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US 2019/0296616 A1Published application
Motor unit and vehicle
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsTatsuya OHZU, Yutaka ARIMURA, Daisuke HOSHINO, Shingo SOMA, Yosuke TANAKA
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Abstract
A motor unit including a drive motor that includes an output shaft having a hollow portion; a torque sensor arranged within the hollow portion; and a cooling mechanism. The cooling mechanism has one end of a coolant path arranged inside the hollow portion and cools the drive motor and the torque sensor. A vehicle can include the motor unit. The drive motor can act as a traction motor generating traction drive force of the vehicle.
Claims5
A motor unit comprising:
- a drive motor that includes an output shaft having a hollow portion;
- a torque sensor arranged within the hollow portion;
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- a cooling mechanism that has one end of a coolant path arranged inside the hollow portion and cools the drive motor and the torque sensor.
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A vehicle comprising a motor unit comprising:
- a drive motor that includes an output shaft having a hollow portion;
- a torque sensor arranged within the hollow portion;
- and a cooling mechanism that has one end of a coolant path arranged inside the hollow portion and cools the drive motor and the torque sensor, wherein
- the drive motor is a traction motor that generates a traction drive force of the vehicle or a generator that generates power based on a drive force of an internal combustion engine of the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.