Patent ID: 8607664

Claim:
A transmission lubrication system for lubricating components of a transmission, the transmission lubrication system comprising: a transmission housing having a pair of side walls, and an oil pan, the oil pan having a front end thereof and a rear end thereof; a valve body disposed between the pair of side walls and opposing the oil pan of the transmission housing, wherein the valve body, the pair of side walls of the transmission housing, and the oil pan of the transmission housing define a sump and a sump intake located between a rear end of the valve body and the rear end of the oil pan; a hydraulic pump including a pump intake disposed in the sump at the front end of the oil pan; and a porous member disposed in and substantially filling the sump intake, and wherein the transmission lubrication system circulates a hydraulic fluid from the sump through the pump intake to the pump, through the transmission components, and through the porous member and the sump intake to the sump.