Power system
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshihiro Nakano, Koji Ono, Noriyasu Hakuta
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Abstract
A power system includes: a rotating body; a housing accommodating the rotating body; and a storage portion provided at a bottom of the housing. A part of the rotating body is located in the storage portion. The housing includes: a supply target portion; and a direction changing portion. The direction changing portion includes: a collecting portion that is gradually inclined toward a downstream side in a rotation direction of the rotating body so as to be separated from an outer periphery of the rotating body and that receives the liquid medium scattered by the rotating body; and a guiding portion that is provided so as to cross a lower end of the collecting portion and that is gradually inclined downward toward the supply target portion.
Claims8
A power system comprising:
- a rotating body;
- a housing that accommodates the rotating body;
- and
- a storage portion that is provided at a bottom of the housing to store a liquid medium, wherein
- a part of the rotating body is located in the storage portion,
- the housing comprises:
- a supply target portion that needs to be lubricated or cooled and that is provided on one side in an axial direction of the rotating body;
- and
- a direction changing portion that is provided on an inner surface of the housing and that changes a flow direction of the liquid medium scattered by the rotating body toward the supply target portion, and
- the direction changing portion includes:
- a collecting portion that is gradually inclined toward a downstream side in a rotation direction of the rotating body so as to be separated from an outer periphery of the rotating body and that receives the liquid medium scattered by the rotating body;
- and
- a guiding portion that is provided so as to cross a lower end of the collecting portion and that is gradually inclined downward toward the supply target portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.