Vehicle drive device
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsEiichiro Urabe, Norikazu Kawai
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Abstract
A vehicle drive device includes: a first rotary electric machine; a second rotary electric machine that is arranged below the first rotary electric machine; and a case having a rotary electric machine housing portion that houses the first rotary electric machine and the second rotary electric machine. The first rotary electric machine and the second rotary electric machine are cooled by a refrigerant flowing inside the case, and in the rotary electric machine housing portion, a guide portion that prevents the refrigerant, which has cooled the first rotary electric machine, from being applied to the second rotary electric machine is provided.
Claims18
A vehicle drive device comprising:
- a first rotary electric machine;
- a second rotary electric machine that is arranged below the first rotary electric machine;
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- a case having a rotary electric machine housing portion that houses the first rotary electric machine and the second rotary electric machine,
- wherein the first rotary electric machine and the second rotary electric machine are cooled by a refrigerant flowing inside the case,
- wherein in the rotary electric machine housing portion, a guide portion that prevents the refrigerant, which has cooled the first rotary electric machine, from being applied to the second rotary electric machine is provided,
- wherein the first rotary electric machine and the second rotary electric machine are arranged so as to at least partially overlap with each other in a vertical direction, and
- wherein the guide portion is arranged in a region in which the first rotary electric machine and the second rotary electric machine overlap with each other in the vertical direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.