IN-WHEEL MOTOR APPARATUS

摘要

An in-wheel motor apparatus can be mounted using a simple suspension structure and suppress changes in vehicle height caused by a driving force without complicating or drastically changing the suspension mechanism structure. The in-wheel motor apparatus includes an in-wheel motor loaded on a wheel having a rotational shaft extending in a transverse direction of a vehicle body. The in-wheel motor and the wheel are suspended by a suspension mechanism retained by the vehicle body such that movement of the suspension mechanism in the transverse direction is restricted. The in-wheel motor is loaded on the wheel such that a rotational shaft axis of the in-wheel motor is orthogonal to, oblique to, or non-intersecting from a rotational shaft axis of the wheel.