Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lubrication control device for in-wheel motor unit for vehicle
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Application No.: US13819105Application Date: 2012-02-28
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Publication No.: US09726057B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Yasuhiro Yamauchi
- Applicant: Yasuhiro Yamauchi
- Applicant Address: JP Yokohama-shi
- Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Yokohama-shi
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Priority: JP2011-088790 20110413; JP2011-089779 20110414; JP2011-201798 20110915; JP2011-201801 20110915
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/054866 WO 20120228
- International Announcement: WO2012/140963 WO 20121018
- Main IPC: F01M1/16
- IPC: F01M1/16 ; F01M1/02 ; F16H57/04 ; B60K7/00 ; B60K17/04 ; H02K7/116 ; H02K9/19

Abstract:
A lubrication control device of in-wheel motor units for a vehicle which is used in an in-wheel motor drive vehicle which can run by driving at least a pair of left and right wheels by the respective in-wheel motor units, the lubrication control device being arranged to lubricate insides of the pair of left and right in-wheel motor units, by an oil pumped from lower portions within cases of the in-wheel motor units by respective oil pumps, the lubrication control device includes: an oil pump drive control section configured to control and drive the oil pumps so that oil levels of the lower portions within the cases of the left and right in-wheel motor units are the same by oil pumping amounts from the oil pumps.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130153338A1 LUBRICATION CONTROL DEVICE FOR IN-WHEEL MOTOR UNIT FOR VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2013-06-20
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