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US 12,571,466 B2Granted
Drive device for a motor vehicle having an operating medium tank formed in a machine housing
AssigneeAudi AG
InventorBéla Székely
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Abstract
A drive device for a motor vehicle. A machine housing in which an operating material consumer, and operating material tank, and an operating material pump are arranged. An air space is provided in the machine housing, into which at least one machine shaft of the drive device protrudes and which is separated by a partition wall from the operating material tank formed adjacent to the air space in the machine housing.
Claims10
A drive device for a motor vehicle, comprising:
- a machine housing;
- an operating material consumer arranged in the machine housing;
- an operating material tank arranged in the machine housing;
- an operating material pump arranged in the machine housing;
- an air space provided in the machine housing, into which at least one machine shaft of the drive device protrudes;
- and
- a partition wall separating the air space from the operating material tank formed adjacent to the air space in the machine housing,
- wherein the operating material tank is only fluidically connected to the air space via an overflow opening formed in an upper portion of the partition wall,
- wherein the air space, viewed in longitudinal section with respect to the axis of rotation of the machine shaft, is delimited, on the one hand, by a wall of the machine housing and, on the other hand, by a machine housing cover fastened on the machine housing, wherein, again viewed in longitudinal section, the wall of the machine housing and the machine housing cover are curved and/or angled in the same direction.
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