# US 10,480,637 B2 · Lubrication system for a drive device of a motor vehicle

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- Number: US 10,480,637 B2
- Document ID: US10480637B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/523,823
- Filed: 2015-11-03
- Published: 2017-11-30
- Granted: 2019-11-19
- Earliest claimed: 2014-11-03
- Assignees: Audi AG
- Applicants: Audi AG
- Inventors: Ivo Greiter
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10480637B2

## CPC

- F16H 57/0441: {Arrangements of pumps}
- F16H 57/045: {Lubricant storage reservoirs, e.g. reservoirs in addition to a gear sump for collecting lubricant in the upper part of a gear case}
- F16H 57/0442: {for supply in case of failure, i.e. auxiliary supply}
- F16H 57/0456: {Lubrication by injection; Injection nozzles or tubes therefor (oil mist or spray lubrication F16H57/0458)}
- F16H: GEARING

## Abstract

A drive device for a motor vehicle having a drive assembly that is operatively connected or can be operatively connected to an input shaft of a gearbox. A gear set of the gearbox can be supplied with lubricant by a primary lubricant pump. The primary lubricant pump is coupled to an output shaft of the gearbox.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A drive device for a motor vehicle, comprising:
a drive assembly that is operatively connected to an input shaft of a gearbox, wherein a gear set of the gearbox is supplied with lubricant by a primary lubricant pump, wherein the gearbox has only one output shaft, and the primary lubricant pump is coupled to and driven by the only one output shaft of the gearbox,
wherein a pressure side is connected via an overpressure valve at an intake side of the primary lubricant pump and the intake side of the primary lubricant pump is connected via a filter to a lubricant sump of the gearbox,
wherein a lubricant container at a geodetically lowest point, has an outlet, through which a direct flow connection to the lubricant sump exists, and
wherein the lubricant container has at least two overflows, which lie geodetically higher than the outlet and produces a direct flow connection to the lubricant sump.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The drive device according to claim 1, wherein an output gear stage of the gearbox can additionally be supplied with lubricant by the primary lubricant pump.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The drive device according to claim 1, wherein the primary lubricant pump is coupled to the output shaft independently of a direction of rotation of the output shaft.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The drive device according to claim 1, wherein the lubricant is supplied to the gearbox through a plurality of nozzles.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The drive device according to claim 4, wherein at least one nozzle of the plurality of nozzles is connected via an aperture to a pressure line, wherein the pressure line is connected to the pressure side of the primary lubricant pump.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The drive device according to claim 1, wherein the gearbox has the lubricant container that is different from the lubricant sump and is configured to supply said lubricant container with lubricant directly through at least one nozzle.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The drive device according to claim 1, wherein the gear set and an output gear stage has at least one toothed gear wheel that engages in the lubricant sump.