Vehicle
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakeshi Hoshinoya, Shigeru Nakayama, Hirotomi Nemoto, Masahiko Akiyama, Yuji Minoda
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Abstract
A vehicle including a housing supported on a framework member of the vehicle via a supporting member, a liquid medium supply unit fixed to the housing and driven by a motor to supply a liquid medium to a cooled or lubricated portion, and a first atmosphere communicating mechanism that establishes a communication between an inside of a motor portion of the liquid medium supply unit and atmosphere, the first atmosphere communicating mechanism including a volumetric member that is disposed apart from the liquid medium supply unit in a position higher than the liquid medium supply unit, that has a predetermined volumetric space, and that is fixed to the housing.
Claims8
A vehicle comprising:
- a housing, which accommodates at least any one of a power source of the vehicle and a power transmission mechanism that is disposed on a power transmission path between a wheel of the vehicle and a power source of the vehicle;
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- a liquid medium supply unit, which is fixed to the housing and which is driven by a motor to supply a liquid medium to a cooled or lubricated portion that is at least either of a cooled portion or a lubricated portion of the power source or a cooled portion or a lubricated portion of the power transmission mechanism, wherein:
- the housing is supported on a framework member of the vehicle via a supporting member;
- the liquid medium supply unit has a motor portion that accommodates the motor, and a pressure feed portion that accommodates a pressure feed mechanism driven by the motor;
- the vehicle includes a first atmosphere communicating mechanism that establishes a communication between an inside of the motor portion of the liquid medium supply unit and atmosphere;
- the first atmosphere communicating mechanism includes a volumetric member that is disposed apart from the liquid medium supply unit in a position higher than the liquid medium supply unit and that has a predetermined volumetric space, the volumetric member being fixed to the housing;
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- the first atmosphere communicating mechanism is in communication with the atmosphere through the volumetric member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.