US 12,078,237 B2
Transfer cooling structure of vehicle
Syouta Yamada, Aki-gun (JP); Masayoshi Enomoto, Aki-gun (JP); Masato Fukuda, Aki-gun (JP); Takayuki Takamori, Aki-gun (JP); and Kazuhiro Kageyama, Aki-gun (JP)
Assigned to Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed by Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (JP)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/649,522.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-051757 (JP), filed on Mar. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0307584 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. F16H 57/04 (2010.01); B60R 13/08 (2006.01); B62D 25/20 (2006.01)
CPC F16H 57/0416 (2013.01) [B60R 13/0861 (2013.01); B62D 25/20 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transfer cooling structure of a vehicle including a power source, a transmission, and a transfer device provided with a torque-distribution-control friction clutch, disposed in order from a forward side of the vehicle to a rearward side of the vehicle, the transfer cooling structure comprising:
a floor provided in the vehicle and the floor having a tunnel part configured to cover a transmission case of the transmission and a transfer case of the transfer device from above the transmission case and the transfer case;
an insulator attached below the tunnel part of the floor to cover the transmission case and the transfer case, while having a gap between the insulator and the transmission case and the transfer case; and
wherein the insulator has a cooling acceleration part protruding toward the transfer case from a floor side of the insulator.