IAD comprises a locking assembly that includes a friction clutch, the friction clutch includes a clutch pack that comprises plurality of plates configured to engage and disengage to inhibit and permit speed differentiation between a first axle differential and a second axle differential. The IAD further includes a supply lubrication passage that comprises an inlet that receives a lubricant from an enclosure surrounding an input gear of an axle differential and a first outlet flowing the lubricant to a gear coupled to the clutch pack.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: DANA HEAVY VEHICLE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLCInventors: Brian V. Knapke, Patrick F. Rose, Atul Jagannath Patil
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Patent number: 11876434Abstract: Systems for removing excess coolant oil and air from a radial air gap between a stator and a rotor of an electric motor are provided. In one example, the systems may include a ring covering the radial air gap, the ring configured to route coolant out of the radial air gap via one or more channels.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: DANA LIMITEDInventors: Steven Vanhee, Dolf Vandamme
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Patent number: 11873803Abstract: The present invention discloses a continuous high-power turbine fracturing equipment, including a turbine engine, a reduction gearbox, a drive shaft and a plunger pump, the turbine engine is arranged in the same straight line with the reduction gearbox, the reduction gearbox is connected to the plunger pump through the drive shaft, the angle of the drive shaft is between 2° and 4°.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: American Jereh International CorporationInventors: Xiaolei Ji, Rikui Zhang, Peng Zhang, Chunqiang Lan, Zhuqing Mao, Jianwei Wang, Mingchao Mao
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Patent number: 11859704Abstract: A four-mode dual-motor coupled electric drive axle, including a primary drive motor, an auxiliary drive motor, a reducer, a torque vectoring (TV) coupler, a power coupling differential, a housing, and a power output mechanism. The TV coupler is switchable among disconnected mode, TV mode, and reducer mode by controlling a first clutch and a second clutch. The power coupling differential is switchable between torque coupling mode and speed coupling mode by controlling a third clutch. The electric drive axle is switchable among single-motor drive mode, TV drive mode, dual-motor torque coupling drive mode, and dual-motor speed coupling drive mode by controlling the TV coupler and the power coupling differential.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Jilin UniversityInventors: Junnian Wang, Changyang Guan, Tianhui Zheng, Chunlin Zhang, Zhe Liu, Zidong Zhou, Shoulin Gao
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Patent number: 11852049Abstract: A differential device (5) of an electric actuator (1) includes a driving rotary body (2), a driven rotary body (3), and a planetary rotary body (52). A first speed reducer (5a) is formed between the planetary rotary body (52) and the driving rotary body (2). A second speed reducer (5b) is formed between the planetary rotary body (52) and the driven rotary body (3). The electric actuator (1) includes a first bearing (53) configured to support the planetary rotary body (52) on an inner side of a rotor (42) of an electric motor (4), and a second bearing (54) configured to support the planetary rotary body (52) at a position shifted in an axial direction so as to be prevented from overlapping the rotor (42). The second bearing (54) is formed of a deep-groove ball bearing.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: NTN CORPORATIONInventors: Shintarou Ishikawa, Takahide Saito
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Patent number: 11852232Abstract: A drive system for an aircraft such as a tiltrotor aircraft. The drive system includes first and second gearbox assemblies in mechanical communication with each other. A first lubrication system is associated with the first gearbox assembly and includes a bifurcated tank configured to contain a lubricant in an operating chamber including a lower sump and in an emergency chamber including an upper sump. A second lubrication system is associated with the second gearbox assembly. An emergency pump is in fluid communication with the emergency chamber. The emergency pump is configured to supply the lubricant to the first gearbox assembly from the emergency chamber responsive to a failure in the first lubrication system. In addition, the emergency pump is configured to supply the lubricant to the second gearbox assembly and to the operating chamber from the emergency chamber responsive to a failure in the second lubrication system.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: Charles Hubert Speller, Ezra Mike Tiprigan
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Patent number: 11835126Abstract: A mechanical system comprising a sump and at least one component to be lubricated or cooled arranged in the sump, the mechanical system comprising a lubricating fluid system provided with a lubricating fluid and a tank arranged in the sump. The tank is a leaking tank and is situated above said at least one component to be lubricated or cooled, the lubricating fluid flowing out of the tank by force of gravity, so as to reach said at least one component to be lubricated or cooled. The lubricating fluid system has at least one lift flow generator connected by at least one filling line to the tank and to at least one suction point present in a bottom of the sump. The lift flow generator fills the tank with the lubricating fluid present in said bottom at least during a starting phase.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERSInventors: Stephane Deport, Olivier Barais, Jerome Geneix
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Patent number: 11835125Abstract: A gear unit includes a housing, a trough for guiding oil and reducing losses due to splashing surrounding a circumferential section of a toothing part, particularly a gear wheel, especially in the radial and axial direction, the trough including at least three parts, e.g., at least one bottom plate and two side walls, the bottom plate being screw-connected to the two side walls, the trough being fastened to the housing, the trough having an opening, particularly a channel, especially at its lowest surface area, e.g., particularly at the surface area having the greatest radial distance, in particular, during rotational movement of the gear wheel, oil being conveyed from the oil pan of the gear unit through the opening between the trough and gear wheel, especially to a position higher than the level of the oil pan, the bottom plate and the side walls being stamped bent parts.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Zili Wu
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Patent number: 11828358Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Nakata, Yuki Ishikawa
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Patent number: 11828353Abstract: An axle assembly that has an electric motor, a countershaft, a planetary gear set, a drive pinion, and a differential assembly. The electric motor has a rotor that is rotatable about a rotor axis. The planetary gear set operatively connects the rotor to the countershaft. The drive pinion operatively connects the differential assembly to the countershaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLCInventors: Roberto Gianone, Marco Fratelli
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Patent number: 11825770Abstract: A clutch assembly includes: a drive hub having a spline configured to couple to a gearbox; a clutch housing coupled to the drive hub and having an end face defining an opening therein; a clutch hub disposed within the clutch housing and having a portion that extends out of the opening, the clutch hub being rotatable with respect to the clutch housing during a slip condition; a primary seal disposed between the clutch housing and the clutch hub; a quantity of purging compound disposed between the clutch housing and the clutch hub; and an end washer coupled to the clutch hub and facing the end face, the end washer and the end face defining a purge gap therebetween such that rotation of the clutch hub relative to the clutch housing causes some of the purging compound to eject from the clutch housing through the purge gap.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: James M. Gessel, Thamilselvan Karuppannan, Dan L. Garland, Jonathan E. Ricketts, Brian P. Crow
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Patent number: 11821508Abstract: The cooling and/or heating of drive and/or transmission units of construction machines and similar equipment is disclosed. A temperature control device can cool and/or heat such drive and/or transmission units. The temperature control device can include a heat exchanger module having a liquid jacket through which flow is possible. The heat exchanger module can form a ring body for fitting in a sandwich-like manner between two transmission and/or drive sections. The ring body can have a central through-cutout for a drive element to pass through and can have on each opposite end face a connection flange for precision-fit end-face connection to the two transmission and/or drive sections.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbHInventors: Philipp Freude, Johannes Bulling
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Patent number: 11815167Abstract: A lubricant guide shell (32) for includes a first, radially extending section (33), which is provided for being situated axially opposite an end face (35) of a torque converter (9) in an installed state of the lubricant guide shell (32). The first section (33) transitions radially outwardly into a second, axially extending section (34), which, in the installed state of the lubricant guide shell (32), is configured for axially at least partially and radially outwardly encompassing the torque converter starting from the first section (33). The first section (33) as well as the second section (34) are configured to be completely circumferential.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Gabriele Glade, Thomas Riedisser, Leschek Debernitz, Stephan Stroph, Peter Reinders, Wolfgang Schmid, Frank Pfarrherr, Florian Lanz, Rudolf Raedler
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Patent number: 11808309Abstract: An insert for supplying a fluid to splines of a drive shaft, the insert extending along an axis of rotation, and the insert comprising an insert wall extending along the axis of rotation, a reservoir defined by the insert wall for storing a fluid, an elastically deformable portion, the elastically deformable portion capable of transitioning between an expanded state and an unexpanded state, and wherein the elastically deformable portion is configured to expand to the expanded state in a radial direction with respect to the axis of rotation when the fluid is supplied to the reservoir during rotation of the insert and to contract to the unexpanded state when rotation of the insert and supply of the fluid to the reservoir are ceased.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: AERO GEARBOX INTERNATIONALInventor: Nathan Lewis
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Patent number: 11795875Abstract: The present invention relates to an oil transfer device (1) for lubricating a planet carrier, movable in rotation, of an epicyclic gear train for a turbomachine, the device (1) extending around an axis (A) and having: an annular casing (11) which extends around the axis (A), the casing (11) comprising a plurality of oil feed grooves (14), axially juxtaposed, each having an oil ejection opening configured to lead radially to a lubrication circuit of the planet carrier to be lubricated, the device (1) being characterized in that one of the oil feed grooves (14) is a high-pressure oil feed groove (14), called a high-pressure groove (14a), and another of the other oil feed grooves (14) is a low-pressure oil feed groove (14), called a low-pressure groove (14b), axially juxtaposed to the high-pressure groove (14a), the grooves (14) being arranged axially along the axis (X) so that the oil is able to be transferred axially from the high-pressure groove (14a) to the low-pressure groove (14b).Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Adrien Louis Simon, Patrice Jocelyn Francis Gedin, Bálint Pap
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Patent number: 11796049Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an in-wheel driving apparatus, and an in-wheel driving apparatus includes a case having an interior space, a first gear disposed in the interior space to be rotatable about a first rotary shaft, a second gear engaged with the first gear and disposed in the interior space to be rotatable about a second rotary shaft, and a first partition wall including a first area provided along a circumference of the first gear and a second area extending from one end of the first area in a direction that is away from the first rotary shaft, and disposed in the interior space.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ui Il Jeong, Yeong Woo Seo
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Patent number: 11795862Abstract: A transmission system includes planetary gearing with a ring gear, a plurality of planet gears, a carrier, and a sun gear, a forward clutch operatively connected between the ring gear and carrier, a reverse brake operatively connected between the carrier and a rotationally fixed location, and a control subsystem to switch the transmission system between forward and reverse operational modes in the which the ring gear and the sun gear rotate in the same or opposite rotational directions, respectively. A control subsystem actuation stroke can actuate both the forward clutch and the reverse brake based on a common control signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: HORTON, INC.Inventors: David R. Hennessy, Thomas Schmidt
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Patent number: 11781639Abstract: An oil management system for a vehicle includes a differential housing, a transmission housing, a lubricant tank, a suction line, a lubricant pump, and an air suction pump. The transmission housing is connected to the differential housing in an air-tight manner, and a lubricant through-passage is defined between the transmission housing and the differential housing. The lubricant tank is provided in the differential housing and has a lubricant suction opening in a lower region. The lubricant pump conveys lubricant from the lubricant tank through the suction line and conducts the lubricant to the lubrication points in the differential housing and the transmission housing. The air suction pump pumps air from the lubricant tank into the transmission housing so that an excess air pressure is maintained in the transmission housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Matthias Lang, David Mueller, Rainer Gugel, Stefan Raisch, Christoph Eisenhardt
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Patent number: 11773962Abstract: An electric drive unit with an electric motor, a differential assembly, a transmission that transmits rotary power from the electric motor to the differential assembly, and a pair of output shafts that are rotatably coupled to respective differential output members of the differential assembly. The electric drive unit is configured to provide low cost, reliable cooling and/or lubrication to various components of the electric drive unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.Inventors: Matthew Vanderlip, Michael Bradfield, Steven Hayslett
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Patent number: 11767908Abstract: An arrangement includes a first component having a first groove and a second groove. The arrangement further includes a second component and a fluid transfer ring fixed to the second component. The fluid transfer ring engages with a first wall and a second wall in the first groove such that the fluid transfer ring and the first groove form a first cavity. The first component and the second component are rotatable relative to each other. The fluid transfer ring further engages with a third wall in the second groove such that the fluid transfer ring and the second groove form a second cavity.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignees: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG, ZF WIND POWER ANTWERPEN N.V.Inventors: Stijn Rottiers, Wim De Laet
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Patent number: 11754054Abstract: A pump system for supplying lubricant to components of a wind turbine comprises: a pump for pumping lubricant through a fluid circuit of the wind turbine; a drive means for driving the pump; and, a gearbox arrangement arranged to couple the drive means to the pump. The gearbox arrangement comprises a rotatable input shaft configured to be driven by the drive means and a rotatable output shaft configured to drive the pump. The input shaft is rotatable in a first direction of rotation and a second direction of rotation when driven by the drive means. The output shaft is rotatable in the first direction of rotation, and the speed of rotation of the output shaft is determined by an operational mode of the gearbox arrangement. In a first mode of operation, when the input shaft rotates in the first direction of rotation at a first speed of rotation, the gearbox arrangement is configured to drive the output shaft to rotate also in the first direction of rotation at the first speed of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/SInventor: Jan Hove Pedersen
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Patent number: 11754171Abstract: A gearwheel arrangement for a transmission of a vehicle, such as an electric vehicle, including: a shaft extending along a longitudinal axis of rotation, including an internal axial duct for guiding lubricant, a gearwheel including a base portion centered on the shaft and a plurality of gear teeth provided around a periphery of the gearwheel, the gearwheel preferably being configured for common rotation with the shaft. The gearwheel arrangement further includes an internal radial duct for guiding lubricant from the internal axial duct to the gear teeth. The internal radial duct may extend at least in part behind a gearwheel cover.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventors: Lars Zetterstrand, Staffan Cassel
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Patent number: 11746868Abstract: A torque converter, including: a cover arranged to receive torque; a pump including a pump shell connected to the cover, and pump blades; a turbine in fluid communication with the pump and including a turbine shell and turbine blades; a stator including stator blades disposed between the turbine and the pump; a pump hub non-rotatably connected to the pump shell and including a first planar surface facing radially outward with respect to an axis of rotation; and a resolver rotor non-rotatably connected to the pump hub and including a second planar surface in contact with the first planar surface and facing radially inward with respect to the axis of rotation. The pump hub includes a protrusion extending radially outward from the first planar surface and in contact with the resolver rotor. The resolver rotor is arranged to determine a rotational position of the torque converter around the axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: John Ramsey, Angel Salvador Flores, Daniel Linton
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Patent number: 11746883Abstract: A power transmission device includes a box, a case disposed in the box, a differential mechanism housed in the case, and a planetary gear mechanism disposed in the box and supported by the case. The planetary gear mechanism includes a sun gear and a pinion gear that engages with the sun gear. The box has a shelf part above a horizontal line that passes through a revolution center of the pinion gear. The shelf part is arranged at a position that does not overlap the sun gear when viewed from radially above.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Jatco LtdInventors: Kenjiro Yasui, Takayoshi Urushibata, Yusuke Suzuki
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Patent number: 11750063Abstract: An electrically-operated electric drive module for use in a vehicle framework that is configured for a powertrain that includes an internal combustion engine. The electrically-operated electric drive module permits the vehicle to be converted to an electrically propelled vehicle in a manner that is cost-effective and which is relatively low in weight.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Matthew A. Umerley, Frederick E. Zink, Jonathan P. Prichard, James P. Downs, Gregory A. Marsh, Matthew T. Blakeman, Steven Grider, Paul J. Valente
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Patent number: 11746864Abstract: A device for adjusting the level of a motor vehicle comprises an electric motor (4) and an actuating gear (3) which is connected upstream of a screw drive (2). The actuating gear (3) is formed by three series-connected gears (14, 15, 16) with parallel rotation axes (D14, D15, D16). An input gear (14), the number of teeth of which is at least one and at most five, is coupled to the motor shaft (17) of the electric motor (4) for conjoint rotation. The input gear engages with an intermediate gear (15) which engages with an output gear (16) which is connected to a nut (9) of the screw drive (2) for conjoint rotation.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Sebastian Sommerkorn, Wilfried Breton, Markus Holzberger, Tim Bartling
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Patent number: 11746886Abstract: A transmission capable of being assembled as a coolerless transmission and a transmission having an oil cooler includes a housing and a lubrication system. The oil passage system includes an oil passage having an oil outlet opening extending out of the housing and an oil inlet opening extending into the housing. A bypass flow passage is disposed in the housing in communication with the oil outlet opening and the oil inlet opening. In a coolerless configuration a pair of plugs are inserted in the oil outlet opening and the oil inlet opening, respectively, to close off the oil outlet opening and the oil inlet opening so that oil flows from the oil outlet opening to the oil inlet opening through the bypass flow passage. In a transmission configuration having an oil cooler, an exterior oil cooler is connected to the oil outlet opening and the oil inlet opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies, LLCInventors: Adam Christopher Maurer, Graeme Andrew Jackson
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Patent number: 11739825Abstract: A transmission includes a housing and a distributor part to which lubricating oil is able to be applied through a recess in the housing, e.g., in a housing part of the housing or in a cover part of the housing. The distributor part includes a collection region and feeder channels, which are connected to the collection region and are able to convey lubricating oil to bearings of the transmission.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Christian Luft, Claus Kunik, Daniel Frank
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Patent number: 11739829Abstract: A mechanical reduction gear for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, the reduction gear including a sun gear, a ring gear, planet gears which are meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear, hydrodynamic bearings for guiding the planet gears in rotation, these bearings being carried by a planet carrier and including cylindrical bodies which are engaged in the planet gears and which are configured so as to be supplied with oil and so as to form guiding oil films between the bodies and the planet gears, wherein each of the planet gears is guided by two hydrodynamic bearings independent of each other and disposed on either side of the plane.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Guillaume Julien Beck, Patrice Jocelyn Francis Gedin, Simon Loic Clement Lefebvre, Balint Pap, Quentin Pierre Henri Pigott, Adrien Louis Simon
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Patent number: 11739820Abstract: The present disclosure describes a powertrain and an all-terrain vehicle. The powertrain includes an engine, a continuously variable transmission and a transmission. The continuously variable transmission is drivingly coupled to the engine. The transmission includes a casing, a power input shaft, a first power output shaft and a second power output shaft. The power input shaft, the first power output shaft and the second power output shaft are all provided in the casing. The power input shaft is drivingly coupled to the continuously variable transmission, the power input shaft is drivingly coupled to the first power output shaft and the second power output shaft separately in the casing, and an axis of the power input shaft is parallel to an axis of the first power output shaft and perpendicular to an axis of the second power output shaft.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SEGWAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Shangjian Chen
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Patent number: 11738640Abstract: A motor vehicle transmission that includes an input shaft (AN), an output shaft (AB), a power take-off (1) and a first intermediate wall (5). The power take-off (1) has a power take-off gearwheel (1A). The power take-off gearwheel (1A) is arranged coaxially with the input shaft (AN) and is rotatably supported by the first intermediate wall (5).Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventor: Michael Epple
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Patent number: 11739827Abstract: A transmission device includes a power-transmission case having a carrier of a reduction gear and a differential case joined to the carrier is supported in a transmission case via case support bearings, a specific planetary gear portion of a planetary gear is disposed on one side of a differential mechanism in an axial direction, and the specific case support bearing is disposed on the other side thereof An oil passage-forming body is provided on an inner wall of the transmission case, the oil passage-forming body comprising an oil collection part that opens upward and can collect lubricating oil splashed up in an area around the specific planetary gear portion within the transmission case accompanying rotation of the power-transmission case, and an oil reservoir part that is continuous from the oil collection part, stores lubricating oil collected by the oil collection part, and supplies the lubricating oil to the specific case support bearing.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Musashi Seimitsu Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryosuke Asai, Naofumi Butta
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Patent number: 11732795Abstract: A drive device includes a motor, a housing, an oil passage in the housing, an oil pump in which a portion of the oil passage is provided, and a strainer inside the housing and in which a portion of the oil passage is provided. The oil passage includes an oil sump in which oil is accumulated and a suction path connecting the oil sump and the oil pump. A central axis of the oil pump extends in a direction intersecting the vertical direction. The strainer is in the suction path. The strainer includes a suction port to suction oil from the oil sump, a discharge port to discharge oil toward the oil pump, and a filter. The suction port opens downward in the vertical direction. The discharge port opens in a direction intersecting the vertical direction toward the oil pump.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Ishikawa, Takanobu Oyama, Keisuke Fukunaga
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Patent number: 11732794Abstract: An axle assembly that includes a differential carrier, a bearing cap, and a lubricant reservoir. The differential carrier has a bearing support. The bearing cap is disposed on the bearing support. The lubricant reservoir is mounted on the bearing cap and is configured to capture lubricant that is splashed by the differential assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLCInventors: Nikethan Diwakar, Nagaraja Gargeshwari, Sanjeev Kumar, Robert Opperman, Ramesh Ranjan
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Patent number: 11725721Abstract: An intermediate wall is provided with a return oil hole through which oil discharged from a friction engagement device returns toward an oil reservoir. A chain drive is disposed adjacent to the intermediate wall. The chain drive transmits a driving force from an input member and/or a rotary electric machine to an oil pump. There is provided an oil guide through which oil flowing through the return oil hole is guided to a region other than a chain placement region inside a case. The chain placement region is a region where a chain of the chain drive is placed.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Torii, Kazuki Kojima, Masahiro Ito, Yuya Ishihara
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Patent number: 11713804Abstract: An exemplary passive oil system includes a reservoir housing configured in operation to rotate around a rotational axis, the reservoir housing defining a reservoir between a top wall, a bottom wall, innermost side, and an outer sidewall; and an outlet positioned adjacent the outer sidewall to discharge a lubrication fluid contained in the reservoir in response to the reservoir housing rotating around the rotational axis.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: Eric Stephen Olson, David Bockmiller
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Patent number: 11703182Abstract: A method involves directing lubricant to different consumers which are to be monitored via their lubricant. The lubricant is drained through drain lines connected to the consumers and directed to a tank. At least some the lubricant in the drain lines or the consumers is extracted into extraction lines. Flow from the extraction lines is selectively directed to a measurement device, which then measures a characteristic of the lubricant. A system for carrying out such a method is also provided, wherein the system includes a multiplexer for selectively directing flow from the extraction lines.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/SInventors: Simon Schjøtt, Thomas Korsgaard Nielsen, Jan Hove Pedersen, Sascha Gutt, Daniel Henriksen
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Patent number: 11698128Abstract: A lubricating liquid manifold for a crankpin of an epicyclic gear train. The epicyclic gear train is lubricated by a lubrication system conveying a first flow of a lubricating liquid towards the manifold and a second flow of the lubricating liquid towards a member to be lubricated. The manifold comprises a hollow body provided with an inlet port intended to receive the first flow and an outlet port designed such that the first flow is conveyed towards a guide device connected to the crankpin. The manifold comprises a barrier comprising a shoulder connected to the body and a deflector protruding radially outwards from the body so as to form, with the shoulder, a diversion space for diverting the second flow and preventing it from penetrating into the manifold.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: AIRBUS HELICOPTERSInventors: Mathieu Charrier, Jerome Belmonte, Adrien Escoffier, Sebastien Robert, Maxime Maltinti
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Patent number: 11686217Abstract: An oil collector for a torque transmission device of an aircraft turbine engine, this oil collector being configured to collect sprayed oil, wherein it includes at least one wall formed at least in part by a mesh structure, and at least one recovery device located at one end of the wall and configured to recover the oil captured by the wall and intended to flow from this wall to the recovery device.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: SAFRAN, SAFRAN TRANSMISSION SYSTEMSInventors: Boris Pierre Marcel Morelli, Xavier Roger Betbeder-Lauque, Mathieu Jean Charrier