Patent attributes
There is provided a pump unit including a housing, a first and a second pump shafts, a first and a second hydraulic pump main bodies, a first and a second trunnion type movable swash pates, and a first and a second transmission gears. The housing has an inlet port for introducing oil from the outside into its pump accommodating chamber, an oil passage for communicating between the pump accommodating chamber and its gear accommodating chamber, and a discharge port for taking out oil from the gear accommodating chamber to the outside. The pump accommodating chamber includes a supporting wall that supports each base end of the swash plates so that each operational end of the swash plates is directed to the opposite directions to each other. The inlet port and the oil passage are respectively provided at one side and the other side of the pump accommodating chamber with the supporting wall as a reference.