Vehicle drive device
AssigneeAisin Corporation
InventorsRyohei Inoue, Shinji Kondo
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Abstract
A case includes: a case body forming a first housing chamber housing a rotating electrical machine and gears and a second housing chamber housing an inverter device; and a cover member. The cover member is joined to an axial second side of the case body, and disposed to cover the axial second side of the first housing chamber. The case body includes a partition wall separating the first housing chamber and the second housing chamber, a peripheral wall covering the first housing chamber from outside in a radial direction, and an axial wall covering an axial first side of the second housing chamber. The partition wall, the peripheral wall, and the axial wall are integrally formed.
Claims12
A vehicle drive device comprising:
- a rotating electrical machine;
- a plurality of gears located in a power transmission path from the rotating electrical machine;
- a differential gear mechanism that distributes a driving force transmitted from the rotating electrical machine via the plurality of gears to a plurality of wheels;
- an inverter device that drives and controls the rotating electrical machine;
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- a case, wherein
- with an axial direction being a direction along a rotation axis of the rotating electrical machine,
- the case includes a case body that forms a first housing chamber housing the rotating electrical machine and the plurality of gears and a second housing chamber housing the inverter device, and a cover member joined to the case body in the axial direction to close the first housing chamber, and
- with an axial first side being a side in the axial direction on which the rotating electrical machine is located with respect to the plurality of gears, and an axial second side being an opposite side to the axial first side,
- the cover member is bonded to the axial second side of the case body and located so as to cover the axial second side of the first housing chamber, and
- the case body includes a partition wall that separates the first housing chamber and the second housing chamber, a peripheral wall that covers the first housing chamber from outside in a radial direction, and an axial wall that covers the axial first side of the first housing chamber, and the partition wall, the peripheral wall, and the axial wall are integrally formed as a one-piece unitary structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.