Abstract: A V-type internal combustion engine comprises a plurality of hydraulically actuable valve operation mode control actuators for two cylinder banks. A hydraulic fluid network is fluidly disposed between a main gallery of the cylinder block and the plurality of hydraulically actuable valve operation mode control actuators and includes a single control valve. The single control valve is common to all of the plurality of hydraulically actuable valve operation mode control actuators. This control valve is attached to a casing adapted to receive a drive system connecting the engine camshafts to the engine crankshaft. This casing has internal passages forming a part of the hydraulic fluid network between the control valve and the plurality of hydraulically actuable valve operation mode control actuators.

Abstract: In a V-type internal combustion engine, one bank of a cylinder block having cylinders which are offset more rearward of the engine than those of the other bank. A water pump has a pump housing installed on a front end of said one bank to define therebetween a pump chamber. The cylinder block has at a front end portion midway between the banks a coolant distributing chamber communicating with an outlet port of the pump chamber. The cylinder block has at the banks water jackets which are formed with, at respective front end portions by the side of the most forward ones of the cylinders, inlet ports opening laterally of the engine and communicating the coolant distributing chamber.

Abstract: In a V-type internal combustion engine, a timing chain is placed around and engaged with a pair of camshaft sprockets and a crankshaft sprocket. A water pump sprocket is disposed between one of the camshaft sprockets and the crankshaft sprocket and outside of an area bounded by the timing chain and engaged with the timing chain. A thermostat housing is provided integrally to a front end portion of one of the cylinder heads which is bounded by the water pump, the timing chain and a camshaft which is adjacent to an outer side of a bank and driven by one of the above mentioned camshafts. A cylinder block is provided with an engine mounting boss portion at a front end central portion thereof surrounded by the timing chain.

Abstract: In an electric cable power transmission line of the class wherein three phase metal sheath single core power cable sections are interconnected by junction boxes, two sets of ordinary junction boxes at the opposite ends of each unit line section are grounded, two sets of junction boxes are provided in each unit line section, at each set of the insulating junction boxes the sheaths of the cables of one phase on one side of the insulating junction boxes are crossconnected by cross-connecting wires to the sheaths of the cables of another phase on the other side thereby forming three loop circuits each including the grounding connections of the ordinary junction boxes, the sheaths of the cable sections and the cross-connecting wires, saturable reactors are connected in series with only one or two of the loop circuits. This arrangement reduces the number of the saturable reactors and protective devices for corrosion preventing layers as well as the inductive interference to nearby communication lines.