Patent ID: 7237643

Claim:
A pump unit for supply and discharge of hydraulic fluid into and from a motor unit upon receiving driving power from a driving source, said motor unit being accommodated outside said pump unit so as to be located away from said pump unit and fluidly connected to said pump unit via a hydraulic circuit, comprising: an input member operatively connected to said driving source: a first hydraulic pump body operatively connected to said input member, said first hydraulic pump body being of a variable displacement type; a pump case for accommodating said first hydraulic pump body and forming a hydraulic fluid sump; fluid connection ports disposed on an outside surface of said pump case for fluidly connecting said first hydraulic pump body with a hydraulic motor body of said motor unit; and a PTO unit accommodated within said pump case, said PTO unit comprising: a PTO shaft supported by said pump case so as to have an end extending outward from said pump case; and a clutch mechanism for selectively enabling and disabling transmission of driving power from said input member to said PTO shaft, wherein said pump case includes a hollow case body having a first end wall with a first opening through which said first hydraulic pump body can pass, a second end wall with a second opening through which said clutch mechanism can pass, said second end wall being disposed away from said first end wall along an axial direction of said input member, and a peripheral wall extending between peripheral edges of said first end wall and said second end wall, a center section connected to said case body so as to close said first opening, said center section supporting said first hydraulic pump body on one of opposite sides thereof and forming said hydraulic circuit, and a lid member connected to said case body so as to close said second opening, and wherein said case body further includes a partition wall for dividing an inner space defined by said case body, said center section and said lid member into a hydraulic-pump-body-accommodation space for accommodating said first hydraulic pump body and a hydraulic-clutch-mechanism-accommodation space for accommodating said clutch mechanism.