US 12,331,827 B2
Oil distributor, axle drive and motor vehicle
Robert Krause, Berlin (DE); and Philipp Kolbe, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to Vitesco Technologies Germany GmbH, Regensburg (DE)
Filed by Vitesco Technologies Germany GMBH, Regensburg (DE)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/531,123.
Application 18/531,123 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2022/058119, filed on Mar. 28, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 206 607.0 (DE), filed on Jun. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0110622 A1, Apr. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. F16H 57/04 (2010.01)
CPC F16H 57/0423 (2013.01) [F16H 57/0483 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An oil distributor for an axle drive of a motor vehicle, the oil distributor comprising:
a first trough element having a first wall;
a second trough element having a second wall, the second trough element placed onto the first trough element;
an oil capture opening being part of the first trough element and/or the second trough element; and
an oil outlet opening formed in the first trough element and/or the second trough element, via which an oil emerges from the oil distributor;
a first inner wall portion being part of the first wall on a side facing the second trough element;
a second inner wall portion being part of the second wall on a side facing the first trough element; and
a plurality of fluidic connection openings, one of the plurality of fluidic connection openings formed in the first inner wall portion, another of the plurality of fluidic connection openings formed in the second inner wall portion, the fluidic connection opening of the first trough element further comprising:
a protrusion on an outside of the first inner wall portion;
wherein, in an assembled state, the first trough element is fluidically connected to the second trough element, the first trough element and the second trough element form a U-shaped outer contour at least in portions such that the first trough element and the second trough element surround portions of a gear wheel of a gear mechanism, and the protrusion engages in the fluidic connection opening of the second trough element.