# US 12,600,224 B2 · Oil supply device and control method for electric vehicle powertrain > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,600,224 B2 - Document ID: US12600224B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/632,606 - Filed: 2024-04-11 - Published: 2024-08-01 - Granted: 2026-04-14 - Earliest claimed: 2021-08-17 - Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company; Kia Corporation - Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company; Kia Corporation - Inventors: Jin Young Hwang - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12600224B2 ## CPC - B60K 11/02: with liquid cooling - B60K 1/00: Arrangement or mounting of electrical propulsion units (B60K7/00 takes precedence; arrangement or mounting of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion B60K6/00) - F16H 57/0435: {Pressure control for supplying lubricant; Circuits or valves therefor} - F16H 57/0436: {Pumps} - H02P 29/60: Controlling or determining the temperature of the motor or of the drive (H02P29/02 takes precedence) - B60K 2001/001: {one motor mounted on a propulsion axle for rotating right and left wheels of this axle} - B60K 2001/006: {the electric motors} - B60Y 2306/03: Lubrication - F16H 57/0413: {Controlled cooling or heating of lubricant; Temperature control therefor} - F16H 57/0476: {Electric machines and gearing, i.e. joint lubrication or cooling or heating thereof} - B60K: ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OF TRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS IN VEHICLES; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GAS EXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS IN VEHICLES - F16H: GEARING - H02P: CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS - B60Y: INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO ASPECTS CROSS-CUTTING VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY ## Abstract An oil supply device for an electric vehicle powertrain apparatus, includes an electric oil pump, a motor lubrication flow path connected to the electric oil pump and provided to supply oil from the electric oil pump to a bearing of a motor, a motor cooling flow path branched from the motor lubrication flow path to supply oil for cooling the motor from the electric oil pump, and a cooling control valve apparatus provided in the motor cooling flow path to control oil supplied to the motor through the motor cooling flow path according to an operating state of the electric oil pump. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An oil supply control method for an electric vehicle powertrain apparatus, the method comprising: determining whether a motor temperature is equal to or greater than a predetermined cooling start temperature; when the motor temperature is equal to or greater than the predetermined cooling start temperature, increasing a speed of an electric oil pump to a predetermined opening speed or higher than the predetermined opening speed; when the speed of the electric oil pump increases to the predetermined opening speed or more than the predetermined opening speed, controlling the electric oil pump in a motor cooling-integrated mode including cooling of a motor; determining whether the motor temperature is equal to or lower than a predetermined cooling stop temperature during the motor cooling-integrated mode; when the motor temperature is equal to or lower than the predetermined cooling stop temperature, lowering the speed of the electric oil pump to a predetermined closing speed or less than the predetermined closing speed; and when the speed of the electric oil pump is lowered to the predetermined closing speed or less than the predetermined closing speed, controlling the electric oil pump in a motor cooling-excluded mode in which the cooling of the motor is excluded, wherein in the motor cooling-integrated mode, the electric oil pump is controlled by use of a first control map which is a map of a revolution number of the electric oil pump according to an oil temperature and a motor revolution number, and wherein in the motor cooling-integrated mode, the electric oil pump is controlled by adding a compensation revolution number obtained from a second control map which is a map of the compensation revolution number according to a driving mileage of a vehicle to the revolution number of the electric oil pump obtained by the first control map. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The oil supply method of claim 1, wherein during controlling in the motor cooling-excluded mode, whether the motor temperature is equal to or greater than the predetermined cooling start temperature is continuously monitored. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The oil supply method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined opening speed is set to form, by the electric oil pump, hydraulic pressure which is opening pressure which is configured for opening a cooling control valve apparatus provided to control an oil supplied to a motor cooling flow path for cooling the motor. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The oil supply method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined closing speed is set to form, by the electric oil pump, hydraulic pressure which is closing pressure which is configured for switching a cooling control valve apparatus provided to control an oil supplied to a motor cooling flow path for cooling the motor from an open state to a closed state. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The oil supply method of claim 1, wherein in the motor cooling-excluded mode, the electric oil pump is controlled by use of a third control map which is a map of the revolution number of the electric oil pump according to the oil temperature and the motor revolution number. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The oil supply method of claim 5, wherein in the motor cooling-excluded mode, the electric oil pump is controlled by adding the compensation revolution number obtained from a fourth control map which is a map of the compensation revolution number according to a driving mileage of a vehicle to the revolution number of the electric oil pump obtained by the third control map.