Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jodisha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nobukazu Ike

Satoru Kasuya

Masaru Morise

Shinji Oita

Masahiro Hayabuchi

Masaaki Nishida

Hiroshi Kato

Hiroaki Sanji

Masashi Kito

Yuichi Seki

Toru Souda

Masahiro Otake

Takeshi Torii

Osamu Murai

Shingo Uozumi

Atsushi Tabata

Tatsuya Imamura

Yuji Iwase

Tomoo Atarashi

Shigeki Takami

Nobutada Sugiura

Takuma Kakinami

Yusuke Takahashi

Taisuke Fukui

Yasunari Muranaka

Mitsutaka Okuno

Tomohiro Umemura

Takeshi Fukuma

Tooru Matsubara

Kenta Kumazaki

Hiroyuki Shibata

Yukihiko Ideshio

Ryuji Ibaraki

Terufumi Miyazaki

Masahiro Kojima

Hiroshi Katou

Natsuki Sada

Shigeru Okuwaki

Toshihiko Aoki

Makoto Iwanaka

Seigo Kano

Takashi Morimoto

Takuro Iwase

Takayoshi Kato

Miyoshi Kawaguchi

Akira Noguchi

Shinichiro Iga

Yohei Tada

Tsubasa Deguchi

Naoki Ito

Masahiro Ida

Masayuki Uchida

Masateru Nakagawa

Noriyasu Ariga

Katsunori Ishikawa

Masashi Narita

Masataka Kameyama

Ryota Sato

A vehicle drive device that includes an input member that is drivingly connected to a driving force source for wheels; a hydraulic transmission device that includes a transmission input member coaxially disposed with the input member and changes a speed of rotation of the transmission input member and transmits the rotation to a transmission output member; a differential gear device that has an axis different from an axis of the input member and distributes a drive force transmitted from the transmission output member to the wheels; a case that houses at least the transmission device and the differential gear device; an electric oil pump that is driven by a pump rotary electric machine; and a hydraulic control device that controls a hydraulic pressure of oil discharged from the electric oil pump and supplies the oil at least to the transmission device.

Vehicle drive device

A hybrid drive device includes: a first one-way clutch; a second one-way clutch; a first power transfer path through which power can be transferred from a rotor to wheels; and a second power transfer path which is composed of an engine rotation transfer member, the first one-way clutch, and a coupling member, through which power can be transferred from an internal combustion engine to an oil pump, and which intersects the first power transfer path at an intersection portion. An engagement element, the first one-way clutch, and the second one-way clutch are disposed on one side of the first power transfer path.

Hybrid drive device

A front support includes a second boss portion which extends toward a chain drive mechanism and to which a stator shaft is fixed. The second boss portion is inserted into a tubular portion of an impeller hub through a drive sprocket. An oil passage that communicates with a fluid transmission chamber is defined between the inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion and the outer peripheral surface of the stator shaft. A seal member that restricts an inflow of working oil from the oil passage is interposed between the tubular portion and the second boss portion. A shaft-side oil groove and a recessed portion which communicate with an in-case oil passage formed in the front support and the oil passage are formed between the second boss portion and the stator shaft.

Power transfer device

A driven sprocket of a chain driving mechanism is fixed to a rotation shaft between a front pump cover and a converter housing, and the rotation shaft is supported by a first supporting hole of the front pump cover and a second supporting hole of a rear pump cover. The movement of the driven sprocket in such a direction that it approaches the converter housing is restricted by a case side projection formed on the converter housing, and the movement of the driven sprocket in such a direction that it separates from the converter housing is restricted by a cover side projection formed on a bottom surface of the second supporting hole.

Oil pump and power transmitting device equipped with the same

A power transmission apparatus including a transmission, a case that accommodates the transmission, a counter drive gear to which power from the transmission is transmitted, a counter driven gear that meshes with the counter drive gear, and a drive pinion gear that is disposed and spaced apart in an axial direction from the counter driven gear and that rotates together with the counter driven gear, the power transmission apparatus.

Power transmission apparatus

A power transmission system that includes a torque converter; a transmission having a planetary gear; a case configured to accommodate the torque converter and the transmission; a support having a wall that is fixed to the case between the torque converter and the transmission and a tube that extends in an axial direction from an inner circumferential portion of the wall; a stator shaft that is connected to a stator of the torque converter via a one-way clutch; and a tubular connector that connects the support and a stationary element of the planetary gear together.

Power transmission system

A vehicle hydraulic pressure supply device that includes a mechanical oil pump driven by a drive force source for wheels; an oil passage constitution member in which an oil passage connected to the mechanical oil pump is formed; and a hydraulic control device that controls a hydraulic pressure supplied from the mechanical oil pump via the oil passage constitution member and that supplies the hydraulic pressure to a vehicle drive transmission device.

Vehicle hydraulic pressure supply device

An automatic transmission that shifts power applied to an input member and outputs the shifted power to an output member, the automatic transmission including a first planetary gear mechanism, a third planetary gear mechanism, a compound planetary gear mechanism, a first clutch, a second clutch, a third clutch, a fourth clutch a first brake, and a second brake.

Automatic transmission

A carrier having short pinion gears and long pinion gears is made compact, and the mountability of the carrier on vehicles is improved. In a structure of the carrier, short pinion gear housing spaces are formed between thick-walled portions of a carrier body and a carrier cover, and long pinion gear housing spaces are formed between flange portions and the carrier cover. Bridge portions are provided on the radially outer side of the short pinion gear housing spaces, and fixed to the carrier cover. Openings are provided on the radially outer side of the long pinion gear housing spaces. Splines to be engaged with a friction member of a clutch are formed on the outer peripheral surfaces of the bridge portions.

An automatic transmission for adjusting the relative speed between an input and output member. The transmission being configured with four planetary gears, the first having first to third rotary elements, the second having fourth to sixth rotary elements, the third having seventh to ninth rotary elements, the fourth having tenth to twelfth rotary elements. Three couplings between (i) first and sixth rotary elements, (ii) second and fifth rotary elements, and (iii) eighth and twelfth rotary elements. Three clutches are provided between (i) the second coupling and input member, (ii) third coupling and input member, and (iii) seventh rotary element and input member. Three brakes are provided at (i) the fourth rotary element, (ii) third coupling element, and (iii) tenth rotary element. The output member is connected to the third rotary element.

Automatic transmission device

An automatic transmission configured with four planetary gear mechanisms, three clutches, and three brakes, which are configured to provide nine forward speeds and a reverse speed. The combination of elements results in, amongst other benefits, improved torque transfer efficiency. A first planetary gear mechanism including first to third rotary elements that form a sequence of the first rotary element, the second rotary element, and the third rotary element when arranged in an order at intervals corresponding to gear ratios in a velocity diagram. A second planetary gear mechanism including fourth to sixth rotary elements, a third planetary gear mechanism including seventh to ninth rotary elements, and a fourth planetary gear mechanism including tenth to twelfth rotary elements.

An automatic transmission device that changes a relative speed between an input and output member. The transmission configured with a first planetary gear mechanism including first to third rotary elements, a second planetary gear mechanism including fourth to sixth rotary elements, a third planetary gear mechanism including seventh to ninth rotary elements, and a fourth planetary gear mechanism including tenth to twelfth rotary elements. A first coupling between the third and eighth rotary element, a second coupling between the fifth and eleventh rotary element, a third coupling between the sixth and twelfth rotary element, a fourth coupling between the seventh and tenth rotary element. A first clutch between the first and third coupling, a second clutch between the first rotary element and the third coupling element, a third clutch between the first and fourth rotary element.

A vehicular automatic transmission includes three single pinion planetary gear sets and a plurality of engagement elements. A plurality of gears is selectively established by three of the plurality of engagement elements being engaged and three of the plurality of engagement elements being released. One of the plurality of engagement elements is a dedicated reverse engagement element that is engaged when a reverse gear is established and is released when a forward gear is established.

Vehicular automatic transmission

An oil pump having an inner rotor with of external teeth; an outer rotor that is eccentrically provided and has internal teeth that mesh with the inner rotor external teeth, and an oil pump body that accommodates the outer and inner rotors. By rotationally driving the inner rotor to increase and decrease a space between the internal and the external teeth, an intake stroke suctions hydraulic oil from the oil pump body and a discharge stroke discharges the suctioned hydraulic oil to a discharge port formed in the oil pump body. Between the intake and discharge strokes, a confinement stroke cuts off the suctioned hydraulic oil and confines the suctioned hydraulic oil in the space, and a compression stroke reduces the space and compresses the confined hydraulic oil. Further, an interval is set between a finish end portion of the intake port of the oil pump body and a start end portion of the discharge port such that a rotation angle of the inner rotor during the compression stroke is 21 to 27 degrees.

Oil pump

A hybrid drive device including a drive device input shaft coupled to an engine, a rotary electrical machine, a transmission shifting and outputting rotary drive transferred from the rotary electrical machine or the drive device input shaft or the both of them, a transmission case accommodating the transmission, and a rotary electrical machine case having a joint surface joining with the transmission case, a step portion with a diameter which is reduced when seen from an input shaft input end side is provided in an inner peripheral portion of the rotary electrical machine case, and a partition wall supporting the rotary electrical machine from the input shaft input end side is fixed to the step portion.

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Kariya, Japan

Nobukazu Ike