Vehicle drive device, motor casing for vehicle drive device, and manufacturing method of the same
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroyuki Tateno, Hidetomo Shiota, Naoya Yamamoto, Masahiro Tanae
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Abstract
A motor casing of cast metal used for a vehicle drive device, comprising an equipment mounting seat provided on a top part, an oil cooler connection seat, and a longitudinal hole opened in the oil cooler connection seat, wherein a seat surface of the equipment mounting seat is inclined to get higher from one side to the other, and the longitudinal hole is inclined to get higher from one side to the other in parallel to the seat surface.
Claims4
A motor casing of cast metal which is used for a vehicle drive device mounted on a vehicle, comprising:
- an equipment mounting seat provided on the top of the motor casing,
- an oil cooler connection seat, and
- a cast hole opened in the oil cooler connection seat, wherein:
- the equipment mounting seat has an inclined seat surface so to get higher from one side toward the other, and
- the cast hole is inclined from the one side toward the other in parallel to the seat surface of the equipment mounting seat.
A vehicle drive device mounted in a front compartment which is covered with a hood inclined to get higher from a vehicle front toward a vehicle rear, comprising:
- a motor casing including:
- an equipment mounting seat provided on a top part,
- an oil cooler connection seat provided on a front part,
- a cast hole opened in the oil cooler connection seat, and
- a machined hole which is in communication with the cast hole from an
- interior and shallower than a depth of the cast hole;
- a vehicle control device attached to the top of a seat surface of the equipment mounting seat;
- an oil cooler attached to the oil cooler connection seat;
- and
- a cooling pipe connected to the machined hole, wherein:
- the seat surface of the equipment mounting seat of the motor casing is inclined to get higher from the front toward the rear, and the cast hole is inclined to get higher from the front toward the rear in parallel to the seat surface of the equipment mounting seat, and
- when the vehicle drive device is mounted in the front compartment, an upper surface of the vehicle control device is inclined to get higher from the vehicle front toward the vehicle rear along the inclination of the hood.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.