Abstract: Lubrication and cooling assemblies particularly adapted for use with power receiving and delivery units that concentrically circumscribe planetary gear subsets encased in the housing of a vehicular transmission. Such assemblies utilize a source of pressurized lubricating and cooling fluid and employ a web plate extending transversely of the transmission housing. The web plate has an outer rim located in proximity to the transmission housing. A discharge chamber is provided in association with the web plate and is located in proximity to the outer rim. Fluid communication means penetrate the web plate to transfer pressurized fluid from the source of pressurized lubricating and cooling fluid to the discharge chamber. One or more spray rings define at least one wall of the discharge chamber, and one or more orifices penetrating the spray ring.

Abstract: A heat exchanger 15 is disposed in an oil passage 14 provided in a hydraulic pressure circuit 9 of a hydraulically operated transmission, to conduct heat exchange between cooling water for an engine 2 and hydraulic fluid.

Abstract: In a transmission-fluid cooling system of an automatic transmission of an automotive vehicle equipped with a water-cooled oil cooler and an air-cooled oil cooler connected in series to each other, a first bypass valve is provided to permit working fluid to circulate therevia through oil passages in the transmission, bypassing the water-cooled oil cooler and the air-cooled oil cooler, only when a working-fluid temperature is less than or equal to a predetermined temperature and the line pressure is greater than or equal to a predetermined pressure. Also provided is a second bypass valve that opens to permit the working fluid to circulate via the water-cooled oil cooler and the second bypass valve through the oil passages in the transmission, bypassing only the air-cooled oil cooler, only when the working-fluid temperature is less than or equal to a preset temperature value.

Abstract: A drive line power transfer mechanism having a housing, a power transfer mechanism, a first fluid, at least one cooling conduit and a fluid source. The housing has a wall member that defines a cavity. The power transfer mechanism is positioned within the cavity. The first fluid is at least partially contained within a cavity. The first fluid lubricates and extracts heat from the power transfer mechanism during the operation of the drive line power transfer mechanism. The cooling conduit is formed within the wall member. The fluid source is in fluid communication with the fluid conduit and passes a second fluid through the cooling conduit to draw heat out of the housing that is generated by the operation of the drive line power transfer mechanism. A method for cooling an axle assembly is also provided.

Abstract: A hydraulic motor (2) with a braking device (8), is acted upon by means of a control fluid via a brake release line (6). The brake release line (6) is used to allow a continuous flushing flow of control fluid through the hydraulic motor at the same time as the release of the brake. The braking device (8) is connected to the casing of the hydraulic motor (2). An outlet opening (12) of the hydraulic motor (2) leads via a leakage-oil line (13) to the tank for the control fluid. In a hydraulic travel drive with a closed hydraulic circuit, the brake release line (6) can be connected to the shut-off device (4) for the servo adjustment system of the variable-displacement pump (1), and the leakage-oil line (13) of the hydraulic motor (2) can lead to the tank for the entire hydraulic fluid in the system.

Abstract: An electric driving arrangement, particularly for press systems and/or their components, has a main electric motor for driving a flywheel. By way of a releasable coupling device, the flywheel drives an output shaft. An auxiliary electric motor can additionally be utilized for driving the drive shaft. The main electric motor and the auxiliary electric motor are arranged within the flywheel.

Abstract: A drive line power transfer mechanism having a housing, a power transfer mechanism, a first fluid, at least one cooling conduit and a fluid source. The housing has a wall member that defines a cavity. The power transfer mechanism is positioned within the cavity. The first fluid is at least partially contained within a cavity. The first fluid lubricates and extracts heat from the power transfer mechanism during the operation of the drive line power transfer mechanism. The cooling conduit is formed within the wall member. The fluid source is in fluid communication with the fluid conduit and passes a second fluid through the cooling conduit to draw heat out of the housing that is generated by the operation of the drive line power transfer mechanism. A method for cooling an axle assembly is also provided.

Abstract: Lubrication and cooling assemblies particularly adapted for use with power receiving and delivery units that concentrically circumscribe planetary gear subsets encased in the housing of a vehicular transmission. Such assemblies utilize a source of pressurized lubricating and cooling fluid and employ a web plate extending transversely of the transmission housing. The web plate has an outer rim located in proximity to the transmission housing. A discharge chamber is provided in association with the web plate and is located in proximity to the outer rim. Fluid communication means penetrate the web plate to transfer pressurized fluid from the source of pressurized lubricating and cooling fluid to the discharge chamber. One or more spray rings define at least one wall of the discharge chamber, and one or more orifices penetrating the spray ring.

Abstract: A hydraulic system for pressure control of a variator (7) of an automatic transmission having an electronic transmission control is connected with a lubricant circuit (10) in which at least one lubrication valve (14) and one radiator (13) are situated. Oil is fed to the hydraulic system with the lubricant circuit (10), from an oil source (4). At the same time, a hydraulic emergency device is provided which has at least one emergency valve (29) to provide a constant pressure ratio between a primary pulley set (19) and a secondary pulley set (20) of the variator (7). In addition, the system has for reducing the thermal load in the emergency operation at least one device (35, 37, 43, 45, 46, 51) by means of which in emergency operation the oil flow through the radiator (13) is increased and the pressure on one output side of the radiator (13) is reduced.

Abstract: A device for regulating transmission oil temperature having a heat exchanger through which the oil flows and to which coolant from an internal combustion engine can be supplied through at least one valve controlled by a thermostatic operating element immersed in the oil, the device includes a flow control body attached to a heat exchanger in a flange-like manner, the flow control body containing an oil channel connected to an oil outlet of the heat exchanger into which a housing enclosing the thermostatic operating element projects for the detection of and response to the temperature of the oil exiting the heat exchanger, the thermostatic operating element having a work piston connected to an extension member which is connected to the at least one valve in the flow control body, the valve disposed between at least one coolant inlet and a coolant opening to the heat exchanger.

Abstract: In a transfer case for a four-wheel drive vehicle having a front wheel drive axle assembly which includes a first wheel drive axle shaft arranged in parallel to the engine output shaft and connected to a transmission output shaft through a first helical ring gear meshed with the transmission output gear and a second wheel drive axle assembly which includes a second wheel drive axle arranged in parallel to the engine output shaft and connected to a transfer case through a transfer shaft arranged in parallel to the engine output shaft and equipped with a transfer input gear meshed with a second helical ring gear, the first and second helical ring gears are integrally formed as an integral ring gear and bolted to a differential housing as one whole.

Abstract: An automatic transmission hydraulic control system is provided with lubrication and cooler circuits fed in parallel. The lubrication circuit is fed by regulated pressure which prevents lubrication starvation concerns under extremes of temperature and speed conditions. As the lubrication demand increases the controlled pressure increases the lube flow to meet the component lubrication requirements.

Abstract: A differential having a housing for receiving differential components. An input shaft, for example a drive pinion gear, is rotatably mounted within the differential housing. A drive line connection point is affixed to the drive pinion gear and is the mounting point for the drive shaft. A fan is disposed on the drive line connection point and is used to force air over the differential housing. The fan may be formed integrally with a drive train part, or be separable therefrom. Rotation of the fan forces air over the surface of the differential housing causing forced convection cooling of the differential components.

Abstract: A control system for a 4WD vehicle has a rotation transmission device which can prevent a two-way clutch of the rotation transmission device from vibrating by repeatedly locking and unlocking when the vehicle is started in a cold environment. The rotation transmission device is mounted in the transfer. The transfer is provided with a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of oil in the transfer. If the oil temperature as measured by the temperature sensor is below a predetermined value when the vehicle is started with the drive mode set at the 2WD position, the hub clutches are engaged to reduce the idling speed of the two-way clutch and thus to prevent the two-way clutch from locking.

Abstract: A brushless electric motor has a fluid-tight housing, an internal rotor which is connected to an output shaft, stator plates which are disposed at a radial spacing from the rotor, a coolant delivery line leading into the interior of the housing, and a coolant discharge line leading out of the housing. A control arrangement, which as a function of the rotational speed and torque adjusts the volume flow of the coolant flowing through the interior of the housing, is provided to keep the efficiency of the arrangement as a whole high and to provide an electric motor having high power density.

Abstract: A drive axle assembly has a gear housing, two axle tubes extending outwardly of the gear housing, a lubricant reservoir in the gear housing and a gear assembly rotatably mounted in the gear housing that has a rotatable member that is partially disposed in lubricant in the lubricant reservoir. The drive axle assembly also has a lubricant cooling system that includes a lubricant passage in fluid communication with the lubricant reservoir via an inlet that is juxtaposed the rotatable member so that the level of lubricant in the lubricant passage is raised when the rotatable member rotates. The lubricant passage has elevated outlets that deliver lubricant to lubricant ducts disposed in the respective axle tubes when the lubricant in the lubricant passage rises above a predetermined level. The lubricant flows away from the gear housing in the lubricant ducts and returns to the reservoir along the interior of the axle tubes which cools the lubricant as it returns to the reservoir.

Abstract: A wheel motor is provided with a stator which includes a coil wound therearound and which is fixed to a casing, a hollow cylindrical rotor which is supported by the casing through a bearing and is disposed inside the stator, an output flange which is supported by the casing through a bearing and which is fixed to a wheel, a reduction mechanism which includes an input gear supported by the rotor and an output gear supported by the output flange and which is disposed in the hollow in the rotor, an oil pump motor disposed in a lower portion of the casing, an oil passage extending upward through a side wall of the casing, and an oil passage which is formed in an upper portion of the casing and which feeds a discharge port through which oil is ejected for cooling the stator coil. The lubricating system for the wheel motor includes a lubricating oil passage extending from the oil passage in the upper portion of the casing to the reduction mechanism for supplying the cooled oil to the reduction mechanism.

Abstract: A segregated fluid management system and method is provided for a SDG or IDG system. There is a full case hydraulics (24), a gear case section (19) and a generator section (25). The full case hydraulics section (24) operates completely full of oil. A charge pump (34) draws from the full case (33) inside this section (24) and discharges oil from the case (33) to the pump and motor (26), the servo valve (29), the control piston (30) and the charge relief valve (31). The gear case section (19) is operated as a dry sump by a scavenge pump (17) which keeps the gear case cavity from accumulating an appreciable amount of oil. The scavenge pump (17) removes oil from the gear case section (19) and routes it through a filter (35) to the full case hydaulics section (24). The generator section (25) is conduction cooled and has a pitot pump (40) arranged in an air gap (39 ) between the generator rotor (37) and the stator (38).