Oil pump
AssigneeNidec Tosok Corporation
InventorsTakamitsu ETO, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Koji HIGUCHI, Shigehiro KATAOKA
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Abstract
An oil pump includes a motor including a shaft disposed along a central axis extending in an axial direction, a rotor rotatable around the shaft, a stator disposed to face the rotor, a housing that accommodates the rotor and the stator, a pump including a pump rotor rotatable together with the shaft to suction and discharge oil, and a pump housing including an accommodation portion that accommodates the pump rotor. The pump housing includes an intake port through which the oil is suctioned, a discharge port through which the oil is discharged, and a pressure sensor disposed between the discharge port and the accommodation portion.
Claims11
1-10. (canceled)
An oil pump comprising:
- a motor including a shaft disposed along a central axis extending in an axial direction, a rotor rotatable around the shaft, a stator disposed to face the rotor, and a housing that accommodates the rotor and the stator;
- and
- a pump including a pump rotor rotatable with the shaft to suction and discharge oil, and a pump housing including an accommodation portion that accommodates the pump rotor;
- wherein
- the pump housing includes an intake port through which the oil is suctioned, a discharge port through which the oil is discharged, and a pressure sensor which is disposed between the discharge port and the accommodation portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.