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Granted Patent B2
US 11,054,017 · App. 16/287,128 · Granted Jul 6, 2021

Oil supply structure of transmission

Inventor: Shoji Nomura (Wako, JP)
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
F16H57/0426F16H57/043F16H57/0424F16H57/0447
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Patent No.
US 11,054,017
App. No.
16/287,128
Granted
Jul 6, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An oil supply structure includes an oil passage that provides communication from a wall portion of a casing, which corresponds to a shaft end portion of a rotary shaft pivotally supported in the casing to the shaft end portion of the rotary shaft. The oil passage includes a shaft end oil passage and an in-shaft oil passage. The shaft end oil passage is provided on a shaft end portion side of the rotary shaft. The in-shaft oil passage is provided in the rotary shaft, and extends an axial direction of the rotary shaft from the shaft end oil passage. A flow rate adjusting member is provided to the shaft end oil passage, and adjusts lubricating oil which flows from the shaft end oil passage to the in-shaft oil passage.

Claims (13)

1. An oil supply structure which supplies lubricating oil to a portion to be lubricated in a casing, the oil supply structure comprising an oil passage configured to provide communication from a wall portion of the casing, which corresponds to a shaft end portion of a rotary shaft pivotally supported in the casing to the shaft end portion of the rotary shaft and a pipe member inserted into a shaft hole formed along an axis of the rotary shaft from a shaft end portion of the rotary shaft, wherein

the oil passage includes a shaft end oil passage and an in-shaft oil passage, the shaft end oil passage being provided on a shaft end portion side of the rotary shaft, and the in-shaft oil passage being provided in the rotary shaft, and extending in an axial direction of the rotary shaft from the shaft end oil passage,

a flow rate adjusting member is provided to the shaft end oil passage, and the flow rate adjusting member adjusts lubricating oil which flows from the shaft end oil passage to the in-shaft oil passage,

the flow rate adjusting member includes a guide member which partitions the shaft end oil passage into an upstream side and a downstream side with respect to a first gap,

the guide member includes a first guide member and a second guide member, the first guide member being disposed so as to form the first gap between the first guide member and an outer peripheral surface of the pipe member, and the second guide member being disposed between an outer peripheral surface of the first guide member, which is disposed on a side opposite to an inner peripheral surface of the first guide member forming the first gap, and a shaft end portion of the rotary shaft, and

a bearing, which pivotally supports the rotary shaft, is disposed in a space partitioned by the first guide member and the second guide member.

2. The oil supply structure according to claim 1 , wherein

between the outer peripheral surface of the first guide member and an inner peripheral surface of the second guide member, a second gap is provided so as to allow lubricating oil, flowing from the upstream side toward the downstream side along the shaft end oil passage, to flow into the space.

3. The oil supply structure according to claim 1 , wherein

lubricating oil flowing from the upstream side toward the downstream side along the shaft end oil passage through the first gap flows into the in-shaft oil passage.

4. The oil supply structure according to claim 1 , wherein

the oil passage includes a connecting oil passage which is provided on the wall portion of the casing, and which connects an introduction oil passage, through which lubricating oil is to be introduced into the casing, and the shaft end oil passage with each other, and

an opening portion is formed on the wall portion of the casing, and the opening portion communicates with the shaft end oil passage from the wall portion of the casing through the connecting oil passage.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 27, 2019
From: NOMURA, SHOJI
To: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 048457/0316 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2018-047157 · Mar 14, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190285164A1 · Sep 19, 2019
Cited By (2)
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