Patent ID: 9306433
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: H02K

Claim Text:
1. A drive module comprising: a housing; an electric motor coupled to the housing, the electric motor having a stator, which is fixedly coupled to the housing, and a rotor that is rotatable within the stator, a pair of output members; and a transmission and differential assembly driven by the rotor of the electric motor to correspondingly drive the output members; and a cooling system that includes: wherein the coolant fluid is gravity fed into the inlet pipe; wherein the housing comprises a coolant drain that permits the cooling fluid to drain from the stator into a gear lubrication sump; and wherein the transmission comprises a plurality of gears and wherein at least one of the plurality of gears is configured to rotate in the coolant fluid in the gear lubricant sump and to sling a portion of the coolant fluid into the coolant sump.