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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2023
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventor:
Hideaki Miyazono, Kasugai, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02K 9/19 (2006.01); B60K 7/00 (2006.01); H02K 9/10 (2006.01); H02K 9/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02K 9/19 (2013.01); B60K 7/0007 (2013.01);
Abstract
The cooling structure of the in-wheel motor is a cooling structure of an in-wheel motor provided in a wheel of a tire-wheel assembly. The cooling structure of the in-wheel motor includes a rotary electric machine configured to rotate a hub to which a wheel is fixed, a knuckle rotatably supporting the hub, and a plurality of flow paths through which a coolant for cooling the rotary electric machine flows, and a pump configured to circulate the coolant between the rotary electric machine and the knuckle via a plurality of flow paths provided inside the knuckle.