Patent ID: 11876433
Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A drive device comprising:
a motor that includes a rotor including a motor shaft rotatable about a rotation axis extending along a first direction, and a stator radially outward of the rotor;
an inverter to supply drive power to the motor;
a housing that accommodates the motor and the inverter;
a pump to supply oil accommodated in the housing to the motor; and
an oil cooler to cool the oil; wherein
the housing includes:
an inverter accommodation portion that accommodates the inverter;
a tubular portion that extends in the first direction and accommodates the motor;
a side plate portion that has a plate shape intersecting the first direction and is at one end portion of the tubular portion in the first direction;
a plate portion that expands from the tubular portion along one of the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and
a peripheral wall portion that surrounds the inverter accommodation portion when viewed from a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, and is connected to the plate portion; and

both of the pump and the oil cooler are at any of one end portion of the peripheral wall portion in the second direction, another end portion of the plate portion in the third direction, and another end portion of the side plate portion in the first direction.